Episode #120
2019-08-02 12:39:00
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In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went wrong. The Raleigh News and Observer called it “too horrible to chronicle without a shudder.”
Episode #119
2019-07-19 12:49:51
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Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an issue for as long as he can remember, but he isn’t one to call the police. He’s a pretty “live and let live” kind of guy. Or he was. Before he finally got fed up and took matters into his own hands.
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Episode #118
2019-07-05 14:23:27
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One day in 1969, Paulette Cooper decided to see what she could get away with.
Episode #117
2019-06-21 13:50:34
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Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a local newspaper, “We don’t want to blow this up into something that it’s not. But on the other side, we’ve got three children who are...
Episode #116
2019-06-07 12:33:37
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In our last episode we spoke Cecilia Gentili, a trans Latina who worked for many years as an undocumented sex worker. Today, we get two more views of sex work in America. We speak with a high-end escort in New York City, and take a trip to one of the only legal...
Episode #115
2019-05-24 19:43:44
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When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet. “Some of us find our community with our own family and some of us don't.” Sponsors: Article Visit article.com/criminal to get $50 off your first purchase...
Episode #114
2019-05-10 12:51:05
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When Philip Benight met Becky Golden, they made a promise to stick together, no matter how bad things got.
Episode #113
2019-04-26 13:19:01
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bejerot coined the term "Stockholm Syndrome" to describe the response of the hostages. One of the bank robbers, Clark Olofsson, told us, "It was fun."
Episode #112
2019-04-12 12:21:18
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When Sarah Garone was 13 years old, she received something very strange in the mail. She didn't know who it was from, or why they would have sent it. And then it happened again.
Episode #111
2019-03-29 11:54:27
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"My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup."-Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County Public Defender's Office.
Episode #110
2019-03-15 12:05:51
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Georgia Tann bragged that she had a rigorous selection process that matched the perfect child with the perfect home.
Episode #109
2019-03-01 13:51:14
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It's one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It's another thing to try to ruin that stranger's life.
Episode #108
2019-02-15 13:35:16
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When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn't prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble finding steady work. So, Fannie found a way to take care of her family. She started small, but built a robust and lucrative operation… a...
Episode #107
2019-02-01 13:48:28
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When Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium reportedly told Sarah that she would be haunted by the victims of that rifle unless she used her fortune to build a house, and never stop building. That's exactly...
Episode #106
2019-01-18 13:52:36
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In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, a 69-year-old woman named Linda Gillman hired a man named Christian Olsen to do some repairs on her condo. After months of working together, Linda Gillman asked for Christian’s help with a different sort of project.
Episode #105
2018-12-21 13:45:12
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John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He'd been active in the Colombo crime family since the 1960s. And then, when he was 93, he was given an 8-year sentence. The evidence that helped convict him came from...