Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The Spy
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were once members of the radical activist group the Weather Undergrou...
Jiminy Crickets
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This episode continues where Episode 237 leaves off. 17 years after he shot a man, Trevell Coleman w...
The Confession, Part 1
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trevell Coleman signed with Bad Boy Records in 1998. He made it onto the Billboard charts, and was c...
Phoebe vs. Oyster
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On September 16, 1922, a reverend and a choir singer were found dead under a tree. Between their bod...
The Newsroom
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jeff German was a reporter for over 40 years in Las Vegas. He spent his life covering the mafia, cor...
The Séances
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1916, two British soldiers were held captive in a remote prisoner-of-war camp. People said the ca...
Iceland Noir
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Iceland is one of the most peaceful countries in the world, but people there love to read about crim...
The Other Phoebe Judge
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A preview of what we’re making over on Criminal Plus! Hear me and Criminal co-creator Lauren Spohr...
Wolf 10
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking f...
The Nurse
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Amy Loughren started working as a nurse at Somerset Medical Center, she did everything she coul...
The Perfectionists
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A story about religion, sex, an assassination, and silverware. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and ...
A Glamour and a Mystery
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took a photograph of her 9-year-old cousin, Frances ...
Roll of the Dice
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The UNABOM investigation was one of the longest manhunts in American history - it lasted for 18 year...
The Bodies in the Bog
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the summer of 1984, a local newspaper reporter outside of Manchester, England, got a tip from the...
The Prison Newspaper
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A little over sixty years ago, there were 250 prison newspapers being published on a regular basis. ...
The Impersonator
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1934, a man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found a human torso on the beach. No ...
The Unknown Woman
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make th...
The Paramedics
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As recently as 1965, if you had a medical emergency, the people who showed up at your door would be ...
Lavender Scare
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Helen James grew up in a military family — her great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War, he...
Shipwrecked
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There’s an old sailors’ saying about the ocean at the southernmost part of the world — “belo...
A Mysterious Bank
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the late 1870s, a woman named Sarah Howe started a bank just for single women called the Ladies’...
"Did we get it right?"
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and n...
The Juror
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2008, Sven Berger was chosen to serve on the jury for a murder trial. He says the sentence that h...
The Magdalene Laundries
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When she was 14 years old, Elizabeth Coppin was sent to a place called Peacock Lane in Cork, Ireland...
The Somerton Man
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. It's been called the lar...
The Most Wonderful Terrible Person
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Debra Miller woke up on October 8th, 1964, she was expecting to see a black Volkswagen in her f...
The Fasting Cure
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1911, two sisters traveled to Seattle to meet a "doctor" named Linda Hazzard. The sisters didn’...
Crazy Eddie
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were p...
Out of the Box
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1964, one of the best javelin throwers in Australia traveled to England to see if he could qualif...
An Impossible Crime, Part 2
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This episode continues where Episode 208 leaves off. In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from pris...
An Impossible Crime
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Daniel Taylor was 17 years old when he was arrested for a 1992 double homicide in Chicago. But Danie...
Novak v. City of Parma
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2016, a man named Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page of his local police department. "I...
The Feather Lady
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On October 4, 1960, Eastern Airlines Flight 375 took off from Boston’s Logan airport, and then, tw...
Sunset Mesa
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson. When s...
They Came for the Judges
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Stories of animals really going for it. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for ou...
Across the Atlantic
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In February of 1910, members of the Music Hall Ladies Guild in London received a strange letter from...
The Tylenol Murders
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On September 29, 1982, Adam Janus suddenly collapsed in his home outside of Chicago. He died within ...
We Interrupt This Program
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On a Saturday night, in February 1949, the music programming on one of the most popular radio statio...
Ghostwatch
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On Halloween night, in 1992, an unusual television special aired on the BBC. Nobody expected what ha...
The Hammersmith Ghost
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the winter of 1803, residents outside of London reported strange encounters with a ghost. Some sa...
Mantrap
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ed and Bertha Briney’s unoccupied farmhouse was reportedly broken into 50 times over 10 years. The...
Hungryland
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In March of this year, a biologist working in a nature preserve in Florida saw an alligator swimming...
The Procedure
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to quietly break the law and help facilitate ...
The Divorce Colony
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This episode picks up where Episode 193 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. Blanche Mo...
A Ring and a Bottle
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She br...
The Devil’s Hole Pupfish
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1982, forensic dentists examined the teeth of thousands of sailors stationed on an aircraft carri...
Day In, Day Out
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Laura Coates decided to become a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., she was told that the job woul...
The Doctors
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2018, we talked with three of America’s most experienced trauma surgeons about what happens whe...
John & Trooper
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For 10 years, Detective John Reilly and his horse Trooper were the only mounted team assigned to Cen...
427 Emails
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Pontiac Correctional Center is a maximum security prison in the small town of Pontiac, Illinois. It’...
The Magpie
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Shigeru Yabu was 9 years old, he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Internment ...
The Princess
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
One night in 1817, a woman appeared in the village of Almondsbury, in England. No one could figure o...
Ransom
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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.
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1971, a woman visited an F.B.I. office in Pennsylvania. She identified herself as a college stude...
The Midnight Slider
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2013, a small boat called The Midnight Slider was found floating empty in the waters off of Is...
Pappy, Another Round
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When it comes to Kentucky bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle is among the most exclusive. You can’t get it ...
The Boycott
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Stories of animals really going for it. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for ou...
"The experiment requires that you continue."
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
1. Please continue. 2. The experiment requires that you continue. 3. It is absolutely essential th...
Palace of Justice
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants...
The Red Flag
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2006, a man named William Ramsey went to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida for a life-savi...
Ghost Racket Crusade
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The story of two famous friends — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini — and the disagreemen...
The Loves
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“There is something he hasn’t been telling me and I’m about to find out what it is.” Bobby a...
Family Money
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Beverley Schottenstein’s husband Alvin died, she and her children sold their stake in his fam...
Roselle and Michael
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, ...
Sealand
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today's episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones an...
Ian Manuel
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator say...
Masquerade
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner:...
48 Hours, Part 2
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Aar...
48 Hours
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“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
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned hous...
Unfit
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in he...
Sanctuary
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies...
I Fought the Law
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in...
Only in Hollywood
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introd...
Hot Lotto
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, n...
Spiritual Developments
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alo...
"If it ever happens, run."
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“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
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan called Shah Sadar Din, a place where it...
Sister Helen
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row in Louisiana’s A...
Bears on Ice
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A day in the life of the town of Kalispell, Montana. Thanks very much for listening this year, and h...
Cannonball
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as the...
The Night of the Party
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were charged with the murder of Jeanette “Baldie” Willia...
The Max Headroom Incident
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the WGN nine o’clo...
The Clearwater Monster
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in Prohibition-era New York City hatched a plan — to take o...
76th and Yates
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” A...
Errol Morris
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in a smal...
Kids on the Case
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s hous...
Ten Doors
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Tim Jenkin was a member of the ANC (African National Congress). The organization had been declared u...
How to Sell A Haunted House
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York at 1 Laveta Place. ...