Episodes
The Gardner Heist: The World’s Biggest Art Theft is Also Unsolved - (…
March 18, 1990. Two men dressed as Boston police officers walk into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 1:24 AM. Eighty-one minutes later, they walk out with thirteen pieces of art worth over $500 million. No arrests. No r...
Eddie Dodson: Drugs, Hollywood and 64 Bank Robberies
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 In the 1980s, Eddie Dodson went from Melrose Avenue antique dealer to the most prolific bank robber in FBI history. Known as the "Gentleman Bandit," he robbed 64 banks in nine months with nothing but a Yankees cap, a note, …
Pearl Hart: The Only Woman in Yuma Prison - America's Last Stagecoach…
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 She wasn't a sharpshooter. She wasn't part of a gang. She wasn't even trying to make history. But Pearl Hart, stagecoach robber, courtroom rebel, and media darling, defied every expectation the frontier had for women in 189…
Charles Ponzi: The Man Who Invented the Ponzi Scheme
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 Boston, 1920. Thousands crowded School Street with cash in hand—bank clerks, widows, dockworkers—all chanting one name: Charles Ponzi. For one blazing season, he was a financial messiah. Within months, his empire collapsed,…
Ruth Snyder: Femme Fatale, Tabloid Murderess and the Electric Chair
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 January 1928: New Yorkers awoke to a front page screaming DEAD! Beneath it was a blurred photo of a woman in the electric chair, captured at the moment of death. That woman was Ruth Snyder, a Queens housewife whose affair a…
Bertha Liebbeke: The Fainting Siren - Nebraska's Most Famous Con Arti…
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 She looked like the girl next door. Polite, well-dressed, maybe a little flustered. But behind the lace gloves? A master manipulator who pulled off some of the slickest thefts in Gilded Age America...without ever brandishin…
Victor Lustig: The Con That Sold the Eiffel Tower
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 Victor Lustig. 63 aliases. Master manipulator. The man who sold the Eiffel Tower...twice. THE STORY: Victor Lustig (1890-1947) | Born Austria-Hungary, spoke 5 languages | 63+ aliases | 1925: Posed as French official in Pari…
Claude F. Hankins: The 14-Year-Old Sent to San Quentin - America's Yo…
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 1904 California: Claude F. Hankins, 14 years old, shot and killed his employer. But this wasn't just a juvenile crime—it was a desperate act rooted in child abuse, labor exploitation, and institutional failure. This is the …
Al Jennings: The Failed Outlaw Who Became a Hollywood Star
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 Train robber. Failed candidate. Hollywood actor. Al Jennings lived more lives than one man should...and made sure you heard about every one of them. THE STORY: Al Jennings (1863-1961) | Licensed attorney in Oklahoma Territo…
Gerald Chapman: America's First Public Enemy Number One - Roaring Twe…
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 Before Capone. Before Dillinger. Gerald Chapman was America's original Public Enemy Number One—the outlaw who pulled off the largest mail heist in U.S. history. THE STORY: Gerald Chapman (1887-1926) | Brooklyn-born, orphane…