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Mar 24

Criminal

read Episode 212: The Fasting Cure (3.24.2023) In 1911, two sisters traveled to Seattle to meet a "doctor" named Linda Hazzard. The sisters didn’t seem very sick, but when they arrived, Dr. Hazzard told them they didn’t have a moment to lose – they needed to begin her treatment right away. A few months later, one of the sisters wrote a letter to her old governess. “I am wonderfully better in fact,” she said, “getting stronger by leaps.” But her handwriting was messier than usual, and her sentences ran together and overlapped.
Mar 17

Criminal

read Episode 211: Crazy Eddie (3.17.2023) In the 1980s, the discount electronics chain store Crazy Eddie was so famous, its commercials were parodied on "Saturday Night Live." So when the family business began selling its company shares on Wall Street – making millions – nobody questioned its success.
Mar 10

Criminal

read Episode 210: Out of the Box (3.10.2023) In 1964, one of the best javelin throwers in Australia traveled to England to see if he could qualify for the Olympics. But, because of an injury, he didn’t make the team - and he couldn’t afford a plane ticket home. So he came up with an idea while working a cargo job at Heathrow Airport: “I saw them shipping animals. And I thought, well, if the dogs can survive it, I could.”
Mar 03

Criminal

read Episode 209: An Impossible Crime, Part 2 (3.3.2023) This episode continues where Episode 208 leaves off. In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from prison to a reporter at the Chicago Tribune named Steve Mills. Steve Mills spent months investigating before publishing a detailed examination of Daniel’s case as part of a series called “Cops and Confessions.” Daniel told us, “To have someone finally say that they believed me changed my whole life.”
Feb 24

Criminal

read Episode 208: An Impossible Crime (2.24.2023) Daniel Taylor was 17 years old when he was arrested for a 1992 double homicide in Chicago. He was charged alongside 7 other Black men. But Daniel had an alibi. He was in jail at the time of the murders.
Feb 17

Criminal

read Episode 207: Novak v. City of Parma (2.17.2023) In 2016, a man named Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page of his local police department. "I just thought, 'That would be funny.'" About a month later, he was arrested. Novak is now petitioning the Supreme Court, and the Onion submitted an Amicus Brief in support of his case. Their brief is written as a parody of an Amicus Brief.
Feb 03

Criminal

read Episode 206: The Feather Lady (2.3.2023) On October 4, 1960, Eastern Airlines Flight 375 took off from Boston’s Logan airport, and then, two minutes later, it crashed. 62 people died. Investigators couldn't figure out what had happened, and they decided to ask a scientist working at the Smithsonian for help. Roxie Laybourne's investigation helped launch a whole new field of science that changed aviation and forensics.
Jan 20

Criminal

read Episode 205: Sunset Mesa (1.20.2023) Debbie Schum waited a long time to receive the cremated ashes of her friend, LoraLee Johnson. When she did, she felt relieved to finally take them home with her. But then, she got a call from the FBI.
Jan 06

Criminal

read Episode 204: They Came for the Judges (1.6.2023) When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August of 2021, they unlocked the prisons and freed prisoners, some of whom sought revenge on the women judges who convicted them.
Dec 16, 2022

Criminal

read Episode 203: Dog in the Bed, Cat in the Bag, Camel on the Golf Course (12.16.22) Stories of animals really going for it.

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