{"podcast":{"title":"This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)","slug":"this-feels-criminal-a-true-crime-podcast-formerly-killer-queens-688053","podcast_index_feed_id":688053,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/619855/destinations/5408875.xml","website_url":"https://www.thisfeelscriminal.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/a/4/9/ea49f1d109123dfdd959afa2a1bf1c87/KQ_Cover_Art_3000__3000_px-3-20260522-oogiufwar9.png","author":"This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens","episode_count":442,"summary":"Dissecting the cases everyone's talking about. From true crime to celebrity courtrooms and pop culture legal drama — Tyrella and Nikita break it all down with the commentary your group chat wishes it had. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Crime. Culture. Commentary. For bonus episodes and premium content, find us on Patreon!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T18:21:16.316751+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-feels-criminal-a-true-crime-podcast-formerly-killer-queens-688053"},"episode":{"title":"Charles Guiteau: \"I Merely Shot Him\" | James Garfield Assassination- Pt. 2","slug":"charles-guiteau-i-merely-shot-him-james-garfield-assassination-pt-2","published_at":"2026-07-09T21:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-feels-criminal-a-true-crime-podcast-formerly-killer-queens-688053/charles-guiteau-i-merely-shot-him-james-garfield-assassination-pt-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-feels-criminal-a-true-crime-podcast-formerly-killer-queens-688053","url":"https://c0b0f33f-1a7d-4159-9c72-ac64e29a132b.libsyn.com/charles-guiteau-i-merely-shot-him-james-garfield-assassination-pt-2","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/claritaspod.com/measure/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/c0b0f33f-1a7d-4159-9c72-ac64e29a132b/KQP444_JamesGarfield_P2_First_Edit.mp3?dest-id=5408875","summary":"\"I did not kill the president. The doctors did. I merely shot him.\" That was Charles Guiteau's defense. In 1881, a failed lawyer and preacher convinced himself he'd single-handedly won James Garfield the presidency — and that the president now owed him a job. When the reward never came, he decided Garfield had to die. In Part 2 of Founding Felons Week, Tyrella and Nikita get into who Guiteau really was and how he got there: the Oneida free-love commune that rejected him, his pattern of latching onto powerful men and then turning on them, the ten-week media circus of a trial, and the 1882 execution where he asked for an orchestra. It ends on the grim irony of a man who spent his whole life desperate to be remembered — and got his wish, as a brain on display at the Mütter Museum. New here? Start with Part 1 (the shooting and the nearly 80 days) before this one. Content warning: this episode discusses an assassination, capital punishment, child abuse, and preserved human remains.","meta_description":"\"I did not kill the president. The doctors did. I merely shot him.\" That was Charles Guiteau's defense. In 1881, a failed lawyer and preacher convinced hi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2319,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-feels-criminal-a-true-crime-podcast-formerly-killer-queens-688053/episodes/charles-guiteau-i-merely-shot-him-james-garfield-assassination-pt-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-feels-criminal-a-true-crime-podcast-formerly-killer-queens-688053/charles-guiteau-i-merely-shot-him-james-garfield-assassination-pt-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}