Criminalia

236 Episodes

1. What Happened When – and After -- Dr. S. Andral Kilmer Founded His Laboratory and Remedy Company

   Published: 6/18/2024
2. Herbert E. Bucklen, Patent Medicine and 'Axle Grease Salesman'

   Published: 6/11/2024
3. Patent Medicine Evolution: No Beer? ‘Let Them Drink Sarsaparilla’

   Published: 6/4/2024
4. ‘EAT! EAT! EAT!’ Fat ‘Banished’ With Tapeworm Diet

   Published: 5/28/2024
5. ‘A Niagara of Curls’: The Story of the Seven Sutherland Sisters

   Published: 5/21/2024
6. Asthma and Smoking: When Cigarettes Were Medicine

   Published: 5/14/2024
7. That Time Perry Davis Trademarked ‘Pain Killer’ and Then Took It Global

   Published: 5/7/2024
8. How the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Had Nothing to Do With 'American Indians' or 'Medicine'

   Published: 4/30/2024
9. ‘Where Sick Folks Get Well’: Norman Baker Couldn’t Cure Cancer. Period.

   Published: 4/23/2024
10. Spoiler! Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People … May Have Worked

    Published: 4/16/2024
11. Radioactive Quackery: 'Doctor' Bailey and His Jaw-Dissolving ‘Energy Drink’

    Published: 4/9/2024
12. How Perkins Tractors Taught Us the Placebo Effect

    Published: 4/2/2024
13. Madame Yale Made a Fortune as America’s 19th-century ‘Wellness Guru’

    Published: 3/26/2024
14. How ‘Rattlesnake King’ Clark Stanley Became King of Snake Oil Sales

    Published: 3/19/2024
15. Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'BLACKMAILERS'

    Published: 3/12/2024
16. Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'

    Published: 3/12/2024
17. When Blackmail Accidentally Uncovers Political Corruption

    Published: 3/5/2024
18. Duke of York and Mary Anne Clarke

    Published: 2/27/2024
19. The Story of Walter Minx, the Sears Extortionist and His Homemade Submarine

    Published: 2/20/2024
20. Blackmail Fail: What Happened When George Ratterman Reformed 'Sin City of the South'

    Published: 2/13/2024