Criminal

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Criminal is an award-winning podcast about crime. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.

Criminal is an award-winning podcast about crime. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.

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166 Pieces

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Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that somethi...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 32:23
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Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 49:00
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“The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, ‘You have a collect call from Ian for Debb...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:47
  • Purchases: 1
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The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner: “He refused to be on camera. It’s just his voice...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 37:07
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This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Aaron Quinn called the Vallejo police to report tha...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 43:40
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“I think it was around 3:00 a.m., and that’s when I heard a strange man’s voice waking me from sleep.” This is part one of a two-part episode. Lis...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 52:27
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On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, jus...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 43:07
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In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen. When she went to the doctor, he told...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 44:17
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After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:54
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The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 32:13
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The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bob...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 42:01
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When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 34:29
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In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. And then, a...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:57
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One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:51
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“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:08
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Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 34:33
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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I wa...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 39:19
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With Covid-19 shutdowns, people have been taking advantage of quiet highways to drive as fast as they can from New York City to Redondo Beach, Cali...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
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When Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were charged with murder, neither of them were worried they would be convicted. They had dozens of witnesse...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 30:34
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One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 23:35