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
The Magdalene Laundries
When she was 14 years old, Elizabeth Coppin was sent to a place called Peacock Lane in Cork, Ireland. It was a laundry business run by a Catholic order of nuns. Elizabeth noticed bars on its windows.…
00:38:37 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
The Somerton Man
In 1948, two horse jockeys were riding on a beach in Australia when they came across a man lying in the sand. There was a partially smoked cigarette resting on his jacket. He was well dressed, with a…
00:42:23 |
Fri 21 Apr 2023
Palace of Justice – A Conversation with Benjamin Ferencz
When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. It's been called the largest murder trial in history, with more than one million victims. There were 22 defendants, each of…
00:28:33 |
Fri 14 Apr 2023
The Most Wonderful Terrible Person
When Debra Miller woke up on October 8th, 1964, she was expecting to see a black Volkswagen in her family’s driveway. Instead, she saw a police car. “And I knew my father was dead.”
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00:44:26 |
Fri 07 Apr 2023
The Fasting Cure
In 1911, two sisters traveled to Seattle to meet a "doctor" named Linda Hazzard. The sisters didn’t seem very sick, but when they arrived, Dr. Hazzard told them they didn’t have a moment to lose – th…
00:46:02 |
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Crazy Eddie
In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were parodied on "Saturday Night Live." So when the family business began selling its company shares on W…
00:37:47 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
Out of the Box
In 1964, one of the best javelin throwers in Australia traveled to England to see if he could qualify for the Olympics. But, because of an injury, he didn’t make the team - and he couldn’t afford a p…
00:42:30 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
An Impossible Crime, Part 2
This episode continues where Episode 208 leaves off.
In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from prison to a reporter at the Chicago Tribune named Steve Mills. Steve Mills spent months investigating b…
00:42:41 |
Fri 03 Mar 2023
An Impossible Crime
Daniel Taylor was 17 years old when he was arrested for a 1992 double homicide in Chicago. But Daniel had an alibi. He was in jail at the time of the murders.
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00:35:14 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Novak v. City of Parma
In 2016, a man named Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page of his local police department. "I just thought, 'That would be funny.'" About a month later, he was arrested. Novak is now petitioni…
00:36:33 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
The Feather Lady
On October 4, 1960, Eastern Airlines Flight 375 took off from Boston’s Logan airport, and then, two minutes later, it crashed. 62 people died. Investigators couldn't figure out what had happened, and…
00:40:08 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
Sunset Mesa
Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson. When she did, she felt relieved to finally take them home with her. But then, she got a call from the FBI…
00:40:39 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
They Came for the Judges
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August of 2021, they unlocked the prisons and freed prisoners, some of whom sought revenge on the women judges who convicted them. We speak with some o…
00:40:21 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
Dog in the Bed, Cat in the Bag, Camel on the Golf Course
Stories of animals really going for it.
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00:43:39 |
Fri 16 Dec 2022
Across the Atlantic
In February of 1910, members of the Music Hall Ladies Guild in London received a strange letter from their treasurer – a singer who went by the name Belle Elmore. It said that she suddenly had to tra…
00:46:39 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
The Tylenol Murders
On September 29, 1982, Adam Janus suddenly collapsed in his home outside of Chicago. He died within hours. Later that same day, in the same house, his brother also collapsed — then his sister-in-law.…
00:49:46 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
We Interrupt This Program
On a Saturday night, in February 1949, the music programming on one of the most popular radio stations in Quito, Ecuador, was interrupted with an urgent news bulletin: strange objects in the sky that…
00:37:59 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
Ghostwatch
On Halloween night, in 1992, an unusual television special aired on the BBC. Nobody expected what happened next. “The technicians were looking up at the big screen in the lobby, saying to each other,…
00:52:51 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
The Hammersmith Ghost
In the winter of 1803, residents outside of London reported strange encounters with a ghost. Some said it looked like Napoleon Bonaparte, or a horse without a head. Others said the ghost breathed fir…
00:35:40 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Mantrap
Ed and Bertha Briney’s unoccupied farmhouse was reportedly broken into 50 times over 10 years. They put up “No Trespassing” signs, repeatedly complained to sheriffs in two different counties, nailed …
00:38:46 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
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