The 3 Best Criminalia Podcast Episodes
1) The Pseudo-Nero: When One Nero Isn't Enough
Nero wasn't always described as a tyrant – he was a teenager, considered handsome and sensitive. Despite his reign becaming violent, three different pretended to be him.
2) Bertha Gifford: Angel of Mercy or Good Samaritan?
Bertha was well-known for her cooking skills, compassion, and becoming one of America’s first female serial killers.
3) Catherine de Medici: We Heard She Ate Babies for Breakfast
The French queen may also be at least partly responsible for starting the French Wars of Religion
4) Piano 'Movers' Play a Felonious Tune
Just after lunch on July 14, 2013, a white van drove away from Toronto General Hospital. Its cargo? A stolen Boston Steinway baby grand piano, taken from the hospital's Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Of t...Show More
5) California Nut Crimes: Nuts Cases Can Be Difficult to Crack
Tree nuts have become are a hot commodity on the black market, and thieves have been making off with shipments of California-grown nuts to cash in. Of the phenomenon, Mike Boudreaux, the sheriff of Tu...Show More
6) Opening the Lid on Manhole Cover Capers
In the spring of 2008, 12-year-old Shamira Fingers was walking down a street near her home in South Philadelphia when she suddenly and surprisingly fell into an open sewer hole -- the manhole cover, m...Show More
7) Big Syrup': The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
"You can't prove what tree the syrup came from," stated one of the accomplices in The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist during his trial. Over the span of several months, thieves staged a multi-million...Show More
8) Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: THE GENTLEMEN ROBBER
Stand and deliver! Welcome to the final episode of our season about highway robbery and the outlaws who preyed upon road travelers. There were plenty of flinklock pistols, plenty of executions by hang...Show More
9) The Guillotine's First Victim: French Highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier
French highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier rode and robbed the streets around 18th-century Paris, but didn't come to the attention of French authorities until October of 1791, after he was accused of...Show More
10) Tom Cox: The 'Handsome' Highwayman Who Robbed the King's Jester
Tom Cox began his life as a gentleman with a small estate inherited from his father -- but he spent that small fortune in the blink of an eye with his, “riotous living.” Broke, Cox went to...Show More