Lunchtime Crime
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This is the personal podcast of Kimberly Sheeter (@LunchtimeCrime).
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This is the personal podcast of Kimberly Sheeter (@LunchtimeCrime).
To learn more or to start your own personal or community podcast, please visit www.swellcast.com.
Visit https://swellcast.com/LunchtimeCrime to add your episodes to this community podcast, or to start your own podcast.
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Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "Did Lam overreach, or was she just standing up for her own creative contribution? Even the question of who actually pulled in the lawyers is a little fuzzy, but what is clear is that this case became a landmark cautionary tale. It's the moment when the dream of writers and fans building worlds together cracked against the reality of copyright and contracts and intellectual property law. It's a reminder that even in imaginative universes full of telepaths, sometimes the biggest plot twist happens outside the book."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "The power of prison writing to expose injustice and the danger of mistaking literary brilliance for moral transformation. Come back for more Lunchtime Crime. I'll be with you, serving up some literary stories of criminal or crime adjacent acts all week."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "She was as much a mind in any room as any of those famous men who went on to get book contracts. And we'll never know what kind of writing career she could have had or honestly, what kind of life their daughter would have had with the mother growing up. Her death did shape Burrow's obsessions. Control, addiction, power, despair. But those themes came at a very high cost to her, and the literary world, by and large, forgave him."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. This week we're serving up a sampler platter of writers behaving badly. And today's main course is a tough guy on the page. And on at least one occasion in his private life, this literary infamy unfolded at a New York apartment party that went very wrong. Norman Mailer was already famous for his swaggering Persona and his belief in himself as a gladiator."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "He did not like the perspective shift away from the chief, the characterizations, the contract issues, the money, distribution. He hated it. So there was a settlement, and later there were five Oscars. I think there's only been a couple of times in movie history where the same movie took best Picture, best Director, best Actor, best actress and best adapted screenplay. None of the winners thanked him."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "But in a season when crime stories get dark, this one briefly takes us in the other direction and reminds us that law enforcement isn't always flashing lights in arrest reports. Sometimes it's compassion and officers pooling their own money so someone doesn't feel forgotten. The Bridgeport Turkey heist may be one of the strangest crimes in Thanksgiving history, but it's also one of the most human the bad guys got away, but the good guys made sure the victim didn't eat Taco Bell for Thanksgiving."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "Tony was convicted and sentenced to death, but the conviction unraveled because it turns out the prosecution withheld evidence that would have exonerated him. And testimonies used against him were recanted. And some witnesses admitted to lying under pressure. So after spending years on death row, his conviction was overturned in 2009 and he was released. And the actual perpetrator or perpetrators remain unknown. So are there any theories? Not many."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "It's evil, but it's impressive. And here's where legend and fact get blurry. In American Gangster, Lucas smuggles heroin into the US in the coffins of dead American soldiers returned from Vietnam. That's very cinematic. It's a gut punch. It. It's probably not true. Atkinson denied it, calling it, well, using a word that I can't probably say on swell. But after that word Hollywood nonsense, the reality was still staggering."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "And in a town like Falmouth, people connect the dots when investigators can't or won't. So what do we know? We know Shirley was ambushed. We know the crime was personal. We know investigators believe someone in her orbit holds the key. And we know that 20 years later, her murder is unsolved. If you have information on this murder, you can contact the Falmouth Police Department or the Massachusetts State Police Cold case unit."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. We. We are going to Kansas City, so I guess we can grab some ribs. It's January, 1935, and this is one of the strangest unsolved murders I've come across. A young man, a hotel room, a false name, and a story that has puzzled investigators for nearly a century. We are entering the mystery of room 1046."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "We still debate what drives someone to kill in the name of love and how much of it is a choice. Now, Laura Fair has more or less vanished from history books, but in 1870, she was a headline. A tragic mix of passion, betrayal, maybe villainy. Thanks for showing up for a little lunchtime crime. We'll have a fresh batch of crime related stories all this week, the week after that, because crime never sleeps, so we'll never starve. Come back soon."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "But within weeks, the prosecutors dropped the case. Maybe they were hip hop fans. Their actual reasoning was the station was dead and further prosecution would serve no additional government purpose. Still, the court issued a permanent restraining order. No more unlicensed broadcasting or else so Radio New York International became history or legend, depending on your point of view. For some, it was free speech, a handful of idealists making a difference, making radio democratic again."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. Sometimes I like to mix up the menu a little bit by sharing some bios. Sometimes they're about a criminal and sometimes a crime fighter. And today we're talking about a badass bounty hunter. Domino Harvey was known for her daring recoveries, attitude and unique upbringing. She was born into privilege. She was the daughter of actor Lawrence Harvey and fashion model Pauline Stone."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "He carried file cards listing stolen books matched to their owners and devised detailed plans to remove library markings on precious volumes, making them easier to sell to unsuspecting dealers. So let's be clear. He was not doing this to free the books. He was doing this all about money. I mean, he may have loved books, but this was a money making scheme on his part. He had a special toolkit that include color stained cloths and Q tips for camouflaging spine repairs."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "Come back for more lunchtime crime all week. No deep fakes here or no particularly deep takes here? Just quick snacks from our never ending crime buffet."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "By the 1950s, the program produced about a hundred million yellow fever infected mosquitoes per month, which could be delivered via bombs or missiles. I never thought of mosquitoes as a payload. They also bred 50 million fleas weekly, and those were uninfected to start, but could later be infected with anthrax, cholera, dengue fever, malaria, typhus and tularemia, which I had never heard of, but is also known as rabbit fever. Rabbit, as in bunny rabbit."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "Instead, his insurance plot became one of the most bizarre homicides in California. And that is saying something. The jury found him guilty of first degree murder in 1939. He was executed by hanging at San Quentin. And he was one of the last before the state abandoned that method of execution. So, lunch buddies, when you add both a human accomplice and an animal in your murder scheme, there is the potential for things to go very wrong for all parties. Come back for more lunchtime crime."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "And then high pitched squeals coming from the vents. And a smell of ammonia seeping into rooms that no air freshener could mask. When contractors opened the attic drywall, they uncovered hundreds of bats roosting in the insulation and their droppings saturating the wood and the walls. It was a nightmare of remediation. Workers in full respirators hauled out truckloads of contaminated insulation. The couple learned the odor came from guano that was piled so deep it ate through their drywall."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "They weren't pecking his eyes out, but still it was startling, and it inspired her imagination and led her to conceive a story in which flocks of birds systematically and mysteriously turn aggressive and attack humans in a series of mounting assaults. Her story was set in Cornwall after World War II, and she made a bold choice as an author not to offer any explanations for the birds aggression. So story was not tied up with a neat bow."
Click here to reply to @LunchtimeCrime "But they're labeled as tropical fish or collectible toys. And a particular favorite with collectors is the emperor scorpion Pandanus imperator. It's big and glossy and black and has massive claws. It also has venom, and that venom has real scientific or medical value. Scorpion venom is part of research on pain management, cancer detection, and antibacterial treatment development. So scorpion venom is sometimes called liquid gold. And it has turned these animals into something of value for poachers and smugglers."
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