Capers and Cocktails

Picture it: there was one minute left in Super Bowl forty-two. Tom Brady’s undefeated New England Patriots needed only one play to beat the New York Giants. On the third down, Giants quarterback Eli M...

9 Touko 202318min

Widely regarded as one of the greatest comedic artists of the screen, and indeed, one of the most important people in motion-picture history, Charlie Chaplin is a legend. Rising to fame in the era of ...

2 Touko 202311min

I’m sorry, but when I read this title, I knew, just knew, that this was a case for Capers & Cocktails. And, well, I’m just going to read it. That’s all you’re going to get before the intro. Sorry. Not...

25 Huhti 202313min

What happens when you mix a criminal, a bay window, and some unfortunately long shoe laces? Well, instead of a criminal who turns a house upside down, you will get, to our excitement and capers (& coc...

11 Huhti 20238min

The Great Train Robbery of 1855 shocked Victorian England to the very core. Despite the fact that over the same time period, at least a dozen other robberies took place, many of which had gotten the c...

4 Huhti 202318min

Today’s story has everything: speakeasies, rat poison, insurance schemes, a ‘Murder Trust,’ spoiled sardines, free drinks (naturally), taxi cabs, fruit vendors, freezing cold NYC temperatures, tainted...

28 Maalis 202326min

Today we hop back in history to 1998, and a crime that is massively overshadowed by another date in history, just three years later, at the same location. On January 14, 1998, thanks to some insider h...

14 Maalis 202314min

Today’s case is another story of a 'Leonardo da Vinci of mental manipulation.’ An American Thierry Tilly, my friends. Only this time, our villain was a person who was supposed to be there to help, a p...

7 Maalis 202320min