Secret Agent Man: Garrison Courtney
It's pretty brazen to pose as a super secret spy guy in order to hustle up some phony government contracts. You have to convince folks that you are a man of mystery, an agent operating at the most cla...
22 Aug 202459min
"Forget it, Sheik... it's ABSCAM"
Just a few years after Watergate, the halls of power of Washington DC were again stained with fresh scandal. A busload of sitting US congressmen were caught up in an FBI sting operation, one run by a ...
20 Aug 202459min
No Whammies…Ever: Michael Larson
The game show Press Your Luck was an 80s fan favorite. And the biggest fan? Michael Larson. He studied the show for weeks, finding the weaknesses and plotting his attack. Heading out to Hollywood, he ...
15 Aug 202453min
Somebody Call An Arborist!: Tree Killers
Maybe you’re looking to get back at someone. Maybe that fine root structure is standing in the way of your upcoming financial boon. Or maybe you don’t like the cut of that tree’s xylem and phloem. Wha...
13 Aug 202458min
Undercover Newton: William Chaloner
Sometimes the best way to make money is to literally make money. William Chaloner, a total dirtbag, made his living minting phony coins and framing his co-conspirators for all manner of crimes. That w...
8 Aug 202452min
The Fall of Nixon: When the Smoking Gun Goes Blam!
For two long years, President Richard Nixon tried to cover-up a break-in at the Watergate Hotel. Nixon's Cold War spy buddies had engineered a plan to embarrass the Democrats but then when they got ca...
6 Aug 202458min
Needs More Turkeys: Lothar Malskat
Don't you hate it when you learn to restore masterworks of art, but then you kind of mess one up, and then you just paint a new one and call it old, but then it's full of anachronisms, and then everyo...
1 Aug 202456min
"Two Gun Hart": The Lawman With the Big Secret!
He was a famous lawman of the disappearing west, a Prohibition agent who dressed like a Wild West cowboy. The newspapermen loved him, the locals adored him, the bootleggers and moonshiners feared him....
30 Jul 202457min
