Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
How to Sell A Haunted House
07 Aug 2020
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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
17 Jul 2020
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People incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison aren’t allowed to have pets — but...
Knock and Announce
03 Jul 2020
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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
19 Jun 2020
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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
05 Jun 2020
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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
15 May 2020
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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
01 May 2020
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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
17 Apr 2020
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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
03 Apr 2020
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In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking f...
Looking for Wolves
25 Mar 2020
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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
24 Mar 2020
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Phoebe reads Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. For more, visit Phoeb...
La Brea Dave
20 Mar 2020
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Sgt. David Mascarenas was the Dive Supervisor for the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s been div...
527 Lime Street
06 Mar 2020
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Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida...
Call Russ Ewing
21 Feb 2020
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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
07 Feb 2020
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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
24 Jan 2020
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In the spring of 1922, the United Mine Workers of America announced a national strike. And then, tha...
Sunset Mesa
10 Jan 2020
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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
20 Dec 2019
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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
13 Dec 2019
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We are trying something different. Have a question for Phoebe? You can call into our voicemail at (9...
Panic Defense
06 Dec 2019
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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
22 Nov 2019
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World-class biathlete Kari Swenson was on an afternoon trail run in the mountains near Big Sky, Mont...
The Reverend
08 Nov 2019
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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
30 Oct 2019
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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
25 Oct 2019
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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
11 Oct 2019
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After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’...
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
27 Sep 2019
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In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpene...
Professor Quaalude
13 Sep 2019
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John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty po...
Off Leash
30 Aug 2019
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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
02 Aug 2019
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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
19 Jul 2019
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Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an...
Stowaway
05 Jul 2019
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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
21 Jun 2019
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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
07 Jun 2019
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In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocum...
Cecilia
24 May 2019
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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her tha...
Philip and Becky
10 May 2019
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When Philip Benight met Becky Golden, they made a promise to stick together, no matter how bad thing...
Hostage
26 Apr 2019
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In the summer of 1973, Clark Olofsson and Jan-Erik Olsson robbed the Kreditbanken in Stockholm’s N...
The Mail
12 Apr 2019
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This episode contains adult content. Please use discretion. When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she ...
Silvon Simmons
29 Mar 2019
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In 2016, Silvon Simmons was shot in the back by police officer Joseph Ferrigno. The Rochester Police...
Baby Snatcher
15 Mar 2019
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Georgia Tann of Memphis, Tennessee bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched th...
Homewrecker
01 Mar 2019
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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
15 Feb 2019
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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
01 Feb 2019
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When Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufactu...
Linda
18 Jan 2019
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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
21 Dec 2018
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John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia ...
Witness
07 Dec 2018
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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
30 Nov 2018
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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
16 Nov 2018
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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
14 Nov 2018
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Our second podcast, This is Love, is back. We’re sharing this first episode with Criminal listene...
Ride-Along
02 Nov 2018
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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
19 Oct 2018
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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
05 Oct 2018
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Thanks for helping us celebrate 100 episodes! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...
Ten Thousand Feet in the Air
05 Oct 2018
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On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a ...
Racehorse Haynes
21 Sep 2018
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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
07 Sep 2018
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Three of America's most experienced trauma surgeons speak with us about what happens when someone is...
Palace of Justice
17 Aug 2018
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When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants...
On the Run
03 Aug 2018
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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
20 Jul 2018
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Not long into his job as prison superintendent, Frank Thompson was asked to write the manual on leth...
The Chase
06 Jul 2018
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Mark Roberts has attended almost every major sporting event in the world. And he's been escorted off...
Lavender Scare
15 Jun 2018
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Helen James grew up in a military family — her great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, he...
Dementia Americana
01 Jun 2018
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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
18 May 2018
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The story behind the face of New York's Gilded Age. For more information, check out Paula Uruburu's ...
Sharks
04 May 2018
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The U.S. Navy attempted to develop a shark attack repellant after many sailors were attacked during ...
Shadowing Sheila
20 Apr 2018
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to our first episode about Sheila, Episode 88: Cold Case, before y...
Cold Case
06 Apr 2018
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In 1984, Sheila Wysocki found herself helping the police investigate the murder of her college roomm...
Casper, Wyoming
23 Mar 2018
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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
09 Mar 2018
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Before he was 10 years old, Willie Bosket had skipped school, started fires, picked pockets, and sto...
The Manual
23 Feb 2018
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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
14 Feb 2018
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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
09 Feb 2018
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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
26 Jan 2018
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Some spiders eat their young, and some eat their parents … love is never simple. From the makers o...
The Mothers
26 Jan 2018
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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
15 Jan 2018
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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
12 Jan 2018
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As a child, Lawrence Lessig was a gifted singer. His church choir director encouraged him to attend ...
Unexpected Guests
15 Dec 2017
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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
01 Dec 2017
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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
17 Nov 2017
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Helen Duncan was a famous medium who travelled around Britain in the 1940s performing séances. She ...
The Botanist
03 Nov 2017
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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
20 Oct 2017
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In 1962, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, along with fellow incarcerated person Frank Morris, man...
The Big Lick
06 Oct 2017
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The Tennessee Walking Horse has a natural gait that's famously smooth. And, if trained in a certain ...
The Gatekeeper
22 Sep 2017
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"I keep saying 'where's the body? Kill someone,'" Marilyn Stasio told us. She reads at least 200 cri...
Catastrophe
08 Sep 2017
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In 1993, more than 1,000 levees broke along the Mississippi River, flooding thousands of acres. Most...
Carry A. Nation
18 Aug 2017
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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
04 Aug 2017
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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
21 Jul 2017
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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
07 Jul 2017
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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
16 Jun 2017
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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
02 Jun 2017
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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
19 May 2017
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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
05 May 2017
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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
21 Apr 2017
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he boug...
420
07 Apr 2017
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The Colorado Department of Transportation says the 420 mile markers on the state's highways were sto...
Rochester, 1991
17 Mar 2017
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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
03 Mar 2017
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In 2014, 16-year-old Wildin Acosta left Olancho, Honduras and traveled toward the U.S. border. When ...
Vanish
17 Feb 2017
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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
03 Feb 2017
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In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, p...
In Plain Sight
20 Jan 2017
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In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: "We should look in vain through the most ...
Walnut Grove
06 Jan 2017
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In 2010, Michael McIntosh's son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in ...
Everyday Genius
16 Dec 2016
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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
02 Dec 2016
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Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime i...
The Shell Game
18 Nov 2016
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The Magic Castle in Hollywood has been a private club for magicians since 1963, and its walls are li...