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Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Named a Best Podcast of 2023 by the New York Times. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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6When 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.
Ken Silverstein’s book is The Radioactive Boy Scout.
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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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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?’”
This episode was first released in 2022.
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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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When Audrey Ryan’s father told her he once found 20 pounds of hash while he was fishing for scallops, she didn’t believe him. But he said that he wasn’t the only one who had found drugs in the ocean.
Audrey Ryan wrote about the Tusker for Boston Globe Magazine.
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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.
Michelle Shephard wrote about Zakaria Amara for The Walrus magazine.
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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.
Caroline Kitchener’s article for The Washington Post is “She said she had a miscarriage — then got arrested under an abortion law.”
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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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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.
Denise Chan hosts the podcast Scam Factory.
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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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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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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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The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica got out her notebook, looked for fingerprints, and decided she would conduct her own investigation. This week, four stories of kids who cracked the case.
This episode was first released in 2020.
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On October 11, 2008, an 18-year-old was shot by someone firing a gun from the back seat of a car. A couple of hours later, homicide detectives arrived on the scene. And so did the camera crew for a reality television show.
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In the early 1930s, eight people settled on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos. Within five years, two were missing and two were dead.
Abbott Kahler’s book is Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II.
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In 2023, two men told police the same story: each man said that his name was William Woods, and that his identity had been stolen.
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Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something strange at the beach. Residents had found an odd set of footprints in the sand, and a rumor began circulating that Clearwater Beach had a sea monster.
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In 1997, Eric Konigsberg received a strange voicemail from someone in prison — a hit man who had confessed to at least ten murders. Eric and the man had never spoken before, but Eric had a hunch about who it was: his uncle.
Eric Konigsberg’s book is Blood Relation.
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In July 2010, a woman was on vacation with her boyfriend of six years — they were traveling around Italy in a van. One day, she was looking for a pair of sunglasses in the glove box, and she found a passport. It had her boyfriend’s photo — but a different name.
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In the late 1960s, a yogi named Swami Rama came to the United States. His followers believed he could read their minds, visit them in their dreams, and manipulate reality. Shruti Swamy was one of them.
Shruti Swamy wrote a version of this story for the June 12th issue of The Believer. You can find it at https://www.thebeliever.net/.
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I remember this period. western Canada even enjoyed some of that "scallop Hash!"
I had to chuckle at this. He has balls.
thank you for telling this story!
Daisy is comedy Gold.
yikes... mannn, call all those places yourself. don't send a nickel out without first-hand contact. ughhh
who?
what a disgusting story, and what an incredible and brave woman E. Jean is.
another rerun, sigh
horrifying. I like when you showcase other podcasts though
Not to be an absolute "stick in the mud" but these two mechanics sound like jerks. These other "pranks" don't really sound like pranks. Tampering with people's property is vandalism. I really hope they were only doing this to people they knew, and not random people in town. And the horse prank sounds just dumb and borderline like animal abuse, putting such a large animal in a confined space without telling anyone. The sea monster prank is the only real and worthy prank I can see.
My app cut out or something. What did they call the salon?!
Just listened to the miniseries American Scandal did about this. Fun story if you want more after this. The host is no Phoebe but it's good. 👍
obtuse racism. that is going to increase sadly it already has. 🇨🇦 wants none of it. White American exceptionalism is #fascism no matter how you frame it.
Great one!!! thanks
my gosh these are so dull
What a beautiful podcast. Letting us all in on a bit of your personal life. I'm crying my eyes out xx
I've never had a marshmallow Sunday. But it sounds delicious..
It was proven in a United States Court of Law.
18eighteen.com
God, the cops tell him to get out of the car, then tell him to stop reaching..for his seatbelt. 😡 What do you think a person needs to do to get out of the car! sorry, but this is racism, if a black man is trying to unbuckle his seat belt and they assume it's a gun. And then they beat him up! it absolutely is a homicide.