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January 11, 2022
Introducing Heavyweight
Crime Show
Crime Show will be back with new episodes starting January 25th. Today we'd like to introduce you to Heavyweight episode #38: Justine.
December 14, 2021
2021: The Stories That Got Away
Every Crime Show story starts with a pitch. But, for one reason or another, not every pitch turns into a Crime Show story. This week the whole team sits down with Emma to talk about their favorite pitches that never got made.
November 30, 2021
Introducing 544 Days
Crime Show will be back in two weeks with a new episode, and then we'll be taking a short break before we come back with
November 16, 2021
Scums.xls (with update)
*Rebroadcast of an episode we ran in April with an updated ending* After a man is threatened by a telephone scammer, he spends the next several years tracking down the person responsible. In the process, he uncovers a massive criminal syndicate operating in plain sight.
November 2, 2021
An Unlikely Suspect
In 2012, a sleepy bedroom community experienced their first murder in almost 40 years. Police quickly figured out who committed the crime, but struggled to explain why he’d done it.
October 19, 2021
A Ghost Story
At first, the house on Beryl Road seemed unremarkable -- just a typical suburban home in Northern Virginia. Then, a young couple moved in and started experiencing strange, ghostly phenomena.
October 5, 2021
Introducing Not Past It
Crime Show introduces Not Past It: The Enron Whistleblower.
September 21, 2021
Paging Dr. Barnes
There comes a time in everyone's life when you realize that your parents are two people: who they are with you, and who they are with the world. For Steve Barnes, that happened one day while he was reading the newspaper.
September 7, 2021
Don't Click This Link
One night, a 911 center in Olympia, Washington, was flooded with incoming calls. Something horrible had happened: there had been an attack. But the attack was on the center itself.
August 24, 2021
A Man With No Name
A man wakes up at a shopping mall in Cincinnati, but claims to have no idea how he got there. He says he doesn’t even know his own name. As doctors and detectives search to uncover his identity, they discover an unexpected clue: The man’s amnesia may have been caused by a terrible attack.
August 10, 2021
The MySpace Misdemeanor
When teenager Hillary Transue made a MySpace page poking fun at her vice principal, she never imagined it would land her in a juvenile detention facility—and that to get out, she would need to expose a corruption scheme that ran to the highest echelons of the state's judicial system.
July 27, 2021
Introducing Stolen
Crime Show introduces Stolen: The Search for Jermain.
July 13, 2021
21 Witnesses
In 1978, in Austin, Texas, something happened in Mr. Grayson’s eighth-grade English class that shocked the 21 students present, and reverberated forward into their adult lives. Forty years later they reunited to piece together what happened. Read Robert Draper’s Texas Monthly article here.
June 29, 2021
The Takedown, pt.2
A helter skelter ride through London’s criminal underworld, blood-stained MMA gyms, an audacious bank robbery, and a manhunt that spanned continents. Part 2 of 2.
June 15, 2021
The Takedown, pt.1
A helter skelter ride through London’s criminal underworld, blood-stained MMA gyms, an audacious bank robbery, and a manhunt that spanned continents. Part 1 of 2.
June 1, 2021
The Secret Billboard Chart-Topper
Martha Wash was flipping through TV channels when, to her complete surprise, she happened upon a familiar voice: her own – coming out of the mouth of someone else. Problem was: stealing her voice wasn’t a crime.
May 18, 2021
Better Take Some Shovels, pt. 2
A social worker doesn’t hear from a client that she had placed at a boarding house. When she investigates, she discovers that her client isn’t the only one who is missing.
May 4, 2021
Better Take Some Shovels, pt. 1
April 20, 2021
There's No Place Like Grand Rapids
A small town in Minnesota has an identity crisis: Should they embrace their beautiful lakes for tourism, or Judy Garland, the troubled movie star who was born there? When a big crime hits their small town, the decision is no longer theirs.
April 6, 2021
Scums.xls
After a man is threatened by a telephone scammer, he spends the next several years tracking down the person responsible. In the process, he uncovers a massive criminal syndicate operating in plain sight.
March 23, 2021
18 Minutes
After a fire blazes through her home and kills her baby, a mother struggles to pick up the pieces of her life. Six years later, investigators show up with some shocking news.
March 18, 2021
This is Not a Crime Show
The stories are true and the topic is crime. But it's really about people — the survivors, victims, perpetrators — in their own words, telling the stories of a crime, and the unexpected impact it’s had on their lives. Launches March 23rd.
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