Death in Eden
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1930s, eight people settled on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos. Within five year...
The Double
18 Jul 2025
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In 2023, two men told police the same story: each man said that his name was William Woods, and that...
The Man Nobody Killed
Fri, 11 Jul
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On September 15, 1983, Michael Stewart was on his way home from a nightclub when police arrested him...
The Clearwater Monster
Fri, 04 Jul
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Fl...
Uncle Harold
Fri, 27 Jun
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In 1997, Eric Konigsberg received a strange voicemail from someone in prison — a hit man who had c...
By Any Means Necessary
Fri, 20 Jun
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In July 2010, a woman was on vacation with her boyfriend of six years — they were traveling around...
The Guru
Fri, 13 Jun
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In the late 1960s, a yogi named Swami Rama came to the United States. His followers believed he coul...
Professor Quaalude
Fri, 06 Jun
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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty po...
Thin Ice and Unusual Punishments
Fri, 30 May
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Two years ago, we started making Criminal Plus episodes — behind-the-scenes conversations featurin...
Action Park
Fri, 23 May
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“Anyone who went to Action Park understood you could get really messed up going there. It was part...
No Hint or Help
Fri, 16 May
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In the 1950s, a new television quiz show premiered called Twenty One. But the first episode was a di...
False Positive
Fri, 09 May
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The night before she gave birth, Susan Horton had a salad for dinner. The next day, doctors told her...
Tabatha
Fri, 02 May
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When Tabatha Trammell was 50 years old, she started studying to become a doula — a support person ...
The Job
Fri, 25 Apr
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Not long into his job as prison superintendent, Frank Thompson had to prepare his staff to perform O...
The Roofman, Part 2
Fri, 18 Apr
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When Jeffery Manchester escaped from prison, a lot of people weren't surprised. But they didn't expe...
The Roofman, Part 1
Fri, 11 Apr
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Between 1998 and 2000, more than 40 stores and chain restaurants across the country were robbed by a...
The Pride of Pine Hill
Fri, 04 Apr
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In the midst of the 1996 race for North Carolina governor, a new candidate emerged. Her name was Jol...
The Bottom of the Cliff
Fri, 28 Mar
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In May of 2021, the National Park Service received a call that a woman had fallen over the Grandview...
The Man Without a Will
Fri, 21 Mar
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A Toronto police officer was having an affair with a government worker – and then they found out a...
High Tide
Fri, 14 Mar
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Right after sunset, three boats sailed towards the rice plantations on the Combahee River. Harriet T...
Five Stars
Fri, 07 Mar
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“Christopher Kinahan is probably the most successful and entrepreneurial criminal that Ireland has...
The Stay
Fri, 28 Feb
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Last year, a committee of state lawmakers in Texas issued a subpoena for a man on death row to testi...
The Butterfly Smuggler
Fri, 21 Feb
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The first time Ed Newcomer went to the L.A. Bug Fair, he met a man who called himself the world’s ...
Ava and the Pickpocket
Fri, 14 Feb
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“He stole my watch. He stole my jewelry. I stopped wearing jewelry – just to see what else he wo...
Robert Smalls
Fri, 07 Feb
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On May 13, 1862, in Charleston, South Carolina, a man named Robert Smalls took command of a Confeder...
The Raid
Fri, 31 Jan
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In 2023, police raided the Kansas newspaper where Eric Meyer worked with his mother, Joan. Seven off...
Guns, Grenades, and $100,000
Fri, 24 Jan
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“Anything you can think of is going to be in the water.” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagr...
Dexter Wade
Fri, 17 Jan
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Bettersten Wade searched for her missing 37-year-old son for nearly six months. Then she found out t...
Moon Rocks Wanted
Fri, 10 Jan
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On September 18, 1998, an unusual ad ran in USA Today — a company called John’s Estate Sales was...
The Christmas Fire
Fri, 27 Dec
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The bodies of a woman and her child were found inside a burned house on Christmas Day, 1843. An auto...
Turtle vs. Toilet, a Monster in the Closet, and a Surprise Possum
Fri, 20 Dec
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Stories of animals really going for it. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign u...
Operation Flagship
Fri, 13 Dec
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In 1985, 160 people were sent letters saying they’d won free tickets to an NFL football game. They...
The Sale
Fri, 06 Dec
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In 1791, three men filed lawsuits in the General Court of Maryland. They were all suing the same per...
For the Sake of American Youth
Fri, 22 Nov
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“Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store is that we're goin...
Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons
Fri, 15 Nov
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In 1993, Gary Settle was sentenced to 177 years in prison. Twenty-six years into his sentence, he st...
The Reverend
Fri, 08 Nov
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In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 p...
The Family Land, Part 2
Fri, 01 Nov
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This week, part two of the Reels family story – how two brothers went to jail in an attempt to sav...
The Family Land, Part 1
Fri, 25 Oct
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Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels refused to leave the land that had been in their family for generati...
Valentine
Fri, 18 Oct
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Today, a personal story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring. Say hello on ...
Under the Wall
Fri, 11 Oct
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Soon after the Berlin Wall went up, a group of students knocked on Joachim Rudolph’s door. They to...
A Land Without Law
Fri, 04 Oct
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Before Guantánamo Bay became the prison we know today, Marie Genard spent more than a year of her l...
The Mirage
Fri, 27 Sep
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In 1977, a new bar opened on North Wells Street in Chicago. Things weren’t as they seemed at the a...
A Murder in the Forest
Fri, 20 Sep
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One morning, two men got in a boat and sailed down a river in the Amazon rainforest. They were never...
Into the Vault
Fri, 13 Sep
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In the summer of 1975, two best friends attempted a robbery unlike any they’d ever pulled off befo...
The Petition
Fri, 06 Sep
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When Madison Smith went to her county attorney’s office to talk about her rape case, she knew she ...
Hot Lotto
Fri, 23 Aug
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In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, n...
Big Fish
Fri, 16 Aug
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Two men turned in the winning catch at a Lake Erie fishing tournament. But when the tournament direc...
Ana
Fri, 09 Aug
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Phoebe: Are there a lot of spies in this country today? Scott: Far more than people can probably eve...
Trouble in Flamingo
Fri, 02 Aug
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Hunters in the Everglades used to kill millions of birds every year for their feathers. In 1902, a m...
Millions of Pills
Fri, 26 Jul
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“There was a saying I heard a few times: ‘under the influence, above the law.’ And I think tha...
Los Hipopótamos
Fri, 19 Jul
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In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippopotamuses into Colombia for a zoo on his ranch. Today...
The Disappearance of Leslie Arnold
Fri, 12 Jul
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In 1967, a 24-year-old named Leslie Arnold escaped from prison. The FBI looked for him for years. An...
Ten Thousand Feet in the Air
Fri, 05 Jul
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On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a ...
State of North Carolina v. Joan Little
Fri, 28 Jun
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When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say, “No way in the world a Black woma...
The Demon Spread
Fri, 21 Jun
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“The ingenuity of depraved human genius has culminated in the production of margarine.” Say hell...
One Troy
Fri, 14 Jun
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The Lawrence H. Woodward funeral home in Brooklyn has been run by one family for generations, and ha...
11 to 1
Fri, 07 Jun
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When JonRe Taylor was called for jury duty in 2007, she voted ‘not guilty’ on every charge. But ...
The Six
Fri, 24 May
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In 1989, three people confessed to participating in a murder. Eventually, a total of six people were...
Type B
Fri, 17 May
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Six people were arrested for a murder in Nebraska. Some said they couldn't remember details of the c...
The Confession, Part 3
Fri, 10 May
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When we last spoke with Trevell Coleman, he was waiting to hear back about his clemency application....
Right of Way
Fri, 03 May
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In 1991, two police officers stopped Tupac Shakur for jaywalking. He said he was knocked unconscious...
Mr. Apology
Fri, 26 Apr
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In 1980, posters appeared in subway stations and on telephone poles in New York City with a phone nu...
Under Oath
Fri, 19 Apr
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When he was 14 years old, Ron Bishop testified in a murder trial. Decades later, he told an investig...
The Strike
Fri, 12 Apr
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When people started saying that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was responsible for the deaths of two women ...
An Officer's Arrest
Fri, 05 Apr
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Sultan Alam was the first Pakistani officer to join the traffic department of the Cleveland Police i...
Indelible Ink
Fri, 22 Mar
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For almost thirty years, Adolfo Kaminsky lived quietly, forging documents for people all over the wo...
The Hiss
Fri, 15 Mar
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As the famous English actor William Macready was preparing to go on stage in New York, over 300 poli...
The Dial Painters
Fri, 08 Mar
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In the early 1920s, painters at a watch dial factory in New Jersey started to get sick. No one could...
If I’m Long Unheard From
Fri, 01 Mar
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In 1974, musician Connie Converse drove away from home and was never heard from again. Howard Fishma...
Off Leash
Fri, 23 Feb
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“I never did anything wrong. I never had a speeding ticket. I think I just saved all my stuff up f...
Call Russ Ewing
Fri, 16 Feb
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“The police had surrounded the house. They had been there for quite a while. They didn’t want to...
Cowboy Bob
Fri, 09 Feb
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In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the tell...
Bonus: The Liberal Arts Club
Wed, 07 Feb
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Listen to the latest Criminal Plus bonus episode completely for free. Phoebe and Lauren hit record o...
911
Fri, 02 Feb
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A conversation with a 911 operator about what happens on the other end of the line – and the day s...
The Ninth Floor
Fri, 26 Jan
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Martin Abramowitz knew that his father had worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, but he always ...
48 Hours, Part 2
Fri, 19 Jan
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This episode picks up where 48 Hours, Part 1 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When ...
48 Hours, Part 1
Fri, 19 Jan
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“I think it was around 3:00 a.m., and that’s when I heard a strange man’s voice waking me from...
The Hunt
Fri, 12 Jan
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In 2016, the FBI attaché in Pretoria, South Africa, got a phone call from a woman asking the FBI to...
Tokyo Joe
Fri, 05 Jan
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Ken Eto worked for the Chicago Outfit for 30 years. He was known as the mob’s bolita expert, bring...
The Gargoyle Cat, the Taylor Swift Goat, and the Runaway Cow
Fri, 22 Dec
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Stories of animals really going for it. Criminal is going back on tour in February! We’ll be telli...
The Questions I’m Asking
Fri, 15 Dec
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Today we meet “Genius Grant” winner Andrea Armstrong. In 2019, she started the Incarceration Tra...
Send Her to the Island
Fri, 08 Dec
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When a young woman showed up at a boarding house in Manhattan, she said her name was Nellie Brown –...
The Kit
Fri, 01 Dec
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In the early 1970s, Marty Goddard was worried about the high rates of sexual assault in Chicago. She...
Masterpiece
Fri, 24 Nov
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In the 1950s poodles were all the rage — one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the b...
Fine Art and Meat Cleavers
Fri, 17 Nov
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In 1913, museums and art galleries in London received a memo from the police. It told them to be car...
The Liverpool Exchange
Fri, 10 Nov
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In the 1980s, Liverpool was having what journalists called a heroin epidemic. The chairman of a loca...
Interrogation Room
Fri, 03 Nov
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After a 17-hour-long interrogation, a woman confesses to a murder. But then, evidence surfaces provi...
How to Sell a Haunted House
Fri, 27 Oct
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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as ...
The Spy
Fri, 20 Oct
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Jack Barsky was a college student in 1970 when the KGB knocked on the door of his dorm room to inqui...
Chesa, Kathy, and David
Fri, 13 Oct
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Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were once members of the radical activist group the Weather Undergrou...
Jiminy Crickets
Wed, 11 Oct
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Here's a little preview of what we’re making over on Criminal Plus! We’re having a lot of fun ma...
The Confession, Part 2
Fri, 06 Oct
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This episode continues where Episode 237 leaves off. 17 years after he shot a man, Trevell Coleman w...
The Confession, Part 1
Fri, 29 Sep
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Trevell Coleman signed with Bad Boy Records in 1998. He made it onto the Billboard charts, and was c...
Phoebe vs. Oyster
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:00:00 -0000
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We’re coming up on 10 years of Criminal. In the past decade, we've loved taking the show all over ...
Under the Crabapple Tree
Fri, 22 Sep
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On September 16, 1922, a reverend and a choir singer were found dead under a tree. Between their bod...
The Newsroom
Fri, 15 Sep
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Jeff German was a reporter for over 40 years in Las Vegas. He spent his life covering the mafia, cor...
The Séances
Fri, 08 Sep
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In 1916, two British soldiers were held captive in a remote prisoner-of-war camp. People said the ca...
Iceland Noir
Fri, 25 Aug
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Iceland is one of the most peaceful countries in the world, but people there love to read about crim...
The Other Phoebe Judge
Mon, 21 Aug
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A preview of what we’re making over on Criminal Plus! Hear me and Criminal co-creator Lauren Spohr...
Wolf 10
Fri, 18 Aug
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In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking f...
The Nurse
Fri, 11 Aug
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When Amy Loughren started working as a nurse at Somerset Medical Center, she did everything she coul...
The Perfectionists
Fri, 04 Aug
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A story about religion, sex, an assassination, and silverware. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and ...
A Glamour and a Mystery
Fri, 28 Jul
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In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took a photograph of her 9-year-old cousin, Frances ...
Roll of the Dice
Fri, 21 Jul
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The UNABOM investigation was one of the longest manhunts in American history - it lasted for 18 year...
The Bodies in the Bog
Fri, 14 Jul
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In the summer of 1984, a local newspaper reporter outside of Manchester, England, got a tip from the...
The Prison Newspaper
Fri, 07 Jul
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A little over sixty years ago, there were 250 prison newspapers being published on a regular basis. ...
The Impersonator
Fri, 30 Jun
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Mary Jones could sing just like Aretha Franklin. One night, a James Brown impersonator saw her perfo...
Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and Cleveland’s Torso Murderer
Fri, 23 Jun
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In 1934, a man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found a human torso on the beach. No ...
The Unknown Woman
Fri, 16 Jun
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When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make th...
The Paramedics
Fri, 09 Jun
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As recently as 1965, if you had a medical emergency, the people who showed up at your door would be ...
Lavender Scare
Fri, 02 Jun
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Helen James grew up in a military family — her great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, he...
Shipwrecked
Fri, 26 May
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There’s an old sailors’ saying about the ocean at the southernmost part of the world — “belo...
A Mysterious Bank
Fri, 19 May
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In the late 1870s, a woman named Sarah Howe started a bank just for single women called the Ladies’...
"Did we get it right?"
Fri, 12 May
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“What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and n...
The Juror
Fri, 05 May
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In 2008, Sven Berger was chosen to serve on the jury for a murder trial. He says the sentence that h...
The Magdalene Laundries
Fri, 28 Apr
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When she was 14 years old, Elizabeth Coppin was sent to a place called Peacock Lane in Cork, Ireland...
The Somerton Man
Fri, 21 Apr
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In 1948, two horse jockeys were riding on a beach in Australia when they came across a man lying in ...
Palace of Justice – A Conversation with Benjamin Ferencz
Fri, 14 Apr
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When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. It's been called the lar...
The Most Wonderful Terrible Person
Fri, 07 Apr
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When Debra Miller woke up on October 8th, 1964, she was expecting to see a black Volkswagen in her f...
The Fasting Cure
Fri, 24 Mar
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In 1911, two sisters traveled to Seattle to meet a "doctor" named Linda Hazzard. The sisters didn’...
Crazy Eddie
Fri, 17 Mar
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In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were p...
Out of the Box
Fri, 10 Mar
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In 1964, one of the best javelin throwers in Australia traveled to England to see if he could qualif...
An Impossible Crime, Part 2
Fri, 03 Mar
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This episode continues where Episode 208 leaves off. In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from pris...
An Impossible Crime
Fri, 24 Feb
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Daniel Taylor was 17 years old when he was arrested for a 1992 double homicide in Chicago. But Danie...
Novak v. City of Parma
Fri, 17 Feb
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In 2016, a man named Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page of his local police department. "I...
The Feather Lady
Fri, 03 Feb
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On October 4, 1960, Eastern Airlines Flight 375 took off from Boston’s Logan airport, and then, tw...
Sunset Mesa
Fri, 20 Jan
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Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson. When s...
They Came for the Judges
Fri, 06 Jan
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When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August of 2021, they unlocked the prisons and freed ...
Dog in the Bed, Cat in the Bag, Camel on the Golf Course
Fri, 16 Dec
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Stories of animals really going for it. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for ou...
Across the Atlantic
Fri, 02 Dec
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In February of 1910, members of the Music Hall Ladies Guild in London received a strange letter from...
The Tylenol Murders
Fri, 18 Nov
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On September 29, 1982, Adam Janus suddenly collapsed in his home outside of Chicago. He died within ...
We Interrupt This Program
Fri, 04 Nov
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On a Saturday night, in February 1949, the music programming on one of the most popular radio statio...
Ghostwatch
Fri, 21 Oct
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On Halloween night, in 1992, an unusual television special aired on the BBC. Nobody expected what ha...
The Hammersmith Ghost
Fri, 07 Oct
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In the winter of 1803, residents outside of London reported strange encounters with a ghost. Some sa...
Mantrap
Fri, 23 Sep
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Ed and Bertha Briney’s unoccupied farmhouse was reportedly broken into 50 times over 10 years. The...
Hungryland
Fri, 09 Sep
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In March of this year, a biologist working in a nature preserve in Florida saw an alligator swimming...
The Procedure
Fri, 19 Aug
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In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to quietly break the law and help facilitate ...
The Divorce Colony
Fri, 05 Aug
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This episode picks up where Episode 193 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. Blanche Mo...
A Ring and a Bottle
Fri, 22 Jul
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In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She br...
The Devil’s Hole Pupfish
Fri, 08 Jul
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There is a cave in the middle of the Mojave Desert called Devil's Hole. It's home to a small iridesc...
The Sailor's Teeth
Fri, 24 Jun
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In 1982, forensic dentists examined the teeth of thousands of sailors stationed on an aircraft carri...
Day In, Day Out
Fri, 10 Jun
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When Laura Coates decided to become a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., she was told that the job woul...
The Doctors
Fri, 27 May
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In 2018, we talked with three of America’s most experienced trauma surgeons about what happens whe...
John & Trooper
Fri, 13 May
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For 10 years, Detective John Reilly and his horse Trooper were the only mounted team assigned to Cen...
427 Emails
Fri, 22 Apr
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Pontiac Correctional Center is a maximum security prison in the small town of Pontiac, Illinois. It’...
The Magpie
Fri, 08 Apr
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When Shigeru Yabu was 9 years old, he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Internment ...
The Princess
Fri, 25 Mar
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One night in 1817, a woman appeared in the village of Almondsbury, in England. No one could figure o...
Ransom
Fri, 11 Mar
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Miles Hargrove was in his sophomore year of college when he got a phone call that his father had bee...
Breaking into the F.B.I.
Fri, 25 Feb
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In 1971, a woman visited an F.B.I. office in Pennsylvania. She identified herself as a college stude...
The Midnight Slider
Fri, 11 Feb
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In 2013, a small boat called The Midnight Slider was found floating empty in the waters off of Is...
Pappy, Another Round
Fri, 28 Jan
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When it comes to Kentucky bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle is among the most exclusive. You can’t get it ...
The Boycott
Fri, 14 Jan
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15 years after the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Boar...
A Splendid Newfoundland, Cursing Birds, and the Fashion Fox
Fri, 17 Dec
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Stories of animals really going for it. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for ou...
"The experiment requires that you continue."
Fri, 03 Dec
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1. Please continue. 2. The experiment requires that you continue. 3. It is absolutely essential th...
Palace of Justice
Fri, 19 Nov
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When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants...
The Red Flag
Fri, 05 Nov
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In 2006, a man named William Ramsey went to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida for a life-savi...
Ghost Racket Crusade
Fri, 22 Oct
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The story of two famous friends — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini — and the disagreemen...
The Loves
Fri, 08 Oct
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“There is something he hasn’t been telling me and I’m about to find out what it is.” Bobby a...
Family Money
Fri, 24 Sep
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When Beverley Schottenstein’s husband Alvin died, she and her children sold their stake in his fam...
Roselle and Michael
Fri, 10 Sep
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Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, ...
Sealand
Fri, 27 Aug
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Today's episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones an...
Ian Manuel
Fri, 30 Jul
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"The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator say...
Masquerade
Fri, 16 Jul
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The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner:...
48 Hours, Part 2
Fri, 02 Jul
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This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Aar...
48 Hours
Fri, 18 Jun
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“I think it was around 3:00 a.m., and that’s when I heard a strange man’s voice waking me from...
On Fire
Fri, 04 Jun
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On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned hous...
Unfit
Fri, 21 May
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in he...
Sanctuary
Fri, 07 May
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After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket...
The Ghoul of Grays Harbor
Fri, 23 Apr
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The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies...
I Fought the Law
Fri, 09 Apr
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The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in...
Only in Hollywood
Fri, 26 Mar
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When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introd...
Hot Lotto
Fri, 12 Mar
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In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, n...
Spiritual Developments
Fri, 26 Feb
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One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alo...
"If it ever happens, run."
Fri, 12 Feb
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and ove...
The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch
Fri, 29 Jan
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Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan called Shah Sadar Din, a place where it...
Sister Helen
Fri, 15 Jan
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row in Louisiana’s A...
Bears on Ice
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0000
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A day in the life of the town of Kalispell, Montana. Thanks very much for listening this year, and h...
Cannonball
Fri, 18 Dec
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With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as the...
The Night of the Party
Fri, 04 Dec
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When Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were charged with the murder of Jeanette “Baldie” Willia...
The Max Headroom Incident
Fri, 20 Nov
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One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the WGN nine o’clo...
The Clearwater Monster
Fri, 13 Nov
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Fl...
The Many Lives of Michael Malloy
Fri, 06 Nov
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In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in Prohibition-era New York City hatched a plan — to take o...
76th and Yates
Fri, 23 Oct
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On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got ...
Dr. Parkman is Missing
Fri, 09 Oct
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In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” A...
Errol Morris
Fri, 25 Sep
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Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in a smal...
Kids on the Case
Fri, 11 Sep
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The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s hous...
Ten Doors
Fri, 28 Aug
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Tim Jenkin was a member of the ANC (African National Congress). The organization had been declared u...
How to Sell A Haunted House
Fri, 07 Aug
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In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York at 1 Laveta Place. ...
Looking Out
Fri, 17 Jul
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People incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison aren’t allowed to have pets — but...
Knock and Announce
Fri, 03 Jul
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“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I...
Robert Smalls
Fri, 19 Jun
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On May 13, 1862, in Charleston, South Carolina, a man named Robert Smalls took command of a Confeder...
It Looked Like Fire
Fri, 05 Jun
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On August 10th, 2014, one day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren ...
Cowboy Bob
Fri, 15 May
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In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the tell...
Learning How to Forgive
Fri, 01 May
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“I’ve been teaching law for almost 40 years. And I recently realized we don’t really teach peo...
Starlight Tours
Fri, 17 Apr
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In January 2000, the bodies of two First Nations men were found frozen in a remote area of Saskatoon...
Wolf 10
Fri, 03 Apr
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In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking f...
Looking for Wolves
Wed, 25 Mar
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Our other show, This is Love, is coming back on April 1. All new stories, about animals and the wild...
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:38:00 -0000
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Phoebe reads Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. For more, visit Phoeb...
La Brea Dave
Fri, 20 Mar
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Sgt. David Mascarenas was the Dive Supervisor for the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s been div...
527 Lime Street
Fri, 06 Mar
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Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida...
Call Russ Ewing
Fri, 21 Feb
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For decades, TV news reporter Russ Ewing stood beside more than 100 people—at their request—as t...
Red Hair, Gold Car
Fri, 07 Feb
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One day Adam Braseel got a phone call from his mother. She said that a man in Grundy County, Tenness...
Herrin Massacre
Fri, 24 Jan
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In the spring of 1922, the United Mine Workers of America announced a national strike. And then, tha...
Sunset Mesa
Fri, 10 Jan
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Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson, from S...
Who's There
Fri, 20 Dec
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Crime Blotter: “The Learning Center on Hanson Street reports a man across the way stands at his wi...
Phoebe, Judge Me
Fri, 13 Dec
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We are trying something different. Have a question for Phoebe? You can call into our voicemail at (9...
Panic Defense
Fri, 06 Dec
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In 1995, two men filmed an episode of the daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later,...
Deep Breath
Fri, 22 Nov
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World-class biathlete Kari Swenson was on an afternoon trail run in the mountains near Big Sky, Mont...
The Reverend
Fri, 08 Nov
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In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 p...
A New Kind of Life
Wed, 30 Oct
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In 1930, a Cuban woman named Elena de Hoyos went to the hospital in Key West, Florida. She had a bad...
The Less People Know About Us
Fri, 25 Oct
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 51: Money Tree before you listen to this one. Three years ...
A Bucket, a Mop, and a Sledgehammer
Fri, 11 Oct
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After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’...
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
Fri, 27 Sep
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In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpene...
Professor Quaalude
Fri, 13 Sep
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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty po...
Off Leash
Fri, 30 Aug
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“I never did anything wrong. I never had a speeding ticket. I think I just saved all my stuff up f...
The Tunnel
Fri, 02 Aug
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In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of t...
He's Still Neutral
Fri, 19 Jul
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Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an...
Stowaway
Fri, 05 Jul
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One day in 1969, Paulette Cooper decided to see what she could get away with. Learn more about Paule...
The Lake
Fri, 21 Jun
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Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day,...
Jessica and the Bunny Ranch
Fri, 07 Jun
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In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocum...
Cecilia
Fri, 24 May
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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her tha...
Philip and Becky
Fri, 10 May
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When Philip Benight met Becky Golden, they made a promise to stick together, no matter how bad thing...
Hostage
Fri, 26 Apr
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In the summer of 1973, Clark Olofsson and Jan-Erik Olsson robbed the Kreditbanken in Stockholm’s N...
The Mail
Fri, 12 Apr
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This episode contains adult content. Please use discretion. When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she ...
Silvon Simmons
Fri, 29 Mar
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In 2016, Silvon Simmons was shot in the back by police officer Joseph Ferrigno. The Rochester Police...
Baby Snatcher
Fri, 15 Mar
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Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched th...
Homewrecker
Fri, 01 Mar
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It's one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It's another thing to try to rui...
The Numbers
Fri, 15 Feb
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When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they had trouble finding steady ...
The Widow and the Winchester
Fri, 01 Feb
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When Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufactu...
Linda
Fri, 18 Jan
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In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, a 69-year-old woman named Linda Gillman hired a man named Chr...
Protection
Fri, 21 Dec
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John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia ...
Witness
Fri, 07 Dec
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We speak with a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, an...
Bonus Episode: The Bark
Fri, 30 Nov
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A story about Steve Hutton, a police constable in England, who decided to do things a little differe...
Get Out of My House
Fri, 16 Nov
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On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in a neighborhood in...
This is Love: How to Live Forever
Wed, 14 Nov
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Our second podcast, This is Love, is back. We’re sharing this first episode with Criminal listene...
Ride-Along
Fri, 02 Nov
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We spend the day in a police car in Austin, Texas. For a transcript of this episode, send an email t...
The Fox
Fri, 19 Oct
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This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Marti...
I'm Phoebe Judge
Fri, 05 Oct
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Thanks for helping us celebrate 100 episodes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
Racehorse Haynes
Fri, 21 Sep
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There is nothing Richard "Racehorse" Haynes of Houston, Texas wouldn't do to win a case. He’s wide...
The Doctors
Fri, 07 Sep
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Three of America's most experienced trauma surgeons speak with us about what happens when someone is...
Palace of Justice
Fri, 17 Aug
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When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants...
On the Run
Fri, 03 Aug
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When Tyler Wetherall was a kid, her mother and father packed up the family car and drove through the...
The Job
Fri, 20 Jul
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Not long into his job as prison superintendent, Frank Thompson was asked to write the manual on leth...
The Chase
Fri, 06 Jul
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Mark Roberts has attended almost every major sporting event in the world. And he's been escorted off...
Lavender Scare
Fri, 15 Jun
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Helen James grew up in a military family — her great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, he...
Dementia Americana
Fri, 01 Jun
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This episode picks up where Episode 91 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. The early...
The "It" Girl
Fri, 18 May
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The story behind the face of New York's Gilded Age. For more information, check out Paula Uruburu's ...
Sharks
Fri, 04 May
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The U.S. Navy attempted to develop a shark attack repellant after many sailors were attacked during ...
Shadowing Sheila
Fri, 20 Apr
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before y...
Cold Case
Fri, 06 Apr
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In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roomm...
Casper, Wyoming
Fri, 23 Mar
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David Dovala has lived in Casper, Wyoming since he was 19. He’s worked all kinds of cases, first a...
Willie Bosket
Fri, 09 Mar
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Before he was 10 years old, Willie Bosket had skipped school, started fires, picked pockets, and sto...
The Manual
Fri, 23 Feb
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In 1993, Mildred and Trevor Horn, along with their live-in nurse Janice, were found murdered in thei...
A New Show from the Makers of Criminal: Episode 1
Wed, 14 Feb
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In 1971, David Alexander went for a run in Central Park and started talking to a stranger. For our f...
Masterpiece
Fri, 09 Feb
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In the 1950s poodles were all the rage — one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the b...
This Is Love
Fri, 26 Jan
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Some spiders eat their young, and some eat their parents … love is never simple. From the makers o...
The Mothers
Fri, 26 Jan
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There is a group in Durham, NC called "Parents of Murdered Children." This week, we meet three of it...
Bonus Episode: Like a Page from a Book
Mon, 15 Jan
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In 1892, a gruesome murder took place in a small fishing village in Argentina. The police had a susp...
The Choir
Fri, 12 Jan
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As a child, Lawrence Lessig was a gifted singer. His church choir director encouraged him to attend ...
Unexpected Guests
Fri, 15 Dec
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Three mysteries we can’t stop thinking about. The first is about an impossible photo taken at a be...
Photo, Hair, Fingerprint
Fri, 01 Dec
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In 1988, a man in Hickory, North Carolina named Willie Grimes was sentenced to life in prison for ra...
Secrets and Séances
Fri, 17 Nov
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Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She ...
The Botanist
Fri, 03 Nov
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In 1993, Gerald Boggs of Steamboat Springs, Colorado was found dead in his home. He'd been burned wi...
The Escape
Fri, 20 Oct
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In 1962, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, along with fellow incarcerated person Frank Morris, man...
The Big Lick
Fri, 06 Oct
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The Tennessee Walking Horse has a natural gait that's famously smooth. And, if trained in a certain ...
The Gatekeeper
Fri, 22 Sep
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"I keep saying 'where's the body? Kill someone,'" Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 cri...
Catastrophe
Fri, 08 Sep
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In 1993, more than 1,000 levees broke along the Mississippi River, flooding thousands of acres. Most...
Carry A. Nation
Fri, 18 Aug
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At the turn of the century, Carry Nation was “America’s foremost lady hellraiser” and "the apo...
Bears, Birds, and Bones
Fri, 04 Aug
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As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of their dead in giant mounds of earth...
A Bump in the Night
Fri, 21 Jul
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Amber Dawn was 20 when she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Enumclaw, Washington. On her very f...
The Procedure
Fri, 07 Jul
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In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to help women quietly break the law and obtai...
Becoming Chief Brown
Fri, 16 Jun
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Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a poli...
All the Time in the World
Fri, 02 Jun
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The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one is allowed to see, because it...
Milk Carton Kids
Fri, 19 May
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On a Sunday morning in 1982, in Des Moines, Iowa, Johnny Gosch left his house to begin his usual pap...
Bully
Fri, 05 May
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Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the '70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and...
The Kingfish
Fri, 21 Apr
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he boug...
420
Fri, 07 Apr
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The Colorado Department of Transportation says the 420 mile markers on the state's highways were sto...
Rochester, 1991
Fri, 17 Mar
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Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn't leave her a...
Wildin
Fri, 03 Mar
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In 2014, 16-year-old Wildin Acosta left Olancho, Honduras and traveled toward the U.S. border. When ...
Vanish
Fri, 17 Feb
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People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man nam...
Finding Sarah and Philip
Fri, 03 Feb
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In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, p...
In Plain Sight
Fri, 20 Jan
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In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: "We should look in vain through the most ...
Walnut Grove
Fri, 06 Jan
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In 2010, Michael McIntosh's son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in ...
Everyday Genius
Fri, 16 Dec
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To close out 2016, we're bringing you two lighter stories of people exhibiting everyday genius under...
Don't Let Me See You In The Whirl
Fri, 02 Dec
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Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime i...
The Shell Game
Fri, 18 Nov
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The Magic Castle in Hollywood has been a private club for magicians since 1963, and its walls are li...
Melinda and Clarence
Fri, 04 Nov
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this one. Melind...
Melinda and Judy
Fri, 21 Oct
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When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under suspicious circumsta...
The Checklist
Fri, 07 Oct
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 51: Money Tree before you listen to this one. While workin...
Money Tree
Fri, 23 Sep
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When Axton Betz-Hamilton was 11 years old, her parents' identities were stolen. At that time, in the...
This is Criminal
Fri, 09 Sep
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To celebrate Criminal's 50th episode, we check in with some of our most memorable guests including...
The Editor
Fri, 26 Aug
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In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Co...
Eight Years
Fri, 12 Aug
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2008 was an exciting time to be a Harry Potter fan. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hal...
Brownie Lady
Fri, 15 Jul
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Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a fr...
Tiger
Fri, 01 Jul
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There are more tigers in captivity in America than wild tigers in the entire world. The exact number...
Just Mercy
Fri, 17 Jun
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As a law student, Bryan Stevenson was sent to a maximum security prison to meet a man on death row. ...
One Eyed Joe
Fri, 03 Jun
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Not only was John Frankford a famous horse thief, he was also a notoriously good escape artist. Peop...
39 Shots
Fri, 20 May
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In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white su...
The Finger
Fri, 06 May
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People have been giving each other "the finger" since Ancient Greece. The first documented use is sa...
Open Case
Fri, 15 Apr
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Since 1965, there's been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect, Charles Rogers, man...
Pappy
Fri, 01 Apr
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When it comes to Kentucky bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle is among the most exclusive, according to food w...
Either/Or
Fri, 18 Mar
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In 1983, three men were prepared to plead guilty to the violent sexual assault of Elizabeth Daniel i...
Jolly Jane
Fri, 04 Mar
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Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and establ...
Hastings
Fri, 19 Feb
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In 2010, an eighth-grader brought a loaded gun to a middle school in Hastings, Minnesota. We speak w...
Perfect Specimen
Fri, 05 Feb
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The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called "the most perfect specimen of a North A...
Pen & Paper
Fri, 22 Jan
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As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in ...
Willing to Accept
Fri, 08 Jan
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Michael Ross was the first person in Connecticut to be sentenced to death since 1960. He claimed th...
Deep Dive
Fri, 18 Dec
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Sgt. David Mascarenas is the Dive Supervisor for the Los Angeles Police Department. He's been diving...
It Looked Like Fire
Fri, 11 Dec
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Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Fergus...
American Dream
Fri, 27 Nov
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When we're kids, we have ideas of what we want to be when we grow up -- movie star, doctor, astronau...
The Agreement
Fri, 13 Nov
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In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier's stash ...
Officer Talon
Fri, 30 Oct
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Corporal Scott Foster of the Hillsborough, NC Police Department worked closely with his K-9 partner...
P.D.I.D.
Fri, 09 Oct
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Patti Hammond Shaw is a transgender woman. She's legally female on her birth certificate and driver'...
No Place Like Home
Fri, 25 Sep
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In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in ...
Angie
Fri, 11 Sep
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In July of 2002, Philadelphia Homicide Detective Pat Mangold was called to the scene of a gruesome m...
The Portrait
Fri, 28 Aug
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More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two week...
Pearl Bryan
Fri, 07 Aug
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In February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman's headless body in a farmer's field in Fort Tho...
Triassic Park
Fri, 17 Jul
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The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the wo...
Ex Libris
Fri, 26 Jun
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since th...
Bloodlines
Fri, 05 Jun
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Julius Robinson had killed for revenge before, and so when his sister was brutally murdered in her s...
Gil From London
Fri, 15 May
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Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more...
Mother's Little Helper
Fri, 24 Apr
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Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison through...
695BGK
Fri, 03 Apr
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This episode won a “Best Documentary” award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Pol...
Final Exit
Fri, 13 Mar
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No one disputes that it's against the law to take another person's life, but is it against the law t...
Poster Boy
Fri, 20 Feb
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On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in thei...
He's Neutral
Fri, 30 Jan
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Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland's Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an ...
The Fifth Suspect
Fri, 09 Jan
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In June 2014, authorities released information about a massive child pornography ring being conducte...
The Big Sleep
Fri, 19 Dec
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Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist, famous for murder mysteries l...
Break The Internet
Wed, 26 Nov
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In 1999, most of America's tech hysteria centered around Y2K. But at that same time, a teenager in C...
I'm About To Save Your Life
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:00:00 -0000
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In 1977, a mild-mannered aeronautical engineer sideswiped a parked car in Compton, CA. When he stopp...
Dear Sheila
Fri, 26 Sep
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Working as a reporter for a TV station in New Hampshire, Kevin Flynn was covering the capture and ar...
That Crime Of The Month
Fri, 29 Aug
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What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her actions to PMS? We revisit the fir...
Can't Rock This Boat
Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:27:00 -0000
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In March 1964, a 35-year-old African-American woman named Johnnie Mae Chappell was walking along the...
J.R.R. Ziemba
Mon, 30 Jun
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Crime victims are often put under the same scrutiny as the accused. Not only for their version of ev...
We Lost Them
Fri, 23 May
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On April 13, 2014, former KKK member Frazier Glenn Cross pulled into a Jewish Community Center and a...
Dropping Like Flies
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:00:00 -0000
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Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild,...
Call Your Mom
Fri, 28 Mar
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There are plenty of things we don't share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you ...
The Buck Stops Here
Fri, 28 Feb
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With the advent of the Inkjet printer, counterfeiting money became as simple as a trip to Staples. B...
Pants On Fire
Fri, 14 Feb
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For nearly a century we've been trying to read someone's truthfulness by the way they act. Be it thr...
Animal Instincts
Wed, 29 Jan
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In 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead in her home. Her husband Michael Peterson was convicted of...