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Farewell, From Criminalia, and Thanks for All the Crime

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'America': The Stolen Golden Toilet

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Mayhem, Madness, and Marshmallow the Bunny: When the World Lost Its Mind Over Beanie Babies

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Piano 'Movers' Play a Felonious Tune

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California Nut Crimes: Nuts Cases Can Be Difficult to Crack

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Opening the Lid on Manhole Cover Capers

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Big Syrup': The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: THE GENTLEMEN ROBBER

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The Guillotine's First Victim: French Highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier

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Tom Cox: The 'Handsome' Highwayman Who Robbed the King's Jester

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Jonathan Wild: The Thief-Taker or Thief? Or Both?

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Juraj Jánošík: How a Slovak Bandit Became a National Hero

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William Davis: Farmer by Day, Highwayman by Night

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The Life and Death of the Laughing Highwayman: Jerry Abershawe

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The First and Final Crimes of Jocelin Harwood

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The Tale of Highway Robber William Spiggot and His Death

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Scoop: John Nevison Was Not Dick Turpin and Dick Turpin Was Not John Nevison

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The Adventures of Robber Lewis: Counterfeiter/Robber/Jailbreaker

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Joan and Edward: The Bonnie and Clyde of Highway Robbery

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Not Every Tom, Dick, and Harry Were Highwaymen; But These Were

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Claude Duval: The First Gallant Highwayman

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Lady Ferrers: An Heiress Turned Highwaywoman

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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: COLD CASES

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The Tragedy That Inspired AMBER Alerts

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A Tennis Tragedy: The Murder of Andrea Buchanan

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The Unsolved Murder of Jean Townsend

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Cleveland's 'Torso Murders': Who Was the 'Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run'?

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Who Killed the Sheriff Who Killed Billy the Kid?

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The Mysterious Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce

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The Phantom Killer: The Unsolved Texarkana Moonlight Murders

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The Death of Robert Pakington: England's First Murder By Gun

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The Lovers' Lane Murders of Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills

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The Murder of Mabel Greenwood

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Elma Sands and the Manhattan Well Murder

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Who Shot Belle Starr, Outlaw Queen of the Old West?

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The Chicago Tylenol Murders and Their Aftermath

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Was Jeannette DePalma's Death an Occult Sacrifice, a Crime of Opportunity, or Something Else?

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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: PARTNERS IN CRIME

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The 'Last of America's Classic Train Robbers' Weren't Train Robbers at All

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Prohibition Outlaws: The Rise and Fall of the Kimes-Terrill Gang

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Serial Killers on the American Frontier: "Big" and "Little" Harpe

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Samuel Green and William Ash, the 'Terrors of New England'

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The Reluctant Blanche Barrow: Bonnie Wasn't the Only Dame in Clyde Barrow's Gang

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Where Prohibition-era Gangsters Went to Hide: The Farmer's Farm

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The Black Widows of Liverpool: Sisters Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins

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The Trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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Did Mary Blandy Know the 'Love Powder' She Gave Her Father Was Arsenic?

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Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn and Their Depression-Era Kidnappings

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The Story of Suburban Chicago Booksellers and Bank Robbers, Jeff and Jill Erickson

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Public Enemies No. 1 and 2: Bank Robbers Bennie and Stella Dickson vs. the G-Men

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Lester Brockelhurst and Bernice Felton and the 'Crime Tourist' Murders

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How Her Illicit Love Letters Got Edith Thompson Hanged for a Murder

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The Disappearance of Ted Cole and Ralph Roe From Alcatraz: Dead or Alive?

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The Black Widow Murders: The Story of Septuagenarian Killers Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt

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Paid Hitmen Stephen Caracappa + Louis Eppolito Were Also NYPD Detectives

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Ray and Faye Copeland: America's Oldest Serial Killers

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The Day the DeAutremont Brothers Bungled the Robbery of Southern Pacific Train No. 13

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The Lonely Hearts Killers Lured Single Women to Their Death

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Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: PARTNERS IN CRIME

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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'

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Pinkham's Cure for 'Female Complaints' and Other Remedies for Women

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Angelo Mariani's Cocaïne Wine : Vin Tonique Mariani à la Coca de Pérou

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Harry Lewis Kramer: The Ad Man Who Marketed Medicine As Candy

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The Shakers: America's Early Pharmacists

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Who Really Made the Real ‘Daffy’s Elixir’ and What Was Really In It?

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What Happened When – and After -- Dr. S. Andral Kilmer Founded His Laboratory and Remedy Company

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Herbert E. Bucklen, Patent Medicine and 'Axle Grease Salesman'

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Patent Medicine Evolution: No Beer? ‘Let Them Drink Sarsaparilla’

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‘EAT! EAT! EAT!’ Fat ‘Banished’ With Tapeworm Diet

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‘A Niagara of Curls’: The Story of the Seven Sutherland Sisters

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Asthma and Smoking: When Cigarettes Were Medicine

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That Time Perry Davis Trademarked ‘Pain Killer’ and Then Took It Global

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How the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Had Nothing to Do With 'American Indians' or 'Medicine'

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‘Where Sick Folks Get Well’: Norman Baker Couldn’t Cure Cancer. Period.

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Spoiler! Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People … May Have Worked

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Radioactive Quackery: 'Doctor' Bailey and His Jaw-Dissolving ‘Energy Drink’

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How Perkins Tractors Taught Us the Placebo Effect

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Madame Yale Made a Fortune as America’s 19th-century ‘Wellness Guru’

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How ‘Rattlesnake King’ Clark Stanley Became King of Snake Oil Sales

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Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'

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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'BLACKMAILERS'

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When Blackmail Accidentally Uncovers Political Corruption

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Duke of York and Mary Anne Clarke

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The Story of Walter Minx, the Sears Extortionist and His Homemade Submarine

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Blackmail Fail: What Happened When George Ratterman Reformed 'Sin City of the South'

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Inheritance Lost: The Murder of Captain Joseph White

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‘Acid Burns’: That Time Mae West Was Blackmailed, Know What I Mean? See?

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Why Charles Augustus Howell Was Called the Worst Man in Victorian London

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A Murder, a Letter, and the Questions Surrounding King Edward II’s Death

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How Emily Posts' Philandering Husband Was the Catalyst for Her Career Success

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‘Publish and Be Damned!’; and, Harriette Wilson Did

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Horrific Murderer and Half-Hearted Blackmailer: Meet Dr. Cream

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How Constance Kopp Become New Jersey's First 'Plucky Girl Sheriff'

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Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: THE BLACKMAILERS

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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'FORGERS'

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The Mechanical 'Turk': Wouldn't You Prefer a Good Game Of Chess?

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The Calaveras Skull: The Practical Joke That Almost Changed Human Evolution

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Truth Behind the 'Cottingley Fairies'

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Fake! The Story of Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes Literary Hoax

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The Tiara of Saitaphernes: How Much Art in Museums Is Not What It Seems?