The 3rd Degree - Nicholas Di Puma

True Crimecast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for a true crime tale so bizarre, it sounds like a comedy sketch! In this episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John unravel the wild insurance fraud case of Nicholas Di Puma. Picture this: a man, a cooking fire, and two flaming pans leading to a burning house and a blazing convertible. It's a story authorities called "straight out of a Three Stooges movie," and you won't believe how quickly this ridiculous scheme went up in smoke.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.8	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.4	Man, I'm craving some slapstick comedy. Something like, I don't know, like the three stooges.
0:22.7	You got anything like that if it's really dumb.
0:25.0	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.6	Welcome to True Prime to Go.
0:34.0	I am John here with Jamie.
0:36.0	Some slapstick.
0:37.1	Hadn't heard that word in a while.
0:38.4	Yeah, well, we were talking about Happy Go Moore, too, on our Bless Their Hearts podcast.
0:42.6	And on Netflix, that's one of the descriptors of the movie is slapstick comedy.
0:47.9	Is it because he has a stick that he slaps things with?
0:51.0	I mean, he does, but no, that was a term well before happy dawned the
0:55.7	green. But today's story is just as chaotic. Like, it's not long enough for a movie,
1:01.9	but I think S&L could have some fun with this story. All right, man. Why don't you get us
1:06.0	rolling? We're going to talk about the curious case of Nicholas D. Puma, a man who's cooking accident, quote unquote, not only led to a burning house, but also a flaming convertible.
1:18.9	Okay.
1:20.2	He's from Walton, New York, and he claimed that a small cooking fire got out of control.
1:25.7	He said he tried putting it out.
1:29.2	He had caught a steak on fire.
1:37.2	He tried putting it out with a dishrag. Dumb. That caught on fire. And in a panic, he threw the pan out his front door and it landed in the back seat of his convertible catching it on fire.
1:42.3	That's a weird setup. You think that's bad.
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