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Criminal

The Knock

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On Christmas morning, Laura Nowlin was in her living room with her infant son. They were getting ready to leave to spend the day with family. Then, Laura heard a knock on the door. She says it sounded frantic. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, invitations to virtual events, special merch deals, and more. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.3

Right now is the AI Gold Rush.

0:40.4

And that means everybody who builds an app, a platform, a piece of software, a gizmo, that's somebody anything.

0:47.0

Everybody is trying to put AI everywhere.

0:49.6

And for two weeks in a series on the Vergecast, we are talking through what that looks like.

0:53.9

We're talking to developers about what they're building and how they're building it.

0:57.6

And whether AI actually does make sense everywhere or is just going to ruin everything in the process.

1:03.6

That's the AI miniseries on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts.

1:08.2

This series is presented by MongoDB.

1:14.7

He could have been born on Christmas.

1:16.7

I'd been terrified that was going to happen.

1:19.6

In 2017, Lauren Aowland and her husband were expecting their first child.

1:26.2

The baby was due on December 13th.

1:29.5

Why were you terrified he was going to come on Christmas?

1:32.6

Oh, just, you know, people always, well, my mother was born December 30th,

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