{"podcast":{"title":"Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals","slug":"lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","podcast_index_feed_id":7851653,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2616179.rss","website_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/v1152h5un11qdzxts4md3km6c05t?.jpg","author":"Dark Stories","episode_count":8,"summary":"Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals is a true crime podcast unlike any other; because every word of it was written nearly 300 years ago. Each week, we read aloud one chapter from a remarkable book first published in London in 1735: a sprawling collection of murderers, highwaymen, coiners, housebreakers, pirates and worse, recorded in vivid and unsparing detail. The crimes are real. The voices are authentic. And the world they reveal, brutal, strange, and surprisingly familiar, has been waiting three centuries to be heard again. True crime did not begin with podcasts. It began here by the burning light of a candle.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T00:19:40.894239+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 001: Jane Griffin: The Mistress Who Turned a Knife on Her Maid","slug":"episode-001-jane-griffin-the-mistress-who-turned-a-knife-on-her-maid","published_at":"2026-05-19T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-001-jane-griffin-the-mistress-who-turned-a-knife-on-her-maid","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19186301-episode-001-jane-griffin-the-mistress-who-turned-a-knife-on-her-maid.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19186301-episode-001-jane-griffin-the-mistress-who-turned-a-knife-on-her-maid.mp3","summary":"Send us your Feedback Jane Griffin is a woman of sharp wit, good reputation and a violent temper she cannot govern. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals tells it, she keeps a busy inn in Smithfield with her husband, drawing customers with her charm and driving them away with her rages; a figure who belongs as much to the annals of true crime as to any cautionary sermon. She is well-bred, well-spoken and genuinely kind when calm; yet anger moves through her like weather, sudden and ungove...","meta_description":"Send us your Feedback Jane Griffin is a woman of sharp wit, good reputation and a violent temper she cannot govern. As Lives of the Most Remarkable Crimin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":675,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episodes/episode-001-jane-griffin-the-mistress-who-turned-a-knife-on-her-maid/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-001-jane-griffin-the-mistress-who-turned-a-knife-on-her-maid.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}