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. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 days 5 minutes
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Episode 212: 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 – they needed to begin her treatment right away.
Episode 211: Crazy Eddie
The rise and fall of Crazy Eddie, a discount electronics chain store famous in the 1970s and 80s for its commercials.
Episode 210: Out of the Box
In 1964, Reg Spiers couldn’t afford a plane ticket home to Australia from England, so he came up with another way to get there: “I saw them shipping animals. And I thought, well, if the dogs can survive it, I could.”
Episode 209: An Impossible Crime, Part 2
In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from prison to a reporter at the Chicago Tribune named Steve Mills. Steve Mills spent months investigating before publishing a detailed examination of Daniel’s case as part of a series called “Cops and Confessions.”
Episode 208: An Impossible Crime
Daniel Taylor was 17 years old when he was arrested for a 1992 double homicide in Chicago. He was charged alongside seven other Black men. But Daniel had an alibi. He was in jail at the time of the murders.
Episode 207: Novak v. City of Parma
In 2016, a man named Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page of his local police department. About a month later, he was arrested.
Episode 206: 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 they decided to ask a scientist working at the Smithsonian for help. Roxie Laybourne's investigation helped launch a whole new field of science that changed aviation and forensics.
Episode 205: 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. We first aired this episode in 2020. Earlier this month, Megan Hess and Shirley Koch were sentenced for their crimes. We've included updates about the case in this version of the episode.
Episode 204: 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 of the judges in today’s episode.
Episode 203: Dog in the Bed, Cat in the Bag, Camel on the Golf Course
Stories of animals really going for it.