Stupid Crimes Episodes

True Crime Tuesday Presents Crime And Unusual Punishment: The Psychological Realities Of Federal Prison w/Former Psychologist/Author, Paul Smith! Paul Smith was a clinical psychologist sentenced to 51 months for healthcare fraud and in his new book, confronts the harsh realities of federal prison. Incarcerated amid the chaos of the COVID pandemic, he endured a relentless odyssey through eight different prison facilities, caught in a near-perpetual cycle of transfer. Through his expert lens, CRU...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Fiend: Supernatural Secrets in Business, Family, and Tragedy with Ex-CIA Agent/Author, Alma Katsu! Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. Th...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Something Big: The Brown's Chicken Massacre, A Decade Long Manhunt & The Trials That Followed with Researcher/Author, Patrick Wohl ! Customers know Brown's Chicken for its crispy buttermilk fried chicken and flaky biscuits. The Illinois-based franchise has a reputation for delicious but simple comfort food. But through no fault of its own, the words "Brown's Chicken" are also synonymous with one fateful night in January of 1993. “A Real Hometown” is the trite but a...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Please Don't Lie! w/ Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt! Two years ago, Hayley Stone lost everything. First, her parents died in a devastating fire. Then, her sister overdosed, leaving Hayley alone and hounded by a media circus that turned her family’s tragedy into tabloid fodder. When her new husband suggests a fresh start in the Adirondacks, the promise of anonymity in an isolated mountain town feels like salvation. But the mountains hold darker secrets than she...

True Crime Tuesday presents: I Become Her: A Thriller with Author, Joe Hart! Only ten days into their marriage, Imogen and Lev Carmichael are on a honeymoon cruise in the Mediterranean when Imogen suspects her husband of being unfaithful. Amid the recriminations, denials, and rage, Lev falls overboard into the water. It’s a miracle he’s found alive. And with no memory of what pushed him―and Imogen―over the edge. Back home among family and friends, Imogen and Lev are finally starting to readjus...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Bless Your Heart: Murder In Buckhead with Screenwriter/Author, Leigh Dunlap! Anderson Tupper, a member of one of Atlanta’s richest families, has been found murdered in the dugout of the Little League field where he was a volunteer coach, and it’s up to Detective Shay Claypool, a single mother from the other side of town, to find his killer. With the exclusive area of Buckhead threatening to secede from the city of Atlanta and take its tax revenue with it, Shay is un...

True Crime Tuesday presents Pen And Blood: Conversations With Killers with Broadcaster/TV Personality/ Crime Expert/ Author, Alan R. Warren! Step into the darkest corners of the human mind with bestselling true crime author Alan R. Warren as he uncovers chilling words from some of the most notorious killers of our time. Behind the Blood offers a rare and unflinching look at the thoughts, motivations, and disturbing realities behind crimes that shocked the world. Through exclusive letters and in...

True Crime Tuesday presents Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals 0701 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, A Loony Toon gets chased for three days and is finally arrested by cops! A man is accused of attacking an Ice Cream Truck Driver who he thought was 'acting suspicious around kids! Wait until you hear what innocent thing he saw the man doing! A Florida Man is allegedly caught driving 115 MPH while recording a Snapchat video with a baby in the back seat! AND, we tell you why a pair of Taiwanese parents wh...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Smile For The Cameras: Murder On A Movie Set w/Miranda Smith! Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pr...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Down To The Bone: Investigating The Murder of The McStay Family w/ Caitlin Rother! On February 15, 2010, Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their two young sons were reported missing from their new home in San Diego County. They left eggs and fruit rotting on the counter. Their Dodge truck sat in the driveway. Their dogs were abandoned outside without food. But investigators found no blood, signs of a struggle, or clues to their whereabouts. Did the family take an ...

True Crime Tuesday presents Depraved Obsession: Law Enforcement's Hunt for A Sadistic Serial Killer with Former Decorated Police Officer/Author, Rod Sadler ! What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer? During his nearly fifteen-year reign of terror, Ronald Lloyd Bailey’s depraved obsession with sexual sadism held communities across southeast Michigan in a shroud of fear. From the early 1970’s to the mid-1980’s, the former patient at one of Michigan’s foremost psychiatri...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Body Parts: A Serial Killer's Deadly Compulsions with Journalist/Author, Caitlin Rother! When Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office in November 1998 with a woman's body part in his jacket pocket, the 36-year-old truck driver wasn’t a suspect in any crime. After a lengthy investigation spanning four California counties and a sensational trial, he was convicted of the torture and murder of four women. His first victim, whom he dismembered, w...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Money Machine: Mass Murder and the Suicide That Changed Las Vegas with Mike Turber! Mike Turber is an investigative Reporter/ Former Security Consultant who was called in to take a look at the worst mass shooting in Las Vegas history, and in the process, managed to change the official narrative and find the truth behind the shooter, Stephen Paddock, and his reign of terror on the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Mike has managed to do everything from finding evidence tha...

True Crime Tuesday presents Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals 0422 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, A Florida Man shouts the equivalent of "hold my beer", as her gets caught speeding in the triple digits this week! Atlanta Police arrest a parapalegic man for kicking down his ex's door and assaulting her, then kick his wheelchair out from underneath him while arresting him... An Only Fans Model foes on a hotel pee spree, and straight out of White Lotus, a naked man in Houghang attacks another man with ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The Crack City Strangler: The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins with Researcher/Journalist/Author, B.R. Bates! Benjamin "Tony" Atkins' reign of terror in Detroit spanned less than a year in the early 1990s. Known for targeting vulnerable women in Detroit's most dangerous neighborhoods, Atkins attacked at least 13 women along a mile-and-a-half stretch of Woodward Avenue, one of the city's most iconic streets. Known as "the nation's fastest serial killer," At...

True Crime Tuesday presents: You Are Fatally Invited with Author, Ande Pliego No crime writing retreat is complete without a murder... A legendary author’s murder mystery writing retreat on his private island turns lethal when one of the writers is murdered in this twisty debut novel. When renowned anonymous author J. R. Alastor hires former aspiring writer Mila del Angél to host a writing retreat at his private manor off the coast of Maine, she jumps at the chance—particularly since she has a...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Murder On Skid Row with Author, Charlene Wexler! The homeless and migrants are not new to Chicago. In the 1960s, there was Chicago’s Skid Row, centered at Madison and Halsted Streets. Now an area filled with recently built upscale housing and trendy businesses near Greektown, decades ago it was a downtrodden community occupied by lost souls, mainly veterans from the war nobody wanted to recognize—Vietnam. Mel, a young dentist who believes he can do good for the peop...