Undercover Newton: William Chaloner
Sometimes the best way to make money is to literally make money. William Chaloner, a total dirtbag, made his living minting phony coins and framing his co-conspirators for all manner of crimes. That w...
8 Aug 202452min
The Fall of Nixon: When the Smoking Gun Goes Blam!
For two long years, President Richard Nixon tried to cover-up a break-in at the Watergate Hotel. Nixon's Cold War spy buddies had engineered a plan to embarrass the Democrats but then when they got ca...
6 Aug 202458min
Needs More Turkeys: Lothar Malskat
Don't you hate it when you learn to restore masterworks of art, but then you kind of mess one up, and then you just paint a new one and call it old, but then it's full of anachronisms, and then everyo...
1 Aug 202456min
"Two Gun Hart": The Lawman With the Big Secret!
He was a famous lawman of the disappearing west, a Prohibition agent who dressed like a Wild West cowboy. The newspapermen loved him, the locals adored him, the bootleggers and moonshiners feared him....
30 Jul 202457min
You've Got Mail: One More Dive into the Ridiculous Crime Mailbag
It turns out we do read the emails. Unless Ex-intern Braxton accidentally deletes them all. Join us for cool listener stories, little shorty crimes, and gripping updates. *hits send*See omnystudio.com...
25 Jul 20241h 3min
20 Ridiculous Questions: Historical Flex Edition, The Sequel
The Ridiculous crews, both History and Crime, rejoin forces to once again play everyone’s favorite guessing game: 20 Questions. There were questions. There were answers. There were jokes about dogs in...
23 Jul 20241h 15min
Red, Happy Hooligan, and Little Dick: The Bad Kids of Old San Francisco
We lament the behavior of the youth of today, but what about the youngsters of yesteryear? Friends, they were just as bad. Between the Gold Rush and the Great Quake, kids in San Francisco stole purses...
18 Jul 202456min
Undercover Cops: I'm Busted? You're Busted! There Are No Rules For Us!
What are the rules for undercover cops? Well, as we learn from stories about cops shooting cops, an activist who falls in love with an undercover cop, a headless Care Bear with an undercover cop insid...
16 Jul 202456min
