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 Red Flag
In 2006, a man named William Ramsey went to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida for a life-saving liver transplant. It was a success, and so when his health started to decline after the procedur…
00:38:20 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
Ghost Racket Crusade
The story of two famous friends — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini — and the disagreement that ended their friendship: can we speak to the dead?
Read Rose Mackenberg's essays in Tony Wolf's b…
00:41:09 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
The Loves
“There is something he hasn’t been telling me and I’m about to find out what it is.”
Bobby and Cheryl Love’s book is The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice.
Say hello on …
00:44:11 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
Family Money
When Beverley Schottenstein’s husband Alvin died, she and her children sold their stake in his family’s business, worth an estimated 90 million dollars. Family relationships got complicated. It was h…
00:38:48 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Roselle and Michael
Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that something was wrong was the sound of a muffled explosion. T…
00:35:53 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
Sealand
Today's episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren't played much on the radio in England. The BBC cont…
00:52:30 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
Ian Manuel
"The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, 'You have a collect call from Ian for Debbie. Will you accept the charges?' And I remember Deb…
00:37:16 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Masquerade
The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner: “He refused to be on camera. It’s just his voice. His wife even asks that they disguise his voice, b…
00:40:37 |
Fri 16 Jul 2021
48 Hours, Part 2
This episode picks up where Episode 167 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 kidnapped, a…
00:47:10 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
48 Hours
“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…
00:55:57 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
On Fire
On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, just hours later, a second fire was reported. Then a th…
00:46:37 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
Unfit
In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told her she would have to have her appendix removed. He…
00:47:47 |
Fri 21 May 2021
Sanctuary
After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered another option. Special thanks to Jackie Metivier.
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00:40:24 |
Fri 07 May 2021
The Ghoul of Grays Harbor
The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis and Wishkah Rivers. A local police chief told reporte…
00:35:43 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
I Fought the Law
The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bobby Fuller was found dead. The mystery of what happen…
00:45:30 |
Fri 09 Apr 2021
Only in Hollywood
When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in Moscow’s Soyuzmultfilm studio, like Hedgehog in the …
00:37:59 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Hot Lotto
In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. And then, a series of lawyers tried to claim the money on behal…
00:32:26 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Spiritual Developments
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photograph developed he saw something very strange—the ima…
00:40:21 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
"If it ever happens, run."
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happen to you. Run. If it ever happens, run.’” It was ye…
00:36:37 |
Fri 12 Feb 2021
The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan called Shah Sadar Din, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from home, changed her name from Fouzi…
00:38:03 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
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