Criminal

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...

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...

Fri, 03 Apr

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In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking f...

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...

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...

Fri, 20 Mar

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Sgt. David Mascarenas was the Dive Supervisor for the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s been div...

Fri, 06 Mar

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Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Fri, 25 Oct

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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 51: Money Tree before you listen to this one. Three years ...

Fri, 11 Oct

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After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’...

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...

Fri, 13 Sep

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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty po...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Fri, 24 May

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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her tha...

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...

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...

Fri, 12 Apr

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This episode contains adult content. Please use discretion. When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she ...

Fri, 29 Mar

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In 2016, Silvon Simmons was shot in the back by police officer Joseph Ferrigno. The Rochester Police...

Fri, 15 Mar

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Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched th...

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...

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 ...

Fri, 01 Feb

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When Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufactu...

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...

Fri, 21 Dec

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John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia ...

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...

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...

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...

Wed, 14 Nov

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Our second podcast, This is Love, is back. We’re sharing this first episode with Criminal listene...

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...

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...

Fri, 05 Oct

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Thanks for helping us celebrate 100 episodes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...

Fri, 05 Oct

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On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a ...

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...

Fri, 07 Sep

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Three of America's most experienced trauma surgeons speak with us about what happens when someone is...

Fri, 17 Aug

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When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Fri, 04 May

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The U.S. Navy attempted to develop a shark attack repellant after many sailors were attacked during ...

Fri, 20 Apr

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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before y...

Fri, 06 Apr

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In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roomm...

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...

Fri, 09 Mar

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Before he was 10 years old, Willie Bosket had skipped school, started fires, picked pockets, and sto...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fri, 12 Jan

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As a child, Lawrence Lessig was a gifted singer. His church choir director encouraged him to attend ...

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...

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...

Fri, 17 Nov

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Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She ...

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...

Fri, 20 Oct

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In 1962, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, along with fellow incarcerated person Frank Morris, man...

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 ...

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...

Fri, 08 Sep

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In 1993, more than 1,000 levees broke along the Mississippi River, flooding thousands of acres. Most...

Fri, 18 Aug

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At the turn of the century, Carry Nation was “America’s foremost lady hellraiser” and "the apo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fri, 07 Apr

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The Colorado Department of Transportation says the 420 mile markers on the state's highways were sto...

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...

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 ...

Fri, 17 Feb

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People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man nam...

Fri, 03 Feb

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In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, p...

Fri, 20 Jan

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In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: "We should look in vain through the most ...

Fri, 06 Jan

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In 2010, Michael McIntosh's son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in ...

Fri, 16 Dec

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To close out 2016, we're bringing you two lighter stories of people exhibiting everyday genius under...

Fri, 02 Dec

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Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime i...

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...

Fri, 04 Nov

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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this one. Melind...

Fri, 21 Oct

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When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under suspicious circumsta...

Fri, 07 Oct

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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 51: Money Tree before you listen to this one. While workin...

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...

Fri, 09 Sep

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To celebrate Criminal's 50th episode, we check in with some of our most memorable guests including...

Fri, 26 Aug

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In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Co...