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Ridiculous Crime

Know When to Hold 'Em: Canada Bill Jones

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Folks, we got us a card sharp. Canada Bill Jones was a three card monte guy, taking rubes for their cash on trains and riverboats across the heart of America. Oddly principled and unrepentant, ol' Bill is a con artist for the ages.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.7

On America's Crime Lab, the podcast, we're revealing the true story of the Idaho Four.

0:09.4

I was so frantic that morning and scared that the person who did this would come from me next.

0:14.6

They were struggling to identify a direction, a person of interest.

0:19.0

And I said, why wouldn't we work this case?

0:21.7

This three-part series features never before heard interviews about a crime that shook the nation

0:26.3

and the forensics lab that cracked the case wide open.

0:29.8

Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.8

Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Zarin. Elizabeth. Zarin, get over here. I'm here. Question. Should I sit down? No. Yeah. Stay standing. Okay, cool. You know what's ridiculous? I do. Oh. So, you know, I've told you recently that that story about Keith Richards and John Lennon, right? Well, I did some research, and I was bumping around the Rolling Stones. I found something interesting about Mick Jagger. Uh-huh. And, you know, he was married to Jerry Hall, the model for, like, a long time? Yes. Well, they were married for, like, about 23 years. And apparently, she got really tired of all the, like, infidelities on his part. Yeah. And she's like, look, you're a sex addict. Oh. And he's like, yeah, probably right. And so he's like, you need to go to therapy and deal with this if we're going to stay together. So Mick agreed. He's like, yeah, I'll do that, you know, whatever. So he goes. And turns out he seduced his sex therapist.

1:28.9

Stop.

1:30.2

Stop.

1:33.3

So that did not work.

1:34.5

He just, like, did the chicken walk in the room.

1:37.0

He can strutton over.

1:38.1

She's like, I got to have some of that.

1:39.7

All I think about with Mick Jagger is that John Malaney bit about how when he was hosting Saturday

1:44.9

Night Live, how he was deciding what, you know, skits they should do.

1:50.2

And John Malaney would pitch one and Mick Jagger would say, not funny.

1:54.3

Yeah, exactly. I thought that for you.

1:56.7

Not funny.

1:58.2

So there you go. That's ridiculous, right?

2:00.3

That's good. Siducing the therapist therapist. Who is going to for help? Who is a sex therapist? Like, she knows this is the one thing I cannot do. Well, but you know, I guess she's got weaknesses. Yeah, she's like, let me see what made those lips smile. For some reason, these, the ladies, they can't resist them.

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