Thus Spoke the Lady Bandit: Pearl Hart
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A woman with a muddled biography and a life of clever and not so clever endeavors, Pearl Hart was dubbed by the press as the Girl Bandit, the Last Stagecoach Robber, the Bandit Queen. Except she really wasn't. But she kind of was. Like her personal history, it's complicated.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. Ridiculous crime is a production of IHeart Radio. Hi, Zarin. Hi, Elizabeth. How are you? Doing pretty well. How about you? Pretty good. Pretty good. Listen, got a question for you. Mm-hmm. How old? How old? Just how old. Probably 83. Cool. Do you know it's ridiculous? Yes, I do. |
| 0:24.3 | Okay. So imagine you work at Walmart. Yeah, okay. And you do security. Sure. And you have to call the police. And you're informing to the police that there's this thief who's come back to the store. They've been in the store. They've been, you know, either seen in the previous days or maybe even talk to or even |
| 0:41.1 | apprehended momentarily, but now you're calling in to get the police to come and help you. |
| 0:44.6 | Because this thief just keeps stealing baseball cards. |
| 0:48.4 | Like for four days in a row, they keep leaving without paying for baseball cards. |
| 0:52.9 | And then the police are like, okay, can you |
| 0:55.0 | describe the suspect? You're like, yeah, he's a priest. In fact, he's the dean of Trinity Episcopal |
| 1:00.9 | Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh. Whoa. Yes. Whoa. So apparently the head priest for |
| 1:07.3 | the Episcopalians in Pittsburgh, they have this guy, the very reverend Aden Smith. |
| 1:12.5 | He gets arrested February 27th of this year after leaving a Walmart. |
| 1:16.7 | And he had 27 packs of baseball cards shoved into his like priest get up. |
| 1:22.0 | Oh man. |
| 1:22.8 | Just bulging with baseball cards. |
| 1:23.8 | Well, you know what I mean? |
| 1:25.0 | Anyone can be a kleptomaniac. |
| 1:27.4 | Apparently. Wow. Yeah. So he'd stolen him over a few days about $1,100 in baseball cards. Dang. Yeah, and he was just a light-fingered priest. And he was like married, had a whole family. He wasn't like some fly-by-night. Look, I'm just in the area for a couple months. Right, no. |
| 1:44.3 | He was an established member of the community. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, head of the church. |
| 1:46.8 | So there you go. |
| 1:47.5 | Never ever see it coming. No, you don't. So don't judge the books by them covers. Even if the cover says the Bible. Exactly. You know what? That's ridiculous. Right? That is ridiculous. |
| 1:57.2 | Do you want to know what else is ridiculous? |
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