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Lauren wanted white collar crime, so we've got a white collar crime episode this week! Samuel Isreal III didn't want to rely on his family's wealth. No! He wanted to make it all on his own. So when it turned out he was really bad at hedge funding, he just pretended he was good at it. Sources: Business Insider: “The Crazy Story of Samuel Israel, the Ponzi Schemer who Faked His Own Su...

Frederick Grant Dunn was a notorious criminal in his day... or maybe he was notoriously bad at crime. You decide! Sources:  Kansas City Star: “A Hundred Dollar Bill Tripped the ‘Most Wanted Man’” by Joe Henderson Deseret News: “Felon Spends 40 Years in Prison” by Ted Himstreet Des Moines Register: “Eldora boys’ school violence continues, but monitor says mental health care is improving” by Tony Le...

In this special 10th episode, Amanda and Lauren talk about the ten fugitives currently on the FBI's Most Wanted list (only seven of which are still fugitives!), what their crimes were, and in some cases, where they might be found. What's this? A preview of some future episodes?! You betcha! Have you seen one of these fugitives? Do you have information to share? Please visit tips.fbi.gov...

After a horrifying stint in prison as a young adult, Kazuko Fukuda wasn't going back, no matter what the cost. So the women with seven faces went on the run, and her own face was her best disguise. Sources: Medium: “She Killed Then Changed Her Face to Escape Police for 15 Years” by S. A. Ozbourne Crime Reads: “Kazuko Fukuda: The Woman of Seven Faces” by Tori Telfer Tokyo Reporter: “Heisei Fla...

"Mean" Marie Dean Arrington always taught her children to do as she said, not as she did. And what she did was a fair amount of petty crime... along with some not so petty crime. After her son received an unreasonable sentence for his own petty crime, Arrington lived up to her nickname. Sources: Crime Reads: “Marie Dean Arrington: The Woman Who Fled from a Florida Electric Chair” by Tori...

In part two of our two part series on Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe, we find out what happened to each of the members of the poorly executed bank robbery team, including these two radicals on the run.  Sources: *Note: Some of these old articles come from a time before everything had a byline. If I’m not naming a person, it’s because there wasn’t a byline on the article.* ·       New Yor...

It's time for some "counterculture!" What do you get when you cross two liberal arts educated Vietnam War protesters and some actual criminals? R A D I C A L S. This is part 1 of our two-part series on Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe. Happy Women's History Month! Sources: *Note: Some of these old articles come from a time before everything had a byline. If I’m not nami...

Shauntay Henderson joined the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list on March 31, 2007 and was captured the same day. They say she was a tough broad and a gang member who was terrorizing the streets of Kansas City and taunting the police while on the run. But... was she? Sources: ·       The Pitch: “Shauntay Speaks” by Nadia Pflaum ·       Wait to Panic podcast: “Episode 38 – FBI Most Wanted Women...

Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak really wanted to rob the Wah Mee Nightclub. He'd been talking about it for years. But he couldn't do it alone, so he enlisted his high school friend Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng and acquaintance Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng to help him. Unlike Benjamin, Tony wasn't actually friends with Willie - he just owed Willie some money, and Willie agreed t...

Christopher Jones and Alison Gracey were two Brits hanging out in the Caribbean, owning dive shops and totally following all of the laws set by the Coast Guard about their boats and the maintenance of those boats. Definitely following the laws. No maritime crimes here!  Sources: ·       The Guardian: “Britons Arrested in Caribbean over Tourist Aimee Rhoads’ Diving Death” by Claire Phipps ·       A...

Timmy John Weber was just a regular guy dating an older woman with three teenaged children. Or... was he? When his (objectively) disgusting secret was threatened to be revealed, he committed a heinous crime in an attempt to cover up his other heinous crime. Sources:  ·       Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Notorious Las Vegas Killer Timmy ‘TJ’ Weber Dies” by Glenn Pruit ·       Las Vegas Review-Journal...

Thomas James Holden was right out of the golden age of gangsters, until a horrific crime committed in his later years got him the notoriety of the first person ever listed on the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list. Episode Sources:  ·       Grunge: “The Truth about the First Person on the FBI’s Most Wanted List” by Luke Holden ·       History Daily: “The History of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Lis...