Criminal
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Criminal is a podcast about crime. Not so much the "if it bleeds, it leads," kind of crime. Something a little more complex. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, and/or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. We are a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.
Criminal
3d ago
In 1791, three men filed lawsuits in the General Court of Maryland. They were all suing the same person: the Jesuit priest who enslaved them ..read more
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3d ago
“If you’re working alone in the wilderness, no witnesses, and the people that you’re going up to are armed, it’s really dangerous ..read more
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2w ago
“Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store is that we're going to rob, and this is where we're going to hide, and this is how we get away ..read more
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3w ago
In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer didn’t deny it. Burns told a police officer: “I had to do it. And if I had to do it over, I’d do it again ..read more
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3w ago
This week, part two of the Reels family story – how two brothers went to jail for eight years in an attempt to save their family land ..read more
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3w ago
Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels refused to leave the land that had been in their family for generations – so they were sent to jail. They expected to be in jail for 90 days. They were there for 8 years ..read more
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3w ago
Today, a personal story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring ..read more
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3w ago
Soon after the Berlin Wall went up, a group of students knocked on Joachim Rudolph’s door. They told him they were trying to get people out of East Germany - and they wanted his help ..read more
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2M ago
Before Guantánamo Bay became the prison we know today, Marie Genard spent more than a year of her life there. She was 14 ..read more
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2M ago
In 1977, a new bar opened on North Wells Street in Chicago. Things weren’t as they seemed at the aptly named “Mirage Tavern ..read more