Lady Marm-alade: Fredericka Mandelbaum
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Fredericka Mandelbaum (Marm or Ma, if you're nasty) was the powerful ruler of a criminal empire. Based on pickpocketing, theft, bank robbery, and forgery, her organization raked it in at the end of the 1800s in New York City and beyond. Out of reach from the law thanks to payoffs and complicity, Mandelbaum got away with her crimes, even when the Pinkertons got involved.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:23.5 | Ridiculous crime is a production of I-Heart Radio. Zarin. Elizabeth. How are you? Doing pretty darn good. Oh, are ooh. I'd be good. Listen. Yes. You know it's ridiculous? I do. Oh, nice. It's based on something you told me about. Oh, okay. You were telling me the other day about George Jones. |
| 0:24.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.3 | And his... You know it's ridiculous? I do. Oh, nice. It's based on something you told me about. Oh, okay. You were telling me the other day about George Jones and his last wife, Nancy Sepulvado. Yes. You got me curious, right? I went looking into their relationship because it's a well-told tale. Uh-huh. And they were married on March 4th, 1983, which I think you may have touched upon, which is right around now. So we're just looking at an anniversary for them. |
| 0:42.4 | Sure. |
| 0:42.9 | Congratulations to the couple. |
| 0:44.7 | But one thing I thought was really interesting, because at this point, George is trying to be, like, clean and sober. |
| 0:50.4 | Do you know where they celebrated, where the bride and groom went into toast their nuptials? I do not. I didn't think this might have come up. They went to the local Burger King following the wedding ceremony. Oh, my God. Did he get one of those paper crowns? That's what I want to know. George Jones and a Burger King crown. It's 1983, so they're still selling them. They each wore one. You know they wore one. |
| 1:11.4 | Like, oh, baby, past the ketchup from a fries and I'm going to toast this whopper to you. |
| 1:17.1 | Burger King. |
| 1:17.9 | Burger King. |
| 1:18.6 | Like a Burger King reception. |
| 1:19.7 | That's what the reception was. |
| 1:21.4 | That's beautiful. |
| 1:22.3 | I just, yeah, you know, there you go. |
| 1:24.0 | They wanted to have it their way. |
| 1:25.4 | Really? |
| 1:26.7 | Ridiculous, huh? It's amazing. |
| 1:28.0 | I did not know that. |
| 1:29.4 | Do you want to know what else is ridiculous? |
| 1:31.3 | Please. |
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