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Hosted by Robert Petersen · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 208 episodes
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Notorious Bakersfield is a podcast that steps back in time to look at some of Bakersfield's most notorious crimes, events, and characters that have impacted this Central California Valley community.
Robert Petersen hosts Notorious Bakersfield, a history show with 208 episodes published.

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Send Robert a Text! Hey Notorious Bakersfield fans, I wanted to jump on here and explain why I haven’t released a new episode recently. A couple of weeks ago, a family member entered hospice care, and to say my focus has

Send Robert a Text! In December 1988, four-year-old Deisy Herrera vanished without a trace from her East Bakersfield yard. Six months later, another young girl from Bakersfield went missing. As her family and authorities

Send Robert a Text! This week marks the 16th anniversary of this crime. After listening to this episode, you'll think twice before answering a stranger's knock on your door. Support the show

Send Robert a Text! This Notorious Bakersfield story unfolds 150 miles west of Bakersfield, along the coast in Santa Barbara County. But this story has tentacles reaching all the way back to Bakersfield. Support the show

Send Robert a Text! In 1908 Bakersfield, an afternoon visit to a hotel room set off a chain of events that would ripple through the town for years. What began as a quiet, private meeting quickly turned into one of the mo

Send Robert a Text! On a March night in 1963, two LAPD officers were kidnapped during what should have been a routine traffic stop—and driven north into the dark farm fields just outside Bakersfield. This episode of Noto

Send Robert a Text! In 1931, a 6-year-old boy never came home. What happened to him, shocked the Bakersfield community. Support the show

Send Robert a Text! For decades, anyone with a scanner could listen as Bakersfield police officers and Kern County deputies responded to calls in real time. Now, a massive countywide radio overhaul could encrypt those tr

Send Robert a Text! His name probably isn’t familiar to you—and that’s what makes the story of Percy Douglas so intriguing. In Bakersfield’s Wild West days, he was feared, violent, and impossible to ignore… yet today he

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Send Robert a Text! Long before Colonel Thomas Baker arrived in what we now call Bakersfield, a solitary hill rose from the valley floor near the site of today’s Mercy Hospital. For generations, that hill was home to a Y

Send Robert a Text! Who knew there has been more than one murder on the Bakersfield College campus? Support the show

Send Robert a Text! For years, Woody’s Toy Circus was a Bakersfield landmark—a place where childhood excitement filled the aisles and memories were made by the cartload. Built by a larger-than-life local personality, the

Send Robert a Text! Today, finding out whether a convicted sex offender lives nearby takes just a few clicks — but decades ago, communities had no such warning system. Long before Megan’s Law made that information public

Send Robert a Text! In the final summer of the Roaring Twenties, just weeks before the stock market crash would shatter the nation’s confidence, a quiet and disheveled stranger wandered into Bakersfield. Within hours, th

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Send Robert a Text! For decades, Sidney “Sid” Sheffield devoted his life to making Bakersfield a better place — as a teacher, administrator, and champion of local education and health care. His warmth drew people in, his

Send Robert a Text! It all started with a clown, a few eerie pictures posted to Instagram, and a wave of panic that spread faster than anyone could’ve imagined. Support the show

Send Robert a Text! It was a quiet afternoon in 2013 in the Rosedale community when neighbors heard gunfire. What began as a family’s desperate attempt to save a troubled young man from addiction would end in tragedy. Su
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Notorious Bakersfield is hosted by Robert Petersen. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 208 episodes.
Notorious Bakersfield has published 208 episodes.
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