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Criminal is an is an independently produced podcast that focuses on true crime, it is part of the Radiotopia network. It describes its self as telling "stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle"

Criminal explores explores the story around a different criminal case in each episode on a wide range of topics including stories about a mother-daughter coroner team, a couple who manufactured counterfeit banknotes with inkjet printers and a Venus flytrap crime ring. Photographs related to the story and an original illustration for each episode available on the official website.

Criminal is produced by Lauren Spohrer and Eric Mennel, and presented by Phoebe Judge and was launched in January of 2014 after Spohrer, Mennel and Judge met while working on The Story with Dick Gordon at WUNC.

Critical Reception
Criminal has been described as "the best new radio show in America" in The Huffington Post, by Time as "the purist’s true crime series" and by Alexis Soloski, theater critic at The New York Times; "no matter how strange or ghastly the crime, the voice of the host Phoebe Judge somehow remains implacable and oddly soothing."