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Black Barrel Media

Historical True Crime — assassins, gangsters, mobsters and lawmen; manhunts, scandals and unexplained phenomena. Stories of the wildest and darkest chapters of America's past.

Infamous America

HH Holmes goes to trial for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel. The legal battle is headline news, and he loves the attention. During that time, investigators make disturbing discoveries in the basement of the Murder Castle in Chicago, and the legend of Holmes as the arch fiend of the World’s Fair and America’s most prolific killer is born.

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HH HOLMES Ep. 6 | “Revelations”

After six months on the run, law enforcement arrests HH Holmes for insurance fraud. Holmes believes he has secured a sweetheart deal which will allow him to face minimal punishment, but then he learns he is being investigated for murder. While Holmes sits in jail, Inspector Frank Geyer travels the country retracing Holmes' steps and searching for the missing Pitezel children.

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HH HOLMES Ep. 5 | “Buried Secrets”

In Philadelphia, Holmes carries out the life insurance scam, but not the way his partner, Benjamin Pitezel, expects. When Holmes runs into unexpected obstacles while trying to collect the life insurance money, he orchestrates a dizzyingly elaborate crosscountry trip involving the Pitezel family. Along the way, Holmes eliminates members of the family one by one.

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HH HOLMES Ep. 4 | “Deadly Game”

A quick update episode about changes to the release schedule for Infamous America in 2026. Next year will begin with an encore presentation of the story of the North Hollywood Robbery, followed by a 3-episode miniseries about the Texas Killing Fields and then the regular full-length series.

In addition to a slightly reduced schedule, Infamous America and Legends of the Old West will now have staggered release schedules. All episodes will continue to release on Wednesdays, but new episodes of each podcast will not be perfectly in sync with each other. 

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UPDATE | Schedule Changes in 2026

After Holmes flees Chicago during the World’s Fair, he briefly settles in Fort Worth, Texas before an arrest warrant causes him to flee again. In St. Louis, he and his sometime partner, Benjamin Pitezel, prepare to execute a plan to commit life insurance fraud by faking Pitezel’s death. But when the law comes knocking again, they run to Philadelphia to enact their scheme.

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HH HOLMES Ep. 3 | “Web of Lies”

Holmes supervises the construction of one of the strangest apartment buildings in Chicago. He calls it his castle. Later, reporters will call it the Murder Castle. As Holmes and the city of Chicago ramp up to the World’s Fair, a young woman and her daughter disappear from the castle. During the exposition, two more young women – a pair of sisters – disappear. Before the end of the event, Holmes goes on the run to avoid scandal and creditors.

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HH HOLMES Ep. 2 | “Murder Castle”

At a young age, Herman Mudgett knows he wants to be a doctor. But as he progresses through medical school, he strays from any kind of desire to practice medicine. He realizes he can use his medical knowledge to con people out of their money. He experiments with fraud in a small town in New York, and then makes the move to the big city of Chicago. There, he adopts his notorious alias, H.H. Holmes, and begins elaborate schemes to steal millions.

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HH HOLMES Ep. 1 | “Grave Robber”

From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, to the Octopus Murders and the Waco Siege, the world is full of deception, manipulation, and destruction. Listen to Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes every Wednesday as we explore the real people at the center of the world’s most shocking secrets and nefarious organizations.

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Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES

Greed and addiction fueled a chaotic and coldblooded crime on September 28, 1953. The largest ransom request in American History at the time was demanded of Kansas City’s wealthiest automobile dealer, Robert Greenlease, in exchange for his 6 year old son and namesake, Bobby Greenlease. Money wasn’t the problem and the Greenleases’ wasted no time to comply, it should have been cut and dry, but it is far from it. 

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KIDNAPPINGS Ep. 6 | Bobby Greenlease: “No Remorse”

72 year old Charles Ross was a year into his peaceful retirement after a lucrative career in real estate, followed by President of the prominent George S. Carrington greeting card company, when he found himself at the wrong place at the wrong time just outside of Chicago. John Seadlund, who’d been influenced by John Dillinger’s gang member Tommy Carroll and who had evaded the FBI for years, stole much more than Ross’s golden years leading FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to manage the investigation personally. The case would earn Seadlund the nickname “The Nation's Cruelest Criminal”.

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HH HOLMES Ep. 5 | “Buried Secrets”

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