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Ridiculous Crime

True Crime is more than blood, guts, mayhem, and murder. Zaron Burnett and Elizabeth Dutton share outlandish tales of capers, heists, and cons that shine a light on the absurd and outrageous side of criminality. Always 99% murder-free and 100% ridiculous, this is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast by iHeartRadio.

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50:59

I Wanna Be Bootsy, Too!

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2025/03/11

They say it's never good to meet your heroes in real life. It's even worse if you meet your hero in real life and it's not really them. This week, E and Z examine tales of the many folks who want to be the original funkateer, Bootsy Collins. Antics and mayhem ensue. But there is only one true Bootsy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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48:55

The Dulcet Tones of Zyme Bedewing: Mike Smith

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2025/03/06

AC/DC told us it's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. Sage advice. But that was before the age of AI. Now it's a short way to the top if you want to create hundreds of thousands of fake songs to make millions from streaming services. Mike Smith did just that, courtesy of Artificial Intelligence. Gaming the system like that is all well and good, but can AI create a masterpiece like AC/DC's "Big Balls"? Doubtful.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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54:10

The Great Air Jordan Train Robberies of 2024

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2025/03/04

Train robberies are so 19th century. Air Jordans are so 20th century. Yet, combine them and you get the hottest new crime of the 21st century: train robberies of boxcars of Jordans. Come aboard as E and Z ride the rails of crime.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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50:42

IRS Will Survive: Studio 54

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2025/02/27

It was a dark fantasyland of excess and glamor. We speak not of your local Applebee's. No, we mean Studio 54, the ne plus ultra of 70s discotheques. It was the place to see and be seen, to do drugs and get glitter in your cracks. To just dance, baby! Until the IRS came calling. And with the evidence the owners left behind, they couldn't blame it on the boogie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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57:55

The Inimitable Miss Cleo: The World Famous Fake Phone...

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2025/02/25

The late '90s were such a different time... kinda. But the last real decade still had plenty of fakers, grifters, and scam artists, all offering up questionable spirituality and easy answers... just like now! Enter Miss Cleo, the legendarily scammy fakin' Jamaican phony phone-based psychic and the face of a highly profitable long con, the Psychic Readers Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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50:11

With a Side of Chow Chow: The Kidnapping of Elton B....

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2025/02/20

A Southern Gothic thriller for the ages, this is the tale of a Coen Brothers-esque kidnapping gone sideways. A bumbling couple take a magazine subscription heir prisoner to fund the purchase of their dream home, and the whole saga is later chronicled by the inventor of a game in which one hunts humans. Listener Lane Price tipped us off to this epic, delivering a Southern fried wild ride.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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54:34

God Save the Queen...and the Sex Pistols

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2025/02/18

1977 was the year punk broke. It was also the Silver Jubilee year, which was a special celebration to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Never one to miss publicity, the princes of punk rock, the Sex Pistols, released their new single, God Save the Queen, and chartered a boat tour just to mock the monarch, which resulted in a police beatdown. It was truly anarchy in the UK.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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55:44

The Art of the Steal: Stephane Breitwieser

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2025/02/13

Listen, we all love art. But this dude LOVES art. So much so that he steals it and never lets go. His mom, though, isn't afraid of turning some loose. It's like they say: if you love something, set it free…into a canal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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60:43

Le Scandal: the French Mayor and the Nudist...

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2025/02/11

At the start of 2024, a conservative mayor of a small charming French seaside nudist resort town was accused of embezzlement and illegal use of city funds. Allegedly, he was secretly paying a fortune-telling ventriloquist, a woman who claimed she could speak with the dead, so that the mayor could hear from his dear departed daddy. The result? Le scandal!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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60:38

Come Fly with Me: Airline Stowaways

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2025/02/06

Sometimes you need to fly the friendly skies, but you don't have a ticket. There was a time when the solution was to just sneak onto a plane and act like ya know. Follow a handful of young and young-ish scofflaws as they sneak aboard, confound security, and have unforgettable adventures that, of course, end in cuffs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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60:39

When the USA Caught "Pac–Man Fever"

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2025/02/04

In the early '80s, America faced a dire existential threat...in the form of "Pac-Man Fever." A moral panic feared that a generation of kids would be lost to the insidious new video game craze. Inspired by First Lady Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No," America's moral scolds fought back.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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49:37

The Flying Forger: Bad Bobby Baudin

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2025/01/30

Zany! That's how people described Robert Baudin, aerial photographer and counterfeiter extraordinaire. But he was more than zany. He was bold. He was crafty. And like Exclamation Perfume, the popular scent of the early 90s, he made a statement without saying a word.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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54:43

As the Worm Turns: Dennis Rodman Goes to North Korea

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2025/01/28

What do you get when the Supreme Leader of North Korea has a sports crush on Michael Jordan but can't get the NBA great to come see him? Well, you settle for Jordan teammate, Dennis Rodman. And before you know it that one choice leads to international hijinks, political intrigue, denuclearization talks, and the revelation that Dennis Rodman may be a real life superspy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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49:10

Don't Let the Door Hit Ya Where the Good Lord Split...

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2025/01/23

It's one thing to bilk the gullible who are looking to make a quick buck, it's quite another to con those who are looking for healing and salvation. It's terrible. Sickening. Despite the valiant efforts of a skeptic magician, it looks like Peter Popoff is still selling holy water and phony debt relief. This episode sounds like a bummer, but somehow it isn't.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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57:50

Have Mercy!: The Hard Gambling Nuns of Torrance

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2025/01/21

Holy moley! A fake nun, a fake bishop, a con man priest, and the belle of the ball... a pair of hard gambling nuns who embezzle a million dollars from a Catholic school in Los Angeles to fund their secret lifestyle as Vegas whales AKA high roller gamblers who just love the action.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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61:21

Pietro La Greca & The Mexican Money Laundry Part 2

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2025/01/16

For the second part of this tale about Pietro La Greca Sr., the one-time gigolo, turned arsonist, turned money launderer for the Mexican cartels and who later graduated to running tax scams with the head of the Mexican IRS, his son recounts the effects on his family from having a ridiculous criminal for a father. (Warning: there's frank discussion about terminal cancer in this episode)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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56:11

Pietro La Greca & The Mexican Money Laundry Part 1

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2025/01/14

Imagine your father is a charming international one-time gigolo turned clothing boutique owner turned arsonist turned money launderer for the Mexican cartels and Mexican presidents. Well, turns out you don't have to imagine it because that's the life of Pietro La Greca Jr. and he told Elizabeth and Zaron all about it!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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62:19

Want to Get Away Week: Sealand

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2025/01/09

Want to get away from it all? Start your own country? Fight some Dutchmen? Go up against the British crown? That's what Paddy Roy Bates did when he founded Sealand, an island nation off the coast of England. Come for the pirate radio, stay for the dodgy passports!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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57:05

Want To Get Away Week: Come Aboard the Sex Raft!

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2025/01/07

Want to get away from it all? What if you could climb aboard a homemade raft, and join a group of young and sexy strangers, and together you all drift across the Atlantic, as a Svengaliesque professor stirs up sexual chaos and documents it all for his study of human beings. Sound fun? Or does it sound... ridiculous?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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55:32

Ridiculous Update: Revisiting the Theft of the Ruby...

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2025/01/02

We look back at the time someone stole Judy Garland's ruby slippers from the movie The Wizard of Oz. With a special update about the fate of the slippers since the episode originally aired!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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