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) Farewell, From Criminalia, and Thanks for All the Crime
This is goodbye, but it's also thank you – thank you for supporting us as we walked in and out of historical crime scenes, nefarious cocktails, and we are grateful you took this adventure with us.
5) 'America': The Stolen Golden Toilet
On September 14, 2019, the one-of-a-kind art installation was stolen.
6) Mayhem, Madness, and Marshmallow the Bunny: When the World Lost Its Mind Over Beanie Babies
When Beanie Babies hit the scene in 1993, the original line of stuffed toys featured nine characters -- but that number would grow to hundreds. The brainchild of Ty Warner, and made by his company, Ty...Show More
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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