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
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 …
00:25:32 |
Fri 11 Sep 2015
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.) Today, we bring you the s…
00:26:53 |
Fri 28 Aug 2015
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 "Hu…
00:20:50 |
Fri 07 Aug 2015
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 l…
00:20:34 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
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 agai…
00:23:01 |
Fri 26 Jun 2015
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…
00:21:30 |
Fri 05 Jun 2015
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…
00:26:21 |
Fri 15 May 2015
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 y…
00:19:36 |
Fri 24 Apr 2015
695BGK
This episode won a “Best Documentary” award at the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driv…
00:21:53 |
Fri 03 Apr 2015
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 die by suicide? We meet an elderly woman named Fran Schindl…
00:24:05 |
Fri 13 Mar 2015
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 John Elkins and his young wife Hattie had been murdered in their bed…
00:18:37 |
Fri 20 Feb 2015
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 wor…
00:18:01 |
Fri 30 Jan 2015
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…
00:20:47 |
Fri 09 Jan 2015
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 corresp…
00:16:57 |
Fri 19 Dec 2014
Break The Internet
In 1999, most of America's tech hysteria centered around Y2K. But at that same time, a teenager in Canada named Mike Calce was messing around in chat rooms, meeting hackers, and learning tricks. At 1…
00:16:51 |
Wed 26 Nov 2014
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 named Leon Moore opened the driver-side door, shoved him ove…
00:19:57 |
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Dear Sheila
Working as a reporter for a TV station in New Hampshire, Kevin Flynn was covering the capture and arrest of a female serial killer named Sheila LaBarre. As he grew more and more obsessed with LaBarre…
00:17:17 |
Fri 26 Sep 2014
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 o…
00:12:19 |
Fri 29 Aug 2014
Can't Rock This Boat
In March 1964, a 35-year-old African-American woman named Johnnie Mae Chappell was walking along the side of the road in Jacksonville, Florida. Four white men were driving around listening to the loc…
00:18:40 |
Tue 29 Jul 2014
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 …
00:18:53 |
Mon 30 Jun 2014
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