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Ridiculous Crime

Ridiculous Crime

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Summary

 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.2026 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia True Crime World
Episodes
  • Competition Crimes II: A Slight Return

    Competition Crimes II: A Slight Return
    May 5 2026

    Wherever you find people competing for a prize, if the number of them grows large enough, eventually, you will have cheaters. In the niche worlds of competitive stone-skippers, hog hunters, and British trivia shows, Zaron and Elizabeth ferret out some ridiculous examples. Let the games... and the crimes... begin!

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    59 mins
  • Practice Should Have Made Perfect: The Great Brink's Robbery

    Practice Should Have Made Perfect: The Great Brink's Robbery
    Apr 30 2026

    This heist team was more meticulous than most. They planned, they schemed, they made years of dry runs and observations. And the plan went off without a hitch. After the plan? Not so much. In a sort of early Stanford Marshmallow Test, these crimers just couldn't delay gratification. And for that, they paid the price.

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    54 mins
  • Fakers, Fraudsters and Phonies: Everything's A Lie Now!

    Fakers, Fraudsters and Phonies: Everything's A Lie Now!
    Apr 28 2026

    In this round-up of recent tales of fakers, fraudsters, and phonies, Zaron shares with Elizabeth a smorgasbord of stories of fake bears, phony medical emergencies on Mount Everest, and a fraudulent influencer abduction to get at the truth of why we can't trust anything any more. And get this: no AI was involved in this episode.

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    1 hr
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