Criminal

Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Named a Best Podcast of 2023 by the New York Times. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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The Tusker

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

When Audrey Ryan’s father told her he once found 20 pounds of hash while he was fishing for scallops, she didn’t believe him. But he said that he wasn...

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Zak and Michelle

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

In 2006, a group of young men and teenagers were arrested under the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act for planning to set off bombs in Toronto. They were kn...

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Patience

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

One Saturday morning in 2018, the police showed up at Patience Frazier’s door, and started asking her questions about something she'd posted on Facebo...

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The Phone Call

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

Bow Suprasert had just returned from a trip abroad when she got a strange phone call, saying a man had been caught traveling with a passport in her na...

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The Compound

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

In 2023, a woman named Jella got a new job. On her first day, she got in a car to go to her new office. Then she got a feeling that something wasn’t r...

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E. Jean

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

We visited E. Jean Carroll at her house in the woods to talk about her two trials against President Donald Trump. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram an...

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The Bus Ride

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

Two days after Hurricane Katrina hit, people who lived in the Fischer Housing Projects were still trapped – and it didn’t seem like anyone was coming...

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Death in Eden

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

In the early 1930s, eight people settled on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos. Within five years, two were missing and two were dead. Abbott Kah...

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The Double

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

In 2023, two men told police the same story: each man said that his name was William Woods, and that his identity had been stolen. Say hello on Faceb...

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Uncle Harold

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

In 1997, Eric Konigsberg received a strange voicemail from someone in prison — a hit man who had confessed to at least ten murders. Eric and the man h...

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The Guru

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

In the late 1960s, a yogi named Swami Rama came to the United States. His followers believed he could read their minds, visit them in their dreams, an...

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Action Park

Episode Date: May 23, 2025

“Anyone who went to Action Park understood you could get really messed up going there. It was part of why you wanted to go.” Seth Porges made a docum...

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No Hint or Help

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

In the 1950s, a new television quiz show premiered called Twenty One. But the first episode was a disaster — so the producers decided to try something...

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False Positive

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

The night before she gave birth, Susan Horton had a salad for dinner. The next day, doctors told her she’d tested positive for opiates - and reported...

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Tabatha

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

When Tabatha Trammell was 50 years old, she started studying to become a doula — a support person for pregnant women. Today, most of her clients are i...