The High Cosmic Crimes of Lord Buckley
Imagine a jazz-voiced, reefer-smoking, nightclub comic, a man who preached love long before the Hippies, a cat who was on that cosmic trip of beauty in the decade before the Beats, and imagine this ma...
15 Aug 202353min
By the Power of the Moon: Dr. Dante
You want to make money. So you become a hypnotist. Along the way, you marry a starlet, hire a hitman, fight Johnny Carson, start a university, and teach people to make paper flowers. Ah, the life of a...
10 Aug 202352min
Gram Theft Parsons: How to Throw a Rock n' Roll Funeral
He had country music wanderlust and rock star ambition. He was a scion of wealth and privilege. Oh, and he was best friends with Keith Richards! Gram Parsons was someone who was here for a good time n...
8 Aug 202345min
King of the King of the Con Men: Wilson Mizner
Wise-cracking Wilson Mizner was a legend among legends when it came to cons. Witty, creative, tough, daring, wild, and forever in the right place at the right time. From the Alaskan Gold Rush to the S...
3 Aug 202348min
"Say Hello to My Amish Friend": Drugs in Pennsylvania Dutch Country
No one expects to hear stories of beard-loving, barn-raising, technology-avoiding Amish and Mennonites being involved in street crime. Let alone that they have secret pot-growing empires. And outlaw b...
1 Aug 202355min
Once, Twice, Three Times an Art Crime: Theft of "Two Laughing Boys"
The Dutch are famous for a lot of things: tulips, cheese, fine art, double jump rope. They are also pretty good at both stealing and having a paintings stolen, apparently. What happens when the same p...
27 Jul 202344min
"Honey, Will You Fake Marry Me?" : Runaway Brides and Abducted Grooms
Your wedding day is supposed to be one of the happiest days of your life –– but this cadre of criminal wedding parties, abducted grooms and runaway brides put that to the test. Meet the folks hosting ...
25 Jul 202349min
Anarchy! I Don’t Know What It Means But I Love It!: William Buwalda
Alcatraz. The Rock. Home to some of the most notorious criminals in modern American history. Murderers. Vicious thieves. Al Capone! And a guy who got put away for something truly heinous: shaking a wo...
20 Jul 202353min
