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Criminal

The Tusker

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When Audrey Ryan’s father told her he once found 20 pounds of hash while he was fishing for scallops, she didn’t believe him. But he said that he wasn’t the only one who had found drugs in the ocean.  Audrey Ryan wrote about the Tusker for Boston Globe Magazine. 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, 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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1:17.4

You know, there's a big dichotomy in Mount Desert Island between year-round people and summer people.

1:23.6

The Rockefellers owned, I think, most of the island at some point in time.

1:28.5

They're still there.

1:30.5

I've met several of them.

1:33.0

And then there's the Aster's, J.P. Morgan's descendants, and Martha Stewart, who I've seen several times.

1:43.1

This is Audrey Ryan.

1:45.0

She grew up on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

1:48.3

It's home to Acadia National Park.

1:51.3

She says she and her family were year-round people.

1:55.0

For a while, her parents lived in a cottage

1:57.0

with no heating, just a wood stove.

1:59.8

It was built to be a summer house. Her father sold his

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