Best in Show: The Canine Cons of Margaret Lydia Burton

Ridiculous Crime

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True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If you have an interesting accent and know how to act fancy, you can get away with a lot. Margaret Lydia Burton used that fact to her advantage, moving from town to town, conning people and living well. She thought she'd settled down to begin a life of skimming enormous amounts of money from a medical clinic and spending it on...show dogs. But people got wise, so Burton got moving.

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0:00.0	In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.
0:11.5	The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.
0:15.8	Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man.
0:19.1	I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts.
0:22.6	This is Ear Witness.
0:24.9	Listen to Ear Witness on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
0:29.8	podcasts.
1:00.6	Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.
1:06.5	Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of, or an illicit student teacher
1:10.4	relationship on our favorite show.
1:12.8	We're Suzy Banticaram and Jessica Bennett, posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where
1:17.5	each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from the past that shaped us, and probably you,
1:22.1	to try to understand what it taught us about the world and our place in it.
1:25.4	You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.
1:28.6	Listen to In Retrospect on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find
1:32.7	your favorite shows.
1:34.5	Ridiculous crime is a production of I Heart Radio.
1:37.0	Hi, Zaryn.
1:38.0	Oh, hey, what's up?
1:39.0	What are you doing here?
1:40.0	Just here to ask you if you know what's ridiculous.
1:42.8	Oh, man, I'm so glad you asked.
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