Farewell, From Criminalia, and Thanks for All the Crime (00:42:30)
Thank you for joining us for the final episode of our season of stray heists AND the finale of Criminalia. This is goodbye, but it's also thank you – thank you for supporting us as we walked in and ou...
'America': The Stolen Golden Toilet (00:25:09)
The plan was to keep the 18-karat-gold toilet called 'America' on display indefinitely at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But it did go out on loan, once, to Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World He...
Mayhem, Madness, and Marshmallow the Bunny: When the World Lost Its Mind Over Beanie Babies (00:35:20)
When Beanie Babies hit the scene in 1993, the original line of stuffed toys featured nine characters -- but that number would grow to hundreds. The brainchild of Ty Warner, and made by his company, Ty...
Piano 'Movers' Play a Felonious Tune (00:21:35)
Just after lunch on July 14, 2013, a white van drove away from Toronto General Hospital. Its cargo? A stolen Boston Steinway baby grand piano, taken from the hospital's Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. Of t...
California Nut Crimes: Nuts Cases Can Be Difficult to Crack (00:25:52)
Tree nuts have become are a hot commodity on the black market, and thieves have been making off with shipments of California-grown nuts to cash in. Of the phenomenon, Mike Boudreaux, the sheriff of Tu...
Opening the Lid on Manhole Cover Capers (00:26:42)
In the spring of 2008, 12-year-old Shamira Fingers was walking down a street near her home in South Philadelphia when she suddenly and surprisingly fell into an open sewer hole -- the manhole cover, m...
Big Syrup': The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist (00:29:16)
"You can't prove what tree the syrup came from," stated one of the accomplices in The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist during his trial. Over the span of several months, thieves staged a multi-million...
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: THE GENTLEMEN ROBBER (00:33:34)
Stand and deliver! Welcome to the final episode of our season about highway robbery and the outlaws who preyed upon road travelers. There were plenty of flinklock pistols, plenty of executions by hang...
The Guillotine's First Victim: French Highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier (00:24:55)
French highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier rode and robbed the streets around 18th-century Paris, but didn't come to the attention of French authorities until October of 1791, after he was accused of...
Tom Cox: The 'Handsome' Highwayman Who Robbed the King's Jester (00:30:28)
Tom Cox began his life as a gentleman with a small estate inherited from his father -- but he spent that small fortune in the blink of an eye with his, “riotous living.” Broke, Cox went to London to f...
Jonathan Wild: The Thief-Taker or Thief? Or Both? (00:25:07)
People thought Jonathan Wild was a fine, upstanding kind of a guy: he was a thief-taker who was very good at catching criminals. The Privy Council, advisers to the Crown, consulted with him on methods...
Juraj Jánošík: How a Slovak Bandit Became a National Hero (00:28:49)
England has Robin Hood. Australia has Ned Kelly. Japan; Goemon Ishikawa. There are many legendary heroic outlaws in many cultures. Juraj Jánošík has, over the centuries, become known as the Robin Hood...
William Davis: Farmer by Day, Highwayman by Night (00:28:17)
William Davis led a double life. He was a successful highway robber by night, and a respectable farmer by day. Farming was honest work, but, it was also a clever way to distract others from noticing t...
The Life and Death of the Laughing Highwayman: Jerry Abershawe (00:23:10)
Never confused with the legend of Robin Hood or a 'gentleman robber' among highwaymen, there was really nothing to admire about Jerry Abershawe. He was a thief and he was a cold-blooded killer – sever...
The First and Final Crimes of Jocelin Harwood (00:22:28)
Jocelin Harwood was a highwayman who committed such “Barbarous Murders” – and he was just so ...wow – that his fellow criminal associates betrayed him and gave him up to the authorities after they cou...
The Tale of Highway Robber William Spiggot and His Death (00:23:38)
William Spiggot was an 18th century English highwayman and the leader of a gang of at least eight men. While he may have started out as an apprentice cabinetmaker in London, he didn't end up following...
Scoop: John Nevison Was Not Dick Turpin and Dick Turpin Was Not John Nevison (00:23:36)
John Nevison was a very good highwayman, though you may not recognize his name. And that's largely because his crimes have, over the years, gotten attributed to the stories of other notorious highway ...
The Adventures of Robber Lewis: Counterfeiter/Robber/Jailbreaker (00:22:00)
Though dealing in counterfeit currency may have been David 'Davy' Lewis' first criminal efforts, he eventually added highway robbery as a lucrative gig – and that's when he gained the nickname, Robber...
Joan and Edward: The Bonnie and Clyde of Highway Robbery (00:21:49)
Joan Phillips was a known beauty with an artful and cunning mind -- and both her looks and the famiy's money attracted the attention of many suitors – suitors that Joan wasn't interested in. But all t...
Not Every Tom, Dick, and Harry Were Highwaymen; But These Were (00:27:02)
This is the tale (and legend) of the Dunsdon brothers: Thomas, Richard, and Henry – yes, a real life Tom, Dick and Harry. Known as the Burford Highwaymen, they terrorized the locals between Glouster a...
Claude Duval: The First Gallant Highwayman (00:21:46)
Some highwaymen were straight-up thugs. But some, like Claude Duval, were highwaymen who were polite, chivalrous, and sometimes portrayed as a version of Robin Hood – although none of them gave their ...
Lady Ferrers: An Heiress Turned Highwaywoman (00:21:17)
English gentlewoman and heiress named Lady Katherine Ferrers who, as a highwaywoman known as The Wicked Lady, terrorized England in the mid-1600s. Her legend persists nearly 400 years after her death ...
Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia: COLD CASES (00:36:25)
Welcome to the final episode of our season about cold cases -- unsolved crimes, where the perpetrator was never identified and there are no active leads. Whether it’s murders, robberies, or kidnapping...
The Tragedy That Inspired AMBER Alerts (00:25:02)
Amber Hagerman had long brown hair and freckles. She liked playing with her Barbie dolls, and was a Girl Scout. But on the afternoon of January 13, 1996, everything changed. Amber, age 9, was abducted...
A Tennis Tragedy: The Murder of Andrea Buchanan (00:26:46)
It was her smile, everyone said, that was the first thing you noticed about Andrea Buchanan. People called her "Miss Personality," and spoke of her as being a “free spirit with much energy and vitalit...
