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
Wolf 10
In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. “They’re just gone. And that’s implausible because wolves don’t just disappe…
00:34:25 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
Looking for Wolves
Our other show, This is Love, is coming back on April 1. All new stories, about animals and the wild, and what happens when we take time to look around us. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagra…
00:01:22 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
Phoebe reads Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. For more, visit Phoebe Reads a Mystery on its own feed. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/phoebe-reads-a-myster…
00:31:45 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
La Brea Dave
Sgt. David Mascarenas was 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 …
00:33:44 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
527 Lime Street
Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida to find the small wood-frame house on fire. A man named Gerald Lewis was standing in the front yar…
00:31:54 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
Call Russ Ewing
For decades, TV news reporter Russ Ewing stood beside more than 100 people—at their request—as they surrendered to the police.
Thanks to CBC Licensing.
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00:31:37 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Red Hair, Gold Car
One day Adam Braseel got a phone call from his mother. She said that a man in Grundy County, Tennessee had been murdered, and the police thought Adam had something to do with it.
Adam was charged wit…
00:39:44 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Herrin Massacre
In the spring of 1922, the United Mine Workers of America announced a national strike. And then, that summer in Herrin, Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came …
00:26:53 |
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Sunset Mesa
Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson, from Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors in Montrose, Colorado. When she did, she felt relieved to finally take…
00:33:27 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Who's There
Crime Blotter: “The Learning Center on Hanson Street reports a man across the way stands at his window for hours watching the center, making parents nervous. Police ID the subject as a cardboard cuto…
00:30:37 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Phoebe, Judge Me
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00:09:20 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Panic Defense
In 1995, two men filmed an episode of the daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was dead. The shooter later claimed he’d committed the murder “in a panic that he w…
00:39:47 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
Deep Breath
World-class biathlete Kari Swenson was on an afternoon trail run in the mountains near Big Sky, Montana in July 1984 when two men blocked her path. They were Don and Dan Nichols, a father and son pai…
00:41:29 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
The Reverend
In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer, Tom Radney, didn’t deny it. Burns told a police officer: …
00:36:58 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
A New Kind of Life
In 1930, a Cuban woman named Elena de Hoyos went to the hospital in Key West, Florida. She had a bad cough, and her family was afraid she had Tuberculosis. She met a German x-ray technician named Car…
00:20:54 |
Wed 30 Oct 2019
The Less People Know About Us
SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 51: Money Tree before you listen to this one.
Three years ago, we spoke with Axton Betz-Hamilton about discovering that her identity had been stolen as a chi…
00:40:02 |
Fri 25 Oct 2019
A Bucket, a Mop, and a Sledgehammer
After a crime occurs, or when someone dies, the police aren’t responsible for cleaning up. That’s not their job. The coroner takes the body, the police conduct their investigation, and then everyone …
00:21:41 |
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off…
00:29:31 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Professor Quaalude
John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprising everyone with a series of increasingly bizarre cri…
00:30:42 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Off Leash
“I never did anything wrong. I never had a speeding ticket. I think I just saved all my stuff up for just one thing.” This week, we speak with Toby Dorr – better known as the Dog Lady of Lansing Pris…
00:46:19 |
Fri 30 Aug 2019
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