Sister Helen
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I was…
Criminal: The Speeding Duck, the Hungry Javelina, and “Leonardo da Pinchy”
Stories of animals really going for it.
Moon Rocks Wanted
On September 18, 1998, an unusual ad ran in USA Today — a company called John’s Estate Sales was looking to buy a moon rock. The phone number on the…
Criminal Podcast: The Gatekeeper
“I keep saying, ‘Where’s the body? Kill someone’,”
Catastrophe
n 1993, more than 1,000 levees broke along the Mississippi River, flooding thousands of acres. Most of these cases were accidents due to the river rising well above its usual…
Carry A. Nation
“You wouldn’t give the vote so I had to use a rock” - Carry A. Nation. {listen}
Criminal Podcast: Bears, Birds, and Bones
As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of their dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds National Monument in…
Violent Women
I was listening to this ep of Criminal about a woman who spent 17 years in prison for killing a man who was choking her and saying he was going…