Criminalia

About Criminalia

Humans have always committed crimes. What can we learn from the criminals and crimes of the past, and have humans gotten better or worse over time?

Publisher

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

Category

society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Aug 2020

Latest episode

10 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

83 of 279 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Farewell, From Criminalia, and Thanks for All the Crime

   This is goodbye, but it's also thank you – thank you for supporting us as we walked in and out of historical crime scenes, nefarious cocktails, and we are grateful you took this adventure with us.

2. 

   3 Sept 2025

   'America': The Stolen Golden Toilet

   On September 14, 2019, the one-of-a-kind art installation was stolen.

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   27 Aug 2025

   Mayhem, Madness, and Marshmallow the Bunny: When the World Lost Its Mind Over Beanie Babies

   When Beanie Babies hit the scene in 1993, the original line of stuffed toys featured nine characters -- but that number would grow to hundreds. The brainchild of Ty Warner, and made by his company, Ty Inc., they were one of the hottest toys of the 1990s -- but they also inspired an underground economy that dealt in fraud and many, many thefts. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

Inside a recent episode

Farewell, From Criminalia, and Thanks for All the Crime

Published 10 Sept 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But also is a nice commentary on the ephemeral nature of a lot of art. There have been a lot of art history that we'll never know about or see again where the loss of the art became its own kind of art and that just makes it like the meta levels of this whole story are so great to me. I love it. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

419,108,275

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

1,269 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

402 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

93

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