Criminalia
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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Violin Virtuoso Fritz Kreisler's Great Musical Hoax

Violin Virtuoso Fritz Kreisler's Great Musical Hoax

Virtuoso Fritz Kreisler was known and is remembered for his artistry as a violinist and composer -- and, also, as an unashamed showman. He was one of the most beloved and best known of the early recor...

3 Loka 202321min

League of Lady Poisoners:  Interview with author Lisa Perrin

League of Lady Poisoners: Interview with author Lisa Perrin

Things are a little different on today's episode of our show. Today we're talking to Lisa Perrin, an award-winning illustrator, designer and entrepreneur. Lisa stops by to chat about her new book, “Le...

26 Syys 202329min

Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati: Legendary Philatelic 'Artist'

Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati: Legendary Philatelic 'Artist'

Millions of people around the world collect, preserve, and trade or sell postage stamps; the hobby, or investment, is known as, philately. The first stamp forgeries began to show up, well, when the fi...

19 Syys 202325min

The Nicotra Forgeries

The Nicotra Forgeries

Some historians believe Italian forger Tobia Nicotra may have produced hundreds of document and signature forgeries attributed to names like Mozart and Galileo, before he was caught in the 1930s. He f...

12 Syys 202325min

'Lincoln the Lover': The Wilma Frances Minor Collection

'Lincoln the Lover': The Wilma Frances Minor Collection

Wilma Minor's 'Lincoln the Lover' forgery has been called one of the most audacious literary hoaxes of all time, and involves an alleged love story between a young Abraham Lincoln and a woman named An...

5 Syys 202336min

Joseph Cosey: 'Yrs. Truly, A. Lincoln'

Joseph Cosey: 'Yrs. Truly, A. Lincoln'

It's said his own handwriting was a neat and graceful script, not unlike Abraham Lincoln’s. He could fake the hand of Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Baker Eddy, and dozens of other historical figures. In fact,...

29 Elo 202339min

The Fake Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fake Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

On Valentine's Day of 1961, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had to, for the very first time, announce they were housing a fake. Three fakes, actually. After nearly three decades as a prized...

22 Elo 202335min

Han van Meegeren's Fake Vermeers

Han van Meegeren's Fake Vermeers

Dutch painter Han van Meegeren has often been described as a dapper man, with, quote, “a small, birdlike frame constantly aflutter, and irreverent sense of humor.” His life story is anything but small...

15 Elo 202331min

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