Episodes
E46: Accident or Murder?
Glenda Jean Hough went missing April 1, 1984. Eight months later her car-with her body inside- was discovered submerged in a cana…
E45: Remembering Alicia Manning
Alicia Manning was only three weeks away from graduating from CSUB when she was brutally murdered. Notorious Bakersfield takes a …
E44: Kidnapping Or Hoax
What was Amelia Earhart's husband doing in Bakersfield two years after she went missing? Learn all about that incident in this ep…
E43: The Shadow Killer
When the father of the leading candidate for California Attorney General is killed in 1938, it becomes a sensational news story. …
E42: The Judge And The Stripper
Judge Alan Klein was in his chambers on Sunday, March 26, 1995. For someone devoted to his job like Judge Klein, it wasn't unusua…
E41: Dungeons and Dragons and Triple Murder
On the evening of November 21, 1992, Three members of the Kammeyer family were discovered brutally murdered in their home on Gibs…
E40: Merle: The Criminal Years
Merle Haggard was probably the most well-known person born and raised in Bakersfield. His career as a Country and Western singer,…
E39: The Laundromat Murder
In 1967, A Kern County Sheriff Deputy discovered the lifeless body of Dominga "Dee" Montoya in a 24-hour laundromat. Because of t…
E38: The Supermarket Rapist
In the late 1980s in Bakersfield, there was a serial rapist targeting women who were alone in grocery store parking lots. This pr…
E37: March Meet Drag Races
The March Meet drags are Notorious not only in Bakersfield but around the world. Every year race Fans flock to the Fomoso Dragstr…
E36: Deadly Teacher Love Triangle
What makes a story rise to the notorious level? I look back to see how long a story remained in the headlines of the Bakersfield …
E35: Deadly Realtor Love Triangle
Late in the morning of August 15th, the coffee shop at the Ramada Inn was still busy serving breakfast. The restaurant's manager …
E34: 1968 Padre Hotel Murder
There are a lot of rumors out there floating around about the historic Padre Hotel in downtown Bakersfield. Many of them are 100 …
E33: Truxtun Beale
Other than Col. Thomas Baker, who Bakersfield was named after, George and Julius Chester, who Chester Ave is named after, and Cou…
32: Catching A Pyro
In 1984, fast-moving fire in a hardware store in Pasadena killed four people. In January of 1987, a string of fires broke out in …
31: The Killer Columnist
There's no denying that It's unusual for a newspaper to give a prison inmate a platform to share commentary and opinions. But tha…
30 Steven Stayner: The Bakersfield Connection
In 1972 a seven-year-old boy named Steven Stayner was abducted while he walked home from school in Merced, CA. His case drug on a…
Encore: Rampage In Rosedale
I'm taking this week off for the holidays. I'll be back next Tuesday-next year-with a new Notorious Bakersfield episode. Until t…
E29: The Virgin Mary In Bakersfield
During Christmas 1984 through to the New Year, the faithful and curious alike flocked to an East Bakersfield home to view what so…
E28: Killer Santa At Denny's
In 1989, Kenneth Obney and a companion were ambushed by an assailant wearing a Santa costume in the parking lot of a Denny's rest…
E27: Cheyenne Sends His Regards
In the previous episode of the Notorious Bakersfield podcast, you learned about Rudy "Cheyenne" Cadena's crimes, his rise in the …
E26: Bakersfield Me: The Mexican Mafia
Edward James Olmos starred in and directed the 1992 movie American Me. The opening title card of the film says it was “inspired b…
E25: Franksgiving
For 76 years, the last Thursday of November was the official Thanksgiving holiday...until 1939...when President Franklin Delano R…
E24: Rosedale Car Bombing
In 1971, 9-year-old Eddie Owen watched from his bedroom window as his father Everett got in his pickup truck. As soon as Everett…