Criminal
Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Named a Best Podcast of 2023 by the New York Times. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 346
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Sister Helen
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row in Louisiana’s Angola State Prison named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I was going to be doi…
00:42:49 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
Bears on Ice
A day in the life of the town of Kalispell, Montana. Thanks very much for listening this year, and happy New Year. Read about other days in the Flathead Beacon'sPolice Blotter.
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00:03:22 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
Cannonball
With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, California. They’re trying to break records set in an un…
00:35:52 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
The Night of the Party
When Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were charged with the murder of Jeanette “Baldie” Williams in Jacksonville, Florida on May 2, 1976, neither of them were worried they would be convicted. They …
00:34:04 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
The Max Headroom Incident
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the WGN nine o’clock news in Chicago. Sportscaster Dan Roan had been talking about the Chicago Bears, when the screen s…
00:27:05 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
The Clearwater Monster
Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something strange at the beach. Residents woke up that morning to …
00:31:59 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
The Many Lives of Michael Malloy
In 1932, a group of men in a speakeasy in Prohibition-era New York City hatched a plan — to take out life insurance on a loner named Michael Malloy, and make his death look like an accident. They tho…
00:32:51 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
76th and Yates
On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he was being charged with murder. He didn’t even know so…
00:35:11 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Dr. Parkman is Missing
In the mid-1800s, Harvard Medical School had a reputation for being a “den of body snatchers.” And then, in November 1849, the school’s most prominent supporter, Dr. George Parkman, went missing. He …
00:40:14 |
Fri 09 Oct 2020
Errol Morris
Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in a small town in Florida, which some referred to as “Nub City.” There were allegations that men and women …
00:45:26 |
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Kids on the Case
The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica got out her notebook, looked for fingerprints, and de…
00:33:24 |
Fri 11 Sep 2020
Ten Doors
Tim Jenkin was a member of the ANC (African National Congress). The organization had been declared unlawful in South Africa, seen by the white minority as a threat to public order. In 1978, Tim Jenki…
00:31:52 |
Fri 28 Aug 2020
How to Sell A Haunted House
In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York at 1 Laveta Place. It didn’t go as planned. There were stories of ghosts, and the house became the center of a case th…
00:32:35 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
Looking Out
People incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison aren’t allowed to have pets — but some people, like Ronell Draper, have found ways to work around that. Meet Ronell Draper, also known as …
00:34:19 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Knock and Announce
“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really stand a chance.”
In 2015, the 15th Circuit Drug Enforc…
00:35:30 |
Fri 03 Jul 2020
Robert Smalls
On May 13, 1862, in Charleston, South Carolina, a man named Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship called The Planter and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. As they passed t…
00:31:57 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
It Looked Like Fire
On August 10th, 2014, one day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Edward Crawford went to his first protest. “The people, you know, I g…
00:19:12 |
Fri 05 Jun 2020
Cowboy Bob
In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. Give me your money. No marked bills or dye packs.” Wi…
00:34:23 |
Fri 15 May 2020
Learning How to Forgive
“I’ve been teaching law for almost 40 years. And I recently realized we don’t really teach people in law school about the tools of forgiveness that are built into the legal system.”
Today, we’re talk…
00:36:02 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Starlight Tours
In January 2000, the bodies of two First Nations men were found frozen in a remote area of Saskatoon, Canada. It was a place where nobody walked, especially in the winter. And then, a man named Darre…
00:37:35 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
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