Criminal

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The Knock

Episode #344

2025-12-12 05:00:53

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On Christmas morning, Laura Nowlin was in her living room with her infant son. They were getting ready to leave to spend the day with family. Then, Laura heard a knock on the door. She says it sounded frantic.
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Fall River

Episode #343

2025-12-05 05:00:06

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In 1833, a writer named Catharine Williams was working on a new book. It was going to be about a Methodist minister, a mill worker, and a murder.
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The Manual

Episode #342

2025-11-28 05:00:07

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In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and labor intensive” in the department’s history. And then investigators found a strange manual - written by someone calling themselves Rex Feral.
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The Post Office

Episode #341

2025-11-21 05:00:53

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Scott Darlington ran the post office in a village outside Manchester – until he was accused of theft and fraud. “I started thinking, ‘Maybe I’ve done this and I just haven’t realized that it’s been me.’”
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The Boy Scout

Episode #340

2025-11-14 05:00:06

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When David Hahn was 16, he started working on something that caught the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the FBI.
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Rogers Park

Episode #339

2025-11-07 05:00:49

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The story of one day in one neighborhood in Chicago – and the people living there who try to stop ICE agents from arresting their neighbors.
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Ghostwatch

Episode #338

2025-10-31 05:00:10

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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, ‘My God, what's going on in Studio One?’” 
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The Custom of the Sea

Episode #337

2025-10-24 05:00:36

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In 1883, a sailing captain named Thomas Dudley accepted a job no one thought was a good idea: to sail a small ship called the Mignonette halfway across the world.
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The Tusker

Episode #336

2025-10-17 05:00:15

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When Audrey Ryan’s father told her he had once found 20 pounds of drugs while he was fishing for scallops, she didn’t believe him.
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Zak and Michelle

Episode #335

2025-10-10 05:00:31

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In 2006, a group of young men and teenagers were arrested under the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act for planning to set off bombs in Toronto. They were known as the Toronto 18. One of the group’s leaders was a 20-year-old named Zakaria Amara.
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Patience

Episode #334

2025-09-26 05:00:18

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One Saturday morning in 2018, the police showed up at Patience Rousseau’s door, and started asking her questions about something she'd posted on Facebook after she'd had a miscarriage.
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The Phone Call

Episode #333

2025-09-19 05:00:10

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Bow Suprasert had just returned from a trip abroad when she got a strange phone call, saying a man had been caught traveling with a passport in her name. But Bow’s passport was still in her suitcase.
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The Compound

Episode #332

2025-09-12 05:00:40

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In 2023, a woman named Jella got a new job. On her first day, she got in a car to go to her new office. Then she got a feeling that something wasn’t right.
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This is Phoebe Judge from the IRS

Episode #331

2025-09-05 05:00:34

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Phoebe tries to scam an English grandmother named Daisy over the phone. But Daisy isn’t just any grandmother.
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E. Jean

Episode #330

2025-08-22 05:00:59

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We visited E. Jean Carroll at her house in the woods to talk about her two trials against President Donald Trump.
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The Bus Ride

Episode #329

2025-08-15 05:00:56

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Two days after Hurricane Katrina hit, people who lived in the Fischer Housing Projects were still trapped – and it didn’t seem like anyone was coming to help. So 20-year-old Jabar Gibson came up with a plan.
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