The 12 Crimes of Christmas: Holiday Hijinx
Once Upon A Crime
Esther Ludlow
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Get into the holiday spirit—true crime style! In this special holiday edition episode, we’re talking Black Friday madness, Grinchy burglars, and other wild holiday crime stories.
Plus, enjoy holiday greetings from some of our favorite true crime podcasts:
🎄 Canadian True Crime 🎄 True Crime Garage 🎄 Southern Fried True Crime 🎄 Insight Podcast 🎄 True Crime Island 🎄 Murder Road Trip 🎄 The Cleaning of John Doe 🎄 Killifornia Dreaming 🎄 Done Disappeared
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast details true crime cases. It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence. |
| 0:06.9 | It is not intended for children. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. We're in the series, |
| 0:18.8 | The 12 Crimes of Christmas. |
| 0:21.6 | During this holiday season, I've decided to share a few true crime stories that are a bit |
| 0:26.1 | more fun in nature, so as not to harsh your holiday buzz. |
| 0:30.4 | Last week I told you about some very bad Santas who turned to a life of crime. |
| 0:34.9 | This week, I've got a hodgepodge of holiday-related true crime stories, |
| 0:38.5 | from outrageous to amusing, to share with you. I'll also be sharing some holiday greetings |
| 0:43.2 | from some of my podcast friends. Some you may recognize, and others may be new to you, |
| 0:48.8 | so make sure to jot down the names of those to check out and subscribe to. This is Chapter 2, |
| 0:55.3 | holiday hijinks. the names of those to check out and subscribe to. This is Chapter 2, Holiday Hygings. |
| 1:13.5 | I'll admit it, I'm not a big fan of holiday shopping. Threading my way through traffic, fighting for a parking spot, |
| 1:15.7 | waiting through crowds of shoppers at the mall, |
| 1:19.3 | and hauling back loads of shopping bags is really not my cup of tea. |
| 1:23.2 | I do more and more of it online to avoid all of those things. |
| 1:31.3 | I really just try and do one all-encompassing shopping trip to my nearby outlet mall early in the month of December to cross it off my list of things to do. |
| 1:38.7 | I'd much rather spend the time sitting in front of the fireplace, drinking a glass of wine or a cup of spiked eggnog, and just hanging out and relaxing. |
| 1:45.6 | But I know some people who absolutely love holiday shopping. They go armed with a list, know how to find the best deals, and just seem to get a real kick out of scoring that $200 big screen TV or whatever. |
| 1:51.3 | And for these people, the best day of all is Black Friday. As you may or may not know, |
| 1:57.3 | Black Friday is now a yearly tradition for many hardcore holiday shoppers, at least in the United States, where we love extreme everything. |
| 2:05.4 | Black Friday could be called the Olympics for holiday bargain hunters. |
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