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Crooked City: Dixon, IL The Binge
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4.2 • 72 Ratings
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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 2012 and Rita was arrested. For twenty years, Rita Crundwell worked hard to become the world’s largest and most successful quarter horse breeder… while also becoming America’s most prolific municipal embezzler.
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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.
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Dixon, IL | 2. Her Horses Were Her Life
Who is Rita Crundwell? Alexa journeys to Dixon to find out.
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Dixon, IL | 3. Good I Will Be
Welcome to Horse World, where Rita Crundwell reigns as queen. She hires Leonard and Leigh Berryhill to train her prized stallion, Good I Will Be.
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Dixon, IL | 4. A Bad Dream
The Dixon City Clerk stumbles across a secret bank account. Mayor Jim Burke calls the Feds.
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Dixon, IL | 5. My Kingdom for a Horse
Rita Crundwell’s 30-year crime spree comes to an end and Dixon finds out just how much she stole. As the city blames its beloved mayor, Jim Burke struggles to pick up the pieces.
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Dixon, IL | 6. A Good Horse is Hard to Find
On her ranch in Dixon, US Marshals auction off hundreds of Rita’s horses. Leonard and Leigh Berryhill want to buy Good I Will Be.
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Customer Reviews
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With each season to be one of the best produced podcasts. Great reporting. Loved it! Excellent research. Fantastic interviews with some truly colourful characters!
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