Titanic and The Brain
One was a man of action, an incredible athlete who was always ready with an outsized proposition bet, like wagering if he could throw a peanut across Times Square; the other man was a walking calculat...
13 Sep 20221h 1min
The Best Worst Imposter: Edgar Laplante
Edgar Laplante tried it all: pretending to be a Native American chief, pretending to be a famous athlete, pretending to be a war hero, pretending to be in love with a noblewoman. While not always a ve...
8 Sep 20221h 2min
Sorry, Not Sorry: Corey Worthington and his Sunglasses Throw a Party
It hits every American 80s movie trope: parents go out of town, teen boy throws party, party gets out of control. Except this time it became a global sensation and wound up inspiring its own movie. An...
6 Sep 202246min
The Mayor of Favor Town: Buddy Cianci
You run for mayor of a large American city. You get elected. You commit a felony. You resign. You run again for mayor of that same large American city. You get elected. You commit another felony. You ...
1 Sep 202251min
Rob Bank, Write Book… Make Big, Big Money?
Dubbed the “Bank Robbery of the Century,” the daring break-in at a castle-style bank in the French Riviera town of Nice shocked the world — but it was the fact that the burglars from the heist team ke...
30 Aug 202251min
Ocean's Ten: The Baker Street Robbery
Brian "The Guv'nor" Reader met his criminal downfall with the Hatton Garden Heist. But that wasn't his first attempt at breaking into a vault. Decades before, he and a crack crew dug a tunnel in searc...
25 Aug 202243min
“Hands Up!” The Ballad of Bank-robbing Folk Hero, Billy Miner AKA the Gentleman Bandit
He spent the majority of his life behind bars, but when he was free he made his time count, robbing stage coaches and trains and traveling the world on stolen booty — meet Billy Miner, outlaw folk her...
23 Aug 20221h 3min
It's a Country if We Say So: The Island Nation of Sealand
What started as a spot for a pirate radio station blossomed into a whole country. At least to the people who lived there. But the founding of any nation is full of strife, crime, and ridiculousness. W...
18 Aug 202257min
