Lunchtime Crime episodes:

• April 14, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Wish You Weren’t Here

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  "And that someone could turn murder into something so grotesquely recreational, like he was sending souvenirs from hell. So, lunch buddies, I can't tell you what drives someone to do something like that. Narcissism. Control. Or some deeply seated desire to be remembered in a twisted way. Later, killers have followed in his footsteps, such as BTK and others have tortured families of people they've killed with calls and letters. So maybe it's just a low impact exercise of cruelty."

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• April 12, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Crimes of Fashion

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  "If you're trying to get a visual and you can't quite think Bogart in Casablanca and you can still get one direct from the company in Italy, it was founded in 1857. I think your hat can cost you over 500 bucks. But you could opt for the less expensive Panama hat if you don't want to go full on Capone. Excuse me. If the thinking man's gangster is more your style icon, you could skip the accessory of a gun and look to Arnold Rothstein or Meyer Lansky."

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• April 05, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | The Last Shot

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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. America loves stories about people who are the first to do something. But some people don't choose that status. It's thrust upon them. And that's the case of Charles Brooks Jr. He's the first person in the US to be executed by lethal injection. Brooks was executed December 7, 1982. He was being punished for a crime he committed in 1976."

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• April 05, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | No Graphic - For Your Protection!

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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 had some heavy fare lately, so I thought I'd give you something of an amuse bouche. Nobody dies this time. We're going back to 1933. No shoes, no shirt, no problem, because we're visiting a nudist colony."

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• April 05, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Now I’ll Tell?

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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 you could say today's special is leftovers. In writing my book, I did a lot of research on New York in the 1920s, and that reignited my fascination with a gentleman who makes a brief but chilling appearance in the story."

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• April 05, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Southern Harm

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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's special is a cold case chillier than a mint julep served in a pewter julep cup. The case goes back to 1933 and involves one of the oldest leading families in South Carolina. Mary Ravenel died in Charleston in 1933 at 64. And it wasn't one of those peaceful in her own bed, surrounded by loved ones kind of deaths."

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• April 04, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Little Miss Miracle

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  "They didn't need to be scared for their lives. Publicizing such a traumatic event might have caused unnecessary pain or even backlash against the studio or radio network. So, lunch buddies, what could have been a very tragic tale ended up being a bit of a Christmas miracle. Come back for more lunchtime crime. We'll be serving all week."

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• March 30, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Springing Something on my Lunch Buddies

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  "I hope I will be able to offer listeners and followers some bonus content, including maybe a discount and a willingness to zoom in and tell your book club all the juicy bits I left out. I'll let you know when the book and audiobook are out there in the world. It won't be long now, lunch buddies. I am so excited and cannot wait for you to meet the Scandal Sisters."

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• March 30, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Angel of Andersonville

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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's menu is hardtack, and not much of it, because our story starts during the Civil War. Imagine that you're not yet 20 years old. You've just survived as a Union soldier imprisoned in the infamous Andersonville."

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• March 30, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Full-Service Bad Guy

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  "And boy, did he show people in multiple states and even outside the U.S. what an abused and abandoned young boy could grow up to be. He claims he was attacked about every possible way as a 12 year old in Minnesota State training school. And that's where he learned to hate humanity. And he found lots of ways to demonstrate it. Panzram's criminal career spanned decades and continents. He confessed to a staggering array of crimes, including 21 murders. Only five were corroborated."

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