The Hilarious Hair-Raisin' Crimes of Professional Wigjackers

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

For centuries, wigs were the look. And in the era of Marie Antoinette, the bigger the better, and the more fantastical, the more whimsical, even better. Industries were built to attend to the many needs of the big wigs of Europe. And there was another industry born of the decadence and hair-based opulence. Enter the professional wigjacker! (Ridiculous crimes guaranteed.)

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.2	In 2012, 16-year-old Brian Herrera was gunned down in broad daylight on his way to do homework.
0:11.4	No suspects.
0:12.5	No witnesses.
0:13.5	No justice.
0:14.5	I would ask my husband, do you want me to stop?
0:17.0	He was like, no.
0:17.8	Keep fighting.
0:18.8	After nearly a decade, a breakthrough changed everything.
0:22.5	This is Cold Case Files Miami, stories of families who never stopped fighting. Listen to
0:28.0	Cold Case Files Miami on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.2	I'm Robert Evans, and on my show Behind the Bastards this week, we have one of our
0:38.5	worst subjects ever, David Byrd, founder of the Children of God cult, who we'll be talking
0:44.0	about with special guest Ed Helms. He's not just like a weird religious cult leader. He was
0:49.2	like fusing a bunch of hippie ideology in with this kind of like evangelical Christianity
0:55.0	Pentecostal preaching in the mid-century is a very weird guy.
0:59.3	But yeah, I'll just get into it here.
1:00.7	Like nothing you just said makes sense.
1:02.3	That doesn't sense.
1:03.0	Right.
1:03.6	But that's the beauty of cults.
1:05.1	Listen to Behind the Bastards on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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