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Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten ca

Episodes

Total: 306

“Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store is that we're going

In 1993, Gary Settle was sentenced to 177 years in prison. Twenty-six years into his sentence, he st

This week, part two of the Reels family story – how two brothers went to jail in an attempt to save

Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels refused to leave the land that had been in their family for generati

Today, a personal story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring.Say hello on T

Soon after the Berlin Wall went up, a group of students knocked on Joachim Rudolph’s door. They told

Before Guantánamo Bay became the prison we know today, Marie Genard spent more than a year of her li

In 1977, a new bar opened on North Wells Street in Chicago. Things weren’t as they seemed at the apt

One morning, two men got in a boat and sailed down a river in the Amazon rainforest. They were never

In the summer of 1975, two best friends attempted a robbery unlike any they’d ever pulled off before

When Madison Smith went to her county attorney’s office to talk about her rape case, she knew she wa

Two men turned in the winning catch at a Lake Erie fishing tournament. But when the tournament direc

Phoebe: Are there a lot of spies in this country today?Scott: Far more than people can probably even

Hunters in the Everglades used to kill millions of birds every year for their feathers. In 1902, a m

“There was a saying I heard a few times: ‘under the influence, above the law.’ And I think that desc

In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippopotamuses into Colombia for a zoo on his ranch. Today

In 1967, a 24-year-old named Leslie Arnold escaped from prison. The FBI looked for him for years. An

On the afternoon of June 23rd, 1972, Martin McNally walked into the St. Louis airport with a wig, a

When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say, “No way in the world a Black woman

“The ingenuity of depraved human genius has culminated in the production of margarine.”Say hello on