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Criminalia

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 246

Humans have always committed crimes. What can we learn from the criminals and crimes of the past, and have humans gotten better or worse over time?

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🇫🇷 France - trueCrime
24/01/2025
#97
🇫🇷 France - trueCrime
12/01/2025
#93
🇨🇦 Canada - trueCrime
02/01/2025
#97
🇨🇦 Canada - trueCrime
26/12/2024
#94
🇨🇦 Canada - trueCrime
19/12/2024
#92
🇨🇦 Canada - trueCrime
18/12/2024
#95

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The 'Last of America's Classic Train Robbers' Weren't Train Robbers at All

Season 14 · Episode 20

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 • Duration 23:21

“Two gaudily-dressed 'Brooklyn cowboys' attempted a desert train robbery”, reported the Associated Press on November 25, 1937. Henry Loftus and Harry Donaldson have been referred to as, "the last of America's classic train robbers," but the pair weren't professional criminals. This is the story of two men who wanted their lives to be like those they read about in Western-dime novels – but didn't realize they were decades too late.

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Prohibition Outlaws: The Rise and Fall of the Kimes-Terrill Gang

Season 14 · Episode 19

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 • Duration 24:43

Led by Matthew Kimes and Ray Terrill, the Kimes–Terrill Gang were known for successfully pulling off some very high-profile bank robberies -- but they may have been better known for their daring prison escapes. In the lore of their gang it's said that each member swore a blood oath promising to free other members from their prison cells – even if it meant they, themselves, were apprehended or killed while trying to spring a fellow associate. While that may be just part of their legend, it does very much seem to be true when you hear their story. Prison, say modern historians, was nothing more than, quote, “just another occupational hazard.”

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The Story of Suburban Chicago Booksellers and Bank Robbers, Jeff and Jill Erickson

Season 14 · Episode 10

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 • Duration 27:35

On January 9, 1990, a bank robber nicknamed the Bearded Bandit entered the First Nationwide Bank in Wilmette, Illinois, disguised with a false beard, a baseball cap, dark sunglasses, and driving gloves. He carried a gun and police radio scanner, and threatened bank employees that he'd, ”blow their brains out.” While he collected from the vault, his wife prepared their getaway. The Ericksons, a husband-and-wife bank robbing duo, committed a series of armed robberies in the Chicago area in 1990 andd 1991. And when it ended, it was in a dramatic and desperate way.

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Ann O'Delia Diss Debar, Spirit Princess and Worst Woman In The World

Season 9 · Episode 7

Tuesday, February 21, 2023 • Duration 46:33

Ann O'Delia Diss Debar was a medium and a fortune teller who was once described by the famous performer Harry Houdini as, quote, “one of the most extraordinary fake mediums and mystery swindlers the world has ever known.” She made her name -- well, her many names -- as a spiritualist with occult powers, but she was 100 percent fraud. And from 1870 to 1910, she bilked people for millions of dollars around the world.

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Lonely Hearts: 'They're Not Your Honey if They're Asking for Money'

Season 9 · Episode 6

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 • Duration 26:43

Back in the mid-20th century, a widow named Susanna Mildred Hill began placing newspaper ads posing as a much younger woman looking for love. Once she had fraudulently won the affection of hundreds of pen pals, she asked each for a gift of money -- and she successfully did so for years. Known as the Lonely Hearts Scam, this con continues to be big criminal business. We're going to talk about romance scams, and how to keep yourself safe from falling for it.

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William A. Rockefeller Sr.: The Vagabond Lothario of the Family

Season 9 · Episode 5

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 • Duration 38:31

Bill Rockefeller Sr. once bragged that he taught his sons about business by swindling them: "I trade with the boys and skin 'em. I want to make 'em sharp.” But the Rockefeller name and money were established not by Bill, but by his eldest son, John D. Rockefeller Sr., who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. Bill, himself, had no interest in things like family or work. He liked to roam, and created a career on the road, peddling worthless trinkets and miracle elixirs. This is the story of the thorn in the side of the Rockefeller family.

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'May I Borrow Your Watch?': William Thompson, America's Original Confidence Man

Season 9 · Episode 4

Tuesday, January 31, 2023 • Duration 27:04

William Thompson certainly was not the first person involved in the con game. We can assume people have been tricking and cheating each other likely since there were people to trick and cheat. We really don’t know a whole lot about William’s life. He just sort of pops up in the historical record when he starts getting noticed around the streets of New York City -- which, as you might imagine, is not good for the con business. He may have been small time, but he was the guy responsible for helping coin the term, confidence man -- or con man.

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Bertha Heyman: America's 'Confidence Queen'

Season 9 · Episode 3

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 • Duration 33:43

Legendary New York City police detective Thomas F. Byrnes once described Bertha Heyman as "one of the smartest confidence women in America." And she was considered among New York City police to be, “the boldest and most expert of the many female adventuresses who infested the country” at the close of the 19th century. Let's meet this so-called Confidence Queen.

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Dr. Albert Abrams and His Oscilloclast: Charlatan or Visionary

Season 9 · Episode 2

Tuesday, January 17, 2023 • Duration 32:09

His medical contemporaries once considered him to be a "clever, money-mad neuropath." But what makes Dr. Albert Abrams a bit different than other charlatans we’ll meet this season is that though he was dismissed within the medical community for quackery in his time, he probably wasn’t a guy running a con – at least not on purpose.

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Madame Rachel: the Victorian Swindler Who Sold Bogus Beauty

Season 9 · Episode 1

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 • Duration 31:03

Their crimes may vary, but con artists have this one thing in common: the power of persuasion to take advantage of people. And in this episode, we’re talking about how one woman known as Madame Rachel took advantage of Victorian high society with her pricey promises of eternal youth.

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