The Napoleon of Crime: Adam Worth
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Using his logistical and felonious prowess, Adam Worth developed a sophisticated criminal network stealing money, art, and jewelry from high-value targets on two continents. Understated and cunning, Worth was so successful he inspired one of literature's greatest criminal masterminds. Quite the criming legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:20.9 | Hey, Zarin. What's up, Elizabeth Dutton? How are you? I'm doing pretty good. Good. Yeah. I've been wearing all your, like, hoodies. Have you? Is that where they all went? Totally. I mean, having a really fun week. People are like, dude, you've been dressing a lot better this week. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm like, I know. |
| 0:23.7 | It's not always the same two hoodies. |
| 0:20.9 | Interesting. Yeah, they're like, yeah. Is that a Godard quote? I was like, no, no. It's... That's... So, you're the one who's been breaking in and stealing all my stuff. |
| 0:32.9 | Cool. This week. Cool. Cool. You know what's ridiculous? I do, Elizabeth. |
| 0:38.7 | Yes. |
| 0:39.1 | Imagine this. |
| 0:40.1 | Okay. |
| 0:40.7 | In a place called Ashland County, which I think is in Virginia, I'm pretty sure it's in Virginia, there was this bandit, this mask bandit who broke in to a liquor store, an ABC store. |
| 0:51.8 | And that's what it's called by brand name, ABC. |
| 0:53.8 | And they drank up a bunch of bourbon, you know, and then they passed out drinking. liquor store, an ABC store. And that's what it's called by brand name, ABC. |
| 0:58.8 | And they drank up a bunch of bourbon, you know, and then they passed out drunk on the bathroom floor. |
| 0:59.8 | Okay. |
| 1:00.5 | The great part was that the mask bandit was a raccoon. |
| 1:04.9 | Wait, what? |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.2 | So the Hanover County animal protection, they found a raccoon passed out in the toilet of the ABC Star. |
| 1:13.9 | After they broke like numerous bottles of bourbon, drank up, like, I'm assuming licked it up. |
| 1:18.1 | I don't think they were like taking slugs out of the bottle. |
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