Lunchtime Crime
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July 26, 2025 • 4 mins
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"Now, she conspired with her husband, Brian Ahakuelho, who was a former union leader, and he rigged a union dues increase vote in January 2015. And the jury found that she expl. Exploited union funds to finance luxurious travel, including first class flights, which had minimal or no union business justification. She was one of several family members on the union payroll, and she earned...
"Now, she conspired with her husband, Brian Ahakuelho, who was a former union leader, and he rigged a union dues increase vote in January 2015. And the jury found that she expl. Exploited union funds to finance luxurious travel, including first class flights, which had minimal or no union business justification. She was one of several family members on the union payroll, and she earned...
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July 26, 2025 • 4 mins
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"It was implanted into unsuspecting patients and it was billed to insurers to the tune of around $18,000 or even more under some reimbursement codes. A key part of the scam involved a component known as the pink stylet, which was purposefully manufactured as too large to safely implant. So providers were then directed to purchase a replacement white stylist. Which was a piece of plasti...
"It was implanted into unsuspecting patients and it was billed to insurers to the tune of around $18,000 or even more under some reimbursement codes. A key part of the scam involved a component known as the pink stylet, which was purposefully manufactured as too large to safely implant. So providers were then directed to purchase a replacement white stylist. Which was a piece of plasti...
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July 26, 2025 • 4 mins
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"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to lunchtime Crime. Today I have the not entirely sweet story of Mrs. Butterworth, a colonial housewife and master counterfeiter. Mary Peck Butterworth was born in 1686 and died in 1775. An exceptionally good run for a woman of that era. Not bad today really. She lived in Massachusetts an...
"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to lunchtime Crime. Today I have the not entirely sweet story of Mrs. Butterworth, a colonial housewife and master counterfeiter. Mary Peck Butterworth was born in 1686 and died in 1775. An exceptionally good run for a woman of that era. Not bad today really. She lived in Massachusetts an...
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July 26, 2025 • 5 mins
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"And she created work in this identity, and she called it inspiration, and some people called it cultural appropriation. Durak's work as Eddie Buruck began appearing in 1995 and gained some prestige in art exhibitions such as the 1996 Telestra Telstra. Not Telestra Telstra, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. That is a mouthful. However, Durac in 1997 revealed tha...
"And she created work in this identity, and she called it inspiration, and some people called it cultural appropriation. Durak's work as Eddie Buruck began appearing in 1995 and gained some prestige in art exhibitions such as the 1996 Telestra Telstra. Not Telestra Telstra, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. That is a mouthful. However, Durac in 1997 revealed tha...
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July 26, 2025 • 5 mins
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"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. I guess today instead of coming up to the lunch counter, you're going through the drive thru and is that your car? It would have been a fair question to ask 42 year old Amanda Johnson of Greeley, Colorado. Her current address is the Colorado Department of Corrections. ...
"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. I guess today instead of coming up to the lunch counter, you're going through the drive thru and is that your car? It would have been a fair question to ask 42 year old Amanda Johnson of Greeley, Colorado. Her current address is the Colorado Department of Corrections. ...
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July 19, 2025 • 5 mins
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"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to lunchtime crime. We usually focus on pretty hearty, simple fare here at the lunch. Murders, cons, thefts. But today's feature is definitely a little more complicated. The main ingredient is murder, but there's a lot of lot of side dishes here. Our scene is Vermont in 1919, and our body...
"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to lunchtime crime. We usually focus on pretty hearty, simple fare here at the lunch. Murders, cons, thefts. But today's feature is definitely a little more complicated. The main ingredient is murder, but there's a lot of lot of side dishes here. Our scene is Vermont in 1919, and our body...
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July 19, 2025 • 5 mins
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"So if there was no real reason to do an autopsy, no obvious reason, poisoning could easily be mistaken for a disease and escape notice. But that was changing around 1915. Forensic toxicology had improved and there was something called the Marsh test. And this test and some other confirmation procedures allowed investigators to detect even really small amounts of arsenic in tissue and ...
"So if there was no real reason to do an autopsy, no obvious reason, poisoning could easily be mistaken for a disease and escape notice. But that was changing around 1915. Forensic toxicology had improved and there was something called the Marsh test. And this test and some other confirmation procedures allowed investigators to detect even really small amounts of arsenic in tissue and ...
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July 18, 2025 • 5 mins
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"And he never returned. Later, a handyman from the Sprague household discovered him lying along a path. He'd been shot. He'd been beaten with blunt instruments, and he was barely recognizable. Now $60 and a gold watch were on his person. So that ruled out robbery as a motive, suggesting a crime with a more personal motivation of hatred or maybe revenge. Suspicion immediately fell on th...
"And he never returned. Later, a handyman from the Sprague household discovered him lying along a path. He'd been shot. He'd been beaten with blunt instruments, and he was barely recognizable. Now $60 and a gold watch were on his person. So that ruled out robbery as a motive, suggesting a crime with a more personal motivation of hatred or maybe revenge. Suspicion immediately fell on th...
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July 18, 2025 • 6 mins
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"And they told him, you know, how to get in the house and, and what Dr. Wilson's schedule was so that he could lay in wait. Now, the prosecution's case hinged entirely on his testimony, which was inconsistent and certainly self serving because he received a plea deal with the possibility of parole instead of a death penalty. So that's a pretty good deal. There was little to none for fo...
"And they told him, you know, how to get in the house and, and what Dr. Wilson's schedule was so that he could lay in wait. Now, the prosecution's case hinged entirely on his testimony, which was inconsistent and certainly self serving because he received a plea deal with the possibility of parole instead of a death penalty. So that's a pretty good deal. There was little to none for fo...
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July 18, 2025 • 6 mins
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"She had been fatally beaten and decapitated and raped, and there was immediately a suspect, a neighbor, but that didn't prove to go anywhere. However, a detective saw a similarity to the murder of Marietta Ball, and this led him to a suspect from that case, a lumberjack named Joseph LePage, who had lived in Vermont and was now in New Hampshire. He was questioned in the original case a...
"She had been fatally beaten and decapitated and raped, and there was immediately a suspect, a neighbor, but that didn't prove to go anywhere. However, a detective saw a similarity to the murder of Marietta Ball, and this led him to a suspect from that case, a lumberjack named Joseph LePage, who had lived in Vermont and was now in New Hampshire. He was questioned in the original case a...
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July 13, 2025 • 4 mins
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"But there's more to the story. Lefty was a gambler, a Las Vegas casino executive, an organized crime associate, and an FBI informant. He was born in Chicago and got his start gambling at Wrigley Field. And when his family acquired racehorses, he learned the finer points of winning at the track. He was a phenomenal bookmaker, and that caught the interest of certain people in Cicero, an...
"But there's more to the story. Lefty was a gambler, a Las Vegas casino executive, an organized crime associate, and an FBI informant. He was born in Chicago and got his start gambling at Wrigley Field. And when his family acquired racehorses, he learned the finer points of winning at the track. He was a phenomenal bookmaker, and that caught the interest of certain people in Cicero, an...
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July 13, 2025 • 5 mins
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"The cargo ship carrying 286 undocumented Chinese immigrants ran aground off Queens, New York. Ten people died, and the event brought national attention to both the scale and the brutality of the human smuggling trade. Her exact role in the Golden Venture episode is debated, but authorities and rival smugglers identify her as a key investor and organizer. Her operation could be ruthles...
"The cargo ship carrying 286 undocumented Chinese immigrants ran aground off Queens, New York. Ten people died, and the event brought national attention to both the scale and the brutality of the human smuggling trade. Her exact role in the Golden Venture episode is debated, but authorities and rival smugglers identify her as a key investor and organizer. Her operation could be ruthles...
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July 13, 2025 • 4 mins
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"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. We've been serving up stories about nicknames this week, and who does that better than organized crime? One of the most inspired examples is Sam the Velvet Hammer Maceo. He was a Sicilian born American crime boss, entrepreneur, political power broker and philanthropist...
"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent, but I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. We've been serving up stories about nicknames this week, and who does that better than organized crime? One of the most inspired examples is Sam the Velvet Hammer Maceo. He was a Sicilian born American crime boss, entrepreneur, political power broker and philanthropist...
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July 11, 2025 • 4 mins
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"With the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty height of silver. The Lone Ranger. Hmm. What do you think? Some historians have suggested that Bass Reeves was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger, a masked human hero who fought injustice on the frontier. Of course, the version that we know is a white guy with a mask. The show became a sensation first on radio in the 30s and later...
"With the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty height of silver. The Lone Ranger. Hmm. What do you think? Some historians have suggested that Bass Reeves was the inspiration for the Lone Ranger, a masked human hero who fought injustice on the frontier. Of course, the version that we know is a white guy with a mask. The show became a sensation first on radio in the 30s and later...
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July 10, 2025 • 4 mins
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"Nicknames are an intrigiing window into how we talk about the crime and criminal. So I hope you'll come back for more servings all week."
"Nicknames are an intrigiing window into how we talk about the crime and criminal. So I hope you'll come back for more servings all week."
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July 3, 2025 • 5 mins
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"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent. But I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. There are some things you just should not put in your mouth, including my cooking and the toy I'm going to tell you about that led to really tragic consequences. Aqua Dots, sometimes sold as bindis, was a craft kit that was supposed to encourage creativity. But it ende...
"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent. But I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. There are some things you just should not put in your mouth, including my cooking and the toy I'm going to tell you about that led to really tragic consequences. Aqua Dots, sometimes sold as bindis, was a craft kit that was supposed to encourage creativity. But it ende...
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July 3, 2025 • 4 mins
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"And the husband and father of these two women did have the position and potential access to sensitive information about explosives manufacturing that would have been important to both American and German war efforts. Of course, remember 1938. We are technically not in it yet. Despite Sheriff Fox's dogged pursuit of leads, including having a criminal pose as a doctor and working very h...
"And the husband and father of these two women did have the position and potential access to sensitive information about explosives manufacturing that would have been important to both American and German war efforts. Of course, remember 1938. We are technically not in it yet. Despite Sheriff Fox's dogged pursuit of leads, including having a criminal pose as a doctor and working very h...
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July 3, 2025 • 4 mins
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"Barefoot himself denied involvement, claiming he was out of the state at the time of the murder. But the weight of testimony and evidence pointed to a coordinated Klan plot. The Larry Pettic case shattered any myth that might remain that the modern Klan is not criminal and ruthless. And as hate groups go, it's not exactly a brain trust. That's it for today's lunchtime crime. We have s...
"Barefoot himself denied involvement, claiming he was out of the state at the time of the murder. But the weight of testimony and evidence pointed to a coordinated Klan plot. The Larry Pettic case shattered any myth that might remain that the modern Klan is not criminal and ruthless. And as hate groups go, it's not exactly a brain trust. That's it for today's lunchtime crime. We have s...
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July 3, 2025 • 4 mins
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"Now, surprisingly, this was not about money. It was about personal grievance and hatred for a supervisor. Davis had been demoted and he was harboring a lot of resentment toward Wright Industries and Gillette. And he feared for his job security. So he stole the information, detailed technical drawings, trade secrets, and sent them by fax and email to several of Gillette's direct compet...
"Now, surprisingly, this was not about money. It was about personal grievance and hatred for a supervisor. Davis had been demoted and he was harboring a lot of resentment toward Wright Industries and Gillette. And he feared for his job security. So he stole the information, detailed technical drawings, trade secrets, and sent them by fax and email to several of Gillette's direct compet...
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July 3, 2025 • 6 mins
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"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent. But I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. Today we have a cold cut platter, an unsolved murder that dates back to 1940. And this one really is a mystery because, honestly, at least half of the unsolved cases that I've heard about are not really unsolved as much as they are unproven. Law enforcement and other p...
"It's time for lunch. You have the right to remain silent. But I won't remain silent. Welcome back to Lunchtime Crime. Today we have a cold cut platter, an unsolved murder that dates back to 1940. And this one really is a mystery because, honestly, at least half of the unsolved cases that I've heard about are not really unsolved as much as they are unproven. Law enforcement and other p...
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