Meet Marlin Bressi
Behind the atmospheric narratives of 15 Minutes of Infamy is Marlin Bressi, a Pennsylvania-based researcher and writer with a lifelong obsession for the forgotten shadows of the past. Driven by the peculiar and the macabre, Marlin meticulously unearths the complex crime stories that defined the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work is a tribute to the era’s unique collision of Victorian sentimentality and the chilling reality of historical crime, offering listeners a scholarly yet haunting glimpse into the infamous figures who once gripped the public imagination.
Featured Chronicles
The Gilded Age Poisoner
Blood on the Schuylkill
The Phrenologist's Victim
An exploration of a chilling spree that terrorized East Coast high society during the late 1800s, where inheritance was the motive and arsenic the tool.
Tracing the peculiar disappearance of an industrialist along the riverbanks, uncovering a web of early 20th-century extortion and family secrets.
When pseudo-science met pure malice: the story of a practitioner whose obsession with cranial measurements led to a series of unsolved tragedies.
Historical Archives
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Have you unearthed a chilling historical mystery or a tale of Victorian-era infamy that deserves to be told? We welcome your tips and story suggestions for our future investigations.
15 MINUTES OF INFAMY • TRUE CRIME STORIES • THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY • PECULIAR TALES • EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY • CRIMES OF PASSION • HISTORICAL MYSTERIES • UNTOLD STORIES OF THE PAST •