Criminal

Michael Ross was the first person in Connecticut to be sentenced to death since 1960. He claimed that he wanted to die in order to atone for what he had done --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sgt. David Mascarenas is the Dive Supervisor for the Los Angeles Police Department. He's been diving his whole life, and prides himself on never refusing a dive, no matter how treacherous. At least until the summer of 2013, when a murder investigation led him into unusually murky waters. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographer with the St. Louis Post Dispatch, ended up taking a photograph of Ed that would be seen around the world, and change both of their live --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When we're kids, we have ideas of what we want to be when we grow up -- movie star, doctor, astronaut. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Corporal Scott Foster of the Hillsborough, NC Police Department worked closely with his K-9 partner, Talon, for many years. They located weapons and narcotics, --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier's stash house --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Patti Hammond Shaw is a transgender woman. She's legally female on her birth certificate and driver's license, and has been since 1993. But when she was arrested in 2009 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But white collar criminals weren't the only people living there, and the other people inside had basically been forgotten about by the outside world --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In July of 2002, Philadelphia Homicide Detective Pat Mangold was called to the scene of a gruesome murder on the Schuylkill River. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

More than eighty years ago, a North Carolina family of nine posed for a Christmas portrait. Two weeks later, all but one of them had been shot dead. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman's headless body in a farmer's field in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. No one knew who she was, or what had happened. Newspapers carried headlines like "Hunt for the Head" and "Headless Horror." Quickly, the crime scene became a tourist attraction and visitors traveled from all over to collect bloody souvenirs. The gruesome details were adapted into a popular song that's been recorded dozens of times --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 million years old, and visitors to the park often take a little piece home with them as a souvenir. But stealing the wood has serious consequences --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven't resurfaced in the marketplace. They've just vanished, never to be seen again. But unlike most thieves, this thief is motivated by something more abstract and romantic than money, which makes him extremely difficult to catch --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Julius Robinson had killed for revenge before, and so when his sister was brutally murdered in her sleep last year, he says he planned to "get" the killer. He felt like his family expected him to get revenge, because that's what he'd always done, both in and out of prison. But when he learned that the killer was actually his 17-year-old nephew, he struggled against his family's expectations and his own.Music by Elephant Micah --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in real life. Gil would travel from London to meet Karen for her birthday. With his arrival just a few days away, Karen's son scrambled to learn more about Gil's identity. But trying to determine whether someone is who they say they are turned out to be a whole lot more confusing and dangerous than Chris imagine --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and upped her game each time she got out. Prison, she says, is where you move "up the criminal ladder, just like the corporate ladder."Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

No one disputes that it's against the law to take another person's life, but is it against the law to sit with someone and watch while they commit suicide? We meet an elderly woman who sneaks around the country as an "exit guide."Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.If you haven't alread --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

No one disputes that it's against the law to take another person's life, but is it against the law to sit with someone and watch while they commit suicide? We meet an elderly woman who sneaks around the country as an "exit guide."Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.If you haven't already --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wife had been murdered in their bed in a grisly attack. Their two children escaped to raise the alarm. But something was off. There were no suspects. There were no clues. To quote the local newspaper, the whole thing was “surrounded in a veil of mystery."Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.If you haven't already, please review us on Apple Podcasts! It's an important way to help new listeners discover the show: --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 on drug dealers or sex workers. 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.Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.If you haven't already, please review us on Apple Podcasts! It's an important way to help new listeners discover the show: --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app