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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.

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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
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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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Adam Worth posing for a photograph, his eyes focused in an intense and calm stare Adam Worth looking dapper, ready to con some fat cats
December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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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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album cover for A Johnny Cash Christmas, featuring a smiling Johnny Cash and an abstract Christmas tree painting from left to right, Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley, reggae star Bob Marley, and future Jamaican prime minister Edward Seaga at the Smile Jamaica concert in 1976, meant to quell political violence in Jamaica Jimmy Buffett and U2 front man Bono, both had the unfortunate experience nearly being machine gunned by the Jamaican police while on Buffett's seaplane
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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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a modern color photo of the Owen House, used for Operation Ostrich
December 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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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
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He certainly keeps us amused at HQ with his random facts.

Bu don't sleep on Elizabeth... she also has quite the past!
grubreport.bsky.social Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · 10d
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
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hey Rude Dudes, are ya ever curious about Producer D?

well, here ya go!
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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...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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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Jeff Turner explaining how a "large key to my success was I was using Bible paper" for his counterfeit money. Jeff Turner showing off one of his fake bills and how he'd break them at gas stations and drug stores, and similar businesses one of the new Ben Franklin hundred dollar bills, which Jeff Turner figured out how to fake, which was considered near-impossible
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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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Lori Laughlin from Full House facing charges for the Varsity Blues scandal for college admissions Rick Singer, the mastermind of the multimillion dollar scheme to finesse college admissions
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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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Rebecca Bradley Rogers, AKA the Flapper Bandit, in a thoughtful moment, perhaps considering her new nationwide fame as an alleged bank robber Rebecca Bradley Rogers, AKA the Flapper Bandit smiling for the camera with her husband and lawyer, Otis Rogers The college yearbook picture of The Flapper Bandit, in happier times, although she's not smiling, ever the studious history major news story about the ongoing trial of Rebecca Bradley Rogers, AKA the Flapper Bandit, whose defense was the she was momentarily legall insane
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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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a group of Sicilian mobsters in better times, some of the main figures of the Pizza Connection; pictured from left to right: Leonardo Pandolfo, Cesare Manzella, Luigi and Masi Impastato, Sarino, and Gaetano Badalamenti. The New York Daily News newspaper proclaims in a bold front page headline: Pizza Mob Trial: GUILTY, Only 1 of 19 cleared image of a group of Sicilian mobsters. photo take in New York. key focus of the picture is Salvatore Catalano, he's the second from the right, in the three-piece suit as he speaks with a subordinate.
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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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A old school comic book featuring the fascinating true crime story of the king of the bank robbers, George Leonidas Leslie
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
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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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mugshot of Velvalee Dickinson, the dollhouse spy example of one of the types of dolls that Velvalee Dickinson collected image of Eunice Kennedy, the unexpected benefactor for Velvalee Dickinson, after his stint in the Big House
November 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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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image features the classic pinup of Betty Grable showing off her "million dollar legs" that helped win World War II Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall pose together, from the film How To Marry a Millionaire, back when Betty Grable was the number one box office star in the world During their sting operation, G-Men chase after The Leopard, an extortion letter writer obsessed with Betty Grable
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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And they say it's hard to find true love these days on the apps
bperry149.bsky.social Tiger Balm Invitational Co-Founder @bperry149.bsky.social · Oct 30
Looooove so many things I’ve got to tell you.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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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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a painting from the early 16th century of the real Lord Buckingham, AKA Edward Stafford, the Duke of Buckingham from the 21st century, the fake Lord Buckingham, AKA Charles Stopford, a Florida man who decided to become English, and not just any English but an English lord Charles Stopford in a silly moment, perfecting his fake smile to go with his fake British accent
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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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The eight players who became known as the 1919 Black Sox: Happy Felsch, Lefty Williams, Chick Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Fred. McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and Shoeless Joe Jackson image of notorious professional gambler and crime legend, Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, the man who's believed to be the one who fixed the 1919 World Series star of the 1919 White Sox, the legendary left fielder, Shoeless Joe Jackson
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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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Elizabeth Taylor and her then-husband Richard Burton pose for cameras and Liz lets the people see the sparkle of her enormous diamond ring Elizabeth Taylor poses with her enormous Krupp diamond ring, a rock so big it could be mistaken for a literal piece of ice The former Krupp diamond, which became the Elizabeth Taylor diamond after it was purchased for her by Richard Burton
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Diva up, everybody.
October 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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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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image of Brad Pitt and George Clooney as Rusty and Danny from the Ocean's 11 franchise of heist films, in this case these two ever-dapper, ever-cool criminals were the model for a pair of amateurs working the Indian gaming casinos of Riverside County, California. wearing the County Oranges, one of our amateur heist men, standing in court, considers his now diminished future also wearing a pair of County Orange, the uniform of state prisoners, one of our amateur heist men reconsiders his life choices that led to him to this courtroom
October 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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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a smiling tanned Kevin Trudea poses next to logo for the Kevin Trudeau Show, one of his many attempts to get around laws to prevent snake oil salesmen making dubious claims about their products Kevin Trudeau, in a calm and confident move, fitting for a conman, strikes a pose for the book cover for his book Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About, the updated edition; yet another move to get around making dubious claims that would leave him legally liable image of Kevin Trudeau leaving federal court in Chicago on Feb. 17, 2010, and he has more than a passing resemblance to Chicago mobsters of the bygone past, he bears the same confident air, notable after he was just in court begging a judge to end his imprisonment for civil contempt in an ongoing asset protection lawsuit.
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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post you from a different era
Me (R) and my best friend (L) in a car at three in the morning on San Pablo Avenue in Albany about to drive to Las Vegas to see a Social Distortion show later that evening after having just closed down the bar where my brother worked so he could come with. I am sporting unfortunate bangs.
October 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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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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The Burlington Bandit (AKA Eric Edson) behind the wheel of a stolen dump truck, one of the many stolen vehicles he used during his multi-week manhunt the perp, Eric Edson, AKA the Burlington Bandit
October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM