According to Stanford's encyclopedia philosophy, loyalty is usually seen as a virtue, albeit

a problematic one.

Imagine how dangerous your devotion to someone becomes when they turn out to be a cold-blooded

killer.

You're now forever described as guilty by association.

You've got blood on your hands, running with the wrong crowd, or simply put, accomplice.

One on this list showed unwavering loyalty, and it gave them all a level of fame.

I'll be it very problematic.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from podcast.

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Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling

crimes, all picked by the podcast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten infamous accomplices.

See, I feel like the key to a good accomplice, or I should say sidekick, because let's not

go out looking for accomplices, everybody let alone know.

Look for that sidekick.

So a good sidekick is definitely someone who's always there, they're going to enter that

fray with you, hopefully not like a felonious fray, just a regular fray.

But they're always also going to be there to tell you, you know, you're being bonkers,

sit down, take a drink of water, like hydrate, take a shower, meditate, calm down.

Like sidekicks need to be level headed, I feel like.

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