Criminal
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Description
Criminal is a podcast about crime. Not so much the "if it bleeds, it leads," kind of crime. Something a little more complex. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, and/or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. We're a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.
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CleanEpisode 68: All the Time in the World | The “body farm" at Texas State University is a place almost no one except researchers and law enforcement are able to see, because it's one of very few places in the world that deliberately puts out human bodies to decompose in nature. Forensic... | 6/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 67: Milk Carton Kids | On a Sunday morning in 1982, in Des Moines, Iowa, Johnny Gosch left his house to begin his usual paper route. A short time later, his parents were awakened by a phone call – it was a neighbor — their paper hadn't come. His would be the first face... | 5/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 66: Bully | Skidmore, Missouri is a very small town. In the '70s, there was only one bar, one grocery store, and one bully. Ken McElroy was so ruthless and intimidating that even law enforcement looked the other way. He terrorized the town for decades, until they... | 5/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 65: The Kingfish | In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘em like a deck of cards.” By the time he was 39 years old, he’d made his way to the U.S.... | 4/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 64: 420 | The Colorado Department of Transportation says the 420 mile markers on the state's highways were stolen so often, they had to replace them with 419.99 mile markers. Many people know that "420" represents marijuana - hence the popularity of the mile... | 4/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 63: Rochester, 1991 | Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn't leave her abusive boyfriend. They stayed together for four years. And then, in the middle of the night on December 17th, 1991, Kim's entire life changed. ... | 3/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 62: Wildin | In 2014, 16-year-old Wildin Acosta left Olancho, Honduras and traveled toward the U.S. border. When he arrived, he turned himself in to border patrol agents. He was one of 68,541 unaccompanied minors who crossed the border into the U.S. that year.... | 3/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 61: Vanish | People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death just to see who showed up at the funeral (answer: only his mom). It's an appealing soap-opera fantasy, but actually... | 2/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 60: Finding Sarah and Philip | In 2005, Teri Knight drove 650 miles on midwestern roads through Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, pleading with the public to help her do what law enforcement and the FBI had not been able to: find the remains of her children Sarah and Philip... | 2/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 59: In Plain Sight | In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: "We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for an incident of courage and noble daring to equal that of the escape of William and Ellen Craft; and... | 1/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 58: Walnut Grove | In 2010, Michael McIntosh's son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. One Sunday, McIntosh went to visit his son and was turned away because, he was told, prison officials... | 1/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 57: Everyday Genius | To close out 2016, we're bringing you two lighter stories of people exhibiting everyday genius under. . . unusual circumstances. Comedian Dave Holmes' story begins with an upsetting phone call from the IRS. Then we meet a Baton Rouge attorney with a... | 12/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 56: Don't Let Me See You In The Whirl | Since 1938, a weekly African-American owned newspaper called The Evening Whirl has covered crime in St. Louis with a style all its own, using alliteration and rhyme, and often omitting the usual crime-reporting words like "accused" or... | 12/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 55: The Shell Game | The Magic Castle in Hollywood has been a private club for magicians since 1963, and its walls are lined with portraits of magicians past and present. Among them is a portrait of one of the earliest American organized crime bosses and conmen, Jefferson... | 11/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 54: Melinda and Clarence | SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this one. Melinda Dawson found out on the same day in 1998 that her adoptive mother had been killed and that her husband Clarence was being charged with the murder.... | 11/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 53: Melinda and Judy | When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under mysterious circumstances. As she got older and had children of her own, she tried to learn something about her biological parents. And when she went to the county... | 10/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 52: The Checklist | SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 51: Money Tree before you listen to this one. While working on our last episode, we became curious about the nature of psychopathy -- how it is defined, and what to do if someone close to you meets the... | 10/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 51: Money Tree | When Axton Betz-Hamilton was 11 years old, her parents' identities were stolen. At that time, in the early 90s, consumer protection services for identity theft victims were basically non-existent. So the family dealt with the... | 9/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 50: This is Criminal | To celebrate Criminal's 50th episode, we check in with some of our most memorable guests including Fran Schindler from Episode 17: "Final Exit," Dan Stevenson from Episode 15: "He's Neutral," Corporal Scott Foster from Episode... | 9/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 49: The Editor | In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Correctional Institution. In prison, Robin found himself using a dictionary to work his way through a book for the first time in his life. It was a Mario... | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 48: Eight Years | 2008 was an exciting time to be a Harry Potter fan. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, had been released. Movies were on the way. And author Melissa Anelli was at the center of it all, running a popular fan site called The Leaky... | 8/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 47: Brownie Lady | Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery business. Meridy agreed to run the bakery, but she only wanted to sell one thing: pot brownies. Her... | 7/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 46: Tiger | There are more tigers in captivity in America than wild tigers in the entire world. The exact number of captive tigers in this country isn't known, because many of them live in people's backyards or unaccredited zoos, and the legality of... | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 45: Just Mercy | As a law student, Bryan Stevenson was sent to a maximum security prison to meet a man on death row. The man told Stevenson he'd never met an African-American lawyer, and the two of them talked for hours. It was a day that changed Stevenson's life.... | 6/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 44: One Eyed Joe | Not only was John Frankford a famous horse thief, he was also a notoriously good escape artist. People thought no jail was strong enough to keep him, but then in 1895 he was sentenced to Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary. At Eastern State,... | 6/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 43: 39 Shots | In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson Johnson and Signe Waller-Foxworth remember shouting at armed Klansmen and burning a... | 5/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 42: The Finger | People have been giving each other "the finger" since Ancient Greece. The first documented use is said to be a photograph from 1886 in which the pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters extends his middle finger to the camera (ostensibly to... | 5/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 41: Open Case | Since 1965, there's been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The case is still considered open. In 1997, a couple of accountants decided to look into the murders, and were... | 4/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 40: Pappy | When it comes to the bourbon Pappy Van Winkle, it doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have -- you can't get it unless you're exceptionally lucky or willing to break the law. The Pappy frenzy has law enforcement, bartenders, and even the... | 4/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 39: Either/Or | In 1983, three men were prepared to plead guilty to a violent sexual assault in Anderson, South Carolina. Defense attorneys did not want their clients to go before a jury, and arranged a plea deal. This left the sentencing in the hands... | 3/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 38: Jolly Jane | Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Boston. Said to be cheerful, funny and excellent with her patients, nothing about "Jolly Jane" suggested... | 3/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 37: Hastings | In 2010, an eighth-grader brought a loaded gun to a middle school in Hastings, Minnesota. We speak with two students and the principal about the minutes and hours in lockdown. Read Jake Bullington's essay, "Yeah, I'm Afraid of... | 2/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 36: Perfect Specimen | The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called "the most perfect specimen of a North American tree." But in 1989, Austin's city forester realized that the Treaty Oak didn't look so good, and began to wonder whether someone... | 2/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 35: Pen & Paper | As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone from disgraced governors to John Wayne Gacy, and says she only made someone look bad on purpose... | 1/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 34: The Stay | Michael Ross was the first person in Connecticut to be sentenced to death since 1960. He claimed that he wanted to die in order to atone for what he had done. One journalist spent twenty years trying to figure out whether or not his... | 1/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 33: Deep Dive | Sgt. David Mascarenas is the Dive Supervisor for the Los Angeles Police Department. He's been diving his whole life, and prides himself on never refusing a dive, no matter how treacherous. At least until the summer of 2013, when a... | 12/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 32: It Looked Like Fire | Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographer with the St. Louis Post Dispatch, ended up taking a photograph of Ed that would be seen around the... | 12/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 31: American Dream | When we're kids, we have ideas of what we want to be when we grow up -- movie star, doctor, astronaut. But what if we dream of being like Butch Cassidy, Jesse James, or John Dillinger? And what happens when you're not a kid anymore but you're still... | 11/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 30: The Agreement | In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier's stash house. He was told he'd take home between $100K-200K. In the end, the robbery never happened, so why has Danny spent the last ten years at... | 11/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 29: Officer Talon | Corporal Scott Foster of the Hillsborough, NC Police Department worked closely with his K-9 partner, Talon, for many years. They located weapons and narcotics, tracked suspects through dark woods, and went home together after work. But... | 10/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 28: P.D.I.D. | Patti Hammond Shaw is a transgender woman. She's legally female on her birth certificate and driver's license, and has been since 1993. But when she was arrested in 2009, male officers strip-searched her in front of male detainees, and held her... | 10/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 27: No Place Like Home | In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But white collar criminals weren't the only people living there, and the other people inside had basically been... | 9/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 26: Angie | In July of 2002, Philadelphia Homicide Detective Pat Mangold was called to the scene of a gruesome murder on the Schuylkill River. When he wasn't able to determine the victim's identity, he expected the case to remain unsolved.... | 9/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 25: The Portrait | More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two weeks later, all but one of them had been shot dead. (See the portrait here.) Thanks to Elephant Micah and Sarah Bryan for... | 8/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 24: Pearl Bryan | In February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman's headless body in a farmer's field in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. No one knew who she was, or what had happened. Newspapers carried headlines like "Hunt for the Head" and "Headless Horror."... | 8/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 23: Triassic Park | The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 million years old, and visitors to the park often take a little piece home with them as a souvenir. But... | 7/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 22: Ex Libris | Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven't resurfaced in the marketplace. They've just vanished, never to be seen again. But unlike most thieves, this thief is... | 6/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 21: Bloodlines | Julius Robinson had killed for revenge before, and so when his sister was brutally murdered in her sleep last year, he says he planned to "get" the killer. He felt like his family expected him to get revenge, because that's what he'd always done, both... | 6/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 20: Gil From London | Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in real life. Gil would travel from London to meet Karen for her birthday. With his arrival just a few days... | 5/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 19: Mother's Little Helper | Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and upped her game each time she got out. Prison, she says, is where you move "up the criminal ladder, just like the... | 4/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 18: 695BGK | Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It was just before 2am on December 31, 2008. Edwards followed the SUV and ran the license plate... | 4/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 17: Final Exit | No one disputes that it's against the law to take another person's life, but is it against the law to sit with someone and watch while they commit suicide? We meet an elderly woman who sneaks around the country as an "exit guide." To learn more... | 3/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 16: Poster Boy | On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wife had been murdered in their bed in a grisly attack. Their two children... | 2/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 15: He's Neutral | Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland's Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an issue for as long as he can remember, but he isn't one to call the police on drug dealers or sex workers. He's a pretty "live and let... | 1/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 14: The Fifth Suspect | In June 2014, authorities released information about a massive child pornography ring being conducted in North Carolina. Four suspects had already been arrested, and the police were asking the public for help finding a fifth suspect. But they... | 1/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 13: The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist, famous for murder mysteries like "The Big Sleep" and "Farewell, My Lovely." He's the subject of several biographies, and his correspondence and manuscripts are archived at Oxford.... | 12/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 12: Break The Internet | In 1999, most of America's tech hysteria centered around Y2K. But at that same time, a teenager in Canada was messing around in chat rooms, meeting hackers, and learning tricks. At 15, he decided to put his knowledge to the test. To push up against... | 11/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 11: I'm About To Save Your Life | In 1977, a mild-mannered aeronautical engineer sideswiped a parked car in Compton, CA. When he stopped his car to survey the damage, a man opened the driver-side door, shoved him over, and started driving. He said, "I'm about to save your life." | 10/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 10: Dear Sheila | Working as a reporter for a TV station in New Hampshire, Kevin Flynnwas covering the capture and arrest of a female serial killer namedSheila LaBarre. As he grew more and more obsessed with LaBarre'sstory, Flynn decided to write her a letter. She... | 9/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 9: That Crime Of The Month | What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her actions to PMS? We revisit the first use of the "PMS defense," in this country, back in 1981. What have we learned about the science of PMS since then? Last year, the American... | 8/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 8: Can't Rock This Boat | In March 1964, a 35-year-old African American woman named Johnnie MaeChappell was walking along the side of the road in Jacksonville,Florida. Four white men were driving around listening to the local raceriots on the radio. They had a gun on the... | 7/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 7: J.R.R. Ziemba | Crime victims are often put under the same scrutiny as the accused. Not only for their version of events, but sometimes for how they look and talk, too. We meet a man whose trial hurt worse than his assault. | 6/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 6: We Lost Them | On April 13, 2014, former KKK member Frazier Glenn Cross pulled into a Jewish Community Center and ambushed a grandfather and grandson, killing both. He then killed another woman a short distance away. What does the family left behind do... | 5/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 5: Dropping Like Flies | Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobody knows where they go. What’s cropped up in rural North Carolina is essentially a Venus... | 4/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 4: Call Your Mom | There are plenty of things we don't share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you're both in the business of death. | 3/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 3: The Buck Stops Here | With the advent of the Inkjet printer, counterfeiting money became as simple as a trip to Staples. By the year 2000, there were 72 million of these homemade dollars in circulation. The real question is… who was behind them all? | 2/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 2: Pants On Fire | For nearly a century we've been trying to read someone's truthfulness by the way they act. Be it through machine, or our own intuition. The police have tried. The FBI has tried. The CIA has tried. But the fact is… most of their efforts just... | 2/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 1: Animal Instincts | In 2001, a woman was found dead in a pool of her own blood. Her husband was convicted of her murder. But a curious neighbor had a different theory... one that brings new meaning to man vs. beast. | 1/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Get onboard right now
This will be on everyone's short list for best new podcast of 2014 by year's end. It is terrific
So addicted!
After Serial aired the las episode, I start looking for more, and I found this. It's a great story telling about criminal cases, nothing too technical but more than just a story. I love it.
My only (not complain, but wish) is to have it weekely. Is too long in between each episodes.
I hope as they grow in popularity, the'll get more butgete and deliver more often.
About narrator's voice I fount it relaxing!
I'm Done With This Podcast
I have listened to every episode so far, and have always noticed this show tends to be a bit more sympathetic to the criminals. I listened to the episode "Stay" today, and it will be my last. It's fine if you want to tell a story from the perspective of a woman who is opposed to the death penalty. But, when you allow her to talk about an admitted serial murderer and rapist in such a fond way, without telling even including a hint of discussion from the victims' families, it is a very one sided story.
She talks about how the final injection in the lethal injection "strangled" him. Well, I am sorry, but he strangled several people to death, and he will not receive sympathy and a bleeding heart reaction from me. This show is told from a very biased point of view, and I am done wasting my time listening to it.
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