{"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":19,"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":"2026-09-15T02:17:49.215118+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 009: John Meff: The Housebreaker Who Could Not Stay Away","slug":"episode-009-john-meff-the-housebreaker-who-could-not-stay-away","published_at":"2026-07-13T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653/episode-009-john-meff-the-housebreaker-who-could-not-stay-away","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-of-the-most-remarkable-criminals-7851653","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19477227-episode-009-john-meff-the-housebreaker-who-could-not-stay-away.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2616179/episodes/19477227-episode-009-john-meff-the-housebreaker-who-could-not-stay-away.mp3","summary":"Send us your Feedback John Meff is the son of French Protestant refugees who fled persecution under Louis XIV, raised in London with great care and bound apprentice to a weaver. He serves faithfully, marries, and then finds himself unable to keep his family alive on honest wages; it is poverty, not wickedness, that first pushes him toward housebreaking, a trajectory recorded in Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals with the unsentimental clarity that makes it one of the earliest works of tru...","meta_description":"Send us your Feedback John Meff is the son of French Protestant refugees who fled persecution under Louis XIV, raised in London with great care and bound…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":361,"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-009-john-meff-the-housebreaker-who-could-not-stay-away/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-009-john-meff-the-housebreaker-who-could-not-stay-away.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}