# Episode 007: Matthew Clark: The Cowardly Footpad Who Turned Killer

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Podcast: [Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653)
Published: 2026-06-29T11:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 423

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Send us your Feedback Matthew Clark is the kind of figure who makes true crime so unsettling: not a mastermind, not a hardened villain, but a lazy, cowardly young man whose small vices compound into something monstrous. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals introduces him as a creature formed entirely from the worst impulses of low life; idle, drunk, driven by lust, and too timid to commit even the crimes he plans. Born in St. Albans to parents of modest means, Clark squanders every opport...

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