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Ho, Ho, Hold It Right There: A Collection of Christmas Crimes

12/23/2025 • 49 min

T'was the night before the Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring... except for a mouse stealing some Christmas cookies. No, not really. But this episode is a fun collection of Christmas crimes and the holiday-crazed criminals who committed them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Play episode

A Con So Nice, He Named Himself Twice: Lord Gordon Gordon
The Love Triangle of Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes and Ava Gardner
The Napoleon of Crime: Adam Worth
The Johnny Cash Jamaican Christmastime Miracle
You Better Listen to the Radio: Operation Ostrich
The Zambian Plot
Don't Mess with the Big Dog: Martha Stewart
The King of Counterfeiters: Jeff Turner
There Ain't No Cure for the Varsity Blues: Rick Singer
The Flapper Bandit: Rebecca Bradley Rogers
Someday We'll Find It: The Pizza Connection
America's First Great Bank Robber: George Leonidas Leslie
Welcome to the Dollhouse: Velvalee Dickinson
Warmest Regards, The Leopard: Betty Grable Extortion Letters
Lord Buckingham, I Presume: Charles Stopford
Say It Ain't So, Joe: The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
Billy Don't Be a Hero: Fyre Fest
McMillions: When Uncle Jerry Rigged the McDonald's Monopoly Game
Jeffrey Alan Manchester: The Roofman Cometh…AGAIN
The Next Wes Anderson Movie: George Weyerhaeuser
Stephen Jackley: The Wannabe Robin Hood
Less Talk, More Rock: The Krupp Diamond
Bring Your Gun to Work Day: The Soboba Casino Heist
The Crimes They Don't Want You to Know: Kevin Trudeau
Eric Edson: The Burlington Bandit
Know When to Hold 'Em: Canada Bill Jones
Ryan Borgwardt: The Wannabe Ghost of Green Lake
The Salad Oil King of New Jersey: Tino De Angelis
Keith Richards and John Lennon Take an Acid Road Trip
Aldi Money in the World: Theo Albrecht
Patrick Critton: the Black Panther Turned Skyjacking Schoolteacher
Put It on My Tab: Anna Delvey
A Fraudulent Aretha Franklin: How Do You Spell Respect?
Diamonds Aren't Forever: Henri Lemoine
Don't Fence Me In: Mark DeFriest
Curate This: Influencer Crimes
Someone Could've Died! The Best-Ever College Football Pranks
The Wheels on the CAN Bus: Car Hacks
Pray For Them: Buddhists Monks Behaving Badly
The Original Child Star: Jackie Coogan
Doing Crime to Prove You're Innocent: the Han Van Meegeren Story
Call of the Wild: Plant Crimes
Close But No Cigar: The Nearly Perfect Dunbar Heist of 1997
Let Me Drive: Violet Charlesworth
The Argentine Heist of the Century
Classic RC: Tonight There's Gonna Be a Jail Break: Two Escaper Boys
Classic RC: Just Like in the Movies: The Story of Rédoine Faïd
Classic RC: Barb and Star Would Never: Judy Amar
Classic RC: Let's Take to the Sea!

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