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Criminal

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Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ed and Bertha Briney’s unoccupied farmhouse was reportedly broken into 50 times over 10 years. They put up “No Trespassing” signs, repeatedly complained to sheriffs in two different counties, nailed doors shut, and boarded up windows - but nothing worked. So they decided to try something else. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. 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

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Well, everyone knew everyone in this very small town called Eddieville, and everyone apparently knew the brinees.

0:41.0

In 1957, a couple named Ed and Bertha briney inherited an old farmhouse from

0:47.6

Bertha's parents in a rural part of Iowa. And they left it unoccupied for 10 years and it was not inhabited old farmhouse and out in the middle of nowhere basically.

1:02.0

But they kept items of value apparently in there.

1:07.0

Bertha Briny's grandparents and parents had lived in the house.

1:12.0

After her parents died, Bertha Briny... parents had wanted to keep things as they were down to the plates and

1:15.0

wanted to keep things as they were down to the plates and silverware on the kitchen

1:20.1

table we're hearing about the brinees and their farmhouse

1:24.1

house from retired law professor Andrew McClure. People had repeatedly broken

1:29.1

into this house. According to the brinees in the decades since they inherited the house, it had been broken into 50 times.

1:38.0

Ed Briney later said he'd nailed doors and windows shut, posted seven no trespassing signs around the property,

1:46.5

and complained to sheriffs in two different counties over and over.

1:51.2

But nothing seemed to work.

1:53.0

So they basically boarded up the windows

1:56.0

and put tin over the windows to try to keep people from breaking in,

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