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04.07.

Criminal

read Episode 323: The Clearwater Monster (7.4.2025) 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.
27.06.

Criminal

read Episode 322: Uncle Harold (6.27.2025) 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.
20.06.

Criminal

read Episode 321: By Any Means Necessary (6.20.2025) 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.
13.06.

Criminal

read Episode 320: The Guru (6.13.2025) 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.
06.06.

Criminal

read Episode 319: Professor Quaalude (6.6.2025) John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duke and NYU, before surprising everyone with a series of increasingly bizarre crimes.
23.05.

Criminal

read Episode 318: Action Park (5.23.2025) “Anyone who went to Action Park understood you could get really messed up going there. It was part of why you wanted to go.”
16.05.

Criminal

read Episode 317: No Hint or Help (5.16.2025) In the 1950s, a new television quiz show premiered called Twenty One. But the first episode was a disaster — so the producers decided to try something.
09.05.

Criminal

read Episode 316: False Positive (5.9.2025) The night before she gave birth, Susan Horton had a salad for dinner. The next day, doctors told her she’d tested positive for opiates - and reported her to child welfare authorities.
02.05.

Criminal

read Episode 315: Tabatha (5.2.2025) When Tabatha Trammell was 50 years old, she started studying to become a doula — a support person for pregnant women. Today, most of her clients are incarcerated. She says she always tells them her own story when she meets them: “I went down that same road. But I'm here today. And I'm going to tell you how to navigate this prison system.”
25.04.

Criminal

read Episode 314: The Job (4.25.2025) Frank Thompson had to prepare his staff to perform Oregon's first lethal injection in three decades. They simulated each step of the process over and over and over.

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