Episode 36: Perfect Specimen by CriminalShow published on 2016-02-05T04:17:48Z The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called "the most perfect specimen of a North American tree." But in 1989, Austin's city forester realized that the Treaty Oak didn't look so good, and began to wonder whether someone had intentionally tried to kill it. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Genre podcast