Treetop Flyer: The Highflying Antics of Tommy Fitz
Get drunk? Check. Steal a plane? Check. Fly it back to the bar you'd been partying in earlier? Check. Tommy "Fitz" Fitzpatrick had only a few steps in his plan to become a legend. How he executed that...
16 Jun 202240min
Swappin' Dead Presidents: The Emancipation of Abraham Lincoln's Corpse
In 1876, a small time gang plotted to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. He'd been dead eleven years, but they didn't let that stop them. They planned to trade the late leader's body for their imprisoned counter...
14 Jun 202258min
Watch the Throne: The Case of the Missing Gold Toilet
In 2016, the artist Maurizio Cattelan created a masterpiece: a solid goild toilet. After a successful exhibition in New York, the commode was shown in the UK. It was there that the loo went adieu. Who...
9 Jun 202247min
The Yeti Hand: a Film Star, a Relic, and Underpants
What do you get when you mix an obsession with cryptids, money to burn, Buddhist monks, geopolitics, relic theft, lingerie, and Jimmy Stewart? You get this ridiculous tale.See omnystudio.com/listener ...
7 Jun 202251min
Captured Coin Con Consults Convicts Craving Corrections Cover
Michael Sabo was a classic con man. He posed as a respectable doctor, he wrote phony checks, he stole coins, and he misled trusting people. And what does a classic con man do after getting caught? Tur...
2 Jun 202246min
The Taser, The Tupperware Salesman and the Stolen Stradivarius
An amateur art thief conspires with a barber/part-time “Tupperware consultant” named Universal Knowledge Allah to steal a multimillion dollar Stradivarius violin; it’s step one of the thief’s Robin Ho...
31 Mai 202258min
You've Got Mail: Ridiculous Crime Listeners Chime In
We get a LOT of correspondence here at RC HQ, and the time has come to share it with the world. Suggestions! Confessions! Campfire Tales! Requests! Guitars! Turkeys! Manhunts! Duct Tape! Y'all are a f...
26 Mai 202245min
Rose Marie and Joyce (Jocelyn?): the IRL Thelma & Louise
It was the ‘90s, just before the internet went big, the perfect moment for two gals to turn outlaw, robbing men from Texas to Vegas. While on the run they were spotted hiding as nurses, strippers and ...
24 Mai 202236min
