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Criminal

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Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

While investigating a murder, a Polish detective discovered an unusual clue – a novel that contained an odd number of similarities to the real-life crime. David Grann is the author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon, and his article about Krystian Bala is contained in his collection The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, invitations to virtual events, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.0

Megan Rapino here. This week on a touch more figure skating legend Tara Lipinskiopensky joins us to talk about the upcoming winter

1:11.7

Olympics whether this will be the comeback year for u.s women's figure skating and what she learned

1:17.5

about herself after appearing on the reality show the traitors plus we're talking about the nws l's

1:23.2

high impact player role aka the rodman rule and and why the players' union is against it.

1:29.2

Check out the latest episode of A Touchmore, wherever you get your podcast, and on YouTube.

1:39.4

This episode includes graphic descriptions of violence. Please use discretion.

1:45.0

One day in southwest Poland, there were a couple fishermen, and one of them noticed something floating, and then the other came over, and they realized it was a body.

1:57.0

And there was a noose around the neck, and the hands had obviously been tied behind their back.

2:05.1

There was no doubt that the figure had been murdered.

2:09.6

This is author David Graham.

2:12.3

The men who found the body called the police who came to remove it.

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