This is a story about a woman who came to be known as The Horse Queen. She owned hundreds of champion quarter horses on her ranch outside the small city of Dixon, Illinois. And she was also Dixon’s treasurer/comptroller. Yet no one ever thought to ask how she could afford all of those horses on the salary of a civil servant… until the FBI raided City Hall in ... Show More
Oct 2023
Dixon, IL | 1. Honesty, Integrity, and Hard Work
It’s 1950 and the neighborly people of Dixon gather in their historic theater to watch a movie starring their hometown hero: Ronald Reagan. But this podcast is not about Ronald Reagan… It’s about the largest municipal fraud in US history. Unlock all episodes of Crooked City: Dixo ... Show More
29m 40s
Oct 2023
Dixon, IL | 1. Honesty, Integrity, and Hard Work
It’s 1950 and the neighborly people of Dixon gather in their historic theater to watch a movie starring their hometown hero: Ronald Reagan. But this podcast is not about Ronald Reagan… It’s about the largest municipal fraud in US history.
Unlock all episodes of Crooked City: Dix ... Show More
31m 40s
Oct 2023
Dixon, IL | 2. Her Horses Were Her Life
Who is Rita Crundwell? Alexa journeys to Dixon to find out. Unlock all episodes of Crooked City: Dixon, IL, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad- ... Show More
36m 33s
Apr 2023
Politics Collection, Fool Me Twice: A 'Russian Spy' and a South Dakotan Operative Fall in Love I Part 1
Paul Erickson made headlines in 2017 when it was revealed that his Russian girlfriend, Maria Butina, could’ve been a spy who was using him to gain access to the highest levels of the Republican Party. Two years later, he was arrested for wire fraud and money laundering. But it se ... Show More
26m 8s
Feb 2021
The Maxwells | 7. Uninvited Guest
What did Ghislaine learn from her father? We pick up the story of her life in early 90s New York. Unlock all episodes of Power, ad-free right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, a ... Show More
43m 6s
Oct 2017
The Big Lick
The Tennessee Walking Horse has a natural gait that's famously smooth. And, if trained in a certain way, it can perform a walk that's even more spectacular, called the Big Lick. But, there's a secret behind how, exactly, these horses are trained to do the crowd-pleasing step they ... Show More
25m 35s