The King of Counterfeiters: Jeff Turner

Ridiculous Crime

iHeartPodcasts

History, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

If you were in a bad place, hard up financially, looking for work, and some sorta lifeline... how far down your list of options would be the idea: should I start a counterfeiting ring? For Jeff Turner that was his number one idea. And that's how he became the King of Counterfeiters. But it's also how Jeff ended up on this show, so clearly there were some challenges he didn't expect. For example, a duplicitous Cleveland heroin dealer.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.8	Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Elizabeth. Zarin. How you doing? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm doing darn good. I'm fired up and been drinking all my pepper juice. I'm ready to go. How about you? Okay. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, you look at night. Yeah, you look at Rick right on it.
0:20.4	I look like an executive.
0:22.4	Yeah.
0:22.8	I look like a captain of industry. You do. You have tycoon energy. Sure do. So I got to ask you, Tycoon. Do you know what's ridiculous? I do. Johnsonville Brats teamed up with Dr. Pepper to make sausages. I'm just going to hit me right in the gut like that, huh?
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:39.6	I was going to go into Dr. Pepper being, you know, made up of 23 different flavors
0:46.4	and I was going to list them, you know, it's to hell with it.
0:49.4	But why did they combine with a what?
0:52.6	Johnsonville Pork sausage. Dr. Porker? Yeah, I mean, you cook, you cook sausages and beer. Some people cook them in Coke Cola. Really? Oh, yeah. This is all new to me. Whatever, yeah. So why did they decide to do that? I don't know. Why does anyone do anything? Why did you want to tell me about it? I just wanted to get that one over with. Sophia Smith from Instagram gave it to us. Dr. Pepper Sausage is boom, done. Oh, man. Okay, I'm going to skip past that because, Elizabeth, you know, I recently told you the story of the king of bank robbers. Yes. George Leonidas Leslie. Yes. Well, this week I have a follow-up. It's the modern 21st century story of the king of counterfeiters. Oh. Mr. Jeffrey Turner. Oh, hello. Well, I think the best way if I'm just trying to sum up or express why Jeff Turner is both the king of counterfeiters and also why I love his story can be summed up in one sentence.
1:46.6	Okay.
1:47.0	And I quote, I used Bible paper to print over $2 million.
1:52.8	Wow.
1:54.0	That's layered.
1:55.9	Yeah.
1:56.5	Like the Bible.
1:57.3	Yeah. the Bible.
2:24.4	This is ridiculous crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons.
2:30.0	It's always 99% murder-free and 100% ridiculous.
2:31.0	Yes, sir.
2:33.3	Elizabeth, you ready to get wicked with it?
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