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The Ridiculous Crime podcast crew.

It's a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons. It's always 99% murder free and 100% ridiculous.

Gif delights and merch: https://www.ridiculouscrime.com
We definitely did cover this Netflix con job!

...Way back in 2023!

If you could use a laugh, here's the episode:

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December 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Adam Worth developed a sophisticated criminal network to steal money, art, and jewelry from high-value marks on two continents. Understated and cunning, Worth was so successful he inspired one of literature's greatest criminal masterminds. Can you guess which one?

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December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Who would possibly think it's a good idea to rob Johnny Cash...at Christmastime... in Jamaica?

If this sounds like some sort of Mad Lib, trust us, it's not. This really happened.

And oddly enough, it's actually a charming Christmastime tale.

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December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
During WWII, there were lots of ways to contribute to the war effort. One involved a radio station on Long Island, feeding lies to the Nazis.

Owen House was the secret center of Operation Ostrich, the most intense counterintelligence effort you've never heard of.

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December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Let's say you're a German industrialist who needs to drive up the price of copper, would you hire a midcentury adventurer/boat captain and a pair of Miami skin divers to help you blow up a bridge in Zambia?

If so, then you are the perps in this truly wild tale.

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The Zambian Plot
Podcast Episode · Ridiculous Crime · 12/02/2025 · 59m
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December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
He certainly keeps us amused at HQ with his random facts.

Bu don't sleep on Elizabeth... she also has quite the past!
After today's ep, I am now nominating MYSELF to sit in with @elizabethdutton.bsky.social and do a Ridiculous Crime episode all about @zaron3.bsky.social! That man has A Past! You helped who blow up a what now? SMH -- I swear SO many random facts he drops over the years! @ridiculouscrime.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
hey Rude Dudes, are ya ever curious about Producer D?

well, here ya go!
If you've ever wondered what I look like, we captured this footage during one of my guest appearances www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvgS...
Birthday Boy Bank-robber | Ridiculous Crime
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December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Imagine you were in bad shape financially and needed some sorta lifeline...

For Jeff Turner his best idea was: should I start counterfeiting money with Bible paper?

That's how he became the King of Counterfeiters.

But it's also how Jeff ended up on this show!

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November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Applying to college: for some, this means posing for a fake rowing photo or making sure the SAT ringer spelled your name right. While other teens spend all their time studying and participating in activities, rich kids spend their parents' cash to game the system.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Flappers rejected previous generations' notions of femininity and embraced new ideas of modern womanhood.
Result: nationwide moral panic!
Enter the Flapper Bandit, a young woman who rejected previous notions of legality and embraced new ideas of how to rob a bank!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What's your favorite pizza topping? Pepperoni? Anchovies? A kilo of heroin? If you said heroin, the Sicilian mob had a pizza parlor for you! Part of a network modest pizza joints up and down the East Coast.
...But the FBI is who delivered when it came to justice.

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November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
While Jesse James may have been the first world famous bandit and bank robber, he wasn't the most prolific.

Meet George Leonidas Leslie, the first truly great American bank robber. An outlaw folk hero, he made his living robbing the original robber barons

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November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Growing up in Lawrence, quite a few of my friends lived in some of the 19th c homes that survived the raid. Ghost stories at sleepovers were *chef’s kiss*

Quantrill was a very Rude Dude (derogatory) @ridiculouscrime.bsky.social 2/3
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Velvalee Dickinson was a lover of costumed porcelain dolls and Japanese culture.
During World War II, a team of female codebreakers investigated a series of forged letters that were coded messages from a doll-loving spy network that centered on Velvalee Dickinson.

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November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
She was America's Sweetheart, a woman whose gorgeous gams helped the Allies win WW II. Due to her talent, humor, beauty, and wit, Betty Grable was a huge star. But with stardom comes creeps. And with creeps often comes crime. In her case... ridiculous crimes!

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November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And they say it's hard to find true love these days on the apps
Looooove so many things I’ve got to tell you.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Florida man unhappy with life.
Florida man move to Europe.
Florida man change name.
Florida man take phony title.
Uh oh, Florida man get in trouble.

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October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's World Series time!

In 1919, professional gamblers convinced players from the Chicago White Sox to throw the Series.

The keys: their salaries were meager and treatment was dismal.

But the plan was weak as creek water... and nearly destroyed baseball.

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October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Elizabeth Taylor looooved diamonds. Some had storied histories: royal palaces, forgotten empires, exotic locales.

And then there was the Krupp Diamond. Before Liz donned it, it belonged to the ex-wife of a Nazi. And that's not the craziest part of this story!

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October 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Diva up, everybody.
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It was just like Ocean's 11...

...except instead of a stylish crew of pro criminals, it was a guy with a BB gun and another in a Ford Mustang. And instead of Las Vegas, picture a Motel 6 in Riverside County, California

So maybe it wasn't just like Ocean's 11

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October 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Kevin Trudeau was a born salesman...and an excellent con man. He knew how to rope people in with promises of wealth, health, and all around better lives. But as we all know, if something sounds too good to be true, it is. And it's probably a brainchild of ol' Kev.

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October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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post you from a different era
October 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Whether on two wheels or four, by land or by sea, either high-speed or slow-rolling, Eric Edson flat out refused to be caught.

During his multi-week manhunt it took a whole consortium of cops, a veritable multiplicity of law enforcement, to bring him to justice.

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October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM