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Ever wondered about the untold stories behind history's most audacious art heists? Priceless Crimes uncovers the thrilling world of Crime Underground and the cunning minds who take them. Join us as we delve into the shadowy realm of art theft, exploring everything from legendary museum robberies to intricate forgery schemes. We go beyond the headlines to reveal the meticulous planning, dramatic escapes, and often shocking fates of priceless artifacts. New episodes arrive daily, Monday through Sunday, at 7:00 PM, bringing you a fresh dose of high-stakes intrigue. Each installment offers meticulously researched narratives, presenting a gripping account of the world's most infamous art criminals and the detectives who hunt them. Priceless Crimes is for anyone fascinated by unsolved mysteries, true crime with a sophisticated twist, and the allure of hidden treasures. If you're captivated by the intersection of art history and criminal enterprise, this is your ultimate destination. Subscribe now and unlock the secrets of the art world's greatest capers.

  1. 6d ago

    The Box on the Tow Truck: How a Tow Company Imploded Millhaven

    The Box on the Tow Truck: How a Tow Company Imploded Millhaven A sealed cardboard banker’s box sat on the running board of an Archer Road Towing flatbed at 7:10 AM on October 14, 2017, holding six years of evidence against the company - and it was photographed by a church volunteer in plain sight. How did a tow company in a four-square-mile commercial corridor become the source of ruined businesses, repeated impounds, and a single clandestine ledger that changed everything? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Todd Barrett’s ownership of Archer Road Towing through Pamela Hicks’s nine-year dispatch records and the losses suffered by business owners on Archer Road, asking how routine towing and municipal inspections turned into sustained financial harm for neighbors. Person: Todd Barrett Person: Pamela Hicks Person: Jean Okafor Date: October 14, 2017 Location: Archer Road corridor, Millhaven - The box contained six years of evidence compiled page by Pamela Hicks. - Pamela Hicks volunteered every Tuesday morning at the Millhaven Lighthouse Shelter for nine years. - Todd Barrett bought Archer Road Towing nine years before October 14, 2017. - Jean Okafor opened her supply depot on Archer Road in spring 2009 and became profitable by 2012. - Jean’s delivery truck was towed in March 2013, costing her nearly $900 in impound fees and a lost delivery day. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Box on the Tow Truck: How a Tow Company Imploded Millhaven

  2. Oct 31

    The Maple-Leaf Envelope That Undid a County's School Scam

    The Maple-Leaf Envelope That Undid a County's School Scam The trail-side envelope held a fold of fifty-dollar bills and a delivery manifest from Palliser Educational Supply - an apparently clean drop that unravelled a scheme tied to four million dollars a year in school contracts. How did a green composition notebook, a wrong address, and a routine cash envelope lead an investigator from a nature path to a courtroom where a community baseball coach faced months of denials before changing his answer? In this episode, we follow the chain of events that began with Donna Smith finding the envelope and brought Raymond Mason, investigator with the Palliser County Sheriff's Financial Crimes Unit, into a two-year inquiry. You’ll hear how routine workplace habits, photographed pages, and quarterly cash deposits converged into the question of who profited from contracts that never went to bid. Person: Raymond Mason Company: Palliser Educational Supply Person: Donald Gardner Person: Leonard Bosch Date: September 2011 - The envelope was found sixty yards from the trailhead at Creekside Nature Path on the third Saturday of September 2011. - Palliser Educational Supply generated approximately four million dollars per year and held exclusive contracts with four school districts. - Leonard Bosch received quarterly cash deposits of $1,200 in January, April, July, and October beginning in 2005. - Nancy Weber photographed seventeen pages of Barry Odom’s green composition notebook over four months in 2011 during three-minute windows. - Donald Gardner, sole owner of Palliser, was fifty-four at arrest and lived on Whitfield Terrace in Elmont. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Maple-Leaf Envelope That Undid a County's School Scam

  3. Oct 30

    The Ledger on a Hook: How a Fisherman Sank a City's Racket

    The Ledger on a Hook: How a Fisherman Sank a City's Racket A fisherman pulled a size-12 boot on a trotline and found a cloth-bound ledger whose grease-pencil entries survived eleven days in the river - a ledger that later helped send nine men to federal prison. How did a boot and a waterproofed ledger expose a decade-long scheme of cash payments, protection fees, and municipal manipulation? In this episode, we follow the discovery, the people named in the pages, and the chain of events from a morning on the Alder River to federal prosecutions. What exactly did the ledger record, who was on the payroll, and how did one municipal compliance official make corruption so durable - until a fishhook unraveled it? Person: Bruce Berry Date: August 14, 2009 Location: Alder River, east bank below Carver Road bridge Case: Ledger recovered leading to federal prison sentences for nine men Person: Warren McCarthy - A fisherman named Bruce Berry pulled the ledger from a size-12 boot on hook number three at approximately 6:00 AM on August 14, 2009. - The cloth-bound ledger measured roughly seven by five inches and contained grease-pencil entries that survived eleven days in the river. - State organized crime agent Alan Rice recognized the ledger’s structure within ninety minutes of receiving a photocopy on the afternoon of August 14, 2009. - Lloyd Mills began paying union stewards in cash in 2001 and by 2003 had systematized payments through the Dellworth Freight Handlers Local. - Warren McCarthy received $900 per month in cash for at least six years while serving as a senior compliance reviewer at the Dellworth Office of Commercial Licensing. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Ledger on a Hook: How a Fisherman Sank a City's Racket

  4. Oct 29

    The Day Before the Match: How County Permits Burned Eleven Buildings

    The Day Before the Match: How County Permits Burned Eleven Buildings Smoke hid a secret timestamp: a demolition bid filed the day before a fire was reported - not after, not the same morning - and that single entry would later link eleven fires, four convictions, and a scheme that ran for nearly a decade. Who filed bids before blazes and why did a county official's signature appear on pre-dated paperwork? In this episode, we follow how a surveyor's photograph of a melted spiral notebook became Exhibit One, the county permit timestamps that unraveled a pattern, and the people whose routine lives intersected with a long-running arrangement; how did routine permits become evidence of arson and fraud? Person: Kevin Rafferty Person: Monica Young Person: Sherry Ward Date: July 9, 2011 Location: Sutter Industrial Parkway 417 - A demolition bid was filed the day before a fire was reported, as recorded in the county permit database. - Eleven fires were eventually linked to entries marked "Demo" across twenty-two notebook entries covering fourteen months. - Rafferty Site Services employed forty-one people and had contracts with the county and local schools by 2011. - The burned Holloway Cold Storage at Sutter Industrial Parkway number 417 had burned six days earlier and was initially ruled an electrical accident. - Victor Ash received an eight-year sentence related to his role after keeping meticulous records that implicated him. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Day Before the Match: How County Permits Burned Eleven Buildings

  5. Oct 28

    - he wasn't supposed to be there. (Opening)

    - he wasn't supposed to be there. (Opening) A spotless, heat-sealed dress shirt sat in a dirt-floor crawl space beneath a working laundromat for two winters and two summers - a place no clean shirt should survive. That photograph, taken by a routine contractor who "was not supposed to be there," moved through five sets of hands and ended up with the man who had kept that building's secrets; what mistake did he make when those images arrived? In this episode, we follow the sequence of events that began the morning Dale Brooks checked a drain at 214 Morrow Street and photographed what he found, then track the people and places connected to the building above Suds & Save and the illegal second-floor card room. How did a linen van, a card room ledger, and a string of anonymous payments reveal a loan operation hidden in plain sight? Person: Dale Brooks Location: 214 Morrow Street, Halverton Date: second Tuesday of June, 2011 Person: Mark Hamilton Event: midnight van stops documented between 11:00 PM and 2:00 AM - Brooks ran a three-truck septic and well-service operation and photographed the shirt with his personal phone on a Tuesday. - The dress shirt had no wrinkles, dust, or signs of two winters and two summers despite being in a dirt-floor crawl space. - The second floor at 214 Morrow operated as an illegal card room Wednesday through Saturday and had an alley fire door entrance. - Mark Hamilton was 44 years old in summer 2011, owned Keystone Textile Services, and had 37 individuals owing him money by spring 2011. - The Keystone Textile van, driven by Phil Doster with Eric Reed as driver since spring 2009, visited the Morrow Street storefronts 11 documented times between Vaughn's surveillance start and June 2011, each stop under 15 minutes. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    - he wasn't supposed to be there. (Opening)

  6. Oct 27

    The Invoiced Lie: How A Secret Surcharge Built A Smuggling Ring

    The Invoiced Lie: How A Secret Surcharge Built A Smuggling Ring Four inches of standing water, a dry-cleaning bag with bone-dry pages, and a retired postal worker looking for a warbler - that morning started a seven-year clock on a scheme that skimmed $60-$120 per trailer off drivers and routed roughly 30% of the cash into a regulator’s hands. How did a never-invoiced surcharge, shell companies, and signed-off rescheduling notices let the money vanish without triggering audits? In this episode, we follow the discovery at the riverbank through the network of companies, people, and procedures that moved unrecorded cash across three counties, and we ask how routine freight inspection paperwork hid a corruption scheme until a dry-cleaning bag began the unraveling. Person: Earl Hughes Person: Steven Mitchell Person: Paula Hunter Company: Halford Logistics Amount: $60-$120 per trailer - The dry-cleaning bag was found at 6:14 AM on a Tuesday in the second week of May 2011 with bone-dry pages despite four inches of standing water around it. - Steven Mitchell bought Halford Logistics in 1994 and by 2004 held contracts across approximately 40 designated freight routes in three counties. - From spring 2004 onward, 11 unscheduled inspections targeting Halford Logistics were requested; 9 were rescheduled within 48 hours at Paula Hunter’s written request. - Drivers were charged an unrecorded surcharge of $60 to $120 per trailer in cash at origin before reaching the first weigh station. - Approximately 30% of the collected surcharge funds were delivered quarterly in manila envelopes to Paula Hunter via a courier left on her car’s passenger seat. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Invoiced Lie: How A Secret Surcharge Built A Smuggling Ring

  7. Oct 26

    The Dry-Cleaner Who Stole a Union's Retirement: The Green Folder Mystery

    The Dry-Cleaner Who Stole a Union's Retirement: The Green Folder Mystery A dry-cleaner collected millions from a union fund for more than a decade while a green accordion folder with 41 pages and two mismatched ledgers sat bone dry behind a dumpster; how did $3.2 million vanish from roughly 460 workers’ retirement accounts without being noticed? What secret did the second column hide, and who finally paid attention? In this episode, we tell how a fourteen-year-old found the folder that accelerated a federal probe and laid out the timeline from routine pension checks to missing money, tracing the roles of a volunteer consultant, an accounting clerk, and auditors as the central question: could the discovery in an alley change the outcome? Person: Sarah Farrell Date: April 9, 2004 Location: Alley behind Local 227 hall, near Harmon and Sixth, Dellmore Amount: $3.2 million People affected: roughly 460 union workers - The folder contained 41 pages with two columns labeled "reported" and "actual." - Charles Anderson was 14 when he found the folder on April 9, 2004. - Dorothy Farrell reported pension checks short for three consecutive months before February 2004. - Harmon Administrative Partners was paid $8,000 per month starting 1993 and charged management fees 91% above market across eleven transactions over four years. - Paul Yeatts’ auditing firm certified the fund’s books for seven consecutive years while receiving fabricated vendor invoices of $22,000 annually starting in 1997. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Dry-Cleaner Who Stole a Union's Retirement: The Green Folder Mystery

  8. Oct 25

    The Snowplow That Exposed a $1.4M Protection Racket

    The Snowplow That Exposed a $1.4M Protection Racket A morning snowplow uncovered a waterproof cash drawer holding forty-seven handwritten pages that tracked seven years of organized extortion across 212 businesses and a skim of roughly $1.4 million - how did a vending machine ledger bring down a fifty-three-year-old business owner and reveal an $86,000 unreported payoff? Who left the drawer to vanish in the snow, and why did it surface at 4:00 a.m. on March 14, 2009? In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from a road-grader blade to a basement filing cabinet, tracing how a transit authority, a route manager’s handwritten ledger, and a vigilant office manager combined into evidence that challenged a long-running protection structure. What started as routine route work and document reorganization became the chain of proof that investigators used to map payments and shell entities. Person: John Thorpe Date: March 14, 2009 Person: Kenneth Romano Amount: $86,000 unreported cash Case: $1.4 million skim across 212 businesses - A road-grader blade found a 14-by-8-inch vending-machine cash drawer three feet from the curb at 4:00 a.m. - The waterproof box contained forty-seven handwritten pages rubber-banded into five stacks documenting seven years of collections. - Investigators reconstructed approximately six years of collections across 212 locations totaling about $1.4 million routed through three shell entities. - The corrupt transit official collected $86,000 in unreported cash linked to the protection racket. - Romano was 53 years old in 2009 and received a prison sentence of 22 years. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-7210698 © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Snowplow That Exposed a $1.4M Protection Racket
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Ever wondered about the untold stories behind history's most audacious art heists? Priceless Crimes uncovers the thrilling world of Crime Underground and the cunning minds who take them. Join us as we delve into the shadowy realm of art theft, exploring everything from legendary museum robberies to intricate forgery schemes. We go beyond the headlines to reveal the meticulous planning, dramatic escapes, and often shocking fates of priceless artifacts. New episodes arrive daily, Monday through Sunday, at 7:00 PM, bringing you a fresh dose of high-stakes intrigue. Each installment offers meticulously researched narratives, presenting a gripping account of the world's most infamous art criminals and the detectives who hunt them. Priceless Crimes is for anyone fascinated by unsolved mysteries, true crime with a sophisticated twist, and the allure of hidden treasures. If you're captivated by the intersection of art history and criminal enterprise, this is your ultimate destination. Subscribe now and unlock the secrets of the art world's greatest capers.

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