Someone Could've Died! The Best-Ever College Football Pranks
There's Coach John Heisman, bacon grease, rivals Auburn vs. Georgia Tech and the train that nearly wrecked. There's LSU vs. Tulane and the hijacking of the mascot Mike the Tiger, a real live Bengal. T...
19 Aug 202553min
The Wheels on the CAN Bus: Car Hacks
Today's automobiles are brimming with technology. Most of the time, that's pretty cool. But it stops being cool when sneaky hackers breach the systems and have a field day. Those are crimes…ridiculous...
14 Aug 202552min
Pray For Them: Buddhists Monks Behaving Badly
Buddhist Monks are supposed to be exemplars of the faith. Yet these days there has been a recent slew of headlines wherein the monks and abbots of temples have been caught in sextortion scandals and h...
12 Aug 202554min
The Original Child Star: Jackie Coogan
In the early days of Hollywood, Jackie Coogan made a splash playing a lovable waif in Charlie Chaplin's silent film, The Kid. His groundbreaking performance made him a ton of money. Or rather, it shou...
7 Aug 202550min
Doing Crime to Prove You're Innocent: the Han Van Meegeren Story
He was trained to be a fine art painter. Early on, he was considered “gifted.” But times change, tastes change, and the art world moves on...Han Van Meegeren wanted his revenge for being left behind. ...
5 Aug 202552min
Call of the Wild: Plant Crimes
We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion-year-old carbon. And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. Unless, of course, you're there to scam or steal. In that case, stay out of the garde...
31 Jul 202554min
Close But No Cigar: The Nearly Perfect Dunbar Heist of 1997
It was meticulously planned, it was executed brilliantly, their alibis were unimpeachable, their getaway plan was flawless, and their money laundering scheme a thing of beauty. So then, what went wron...
29 Jul 202552min
Let Me Drive: Violet Charlesworth
When a fancy lady rolled into town, she captivated everyone. An heiress-elect, she was about to come into some serious cash, which was exciting! But then tragedy struck. And then mystery. And then dra...
24 Jul 202555min
