Podcasts True Crime Let's Go To Court! 128: A Museum Heist & Dalia Dippolito

128: A Museum Heist & Dalia Dippolito

Published: July 1, 2020, 11:30 a.m.

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Dalia Dippolito was mid-workout when she got a terrible phone call. A police officer informed her that she needed to come home immediately. He wouldn\\u2019t say why. Dalia rushed back to the townhome she shared with her husband Mike, only to find their neighborhood swarming with police officers. Caution tape surrounded her home. Fingerprint dust covered her front door. She rushed up to a police officer, who confirmed that Mike was her husband, and delivered the awful news, \\u201cI\\u2019m sorry to tell you ma\\u2019am, he\\u2019s been killed.\\u201d Curiously, Dalia began wailing before he finished the sentence.
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With Brandi out on maternity leave, Kristin\\u2019s sister Kyla Pitts-Zevin filled in with a story that was totally NOT Brandi approved. That\\u2019s right. Kyla came on the podcast to talk about a museum heist. In November of 2009, a talented young flutist named Edwin Rist broke into the British Natural History Museum at Tring. His mission? To stuff a shitton of rare birds into his suitcase. He left the museum, undetected, with more than a million dollars worth of feathers. Edwin wasn\\u2019t a criminal mastermind, but it took awhile for him to get caught.
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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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20/20 episode, \\u201c\\u201cDown Payment on Death\\u201d
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The Court Junkie episode, \\u201cDalia Dippolito and the Attempted Murder of Her Husband\\u201d
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\\u201cDippolito mistrial: State vows to try case again,\\u201d by Daphne Duret for the Palm Beach Post
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\\u201cDefense attorneys point to growing mistrust of police for jury deadlock,\\u201d by Jane Musgrave for the Palm Beach Post
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In this episode, Kyla pulled from:
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This American Life episode 654: \\u201cThe Feather Heist\\u201d
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Kirk Johnson\\u2019s book: \\u201cThe Feather thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century\\u201d
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BBC article: \\u201cNatural History Museum thief ordered to pay thousands\\u201d
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