Nucky Johnson: The Real Atlantic City Boss Who Never Fired a Shot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Enoch L. Johnson stepped out of a powder blue limousine in a raccoon coat with a fresh red carna...
10 Okt 23min
The Mosquito: How Earth's Deadliest Animal Hunts You Down
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The deadliest animal on the planet is not a shark or a tiger. It is an insect whose name means l...
10 Okt 19min
The Miranda Warning: What TV Cops Get Wrong About Your Rights
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Television taught everyone the script: handcuffs click, the officer recites the right to remain ...
10 Okt 25min
Meyer Lansky: The Mob's Accountant and His Missing Millions
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For nearly 50 years the FBI chased Meyer Lansky as the financial mastermind of the American synd...
10 Okt 20min
John Doe: The 700-Year Biography of the Law's Most Famous Phantom
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Doe was never a person. He was a workaround. In the rigid common law courts of medieval Eng...
10 Okt 20min
Mathieu Orfila: The Father of Toxicology and the Arsenic Trials
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 19th century Europe, arsenic was the poisoner's weapon of choice. It was cheap, sold to...
10 Okt 20min
Luminol: The Chemistry Behind the Blue Glow at Crime Scenes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On television, detectives mist a spotless room, kill the lights, and a hidden crime scene glows ...
10 Okt 21min
Lucky Luciano: The Mobster Who Ran Organized Crime Like a Company
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On April 15th, 1931, a man playing cards with crime boss Joe Masseria in a Coney Island restaura...
10 Okt 22min
