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Criminal

Kids on the Case

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica got out her notebook, looked for fingerprints, and decided she would conduct her own investigation. This week, four stories of kids who cracked the case. This episode was first released in 2020. 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, 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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0:00.0

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0:05.5

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0:22.4

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0:24.6

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0:30.4

Support for Criminal comes from Apple Podcasts.

0:33.8

Sometimes you get an urge to look back at your past, and the decisions you regret or the connections you lost.

0:40.0

And you start to wonder, what if things have gone differently?

0:44.0

Heavyweight is a podcast that looks into that question and tries to make things right.

0:48.7

Listening to a single episode, you can laugh, cry, reflect on crossroads in your own life, or even find the closure you might be searching for.

0:55.9

Listen to heavyweight right now on Apple Podcasts.

1:01.4

I've always just naturally been curious, like I've been a natural investigator my entire life.

1:07.1

This is Jessica Maple. Back in 2011, she was finishing sixth grade and starting to make plans for her perfect summer. And what she really wanted to do was go to a policy debate camp. And then my mother said, hey, Jessica, I just got an email from the school and the county is going to have a junior district attorney camp.

1:28.3

Jessica was annoyed that her mother assumed that district attorney camp would be anything like policy debate camp.

1:36.3

She was 12.

1:38.3

And I'm just like, mom, I'm not into this type of stuff, so I don't want to go.

1:45.9

And she's like, well, you're going anyway.

1:49.5

So I was a bit upset until I went that first day.

1:55.7

For years, District Attorney Paul Howard led camps for Atlanta's middle school students.

2:00.2

Campers didn't swim or canoe or make friendship bracelets. They spent their days at police stations and observing criminal trials.

2:05.6

They had to abide by the junior DA Creed.

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