Criminalia
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Dannielle
Apr 25, 2021
I really enjoy this podcast and look forward to ever new episode. An interesting light, fun look at a serious topic.
Dec 12, 2020
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Humans have always committed crimes. What can we learn from the criminals and crimes of the past, and have humans gotten better or worse over time?
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‘Where Sick Folks Get Well’: Norman Baker Couldn’t Cure Cancer. Period.
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Spoiler! Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People … May Have Worked
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Radioactive Quackery: 'Doctor' Bailey and His Jaw-Dissolving ‘Energy Drink’
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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How Perkins Tractors Taught Us the Placebo Effect
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Madame Yale Made a Fortune as America’s 19th-century ‘Wellness Guru’
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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How ‘Rattlesnake King’ Clark Stanley Became King of Snake Oil Sales
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'BLACKMAILERS'
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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When Blackmail Accidentally Uncovers Political Corruption
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Duke of York and Mary Anne Clarke
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Story of Walter Minx, the Sears Extortionist and His Homemade Submarine
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Blackmail Fail: What Happened When George Ratterman Reformed 'Sin City of the South'
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Inheritance Lost: The Murder of Captain Joseph White
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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‘Acid Burns’: That Time Mae West Was Blackmailed, Know What I Mean? See?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Why Charles Augustus Howell Was Called the Worst Man in Victorian London
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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A Murder, a Letter, and the Questions Surrounding King Edward II’s Death
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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How Emily Posts' Philandering Husband Was the Catalyst for Her Career Success
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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‘Publish and Be Damned!’; and, Harriette Wilson Did
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Horrific Murderer and Half-Hearted Blackmailer: Meet Dr. Cream
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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How Constance Kopp Become New Jersey's First 'Plucky Girl Sheriff'
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'FORGERS'
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: THE BLACKMAILERS
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Mechanical 'Turk': Wouldn't You Prefer a Good Game Of Chess?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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The Calaveras Skull: The Practical Joke That Almost Changed Human Evolution
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Truth Behind the 'Cottingley Fairies'
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Fake! The Story of Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes Literary Hoax
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The Tiara of Saitaphernes: How Much Art in Museums Is Not What It Seems?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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False Impressions: Frederic Spitzer and His Master Forgers
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare: The Forgeries of William-Henry Ireland
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Eugène Boban and the Real Story of the Crystal Skulls
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Alceo Dossena: The Forger Who Sued the Men Who Sold His Forgeries
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Violin Virtuoso Fritz Kreisler's Great Musical Hoax
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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League of Lady Poisoners: Interview with author Lisa Perrin
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Giovanni (Jean) de Sperati: Legendary Philatelic 'Artist'
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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The Nicotra Forgeries
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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'Lincoln the Lover': The Wilma Frances Minor Collection
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Joseph Cosey: 'Yrs. Truly, A. Lincoln'
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The Fake Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Han van Meegeren's Fake Vermeers
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'Firebugs'
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: The Forgers
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Stories of Arson as Homicide in Medieval Scandinavia
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Meet James Aitken, Patriot Sympathizer and Dockyard Incendiarist
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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The Execution of Rose Butler
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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All the Times San Francisco Burned Down During the Gold Rush
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Firefighter Firebugs: The Small but Impactful Phenomenon
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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'Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning': New York City in the 1970s
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The Drunken Night When Alexander the Great Burned Persepolis
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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The Night Herostratus Destroyed One of the Seven Wonders of the World
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Dramatic Life and Death of a Scuba-Clad Arsonist: Michael Marin
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Les Pétroleuses: 'Savage Hordes of She-Devils'
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May 30, 2023 |
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Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'Confidence Artists'
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May 23, 2023 |
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Famous Landmarks for 'Sale': For You? Half Price.
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May 16, 2023 |
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Welcome to Season 10 of Criminalia: THE FIREBUGS
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May 16, 2023 |
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Leo Koretz and the Bayano River Syndicate
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May 09, 2023 |
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Inheritance Cons: Meet the Bakers and the 'Drakers'
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May 02, 2023 |
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There’s Something About Mary -- But It’s Not Royal Blood
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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How “Dr.” Samuel Bennett Became the 'King of the Thimbles'
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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The So-Called 'Dr.' Blood and His 'Oxygenized Air' Cure
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The Legend of Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith, Uncrowned King of Skagway
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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The Miners Who Fooled Millionaires: The Great Diamond Hoax
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Sarah Emily Howe and the Ladies' Deposit Company
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Reed C. Waddell and the Goldbrick Game
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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'Cazique' Gregor MacGregor, the Man Who Fabricated a Country
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Lord Gordon-Gordon, the Robber of Robber-Barons
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Ann O'Delia Diss Debar, Spirit Princess and Worst Woman In The World
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Lonely Hearts: 'They're Not Your Honey if They're Asking for Money'
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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William A. Rockefeller Sr.: The Vagabond Lothario of the Family
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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'May I Borrow Your Watch?': William Thompson, America's Original Confidence Man
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Bertha Heyman: America's 'Confidence Queen'
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Dr. Albert Abrams and His Oscilloclast: Charlatan or Visionary
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Madame Rachel: the Victorian Swindler Who Sold Bogus Beauty
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Welcome to the Season 8 Finale of Criminalia: The Artnappers
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Welcome to Season 9 of Criminalia: The Art of the Con
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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The Night the Nazi’s Stole Michelangelo’s Mask of a Faun
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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The Day the Dalí Escaped From Prison
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Small Talk With Mo Rocca: 'Mobituaries' and Perspective on Historical Crimes
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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The Legend of The Horses of St. Mark’s
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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The Ghent Altarpiece: Chasing the Lost 'Just Judges' Panel
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Skylight Caper: Canada's Biggest Unsolved Art Heist
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Who Was Jacob de Gheyn III and Why Do People Keep Stealing His Portrait?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Title Who Really Stole Goya's 'The Duke'?
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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The Day Polish Pirates Pinched the Last Judgment
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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The Heist That Turned the Mona Lisa Into a Star
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Time 5 Thieves Paid an Entrance Fee to Steal 9 Paintings
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Did the Sicilian Mafia Really Feed Caravaggio’s Nativity to the Pigs?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Welcome to the Season 7 Finale of Criminalia: The Treasonists
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Welcome to Season 8 of Criminalia: THE ARTNAPPERS
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Kōtoku Shūsui Wasn't Part of the Kōtoku Incident; Or Was He?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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No Comment From the Bug House: When Ezra Pound Was Charged With Treason
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Will the Real Sidney Reilly Please Stand Up?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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John Brown: The First American to Hang for Treason
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Lavrentiy Beria, the Chief of Stalin's Secret Police Who Was Executed as a Traitor
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Political and Rebellious Life of Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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The Complicity of Magdalena Rudenschöld in the Armfelt Conspiracy
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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The Execution of Mary Surratt
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Chidiock Tichborne: The Poet Who Fell in With a Regicidal Crowd
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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The United States v. Douglas Chandler: America's ‘Lord Haw-Haw’
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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'Down With the Coal Barons!': When the Red Neck Army Went to War
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Thomas Dorr and the Time When Rhode Island Had 2 Governors
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Vice President Aaron Burr and the Burr Conspiracy
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Welcome to Season 7 of Criminalia: THE TREASONISTS
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Welcome to the Season 6 Finale of Criminalia
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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How Andreas Vesalius Proved Women Have Just as Many Teeth as Men
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Dr. Joseph Warren: American Revolutionist and Secret Spunker
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Lead By Crime Boss James “Big Jim” Kennally
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Meet the So-Called Night Doctors: Chris Baker and Grandison Harris
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May 30, 2022 |
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William Cunningham, the Ghoul of Cincinnati
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May 24, 2022 |
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Cranioklepty, Skulduggery, and the Time of Phrenology
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May 17, 2022 |
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Meet John Hunter, the Patron Saint of Body Snatchers
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May 10, 2022 |
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Burke, Hare, and the Anatomy Murders of Edinburgh
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May 03, 2022 |
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William Jansen, a King Among Ghouls
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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The Body-Snatching ‘Borough Gang’ of London
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Welcome to the Season 5 Finale of Criminalia: Top 3s
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Welcome to Season 6 of Criminalia: The Resurrectionists
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Defamation and the Devil: False Accusations of Witchcraft
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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April Fools' Day: Did Alchemy Prank the Modern Sciences?
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Aristotle, al-Fārābī, and the Dawn of Arabic Alchemy
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Agnes Sampson and the Plot to Assassinate the King
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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How Mary the Jewess Helped Your Hollandaise
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Dee, John Dee: Codename 007?
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Theoris of Lemnos, and the Criminalization of Magic
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Did Mother Shipton Predict the Internet?
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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The Tale of William Butler and the Fake Philosopher’s Stone
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Extreme and Brutal Pappenheimer Witch Trial
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Georg Honauer and the Counterfeit Gold
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Matteuccia di Francesco: The Woman Who Could Fly
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, the 'Scientific Swindler'
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Agnes Waterhouse and Her Cat, Satan
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Stedelen: Swiss Sorcerer or Village Scapegoat?
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Ursula Kemp and the St Osyth Witches
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Welcome to Season 5 of Criminalia: Witches and Alchemists
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Season 4 Finale: Walking the Plank
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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The Unrepentant and Really Good Pirate, Charles Vane
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Lioness of Brittany: Jeanne de Clisson and Her Bloodthirsty Revenge
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Sayyida al-Hurra, the Muslim Pirate Queen
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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A Pirate’s Life for Gentleman Stede Bonnet
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Meet Lady Killigrew, the Aristocratic Pirate
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Fab Four: The Only Real Female Pirates of the Golden Age
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Trick or Treat: A Pirate in Sheep's Clothing
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Was Sir Francis Drake Just In It For Revenge?
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Captain Henry Every: The Pirate Who Got Away With It
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The Tale Of The Barbarossa Brothers
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Was Lagertha the Female Viking Pirate Real?
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Rachel Wall: New England’s Only 'Lady' Pirate
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Pirate Talk And Other Falsehoods About Pirates
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Queen Teuta the Untameable
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Grace O’Malley: The Sea Queen of Connacht
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Season Finale: The Greatest Imposters of All
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Welcome to Season 4 of Criminalia: Pirates
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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The Pseudo-Nero: When One Nero Isn't Enough
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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When Norway's Infamous 'False Margaret' Claimed the Throne
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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How Frederick Emerson Peters Charmed the Rich and Naive
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Princess or Pretender? The Curious Story of Princess Olive of Cumberland
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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False Dmitry: False, or Heir to the Russian Throne?
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Was Queen Elizabeth I a Man?
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Frédéric Bourdin: The Chameleon from Nantes
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Stephen Weinberg: The Man With So Many Aliases We Couldn't Count Them All
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Will the Real Anastasia Romanov Please Stand Up?
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Was Perkin Warbeck a 'Sham' Duke, or the Real Thing?
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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A Victorian Mystery: Was Arthur Orton the Tichborne Claimant?
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Elizabeth 'Betty' Bigley: The Lady of the Hypnotic Eye
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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FRED DEMARA, Known for His 'Rascality, Pure Rascality'
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May 25, 2021 |
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Barry Bremen, 'The Great Imposter': No Guts, No Glory
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May 18, 2021 |
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Christian Gerhartsreiter: The Man They Called 'Crockefeller'
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May 11, 2021 |
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Meet the Real 'Wolf of Wall Street': David Lamar
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May 04, 2021 |
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Who Wears the Pants? Sarah Emma Edmonds, That's Who
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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I know You're a Fraud, But What Am I?
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Every Breath You Take: The Season of Stalkers
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Welcome to Season 3 of Criminalia: Imposters
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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My Guitar Gently Weeps: George Harrison's Stalkers
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Olga Janina: “La Cosaque”
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Adele Hugo: “La Misérable”
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Jane Bigelow: “The Bigelow Terror”
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Alexander Main and Edith Simcox: The Passionate Worshipers
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Georgiana Fane: “The High Society Stalker”
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Léa-Anna B.: King George V’s Admirer
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Erotomania: Stalking for Love
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Edward Jones: “The First Celebrity Stalker”
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Lady Caroline Lamb: “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know”
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Rufus Griswold: Poe’s Petty Stalker
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Arsenic and ... Arsenic: Criminalia's Season 1 Final Episode
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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"The Poisoner's Handbook" with Author Deborah Blum Pt. 2
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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"The Poisoner's Handbook" with Author Deborah Blum Pt. 1
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Amy Archer-Gilligan: Sometimes Predators Look Like Pious Grandmas
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Mary Ann Cotton: 'She's Dead and She's Rotten'
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Belle Gunness: Comely Widow Who Wants You to Stay Forever
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Hieronyma Spara and Her Secret Society of Poisoners
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Bertha Gifford: Angel of Mercy or Good Samaritan?
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Velma Barfield: Death Row Granny or Just Mama Margie?
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Locusta: Ancient Assassin-for-Hire
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Lucrezia Borgia: Depraved Murderess, or Political Pawn?
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Lydia Sherman: Connecticut's 'Lucrezia Borgia'
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Yes, You CAN Drink Charcoal: Happy Halloween From Criminalia
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Roberta Elder, Atlanta’s Rare Black Female Serial Killer
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Did 'Sally Arsenic' Really Poison Her Family?
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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La Voisin: Poisoner-for-Hire and Provider of Alleged Sorcery
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Madam de Brinvilliers: The 'Wickedest Woman in the World'
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Catherine de Medici: We Heard She Ate Babies for Breakfast
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Marie Besnard: Undertaker's Best Friend?
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sally Bassett: Symbol of Resistance or Murderer?
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Giulia Tofana: World's Most Dangerous Apothecary
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Marie LaFarge: Pretty Little Poisoner
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Julia Agrippina: Mother to Nero and Ambitious Broad
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Tillie Klimek, the 'Black Widow' of Chicago
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Introducing Criminalia Season 1: Lady Poisoners
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Aug 10, 2020 |