From Sony Music Leisure and Fact Media Comes the Unimaginable Story of Huge Scandal & Huge Cash in a Small City
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New York, NY – October 2, 2023 – Sony Music Leisure and Fact Media right this moment launched the third season of hit podcast sequence Crooked Metropolis. Hosted by Alexa Burke, Crooked Metropolis: Dixon, IL,delves into the astounding story of Rita Crundwell, a small-town treasurer and comptroller who orchestrated the most important municipal fraud in U.S. historical past proper underneath the noses of Dixon residents. The primary episode is out there now and subscribers to The Binge can hearken to all episodes, unexpectedly right this moment.
Rita Crundwell was a humble farm woman who got here from a giant household and had goals of getting lovely present horses. She started working at Dixon’s Metropolis Corridor as a highschool intern, and labored her means as much as changing into Dixon’s Treasurer, a place she held for 20 years. On the similar time, she amassed a whole bunch of champion quarter horses and bought an 80-acre horse breeding operation. Within the Quarter Horse world, Rita was generally known as sparing no expense for the care of her spectacular herd. She gained a whole bunch of American Quarter Horse championships, proving that they had been one of the best on this planet. However what nobody knew was that she embezzled hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from the trusting residents of Dixon all to fund her goals.
Composed of eight gripping episodes, Burke tells the dramatic story of how Crundwell fooled the residents of Dixon for years in pursuit of her ardour, leaving the city identified for being Ronald Reagan’s hometown getting ready to monetary smash. The charming story goes past organized crime and delves deep right into a small-town, hard-working lady who swindled a complete group till the FBI raided Metropolis Corridor in 2012 arresting her for over 60 theft fees.
“This season of Crooked Metropolis tells a stunning story of betrayal, theft, and the lengths Rita went to show her ardour right into a actuality” stated host Alexa Burke. “What I discovered fascinating was how these closest to Rita grappled with the unimaginable breach of belief, questioned every part they believed about themselves and their city, and pieced themselves again collectively.”
Crooked Metropolis: Dixon, IL is produced by Alexa Burke, Kenny Kusiak, Elissa Mardiney, Kevin Shepherd, and Zach St. Louis. The sequence is edited by Marc Smerling.
Subscribers to “The Binge” can hearken to all eight episodes of Crooked Metropolis: Dixon, IL unexpectedly right this moment. Subscribing to “The Binge” channel may also grant listeners entry to the primary two seasons of Crooked Metropolis.
Listeners can subscribe to Crooked Metropolis: Dixon, IL on all main podcast platforms, together with Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. For extra info on Dixon, IL and all different Sony Podcast reveals, comply with @SonyPodcasts on Twitter and Instagram.
