Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Melinda and Judy
21 Oct 2016
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When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under suspicious circumsta...
The Checklist
07 Oct 2016
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SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 51: Money Tree before you listen to this one. While workin...
Money Tree
23 Sep 2016
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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
09 Sep 2016
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To celebrate Criminal's 50th episode, we check in with some of our most memorable guests including...
The Editor
26 Aug 2016
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In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Co...
Eight Years
12 Aug 2016
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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
15 Jul 2016
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Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a fr...
Tiger
01 Jul 2016
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There are more tigers in captivity in America than wild tigers in the entire world. The exact number...
Just Mercy
17 Jun 2016
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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
03 Jun 2016
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Not only was John Frankford a famous horse thief, he was also a notoriously good escape artist. Peop...
39 Shots
20 May 2016
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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
06 May 2016
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People have been giving each other "the finger" since Ancient Greece. The first documented use is sa...
Open Case
15 Apr 2016
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Since 1965, there's been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect, Charles Rogers, man...
Pappy
01 Apr 2016
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When it comes to Kentucky bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle is among the most exclusive, according to food w...
Either/Or
18 Mar 2016
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In 1983, three men were prepared to plead guilty to the violent sexual assault of Elizabeth Daniel i...
Jolly Jane
04 Mar 2016
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Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and establ...
Hastings
19 Feb 2016
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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
05 Feb 2016
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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
22 Jan 2016
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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
08 Jan 2016
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Michael Ross was the first person in Connecticut to be sentenced to death since 1960. He claimed th...
Deep Dive
18 Dec 2015
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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
11 Dec 2015
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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
27 Nov 2015
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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
13 Nov 2015
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In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier's stash ...
Officer Talon
30 Oct 2015
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Corporal Scott Foster of the Hillsborough, NC Police Department worked closely with his K-9 partner...
P.D.I.D.
09 Oct 2015
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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
25 Sep 2015
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In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in ...
Angie
11 Sep 2015
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In July of 2002, Philadelphia Homicide Detective Pat Mangold was called to the scene of a gruesome m...
The Portrait
28 Aug 2015
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More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two week...
Pearl Bryan
07 Aug 2015
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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
17 Jul 2015
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The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the wo...
Ex Libris
26 Jun 2015
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since th...
Bloodlines
05 Jun 2015
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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
15 May 2015
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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
24 Apr 2015
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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
03 Apr 2015
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This episode won a “Best Documentary” award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Pol...
Final Exit
13 Mar 2015
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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
20 Feb 2015
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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
30 Jan 2015
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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
09 Jan 2015
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In June 2014, authorities released information about a massive child pornography ring being conducte...
The Big Sleep
19 Dec 2014
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Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist, famous for murder mysteries l...
Break The Internet
26 Nov 2014
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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
30 Oct 2014
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In 1977, a mild-mannered aeronautical engineer sideswiped a parked car in Compton, CA. When he stopp...
Dear Sheila
26 Sep 2014
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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
29 Aug 2014
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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
29 Jul 2014
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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
30 Jun 2014
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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
23 May 2014
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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
24 Apr 2014
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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
28 Mar 2014
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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
28 Feb 2014
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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
14 Feb 2014
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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
29 Jan 2014
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In 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead in her home. Her husband Michael Peterson was convicted of...