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
48 Hours, Part 2
This episode picks up where 48 Hours, Part 1 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
When Aaron Quinn called the Vallejo police to report that his girlfriend Denise Huskins had been kidnapp…
00:45:53 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
48 Hours, Part 1
“I think it was around 3:00 a.m., and that’s when I heard a strange man’s voice waking me from sleep.”
This is part one of a two-part episode. Listen to part two in our next episode.
Denise Huskins a…
00:54:13 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
The Hunt
In 2016, the FBI attaché in Pretoria, South Africa, got a phone call from a woman asking the FBI to investigate the death of her friend, Bianca Rudolph. Bianca had died on a hunting trip in Zambia’s …
00:31:27 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Tokyo Joe
Ken Eto worked for the Chicago Outfit for 30 years. He was known as the mob’s bolita expert, bringing in millions of dollars a year for them. But in 1983, they turned on him.
Dan O’Sullivan wrote abo…
00:46:28 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
The Gargoyle Cat, the Taylor Swift Goat, and the Runaway Cow
Stories of animals really going for it.
Criminal is going back on tour in February! We’ll be telling brand new stories, live on stage. You can even get meet and greet tickets to come and say hi befor…
00:48:48 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
The Questions I’m Asking
Today we meet “Genius Grant” winner Andrea Armstrong. In 2019, she started the Incarceration Transparency Project to identify and make public how many people were dying behind bars in Louisiana. The …
00:39:58 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Send Her to the Island
When a young woman showed up at a boarding house in Manhattan, she said her name was Nellie Brown – but that was all she seemed to remember about herself. Soon, people became scared of her. Someone w…
00:32:27 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
The Kit
In the early 1970s, Marty Goddard was worried about the high rates of sexual assault in Chicago. She learned from police that evidence from sexual assault cases often wasn’t collected properly — or a…
00:50:14 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
Masterpiece
In the 1950s poodles were all the rage — one tabloid even reported that when a girl “makes the big time she traditionally acquires 3 things — minks, gems, and a poodle.” But one poodle in particular …
00:32:03 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Fine Art and Meat Cleavers
In 1913, museums and art galleries in London received a memo from the police. It told them to be careful when they let in visitors – women might try to attack the art.
Criminal is going back on tour …
00:55:08 |
Fri 17 Nov 2023
The Liverpool Exchange
In the 1980s, Liverpool was having what journalists called a heroin epidemic. The chairman of a local organization where people would go for drug counseling told a reporter, “We are on the brink of c…
00:49:25 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Interrogation Room
After a 17-hour-long interrogation, a woman confesses to a murder. But then, evidence surfaces proving that she can’t have actually done it – and that it was a false confession.
Today, we’re looking …
00:55:25 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
How to Sell a Haunted House
In 1989, Helen Ackley decided to sell her old Victorian house in Nyack, New York. It didn’t go as planned. The house became the center of a case that’s referred to as “The Ghostbusters ruling.”
This …
00:34:02 |
Fri 27 Oct 2023
The Spy
Jack Barsky was a college student in 1970 when the KGB knocked on the door of his dorm room to inquire about his plans after college. “I was told to broaden my knowledge of culture, of literature, of…
00:56:18 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Chesa, Kathy, and David
Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were once members of the radical activist group the Weather Underground. In 1981, they helped members of the Black Liberation Army rob a Brink’s armored car at the Nanu…
00:41:17 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Jiminy Crickets
Here's a little preview of what we’re making over on Criminal Plus! We’re having a lot of fun making these bonus episodes. In each one, Criminal co-creator Lauren Spohrer and I take your questions an…
00:11:41 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
The Confession, Part 2
This episode continues where Episode 237 leaves off.
17 years after he shot a man, Trevell Coleman walked into a police station and tried to turn himself in. He’d never been a suspect in the case, an…
00:34:16 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
The Confession, Part 1
Trevell Coleman signed with Bad Boy Records in 1998. He made it onto the Billboard charts, and was called “the latest protege of rap’s royal family.” But there was something from his past he hadn’t t…
00:38:23 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Phoebe vs. Oyster
We’re coming up on 10 years of Criminal. In the past decade, we've loved taking the show all over the country - including the time I ate a bad oyster in San Francisco and almost didn't make it on sta…
00:02:14 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Under the Crabapple Tree
On September 16, 1922, a reverend and a choir singer were found dead under a tree. Between their bodies was a stack of love letters. When police began investigating the murders, tabloid reporters did…
00:41:01 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
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