Criminalia

Mary Baker adopted a disguise that she hoped would make her more interesting to those she considered commoners. She became Princess Caraboo, a fictional royal pretending to come from the far far away ...

20 Apr 202129min

Maria Trimarchi and Holly Frey are back with season three of Criminalia! Tune in for the new season starting April 20.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omn...

13 Apr 20212min

We were curious if some historical stalking crimes would seem different today, and whether any of these stalkers would emerge as, perhaps, sympathetic characters. What we found was that yes, a modern ...

13 Apr 202137min

When Cristin Keleher broke into George Harrison's Maui estate, she ate frozen pizza, did a load of laundry, and called her mother. Two weeks later, Michael Abram broke into Harrison's Friar Park estat...

6 Apr 202125min

Olga “Janina,” a protofeminist and Polish pianist, was known for stalking Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Franz’s name may or may not ring a bell, but he was recognized as a musical “rockstar” during ...

30 Mar 202133min

Adele Hugo (1830-1915) was the youngest child of Victor Hugo, a major French writer of the Romantic era. She also was known for stalking a British officer known as Lieutenant Albert Pinson in the mid-...

16 Mar 202129min

Jane Bigelow (1829-1889) goes down in history as a socialite who once stalked the great English writer Charles Dickens.   As the “Oliver Twist” author toured the U.S. in the late 1860s, Jane displayed...

9 Mar 202137min

Mary Ann Evans, better known under the pseudonym George Eliot (1819-1880), was a major Victorian novelist and poet. As her popularity grew, so did her admirers.    Two in particular - Alexander Main a...

2 Mar 202130min