Criminal
Vox Media Podcast Network
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Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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MAR 24, 2023
Episode 212: The Fasting Cure
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.
47 MIN
MAR 17, 2023
Episode 211: Crazy Eddie
The rise and fall of Crazy Eddie, a discount electronics chain store famous in the 1970s and 80s for its commercials.
39 MIN
MAR 10, 2023
Episode 210: Out of the Box
In 1964, Reg Spiers couldn’t afford a plane ticket home to Australia from England, so he came up with another way to get there: “I saw them shipping animals. And I thought, well, if the dogs can survive it, I could.”
44 MIN
MAR 3, 2023
Episode 209: An Impossible Crime, Part 2
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.”
44 MIN
FEB 24, 2023
Episode 208: An Impossible Crime
Daniel Taylor was 17 years old when he was arrested for a 1992 double homicide in Chicago. He was charged alongside seven other Black men. But Daniel had an alibi. He was in jail at the time of the murders.
37 MIN
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