Dixon, IL | 8. Home Sweet Home

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Years after Rita’s arrest, the people of Dixon gather in the town’s historic movie theater to watch a documentary about Rita’s crime. Then they hear that Rita may be coming home early. Unlock all episodes of Crooked City: Dixon, IL, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Crooked City show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bench.
0:09.0	It's
0:13.8	historic theater. Almost 70 years since the town of Dixon, Illinois,
0:18.0	gathered to watch a World War II film starring their hometown hero
0:21.9	Ronald Reagan.
0:23.0	Picture the small town of Dixon.
0:27.0	Today, they've gathered for a very different movie.
0:30.0	A documentary called All the Queen's Horses,
0:34.3	about their ex-comptroller and treasurer, Rita Crundwell.
0:37.8	Rita is a Dixon High School graduate.
0:40.6	She did her job very well, at least we we thought I guess the rest is history
0:47.0	From her secret account she wrote checks for her personal expenses such as spy visits, jewelry, real estate, a motor coach, and of course,
0:57.0	quarter horses.
0:59.8	And the pride the people of Dixon felt in this theater 70 years ago watching Reagan up on the
1:04.5	big screen has been replaced by the shame and anger of seeing Rita's crime laid out
1:09.6	before them. How does one person in a small town still $53 million and no one know and
1:16.9	get away with it for 20 years? The credits roll and the lights come up. Filmmaker Kelly Pope, an accounting professor from DePaul University,
1:36.0	takes the stage to answer audience questions.
1:39.0	My question is for Mrs. Pope.
1:42.0	I'm just kind of curious as to what stirred your desire and your passion to
1:48.1	pursue putting together this documentary?
1:53.0	I was fascinated because of who did it and where it happened.
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