• Taming Ghosts, with Meredith Lyons

    You gotta hear Meredith’s ghost story. Meredith Lyons, author of Ghost Tamer, grew up in New Orleans, collecting two degrees from Louisiana State University before running away to Chicago to be an actor. In between plays, she got her black belt and made martial arts and yoga her full-time day job. She fought in the…

  • Ep. 66: Horror Writer Mike Bockoven and Fantastic Land

    Mike Bockoven writes thrillers, horror, and other stories while his kids are in gymnastics class or at piano lessons. He lives with his wife, Sarah, two daughters, and an exceptionally dumb wiener dog named Sherlock. Fantastic Land Since the 1970s, Fantastic Land has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane…

  • TCP Ep. 21 Bestselling Crime Writer Frank Zafiro

    REMINDER: FREE EBOOK! As a way of saying thank you for helping me get the TCP off the ground, anyone who likes subscribes, and rates the TCP gets a free e-book. Hit me up by DM on IG @thatscriminalpodcast or email, john@johnstampwriter.com, and I’ll send you one of my titles either Brother’s Keeper, Shattered Circle,…

  • TCP Ep. 11 A.M. Adair

    A.M. Adair is an active duty Chief Warrant Officer and Intelligence Specialist with the US Navy. She’s also the author of the Elle Anderson Series, an explosive three-book spy thriller that includes Shadow Game, The Deeper Shadow, and Shadow War. Find A.M. at:  Facebook: @AmaAdair IG: @A.M.Adair Twitter: @AMAdair6 LinkedIn: Ama Adair Website: amadair.com Don’t forget to…

  • TCP Ep. 5 Carl Denaro, The Son of Sam and Me

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-criminal-with-john-stamp/id1619028587 Carl Denaro was twenty years old in 1976 when he was ambushed while in a parked car in Flushing, NY. At first the police thought it was a drug deal gone wrong. Then he was told he was shot by David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam. Carl talks about his story of survival and…

  • That’s Criminal Ep. 2 Notes

    References: https://nypost.com/2022/02/24/intruder-sneaks-into-nypd-precinct-caught-in-commanding-officers-room/ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/domestic-battery/not-fifty-shades-230174 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/la-habra-heights-firefighter-accused-of-impersonating-a-police-officer-conducting-traffic-stops-and-arrests/ar-AATf3Wf http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/drunk/boy-tells-on-mother-849610 Music: https://crushlimbo.bandcamp.com Books:

  • That’s Criminal Episode 1 Notes

    Show Link: https://anchor.fm/thatscriminaljs References:  https://www.kktv.com/2022/03/06/box-human-heads-medical-research-stolen-denver/  https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Game-warden-notes-Man-gives-fake-name-to-get-out-14860561.php#photo-17828479  Music: https://crushlimbo.bandcamp.com Books:    

  • Rent-A-Hitman

    I wonder what I could do to make my wife want to have me killed. I could ask her I guess but I’d hate to find out I had already driven her to murder, and she just hadn’t wound up the courage to pull the trigger yet. She had a Snapped obsession for a little…

  • You’ll Never Take Me Alive! Yeah, We Will.

    I know I’ve written about car thieves before, but I really liked watching this guy somersault fifty feet off a bridge. These are old sayings and kind of played out but: “Go big or go home.” or “If your gonna do it wrong, do it right.” or “You’ll never catch me, copper!” All seem to…

  • Tweakers and their Vibrators

    In Adelaide, Australia, four people got locked up for kidnap and torture. And it all started with the theft of a sex toy. This quote from the article is priceless: “The court heard the incident began when Janise (name redacted to protect the moronic) who was an ice user, wanted revenge on the victim after…

  • Don’t Tweak and Post

    I found a couple of pretty funny stories out of Florida this week but, man. Florida crime stories are getting to be like the slow kids on the playground. They’re just too easy to pick on. Instead, I found a tweaker in Missouri to write about. And in all honestly, Missouri meth heads are just…

  • Here Kitty Kitty

    I think it’s important to start off by saying this didn’t happen in Florida. Wisconsin either has really cool cat toys or is in serious need of some gun safety training. A 19-year-old named Jashanti (common spelling) in Kenosha, Wisconsin decided to use the laser sight fixed to the frame of a 9mm handgun as…

  • Naked on a Golf Cart

    A naked woman drove a golf cart into the middle of a standoff between police and an armed teenager. The teenager was apparently holding himself hostage on the roof of his home around midnight on September 6th (Happy Labor Day!) when Jessica Smith, 28, refused orders to leave the area and found her bare ass…

  • New Book Release! Acquisitor-A Jackson Cole Novel

    I know this is supposed to be a crime blog. But I got a new book coming out! Acquisitor, A Jackson Cole Novel, preorder now (https://amzn.to/3zhtIGj) arrives September 3rd, 2021. Just in time for a long Labor Day weekend. Acquisitor picks up about a year after the events of Shattered Circle. In Shattered Circle, Detective…

  • Food Fight

    What is the dumbest thing in the world to get arrested for? Mutual Pasta Battery