393: The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan w/ Mary Noé

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of July 3, 1915, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., one of the most famous names in finance, was entertaining guests at his sprawling Long Island estate when the doorbell unexpectedly rang. An armed man forced his way inside. At the same time, authorities in Washington, DC, were investigating a shocking bombing at the US Capitol. While no one had been killed, the blast had destroyed the reception room, and DC citizens were on edge. Nine years earlier, in 1906, Leone Krembs Muenter had fallen ill and died shortly after giving birth. Her husband, Harvard professor Erich Muenter, blamed his wife’s Christian Science religious beliefs, which prohibited medical intervention, for the death, but an investigation suggested something more sinister: arsenic poisoning. As suspicions mounted, Muenter vanished. Joining me is Mary Noé, author of "The Man Who Shot J. P. Morgan: A Life of Arsenic, Anarchy, and Intrigue". She tells the remarkable tale of a deceptive Harvard professor who reemerges with a new name and family —and a dangerous loyalty to Germany during World War I. The author's website: https://manwhoshotmorgan.com/ The author's publisher page: https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2024/the-man-who-shot-j-p-morgan/ Hungry? Support the show here! Get started with Factor here to get 50% off plus FREE shipping on your first box!: http://factormeals.com/notorious50off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:32.9	I'm Eric.
1:33.9	Back yet again for another interview, and I so appreciate you taking the time to listen today.
1:40.3	Well, I am very excited to introduce Mary Noe to the show. She is a professor of criminal justice
1:48.0	in legal studies in the Collins College of Professional Studies at St. John's University in New York,
1:56.2	and she's got a new book coming out on June 10th called The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan,
2:02.9	a life of arsenic, anarchy, and intrigue.
2:07.3	Welcome and thank you for being my guest today.
2:10.7	It's great to be here. Thank you.
2:14.0	Yes. So tell us how the idea for this book came about.
2:18.4	Well, it originated when I moved to the island where J.P. Morgan's estate was.
2:27.8	And it's a beautiful place. Of course, he had a beautiful estate here. And if you've ever seen the movie Sabrina,
2:37.3	there's actually two versions of the movie Sabrina, one with Audrey Hepburn and the other one
2:42.0	with Harrison Ford. His son lived across on the opposite island, West Island. But he had an estate here on East Island.
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