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Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with IHeartRadio.

Welcome to the final episode of our heists of many types season.

And also, welcome to the final episode of Criminalia. I'm Maria Tremarky.

And I'm Holly Fry. So that is right. This is the last episode of Criminalia. This is a decision

that has happened fairly recently. If it seems sudden to you, it kind of did to us as well. But

we are in a time when,

you know, things are changing in the audio space and decisions have been made well above our

heads about this show going forward. So we are sunsitting it with the deepest love. And from our very first show, we wanted to kind of get our

hands dirty. We wanted to dig in and look at some of history's crimes to understand them better.

And over these past years, we have told stories of historical offenders and offenses, and along

the way we've considered whether or not any of those

instances might look a little different today. If, for instance, maybe they would have some

commonality with our modern world and modern problems. With a little distance on the timeline,

some perpetrators can transition from villain to less villainous, and

sometimes, though, guilty is just guilty. How lucky we are to be a part of something that makes

saying goodbye so hard. This is actually two finales in one, so let's treat them that way. Let's talk

about this season, our final season,

first. So we've been talking about heists, these random and sometimes really oddball heists,

and the robbers who committed them. It was a season where we kind of collected the strays. We

talked about nut crimes and gold

toilets and Beanie Baby Madness. You never really knew what you were going to get from

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