Criminalia

268 Episodes

1. ‘Where Sick Folks Get Well’: Norman Baker Couldn’t Cure Cancer. Period.

   Published: 4/23/2024
2. Spoiler! Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People … May Have Worked

   Published: 4/16/2024
3. Radioactive Quackery: 'Doctor' Bailey and His Jaw-Dissolving ‘Energy Drink’

   Published: 4/9/2024
4. How Perkins Tractors Taught Us the Placebo Effect

   Published: 4/2/2024
5. Madame Yale Made a Fortune as America’s 19th-century ‘Wellness Guru’

   Published: 3/26/2024
6. How ‘Rattlesnake King’ Clark Stanley Became King of Snake Oil Sales

   Published: 3/19/2024
7. Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'BLACKMAILERS'

   Published: 3/12/2024
8. Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'

   Published: 3/12/2024
9. When Blackmail Accidentally Uncovers Political Corruption

   Published: 3/5/2024
10. Duke of York and Mary Anne Clarke

    Published: 2/27/2024
11. The Story of Walter Minx, the Sears Extortionist and His Homemade Submarine

    Published: 2/20/2024
12. Blackmail Fail: What Happened When George Ratterman Reformed 'Sin City of the South'

    Published: 2/13/2024
13. Inheritance Lost: The Murder of Captain Joseph White

    Published: 2/6/2024
14. ‘Acid Burns’: That Time Mae West Was Blackmailed, Know What I Mean? See?

    Published: 1/30/2024
15. Why Charles Augustus Howell Was Called the Worst Man in Victorian London

    Published: 1/23/2024
16. A Murder, a Letter, and the Questions Surrounding King Edward II’s Death

    Published: 1/16/2024
17. How Emily Posts' Philandering Husband Was the Catalyst for Her Career Success

    Published: 1/9/2024
18. ‘Publish and Be Damned!’; and, Harriette Wilson Did

    Published: 1/2/2024
19. Horrific Murderer and Half-Hearted Blackmailer: Meet Dr. Cream

    Published: 12/26/2023
20. How Constance Kopp Become New Jersey's First 'Plucky Girl Sheriff'

    Published: 12/19/2023