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
Hungryland
In March of this year, a biologist working in a nature preserve in Florida saw an alligator swimming along a canal with something in its mouth. When she looked closer, she realized it was a human arm…
00:36:35 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
The Procedure
In 1967, a very unlikely group of individuals gathered to quietly break the law and help facilitate abortions. They established a phone number. When you called it, a recording of a woman's voice woul…
00:31:52 |
Fri 19 Aug 2022
The Divorce Colony
This episode picks up where Episode 193 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
Blanche Molineux visited her husband while he was in prison for murder to keep up what she called the “ghastl…
00:35:32 |
Fri 05 Aug 2022
A Ring and a Bottle
In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been…
00:32:31 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
The Devil’s Hole Pupfish
There is a cave in the middle of the Mojave Desert called Devil's Hole. It's home to a small iridescent blue fish, called the Devil's Hole pupfish - and you can't find them anywhere else in the world…
00:33:28 |
Fri 08 Jul 2022
The Sailor's Teeth
In 1982, forensic dentists examined the teeth of thousands of sailors stationed on an aircraft carrier called the USS Carl Vinson in Newport News, Virginia. It’s been called “the largest dental dragn…
00:40:33 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
Day In, Day Out
When Laura Coates decided to become a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., she was told that the job would be “human misery.” She says she remembers thinking, “If there's one person in the justice system …
00:35:54 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
The Doctors
In 2018, we talked with three of America’s most experienced trauma surgeons about what happens when someone is shot. We wanted to spend some time with that conversation again this week.
Special thank…
00:23:36 |
Fri 27 May 2022
John & Trooper
For 10 years, Detective John Reilly and his horse Trooper were the only mounted team assigned to Central Park. They rode the same route every day. John says Trooper didn’t like change. “If you change…
00:20:54 |
Fri 13 May 2022
427 Emails
Pontiac Correctional Center is a maximum security prison in the small town of Pontiac, Illinois. It’s the oldest in the state - founded in 1871 - and has a reputation for being one of the most violen…
00:46:02 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
The Magpie
When Shigeru Yabu was 9 years old, he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Internment Camp, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese American families. One day, Shigeru disco…
00:38:27 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
The Princess
One night in 1817, a woman appeared in the village of Almondsbury, in England. No one could figure out who she was. But everyone wanted to solve the mystery.
Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Insta…
00:35:29 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Ransom
Miles Hargrove was in his sophomore year of college when he got a phone call that his father had been kidnapped.
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00:43:32 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Breaking into the F.B.I.
In 1971, a woman visited an F.B.I. office in Pennsylvania. She identified herself as a college student interested in learning about opportunities for women in the F.B.I. None of that was true. She wa…
00:46:26 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
The Midnight Slider
In 2013, a small boat called The Midnight Slider was found floating empty in the waters off of Isle Madame in Nova Scotia. "Murder is not something that occurs in this neck of the woods very often," …
00:35:38 |
Fri 11 Feb 2022
Pappy, Another Round
When it comes to Kentucky bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle is among the most exclusive. You can’t get it unless you’re exceptionally lucky, exceptionally wealthy, or willing to break the law. The Pappy fren…
00:43:24 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
The Boycott
15 years after the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, many schools across the South were still segregated. Some school districts actively…
00:35:26 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
A Splendid Newfoundland, Cursing Birds, and the Fashion Fox
Stories of animals really going for it.
Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.co…
00:31:38 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
"The experiment requires that you continue."
1. Please continue. 2. The experiment requires that you continue. 3. It is absolutely essential that you continue. 4. You have no other choice, you must go on.
Gina Perry's book is Behind the Shock M…
00:39:50 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
Palace of Justice
When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Germany’s death squad. The entire world was watching.
T…
00:33:27 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
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