Ridiculous Update: Rita Crundwell and Her Little Ponies

Ridiculous Crime

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True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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We look back at the woman who embezzled $53 million dollars from her small hometown in the American heartland, all so that she could pay for her pony obsession. Now she wasn't hitting the track, no, Rita Crundwell lusted to become a celebrity in the world of horse breeders and trainers. And now, we have an update!

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0:00.0	Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:03.5	Elizabeth, what are we doing here?
0:05.3	We're supposed to be on vacation.
0:06.3	I never go on vacation.
0:07.8	You never go on vacation.
0:09.3	I mean, they close the building down,
0:11.4	and we have to do like we did this morning,
0:12.9	where we use the lock pick and break in.
0:16.0	You're welcome for that for Christmas.
0:17.2	Thank you so much.
0:18.1	I think the lessons have been helping both of us. But they keep us out of here, but not 100%.
0:24.1	They can't keep us out.
0:25.3	No, they really can't.
0:26.4	Well, the reason why I called for this confab and headquarters today,
0:29.3	yes.
0:30.0	Don't tell producer Dave we're here.
0:31.6	No.
0:32.7	I had a story update for you, what I wanted to share.
0:35.9	You may remember the story about Rita Cronwell,
0:38.0	ran back on July 19th, 2022. Okay. Remember that name? Yes. Oh yeah. She was the comptroller
0:44.0	for the small town of Dixon in western Illinois. Right. She's the one who embezzled millions of
0:50.3	dollars from the coffers of her little small town, innocent small town, and she's like a Hoover
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