Swappin' Dead Presidents: The Emancipation of Abraham Lincoln's Corpse
In 1876, a small time gang plotted to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. He'd been dead eleven years, but they didn't let that stop them. They planned to trade the late leader's body for their imprisoned counter...
14 Kesä 202258min
Watch the Throne: The Case of the Missing Gold Toilet
In 2016, the artist Maurizio Cattelan created a masterpiece: a solid goild toilet. After a successful exhibition in New York, the commode was shown in the UK. It was there that the loo went adieu. Who...
9 Kesä 202247min
The Yeti Hand: a Film Star, a Relic, and Underpants
What do you get when you mix an obsession with cryptids, money to burn, Buddhist monks, geopolitics, relic theft, lingerie, and Jimmy Stewart? You get this ridiculous tale.See omnystudio.com/listener ...
7 Kesä 202251min
Captured Coin Con Consults Convicts Craving Corrections Cover
Michael Sabo was a classic con man. He posed as a respectable doctor, he wrote phony checks, he stole coins, and he misled trusting people. And what does a classic con man do after getting caught? Tur...
2 Kesä 202246min
The Taser, The Tupperware Salesman and the Stolen Stradivarius
An amateur art thief conspires with a barber/part-time “Tupperware consultant” named Universal Knowledge Allah to steal a multimillion dollar Stradivarius violin; it’s step one of the thief’s Robin Ho...
31 Touko 202258min
You've Got Mail: Ridiculous Crime Listeners Chime In
We get a LOT of correspondence here at RC HQ, and the time has come to share it with the world. Suggestions! Confessions! Campfire Tales! Requests! Guitars! Turkeys! Manhunts! Duct Tape! Y'all are a f...
26 Touko 202245min
Rose Marie and Joyce (Jocelyn?): the IRL Thelma & Louise
It was the ‘90s, just before the internet went big, the perfect moment for two gals to turn outlaw, robbing men from Texas to Vegas. While on the run they were spotted hiding as nurses, strippers and ...
24 Touko 202236min
Drop 'Em!: The Strange Tale of the Pretty Pants Bandit
A dame. A real looker. A minx with a gun demanding all the cash in the register. This was a woman straight out of a film noir. Except this gal's m.o. was a little unusual: your money or your pants, mi...
19 Touko 202248min
