Criminal is a podcast about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. NYT Best Podcast of 2023. Hosted by Phoebe Judge.

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Thank you @ApplePodcasts - and thank you to all of you for listening for more than a decade! Excited for what's to come. ✨ Find us at apple.co/Criminal.
Forget everything you thought you knew about crime storytelling, because this Creator We Love is changing the narrative. For over a decade, @CriminalShow host @PhoebeVJudge has been reporting on unusual cases of wrongdoing and mischief. apple.co/Criminal
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When Sister Helen Prejean was young, she declared that she would either grow up to be the President or the Pope. Instead, she became a nun — and later, a spiritual adviser to men on death row. Meet Sister Helen: buff.ly/mxxh4Nn
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28 Dec 2025
“And I said to him, you are not going to die without seeing one face in that witness room that loved you. And when they do this, you look at me, I will be there for you.” Listen to our latest: buff.ly/mxxh4Nn
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27 Dec 2025
“I want to live to the full… which means to love as fully as I can. And when it comes to loving in the criminal justice system, it means working really hard for justice and for people’s voices to be heard.” buff.ly/mxxh4Nn
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26 Dec 2025
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row. She told us, “I thought that all I was going to be doing was writing letters. And lo and behold, two years later, I am in that execution chamber.” buff.ly/ZufS2RA
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23 Dec 2025
Earlier this year, the Denardo family took a road trip. They’d been driving for about a hundred miles on a highway when they stopped for gas – and found their cat, Ray Ray, standing on the roof of their van. More stories about animals really going for it: buff.ly/ZufS2RA
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22 Dec 2025
One day last year, police in Switzerland noticed that a speed radar camera had been triggered by something that wasn’t a car. Stories of animals gone wild in our latest: buff.ly/ZufS2RA
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21 Dec 2025
In Cornville, Arizona, a javelina once got stuck inside a Subaru after climbing in to get to a bag of Cheetos. “It seems that the javelina was having a midnight snack, for lack of better terms.” Listen to our latest: buff.ly/ZufS2RA
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20 Dec 2025
Leo has stolen 300 items of clothing from about 40 different houses. His owner has a WhatsApp group with her neighbors – she takes photos of all the clothes Leo brings home, and people respond with their items circled. Stories about animals gone wild: buff.ly/ZufS2RA
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19 Dec 2025
Heidi Taylor’s goat Joshua had never escaped before – until the day their town held its first half marathon. “When they were running by, he must have thought, ‘I’m going with them.’” Today, our 5th annual episode about animals really going for it: buff.ly/mxxh4Nn
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15 Dec 2025
“It replays in my head over and over. All I can hear is the tire screeching and seeing the back of my car.” Listen to our latest: buff.ly/mxxh4Nn
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14 Dec 2025
New episode out today: buff.ly/mxxh4Nn
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13 Dec 2025
Phoebe: You must have been thinking, what the hell just happened? Laura: Yeah. And it was one of those things where you kind of felt the need to keep telling the story, to make sure it was real. buff.ly/mxxh4Nn
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12 Dec 2025
On Christmas morning, Laura Nowlin was in her living room with her infant son. They were getting ready to leave to spend the day with family. buff.ly/O7YyHxb
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Sarah Cornell worked in textile factories and mills all over New England. She started attending Methodist meetings and met a minister named Ephraim Avery. In the summer of 1832, Sarah told her sister that she was pregnant. A few months later, she was dead. buff.ly/O7YyHxb
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During Ephraim Avery’s trial, his lawyers called over 150 witnesses to the stand. Many of them gave testimony, not about Ephraim Avery, but about the woman he was accused of murdering - Sarah Cornell. buff.ly/O7YyHxb
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In 1833, writer Catharine Williams began working on a new book. She’d published books of poetry and about the Revolutionary War before, but this book was going to be different. It was going to be about a Methodist minister, a mill worker, and a murder. buff.ly/O7YyHxb
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Today, a look at what's been called the first true crime book. "The book was beyond biased." buff.ly/O7YyHxb
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In our new bonus episode, Phoebe talks about meeting Santa in an unexpected place - and about one of her audiobook pet peeves. Join Criminal Plus to listen: buff.ly/6ew98qG
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