Introducing Season 3 of Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

This is a story about a woman who came to be known as The Horse Queen. She owned hundreds of champion quarter horses on her ranch outside the small city of Dixon, Illinois. And she was also Dixon’s treasurer/comptroller. Yet no one ever thought to ask how she could afford all of those horses on the salary of a civil servant… until the FBI raided City Hall in 2012 and Rita was arrested. For twenty years, Rita Crundwell worked hard to become the world’s largest and most successful quarter horse breeder… while also becoming America’s most prolific municipal embezzler. Subscribe now to unlock all shows on The Binge — All Episodes. All at Once… and you’ll be the first to access season three of Crooked City: Dixon, IL as soon as it drops on October 1st. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Crooked City show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.9	If you had a chance to pursue your passion
0:03.6	at someone else's expense, then would you do it?
0:07.5	Now, ladies and gentlemen, you're 2007, 2008,
0:13.8	and now 2009 amateur performance
0:16.3	Dianne World Champion, Good Eye Ruby,
0:19.2	owned and led by Rita Cronwell of Dixon, Illinois.
0:22.7	There's a world where people spend millions of dollars
0:25.9	to breed and train champion quarter horses.
0:29.8	And Rita Cronwell was their queen.
0:33.7	She was the deal. She was it.
0:36.4	She spent a lot of money. She won a lot of championships
0:38.8	and everybody knew who she was and respected her.
0:41.4	When did you realize how many horses Rita had?
0:44.6	You didn't have to be there very long to find out
0:47.0	that it was a massive number of horses.
0:51.4	But Rita had a day job.
0:53.4	She was the treasurer and comp-troller
0:55.5	of a small city in Illinois called Dixon.
0:59.8	She had bought this ranch where she had this big building
1:03.4	for horses and it was all fenced in.
1:06.4	And I'm just thinking, how in the world
1:08.0	does she come in up with the money to pay for all this?
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