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A twice monthly podcast on crime and punishment throughout history!
Mickey Cohen had friends in high places, from celebrities to televangelists to the LAPD. So what happened when one of the nation's most noto...
Heads up that due to the usual September bout with illness that plagues all new teachers, there will be no episode this week. We'll record p...
It's an illegal gambling, Nazi-punching, tax-paying good time with Mickey Cohen, a gangster who rose through the ranks during one of America...
Sorry for the delay folks! Isaac's school year just started and Demetria has been sick, so we'll have a delayed release for this next episod...
As the internet creates new unmoderated spaces for ideas to spread, the sovereign citizen movement moves on to new audiences and finds a lot...
Don't feel like paying your taxes? Want to start your own posse? Still mad about the gold standard? Looking for an excuse to blame all your...
When you're unhappy about the price of wheat, there's only one solution: Send a telegraph to the Australian government declaring war. Source...
When an Englishman with the rare ability to speak Mandarin Chinese got into a dispute with a corrupt local official in Zhejiang, he took his...
Hi all, Due to the 4th of July holiday there won't be an episode this week. But we'll have one for you next week!
A negotiation over fishing rights took an unexpected turn when a Lithuanian fisherman jumped onto an American Coast Guard ship to seek asylu...
In a country where gay sex is illegal, is a magazine for gay people a publication for criminals? Is the content obscene, even if there's no...
Hello listeners! Isaac is entering final paper grading/rec letter writing season on top of planning an international exchange school trip fo...
If the obscene material you're distributing is so avant-garde that most readers can't tell it's actually obscene, did you commit a crime or...
Not all scam artists prey on suckers' desire to get rich quick or cheat the system. Some of them prey on their marks' better impulses, like...
With options for getting rid of its convicts drying up, Britain started thinking about reforming both its prisons and the prisoners inside t...
Is abortion legal in Japan? No, but also yes. Join us on a journey through history to learn about how modern abortion law developed in a leg...
We're out of the country for a family memorial service and didn't have time to record a Criminal Records episode for the week. But that does...
Under Britain's most notorious era of criminal law, you could be sentenced to death for everything from destroying a fishpond to being a par...
The law was out to take Emma Goldman down on a range of charges from distributing obscene material to assassination to sedition. But did the...
Something seemed a little less than ideal about governments and economies around the world in the late 1880s. One woman's solution? Anarchy....
Thanks to Demetria's brilliant decision to get as many vaccines as possible on the same day, there's no new episode this week. Instead, we'r...
On one side, a crooked saloon owner with a side business running brothels and opium dens. On the other side, a moralistic tycoon with rail c...
Want to crown yourself the king of Germany? Want to conquer Europe because you have really strong opinions about public transit? Want to get...
Hi everyone, Owing to a bout of illness, we're bumping back the release date for this week's episode by 24 hours. We expect to still be able...
To crown the monarch of the United Kingdom, you need a 336-pound block of sandstone. But who really owns that big chunk of stone, and who wa...
If you're going to accuse a gang of spirit mediums of practicing a banned religion on the down low, you have to prove they're actually membe...
A group of spirit mediums found a way to use their psychic prowess to get rich in the physical realm. But when an investigator started looki...
Let's dive into the dangerous, divine, and occasionally kinky history of trying to figure out who's telling the truth. Sources and show note...
In the second part of our story, the Baron of Arizona has to create a Baroness so he can rise to great heights in Europe and use his connect...
James Reavis was a failed real estate investor, but he had a knack for document forgery. And if you lose all the land you own legally, why n...
A North Korean plot to sabotage the Olympics and possibly derail a crucial South Korean election hinged on a pair of very unusual spies. Whe...
Mirror mirror on the wall, who really killed Thomas Overbury? We're getting deep into what might just be the weirdest trial we've ever cover...
We begin a twisted tale of witchcraft, poison, and legal arguing over magically cursed genitals in the court of King James I. Sir Thomas Ove...
In life, they were poor hooligans. In death, they became five of Japan's greatest folk heroes. Join us for a journey into Japan's 17th-centu...
You've heard jokes about the Iran-Contra affair, but have you heard the actual legal arguments of the defendants? To understand the true sco...
This Pride month, we're gearing up for a fight. As we battle over "Don't Say Gay" bills in the US today, we're looking back to the 1980s to...
A man named Martin Guerre left his wife and child. Eight years later, a man who called himself Martin Guerre returned. Why would his wife ac...
Is the rule that made the modern internet to blame for breaking it? Is a forum legally analogous to a bookstore that might have a dirty book...
We're back with a new recording of one of the first cases we covered on Criminal Records. Bo Xilai was one of the rising stars of China's Co...
We're out of the country for the week, so we've released one of our Patreon bonus episodes into the regular podcast feed. We've talked about...
A half-baked plot to replace the true king of England with an impostor involved mind-controlling ointment, a loyalist uprising that never ma...
One of the western canon's greatest poets was a real horndog. Was his banishment from Rome really about making Rome great again by returning...
One would-be hero of the American revolution wasn't American, heroic, or particularly good at helping the revolution. His plan to burn down...
One Soviet convict impressed his own jailors so much that he ended up completely transforming the Soviet Union's gulag system. But how much...
We're exploring the history of crime fiction with Reynard, a rascal whose exploits are definitely not the sort of behavior you'd expect from...
We're heading to the Roman Republic for two stories about women getting their day in court. Asking the gods to put a supernatural hit out on...
We're starting the year off with a civil law case involving some very uncivil language. One of our nation's most important legal battles ove...
On a lonely island off the coast of North America, one man shot another man's pig for eating his potatoes. The legal question of who had the...
While Japanese officials were investigating a case of illegal baseball betting, they uncovered a shocking secret about the integrity of one...
In the Soviet Union, snitches got statues. But was the story of a brave little Communist who was murdered by his own family just a little to...