Criminal

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Criminal is a podcast about crime. Not so much the “if it bleeds, it leads,” kind of crime but something a little more complex. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. The show’s producers are full-time radio people, but Criminal is what we do when we go home at night. 

To contact the show's creators, email thisiscriminal@gmail.com.

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166 Pieces

Criminal is an award-winning podcast about crime. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.

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38 Pieces

Stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we make it up as we go along.


Pieces

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Working as a reporter for a TV station in New Hampshire, Kevin Flynn was covering the capture and arrest of a female serial killer named Sheila LaB...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 1
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What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her actions to PMS? We revisit the first use of the "PMS defense," in this country, b...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In March 1964, a 35-year-old African American woman named Johnnie Mae Chappell was walking along the side of the road in Jacksonville, Florida. Fou...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 10, 2014
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Crime victims are often put under the same scrutiny as the accused. Not only for their version of events, but sometimes for how they look and talk,...

Bought by KALH and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2014
  • Length: 17:23
  • Purchases: 2
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On April 13, 2014, former KKK member Frazier Glenn Cross pulled into a Jewish Community Center and ambushed a grandfather and grandson, killing bot...

Bought by KRCC-FM, WUNC, PRX Remix, and WEZU


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 14:13
  • Purchases: 4
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Four stories of people who have done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in-between.

Bought by WYSO, WUNC, Louisville Public Media, KOSU, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 7
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Every year for the past few years, tens of thousand of flytraps have gone missing – from the wild, from gardens, from nurseries. And, really, nobod...

Bought by KALH, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:00
  • Purchases: 3
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With the advent of the Inkjet printer, counterfeiting money became as simple as a trip to Staples. By the year 2000, there were 72 million of these...

Bought by XRAY.fm, New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 4
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There are plenty of things we don’t share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you’re both in the business of death.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 14:24
  • Purchases: 4
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For nearly a century we’ve been trying to read someone’s truthfulness by the way they act — through machine, or our own intuition. The police, the ...

Bought by ABC, KPIK-LP, 90.5 WESA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 4