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Ridiculous Crime

The Crimes They Don't Want You to Know: Kevin Trudeau

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Trudeau was a born salesman...and an excellent con man. He knew exactly how to rope people in with promises of wealth, health, and all around better lives. But as we all know, if something sounds too good to be true, it is. And it's probably a brainchild of ol' Kev.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.0

On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods

0:13.2

of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does

0:19.2

someone prove that they deserve to live?

0:21.8

We are starting the recording now.

0:23.7

Please state your first and last name.

0:27.4

Krista Pike.

0:28.8

Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life,

0:32.2

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.8

On America's Crime Lab, the podcast, we're revealing the true story of the Idaho Four.

0:44.8

I was so frantic that morning and scared that the person who did this would come from me next.

0:49.3

They were struggling to identify a direction, a person of interest.

0:56.4

And I said, why wouldn't we work this case?

1:01.4

This three-part series features never before heard interviews about a crime that shook the nation and the forensics lab that cracked the case wide open.

1:05.0

Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:27.5

Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Zarin. Elizabeth. Hello. How are you doing? I'm going to start talking like this. It hurts to do it too long. Yeah. Then don't do that. I won't do that. If it hurts me when you do that, don't do that. Thank you, doctor. Thank you so much. That's great advice.

1:28.7

Case closed.

1:29.5

You know, it's ridiculous.

1:31.5

Oh, my goodness, do I, Elizabeth.

1:32.1

Tell me.

1:40.5

Friend of the show, Sammy Hagar. Uh-huh. Do you know how he got famous other than, like, the obvious, like, oh, he played music? Do you know, like, how that came to be?

1:41.3

No, I do not.

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