Criminal

Nigel Cliff writes in his book The Shakespeare Riots that Forrest most likely saw the whole thing as a quote, cheerful rivalry between equals.

Karl Kapola writes that Forrest dislike of high society partially came from his own insecurities.

Kate Moore's book is called The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.

We're hearing from author Kate Moore.

Kate Moore says that in the early 1920s, radium was everywhere.

Kate Moore says the case helped lead to the establishment of OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Kate Moore is the author of Radium Girls, the dark story of America's shining women.

Given the quality of the music, I Robert Forster called Connie Converse Life a drama so sprawling with the denouement so unexpected that Hollywood can only gaze and wonder. And in Howard got there, he realized it wasn't just a handful of letters. It was a little bit of an out-of-body experience just because of the quantity and depth of what she left behind

I mean, I spent about a dozen years researching this woman's story.

I could never pin her to any location in the nine months following her dropping out of Mount Holyoke and then popping up in New York.

He said to me on many occasions, because he would, some that are well known from true crime history, like the Golden State Killer and the Heaven's Gate Cult, and others that you might not have even heard about before.

They're very funny, and Karen does a very good impression of me. I've been on the show a couple of times, talking about stories that I've come across that I think are really interesting,

Toby Doar wrote a book about her story in 2022.

Check out Skip Hollandsworth's Texas Monthly article, "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob."

Skip Holland's Worth is a writer for Texas Monthly, a man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and a brown leather jacket walked into a bank in Irving, Texas in May of 1991.

Skip Hollinsworth says this robber was smart. He knew to keep his head down, so security cameras would have a hard time getting a picture of his face. He didn't fidget while he waited for the teller to hand over the money.

Skip Hollinsworth wrote about her for Texas Monthly in 2005. He reported that a psychologist named Richard Schmidt sat down with Peggy J. Tallis.

Skip Hollinsworth says Peggy Jo Talis smoked a cigarette. He says she could have picked up the 357 Magnum she kept under her pillow, but instead she picked up a toy pistol.

And I was wondering through a bookstore on my lunch hour at work and just went to the index.

And there is a Bromowitz's door and he has this central role.

And there's a very pregnant pause in the transcript.

He doesn't answer the question.

And I think he must have been an emotional pause.

I think it's an illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost, like that painting, the really dramatic, uh, I want to say broke painting of Lucifer with like a blue eyes. He's like crying. He's just being cast out of heaven. Onions like that. He's so beautiful.

It was beautiful the way it's described it just sounds like this lovely adilic pastoral retreat.

It was supposed to be one woman per room and she would have a window in a nice bed and what ended up happening is they would put anywhere from four to six women in a room that was meant for one and they started using interior rooms um so none of those rooms had windows and another thing um they saw they would never have is windows in the door so you can look in the room something that prisons have because they felt you know the women would feel like you know they were on view like being in a zoo

They really did see it as a sanctuary as a retreat you know to take these people away from Manhattan and all its temptations and dangers and give them a chance to rehabilitate it they're sick will help them get better if they have mental illnesses we'll try to cure them and if their convicts will try to rehabilitate them I mean they really were proud when they began they felt you know we're going to do this right and we're going to show the whole world.

It didn't really have any effect on the conditions there. It was just not enough to even be a blip in their lives. Exposey after exposey would come out about the lunatic asylum and the other institutions and the public will go, oh this is terrible. The city would make some sort of effort to address the situation and it was always enough to get the outrage people to go, okay good something's happening something's going to get better but it never really got very much better.

Stacey Horan says unlike prison inmates who received a sentence the women at the asylum had no idea how long they would have to stay and if they would ever go home. One report showed that a majority of patients had been at the asylum somewhere between 10 and 30 years.

Maia Salovitz is a journalist in the US.

Maya Salovitz is a journalist in the US.

Maya Salovitz's book is Undoing Drugs, how harm reduction is changing the future of drugs and addiction.

In the 1987 book The New Heroin Users, Geoffrey Pearson quotes one young person saying the next minute it was everywhere, like it just sort of took Liverpool by storm.

Jack Barsky wrote a book about his life. It's called Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.

Jack Barsky wrote a book about his life. It's called Deep Undercover my secret life and tangled allegiances as a kgb spy in america

Kind of Withering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, the best Jane Austen book ever. And movie.

Kate Winslet soaking wet on that hill in the movie of Sense and Sensibility is burned into my mind.

Oh, how about the soundtrack that I had? I also owned the soundtrack. I also owned a printed book of the screenplay. I own the movie poster. On the wall? Oh my God. What was on the poster? I can't remember who's Emma Thompson.

And you know, she had albums of, I don't know if you remember the Michael Jackson Off the Wall album where he was standing on the wall.

Joe Pompeo's book is called Blood and Ink, the scandalous jazz age double murder that hooked America on true crime.

You can see them at thisiscriminal.com, where we'll also have a link to Margalit Fox's book. It's called The Confidence Men, How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History.

The prime minister's book is called Reykjavik. It's about a young girl who goes missing in the 1950s from a remote island called Videy, off the coast of Reykjavik.

And I think that's something that Icelanders relate very strongly to, because even though we don't have a lot of crime, we often have people disappearing simply because of the very tough natural circumstances. We have the ocean around us where people disappear.

Our latest book is The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde.

Susan Wells is a historian and author of the book *An Assassin in Utopia*.

Susan Wells writes that growing up, Garfield hated working outside. He preferred books.

Susan Wells writes that before they buried Trod, James Garfield asked a photographer to take a memorial family portrait.

Susan Wells writes that he was stunned and tried to protest the votes, but was interrupted by cheers and people chanting his own name.

Susan Wells writes, many called it depraved, but Noyce fostered for more than three decades the most successful utopian experiment in American history.

Arthur Conan Doyle, who was most famous for writing Sherlock Holmes novels and stories,

He'd been planning a series of stories called The Uncharted Coast about the paranormal, about poltergeists and ghosts and fairies was one of the things that he was writing an article about.

So he was in the middle of researching this article about fairies when he got contacted by the editor of Light Magazine, which is a big spiritualist magazine, saying have you heard about these photographs that Edward Gardner's showing at the Theosophical Institute?

And he's sort of signed and his address at the bottom. So it's all kind of given like sworn testimony almost.

There's an element in which he's drawing on the kind of Sherlock Holmes-ian persona to build his credibility.

There was a famous cartoon in Punch magazine where with his head in the clouds and manacled to him at the ankle was Sherlock Holmes looking very annoyed and there's a poem that went underneath it about how Conan Doyle had turned his back on science and Sherlock Holmes was clearly saddled with this guy and his book