Podcast Discontinued episodes:

• March 22, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | The Mystery of Claude Kendall

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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 story hits hard, even though it dates back to 1937. It involves the murder of a publisher. And we find ourselves in a time when books and even librarians are under attack. This man may have been killed because of the books he published. Or maybe not. It's an unsolved case, and therefore we aren't sure about the motives."

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• March 22, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Unhappy Customer

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  "Nearly a decade before the shooting, his former business partner warned Cole's firm that Cooper blamed her for his tax issues and warned, you need to be careful. But no one seems to have taken that seriously. On the day of the murder, Jimmie Dale Cooper visited an attorney's office where he held the attorney at gunpoint and coerced him into calling Cooper's former business partner, Donnie Miller. When Miller arrived, Cooper shot and killed him."

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• March 22, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Painful Extraction

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  "He was a wealthy guy with a girl on the side who decided to take his wife on a dream vacation. His dream? Her nightmare. The Rudolphs. Larry and wife Bianca traveled from Pennsylvania to Zambia for a luxury safari. And Larry bagged Bianca, so to speak. On the final day of their trip, she died from a shotgun blast to the chest. Larry claimed her death was an accident, stating that she shot herself while packing her gun."

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• March 22, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Road Rash

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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 entree is very relatable until it takes a turn, and then it really isn't. Or at least I hope not. Have you ever faced a really important test, one that you absolutely had to pass, or maybe one you were sure you did pass, but the person evaluating you didn't quite agree? You've been there, right?"

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• March 16, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Is Mental Murder Real?

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  "They claimed that Steinhardt had a 36 page confession that contained names, but nobody seems to know where that went, so the jury decided there was no coercion. Who were they going to point to? It was a suicide and the widow was out a lot of money, just like her husband's victims were. Please come back for more lunchtime crime. We definitely don't have all the answers here at the lunch counter, but we serve up some intriguing questions, and some of them date back decades."

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• March 16, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | While You Were Out

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  "Metroplex Adventist Hospital and its parent company, Adventist Health System, were also included in the lawsuit for failing to address his complaints and fostering a hostile work environment. In response to the lawsuits, the defendants requested dismissal on the grounds that Drew's claims were a health care liability claim, not a criminal act, and therefore required expert medical reports. A county trial court initially granted this dismissal. However, In May of 2011, the Texas Court of Appeals for the Third District reversed this decision."

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• March 15, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Surreal Art

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  "It was front page news on, you know, the newsstands in Buffalo. And there were some cultural tensions over a Native American woman murdering a white woman. There was also in the second trial, a rumor that Clarence Darrow was going to get involved. He did not, of course. Lunch buddies. What gets lost in all this sensationalism is poor Clotilde, though she did get a posthumous exhibition of her art, thanks to all the publicity. Please come back for more lunchtime crime all week."

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• March 15, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | Dog Fight

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  "This led to a chaotic encounter. The friend was tackled by a doorman. Police were called, and accusations of dog napping were hurled. The incident culminated in a courtroom battle for the custody of Rocky. The trial revealed some pretty deep emotional attachment on both sides, as well as their willingness to spend a lot of money to take Rocky home. The legal battle reportedly cost upwards of $60,000 in attorney fees and court proceedings."

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• March 14, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | I Thee Scam

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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. Maybe we should get into catering here at Lunchtime Crime. Maybe weddings because wow, lots of opportunity for criming. A notable example of a bridal expo scam involved Karen Tucker, a Pittsburgh woman who orchestrated fraudulent bridal shows across multiple states. She pulled this scam in Boston, in Ohio, in Florida and Maryland and Nevada and Texas."

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• March 08, 2025@LunchtimeCrime | 30,000 Women

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  "Some resisted by rioting or escaping detention facilities, while others pursued legal challenges. Over time, changing attitudes towards women's rights and public health led to the decline of the American plan. By the mid 20th century, however, laws that remain on the books and continued state surveillance of women's bodies was. Well, there was a precedent, wasn't there? The program's impact extended beyond its immediate victims, influencing modern systems of incarceration and public health policy."

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