Criminal

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Donor 106

Episode #384

2026-10-09 05:00:08

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One night when Eve Wiley was 16, she started reading through her mother’s emails, and discovered a secret her mother had been keeping from Eve her whole life. “I always knew there was something. I just didn't know what it was.”
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The Midnight Slider

Episode #383

2026-10-02 05:00:47

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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. There’s always been a tradition of taking care of families, watching out, looking out for one another.” 
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Not Criminally Responsible

Episode #382

2026-09-25 05:00:23

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In 1992, a young man walked into a police station and said he wanted to turn himself in for a crime. When the police asked if there was someone at home who they could call, he said, “That’s who I killed. I killed my parents.”
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Family Secrets, Part 2

Episode #381

2026-09-18 05:00:57

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In June of 1985, police followed in pursuit as Fritz Klenner drove through the streets of Greensboro, North Carolina, with his cousin Susie Lynch and her two sons. When the chase eventually ended, it was like “something right out of a movie.”
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Family Secrets, Part 1

Episode #380

2026-09-11 05:00:38

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In 1985, college student Ian Perkins reconnected with a family friend, Fritz Klenner, who told him a secret. He said he was a CIA agent — and offered to let Ian come along on his next mission.
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The Informant

Episode #379

2026-09-04 05:00:06

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In 1978, an investigator in the Harris County DA's office in Houston got a call from an old friend. He told the investigator that he was in jail, that he wanted him to come pick him up — and that he had some information about a case that he thought the investigator would be very interested in.
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911

Episode #378

2026-08-28 05:00:33

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A conversation with a 911 operator about what happens on the other end of the line – and the day she heard her daughter's voice on the phone.
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Out of the Box

Episode #377

2026-08-21 05:00:16

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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 plane ticket home. So he came up with an idea while working a cargo job at Heathrow Airport: “I saw them shipping animals. And I thought, well, if the dogs can survive it, I could.”
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A Bump in the Night and Unexpected Guests

Episode #376

2026-08-14 05:00:08

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Amber Dawn was 20 when she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Enumclaw, Washington. On her very first night, she began to notice strange sounds. And they didn’t stop.
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Mr. Apology

Episode #375

2026-08-07 05:00:52

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In 1980, posters appeared in subway stations and on telephone poles in New York City with a phone number to call. When you called it, you would hear a message: “This is Apology. Apology is not associated with the police or any other organization but rather is a way for you to tell people what you have done wrong and how you feel about it.”
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The Premonitions Bureau

Episode #374

2026-07-31 05:00:59

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On October 21, 1966, a woman named Lorna Middleton suddenly woke up from her sleep, struggling to breathe. The day before, a man named Alan Hencher was at work in London when he began to tremble all over. They both said they knew something terrible was about to happen.
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The Comfort Kit

Episode #373

2026-07-24 05:00:48

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A few hours after Rachel Waters’ mother died in hospice care, police showed up at Rachel’s childhood home with a search warrant. “It had my name and the word ‘homicide’ on it.”
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125 Acres

Episode #372

2026-07-17 05:00:40

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George Dinning was emancipated in 1865, when he was 10 years old. By the time he was in his mid-thirties, he’d bought the land on which he had been enslaved. Years later, 25 white men approached the house George had built by hand and told him to come outside.
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That’s Not Me

Episode #371

2026-07-10 05:00:51

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Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when she was arrested by police one morning at her home in Detroit. When she spoke with a detective at the police station hours later, she asked them, “Why am I here?”
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All the Time in the World

Episode #370

2026-06-26 05:00:21

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The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one is allowed to see, because it’s one of very few places in the world that deliberately puts out human bodies to decompose in nature. We asked if we could visit, and they agreed.
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The Caller

Episode #369

2026-06-19 05:00:48

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In 2008, an article in the monthly FBI bulletin argued that 911 calls could contain clues for homicide investigations. “The caller, in fact, may be the killer.”