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Criminalia — 279 episodes
Farewell, From Criminalia, and Thanks for All the Crime
'America': The Stolen Golden Toilet
Mayhem, Madness, and Marshmallow the Bunny: When the World Lost Its Mind Over Beanie Babies
Piano 'Movers' Play a Felonious Tune
California Nut Crimes: Nuts Cases Can Be Difficult to Crack
Opening the Lid on Manhole Cover Capers
Big Syrup': The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: THE GENTLEMEN ROBBER
The Guillotine's First Victim: French Highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier
Tom Cox: The 'Handsome' Highwayman Who Robbed the King's Jester
Jonathan Wild: The Thief-Taker or Thief? Or Both?
Juraj Jánošík: How a Slovak Bandit Became a National Hero
William Davis: Farmer by Day, Highwayman by Night
The Life and Death of the Laughing Highwayman: Jerry Abershawe
The First and Final Crimes of Jocelin Harwood
The Tale of Highway Robber William Spiggot and His Death
Scoop: John Nevison Was Not Dick Turpin and Dick Turpin Was Not John Nevison
The Adventures of Robber Lewis: Counterfeiter/Robber/Jailbreaker
Joan and Edward: The Bonnie and Clyde of Highway Robbery
Not Every Tom, Dick, and Harry Were Highwaymen; But These Were
Claude Duval: The First Gallant Highwayman
Lady Ferrers: An Heiress Turned Highwaywoman
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: COLD CASES
The Tragedy That Inspired AMBER Alerts
A Tennis Tragedy: The Murder of Andrea Buchanan
The Unsolved Murder of Jean Townsend
Cleveland's 'Torso Murders': Who Was the 'Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run'?
Who Killed the Sheriff Who Killed Billy the Kid?
The Mysterious Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce
The Phantom Killer: The Unsolved Texarkana Moonlight Murders
The Death of Robert Pakington: England's First Murder By Gun
The Lovers' Lane Murders of Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills
The Murder of Mabel Greenwood
Elma Sands and the Manhattan Well Murder
Who Shot Belle Starr, Outlaw Queen of the Old West?
The Chicago Tylenol Murders and Their Aftermath
Was Jeannette DePalma's Death an Occult Sacrifice, a Crime of Opportunity, or Something Else?
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: PARTNERS IN CRIME
The 'Last of America's Classic Train Robbers' Weren't Train Robbers at All
Prohibition Outlaws: The Rise and Fall of the Kimes-Terrill Gang
Serial Killers on the American Frontier: "Big" and "Little" Harpe
Samuel Green and William Ash, the 'Terrors of New England'
The Reluctant Blanche Barrow: Bonnie Wasn't the Only Dame in Clyde Barrow's Gang
Where Prohibition-era Gangsters Went to Hide: The Farmer's Farm
The Black Widows of Liverpool: Sisters Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins
The Trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Did Mary Blandy Know the 'Love Powder' She Gave Her Father Was Arsenic?
Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn and Their Depression-Era Kidnappings
The Story of Suburban Chicago Booksellers and Bank Robbers, Jeff and Jill Erickson
Public Enemies No. 1 and 2: Bank Robbers Bennie and Stella Dickson vs. the G-Men
Lester Brockelhurst and Bernice Felton and the 'Crime Tourist' Murders
How Her Illicit Love Letters Got Edith Thompson Hanged for a Murder
The Disappearance of Ted Cole and Ralph Roe From Alcatraz: Dead or Alive?
The Black Widow Murders: The Story of Septuagenarian Killers Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt
Paid Hitmen Stephen Caracappa + Louis Eppolito Were Also NYPD Detectives
Ray and Faye Copeland: America's Oldest Serial Killers
The Day the DeAutremont Brothers Bungled the Robbery of Southern Pacific Train No. 13
The Lonely Hearts Killers Lured Single Women to Their Death
Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: PARTNERS IN CRIME
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'
Pinkham's Cure for 'Female Complaints' and Other Remedies for Women
Angelo Mariani's Cocaïne Wine : Vin Tonique Mariani à la Coca de Pérou
Harry Lewis Kramer: The Ad Man Who Marketed Medicine As Candy
The Shakers: America's Early Pharmacists
Who Really Made the Real ‘Daffy’s Elixir’ and What Was Really In It?
What Happened When – and After -- Dr. S. Andral Kilmer Founded His Laboratory and Remedy Company
Herbert E. Bucklen, Patent Medicine and 'Axle Grease Salesman'
Patent Medicine Evolution: No Beer? ‘Let Them Drink Sarsaparilla’
‘EAT! EAT! EAT!’ Fat ‘Banished’ With Tapeworm Diet
‘A Niagara of Curls’: The Story of the Seven Sutherland Sisters
Asthma and Smoking: When Cigarettes Were Medicine
That Time Perry Davis Trademarked ‘Pain Killer’ and Then Took It Global
How the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Had Nothing to Do With 'American Indians' or 'Medicine'
‘Where Sick Folks Get Well’: Norman Baker Couldn’t Cure Cancer. Period.
Spoiler! Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People … May Have Worked
Radioactive Quackery: 'Doctor' Bailey and His Jaw-Dissolving ‘Energy Drink’
How Perkins Tractors Taught Us the Placebo Effect
Madame Yale Made a Fortune as America’s 19th-century ‘Wellness Guru’
How ‘Rattlesnake King’ Clark Stanley Became King of Snake Oil Sales
Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'BLACKMAILERS'
When Blackmail Accidentally Uncovers Political Corruption
Duke of York and Mary Anne Clarke
The Story of Walter Minx, the Sears Extortionist and His Homemade Submarine
Blackmail Fail: What Happened When George Ratterman Reformed 'Sin City of the South'
Inheritance Lost: The Murder of Captain Joseph White
‘Acid Burns’: That Time Mae West Was Blackmailed, Know What I Mean? See?
Why Charles Augustus Howell Was Called the Worst Man in Victorian London
A Murder, a Letter, and the Questions Surrounding King Edward II’s Death
How Emily Posts' Philandering Husband Was the Catalyst for Her Career Success
‘Publish and Be Damned!’; and, Harriette Wilson Did
Horrific Murderer and Half-Hearted Blackmailer: Meet Dr. Cream
How Constance Kopp Become New Jersey's First 'Plucky Girl Sheriff'
Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: THE BLACKMAILERS
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'FORGERS'
The Mechanical 'Turk': Wouldn't You Prefer a Good Game Of Chess?
The Calaveras Skull: The Practical Joke That Almost Changed Human Evolution
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Truth Behind the 'Cottingley Fairies'
Fake! The Story of Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes Literary Hoax
The Tiara of Saitaphernes: How Much Art in Museums Is Not What It Seems?
False Impressions: Frederic Spitzer and His Master Forgers
To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare: The Forgeries of William-Henry Ireland
Eugène Boban and the Real Story of the Crystal Skulls
Alceo Dossena: The Forger Who Sued the Men Who Sold His Forgeries
Violin Virtuoso Fritz Kreisler's Great Musical Hoax
League of Lady Poisoners: Interview with author Lisa Perrin
Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati: Legendary Philatelic 'Artist'
The Nicotra Forgeries
'Lincoln the Lover': The Wilma Frances Minor Collection
Joseph Cosey: 'Yrs. Truly, A. Lincoln'
The Fake Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Han van Meegeren's Fake Vermeers
Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: The Forgers
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'Firebugs'
Stories of Arson as Homicide in Medieval Scandinavia
Meet James Aitken, Patriot Sympathizer and Dockyard Incendiarist
The Execution of Rose Butler
All the Times San Francisco Burned Down During the Gold Rush
Firefighter Firebugs: The Small but Impactful Phenomenon
'Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning': New York City in the 1970s
The Drunken Night When Alexander the Great Burned Persepolis
The Night Herostratus Destroyed One of the Seven Wonders of the World
The Dramatic Life and Death of a Scuba-Clad Arsonist: Michael Marin
Les Pétroleuses: 'Savage Hordes of She-Devils'
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'Confidence Artists'
Welcome to Season 10 of Criminalia: THE FIREBUGS
Famous Landmarks for 'Sale': For You? Half Price.
Leo Koretz and the Bayano River Syndicate
Inheritance Cons: Meet the Bakers and the 'Drakers'
There’s Something About Mary -- But It’s Not Royal Blood
How “Dr.” Samuel Bennett Became the 'King of the Thimbles'
The So-Called 'Dr.' Blood and His 'Oxygenized Air' Cure
The Legend of Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith, Uncrowned King of Skagway
The Miners Who Fooled Millionaires: The Great Diamond Hoax
Sarah Emily Howe and the Ladies' Deposit Company
Reed C. Waddell and the Goldbrick Game
'Cazique' Gregor MacGregor, the Man Who Fabricated a Country
Lord Gordon-Gordon, the Robber of Robber-Barons
Ann O'Delia Diss Debar, Spirit Princess and Worst Woman In The World
Lonely Hearts: 'They're Not Your Honey if They're Asking for Money'
William A. Rockefeller Sr.: The Vagabond Lothario of the Family
'May I Borrow Your Watch?': William Thompson, America's Original Confidence Man
Bertha Heyman: America's 'Confidence Queen'
Dr. Albert Abrams and His Oscilloclast: Charlatan or Visionary
Madame Rachel: the Victorian Swindler Who Sold Bogus Beauty
Welcome to the Season 8 Finale of Criminalia: The Artnappers
EWelcome to Season 9 of Criminalia: The Art of the Con
The Night the Nazi’s Stole Michelangelo’s Mask of a Faun
The Day the Dalí Escaped From Prison
Small Talk With Mo Rocca: 'Mobituaries' and Perspective on Historical Crimes
The Legend of The Horses of St. Mark’s
The Ghent Altarpiece: Chasing the Lost 'Just Judges' Panel
EThe Skylight Caper: Canada's Biggest Unsolved Art Heist
EWho Was Jacob de Gheyn III and Why Do People Keep Stealing His Portrait?
Title Who Really Stole Goya's 'The Duke'?
The Day Polish Pirates Pinched the Last Judgment
The Heist That Turned the Mona Lisa Into a Star
The Time 5 Thieves Paid an Entrance Fee to Steal 9 Paintings
Did the Sicilian Mafia Really Feed Caravaggio’s Nativity to the Pigs?
Welcome to Season 8 of Criminalia: THE ARTNAPPERS
Welcome to the Season 7 Finale of Criminalia: The Treasonists
Kōtoku Shūsui Wasn't Part of the Kōtoku Incident; Or Was He?
No Comment From the Bug House: When Ezra Pound Was Charged With Treason
Will the Real Sidney Reilly Please Stand Up?
John Brown: The First American to Hang for Treason
Lavrentiy Beria, the Chief of Stalin's Secret Police Who Was Executed as a Traitor
The Political and Rebellious Life of Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox
The Complicity of Magdalena Rudenschöld in the Armfelt Conspiracy
The Execution of Mary Surratt
Chidiock Tichborne: The Poet Who Fell in With a Regicidal Crowd
The United States v. Douglas Chandler: America's ‘Lord Haw-Haw’
'Down With the Coal Barons!': When the Red Neck Army Went to War
Thomas Dorr and the Time When Rhode Island Had 2 Governors
Vice President Aaron Burr and the Burr Conspiracy
Welcome to Season 7 of Criminalia: THE TREASONISTS
Welcome to the Season 6 Finale of Criminalia
How Andreas Vesalius Proved Women Have Just as Many Teeth as Men
Dr. Joseph Warren: American Revolutionist and Secret Spunker
Lead By Crime Boss James “Big Jim” Kennally
Meet the So-Called Night Doctors: Chris Baker and Grandison Harris
William Cunningham, the Ghoul of Cincinnati
Cranioklepty, Skulduggery, and the Time of Phrenology
Meet John Hunter, the Patron Saint of Body Snatchers
Burke, Hare, and the Anatomy Murders of Edinburgh
William Jansen, a King Among Ghouls
The Body-Snatching ‘Borough Gang’ of London
Welcome to Season 6 of Criminalia: The Resurrectionists
Welcome to the Season 5 Finale of Criminalia: Top 3s
Defamation and the Devil: False Accusations of Witchcraft
April Fools' Day: Did Alchemy Prank the Modern Sciences?
Aristotle, al-Fārābī, and the Dawn of Arabic Alchemy
Agnes Sampson and the Plot to Assassinate the King
How Mary the Jewess Helped Your Hollandaise
Dee, John Dee: Codename 007?
Theoris of Lemnos, and the Criminalization of Magic
Did Mother Shipton Predict the Internet?
The Tale of William Butler and the Fake Philosopher’s Stone
The Extreme and Brutal Pappenheimer Witch Trial
Georg Honauer and the Counterfeit Gold
Matteuccia di Francesco: The Woman Who Could Fly
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, the 'Scientific Swindler'
Agnes Waterhouse and Her Cat, Satan
Stedelen: Swiss Sorcerer or Village Scapegoat?
Ursula Kemp and the St Osyth Witches
Welcome to Season 5 of Criminalia: Witches and Alchemists
Season 4 Finale: Walking the Plank
The Unrepentant and Really Good Pirate, Charles Vane
Lioness of Brittany: Jeanne de Clisson and Her Bloodthirsty Revenge
Sayyida al-Hurra, the Muslim Pirate Queen
A Pirate’s Life for Gentleman Stede Bonnet
Meet Lady Killigrew, the Aristocratic Pirate
Fab Four: The Only Real Female Pirates of the Golden Age
Trick or Treat: A Pirate in Sheep's Clothing
Was Sir Francis Drake Just In It For Revenge?
Captain Henry Every: The Pirate Who Got Away With It
The Tale Of The Barbarossa Brothers
Was Lagertha the Female Viking Pirate Real?
Rachel Wall: New England’s Only 'Lady' Pirate
Pirate Talk And Other Falsehoods About Pirates
Queen Teuta the Untameable
Grace O’Malley: The Sea Queen of Connacht
Season Finale: The Greatest Imposters of All
The Pseudo-Nero: When One Nero Isn't Enough
Welcome to Season 4 of Criminalia: Pirates
When Norway's Infamous 'False Margaret' Claimed the Throne
How Frederick Emerson Peters Charmed the Rich and Naive
Princess or Pretender? The Curious Story of Princess Olive of Cumberland
False Dmitry: False, or Heir to the Russian Throne?
Was Queen Elizabeth I a Man?
Frédéric Bourdin: The Chameleon from Nantes
Stephen Weinberg: The Man With So Many Aliases We Couldn't Count Them All
Will the Real Anastasia Romanov Please Stand Up?
Was Perkin Warbeck a 'Sham' Duke, or the Real Thing?
A Victorian Mystery: Was Arthur Orton the Tichborne Claimant?
Elizabeth 'Betty' Bigley: The Lady of the Hypnotic Eye
FRED DEMARA, Known for His 'Rascality, Pure Rascality'
Barry Bremen, 'The Great Imposter': No Guts, No Glory
Christian Gerhartsreiter: The Man They Called 'Crockefeller'
Meet the Real 'Wolf of Wall Street': David Lamar
Who Wears the Pants? Sarah Emma Edmonds, That's Who
I know You're a Fraud, But What Am I?
Every Breath You Take: The Season of Stalkers
EWelcome to Season 3 of Criminalia: Imposters
My Guitar Gently Weeps: George Harrison's Stalkers
EOlga Janina: “La Cosaque”
EAdele Hugo: “La Misérable”
EJane Bigelow: “The Bigelow Terror”
Alexander Main and Edith Simcox: The Passionate Worshipers
EGeorgiana Fane: “The High Society Stalker”
ELéa-Anna B.: King George V’s Admirer
EErotomania: Stalking for Love
EEdward Jones: “The First Celebrity Stalker”
ELady Caroline Lamb: “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know”
ERufus Griswold: Poe’s Petty Stalker
EArsenic and ... Arsenic: Criminalia's Season 1 Final Episode
"The Poisoner's Handbook" with Author Deborah Blum Pt. 2
"The Poisoner's Handbook" with Author Deborah Blum Pt. 1
Amy Archer-Gilligan: Sometimes Predators Look Like Pious Grandmas
Mary Ann Cotton: 'She's Dead and She's Rotten'
Belle Gunness: Comely Widow Who Wants You to Stay Forever
Hieronyma Spara and Her Secret Society of Poisoners
Bertha Gifford: Angel of Mercy or Good Samaritan?
Velma Barfield: Death Row Granny or Just Mama Margie?
Locusta: Ancient Assassin-for-Hire
Lucrezia Borgia: Depraved Murderess, or Political Pawn?
Lydia Sherman: Connecticut's 'Lucrezia Borgia'
Yes, You CAN Drink Charcoal: Happy Halloween From Criminalia
Roberta Elder, Atlanta’s Rare Black Female Serial Killer
Did 'Sally Arsenic' Really Poison Her Family?
La Voisin: Poisoner-for-Hire and Provider of Alleged Sorcery
Madam de Brinvilliers: The 'Wickedest Woman in the World'
Catherine de Medici: We Heard She Ate Babies for Breakfast
Marie Besnard: Undertaker's Best Friend?
Sally Bassett: Symbol of Resistance or Murderer?
Giulia Tofana: World's Most Dangerous Apothecary
Marie LaFarge: Pretty Little Poisoner
Julia Agrippina: Mother to Nero and Ambitious Broad
Tillie Klimek, the 'Black Widow' of Chicago
Introducing Criminalia Season 1: Lady Poisoners