425: Henry Scott Mausell: Michigan's First Serial Killer? w/ Allie Seibert

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On a beautiful fall day in September 1916, 68-year-old Hannah Spielman went on a picnic with her new husband, 71-year-old James Allen, in the woods outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. She had met him through a newspaper advertisement, and the two were married just two days earlier - only hours after stepping off a train and meeting him face-to-face for the first time. But James Allen was not the man he claimed to be. His real name was Henry Scott Mausell, and his intentions were anything but honorable. Eleven days later, Hannah’s decomposed body was discovered and the murder investigation began. So who was Henry Scott Mausell? A man with a deeply troubled past—and Hannah was likely not his first victim, but the last in a long line of murdered women. In "Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan’s Darkest Murders Forgotten by Time", author Allie Seibert sheds light on this largely forgotten, and very likely, serial killer. The author's Household History website: https://www.householdhistory.com/ Allie in the Archives Podcast links: ⁠https://www.pod.link/1819388236 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allie.in.the.archives/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.1	Join us every Monday and Thursday wherever you listen to Fine Podcasts. Welcome, everyone to another episode of the Most Notorious podcast. I'm Eric Rivenis. Thank you for being here.
2:03.6	My guest today is a name you might recognize, Ali Siebert. She was on the show last summer to talk about the murder of Beatrice Epler, a popular interview. So I'm very excited to have her back again.
2:20.0	And she agreed to speak with us about another case from her book, Bloodstained, Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders, Forgotten by
2:29.1	Time. Welcome back, Allie. Great to speak with you again. Thanks, Eric. I'm so excited to be here.
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2:56.3	think kind of has fallen off the radar. So I feel really lucky and grateful to get to, I don't know,
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