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Bad Cops
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Baltimore, Maryland likes to call itself Charm City. But you have to wonder: Is the nickname ironic? Consider one of the city's star cops, a sergeant so accomplished that he earned his own nickname, the Golden Boy. But Golden Boy led a double life. Said one of those who encountered him in the street. "I was robbed by the Baltimore City Police….with a gun … armed robbery." No one believed the allegation. Then a GPS tracker was discovered where it shouldn't have been; next, a wiretap went up on a cop's phone. An FBI agent couldn't believe what she was hearing. Are these guys gangsters? And then … an insider turned witness. "Like Rambo said, burn it down. And that's what I did." Welcome to Charm City, where it was sometimes difficult to tell the protectors from the predators.
Lives of Crime
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Ever wondered what it’s like to live on the edge?
To not follow the rules?
To live outside of the law?
On Lives of Crime you'll hear true stories from criminals themselves, narrating moments from their lives and expounding upon the crimes they’ve committed. This first person narrative podcast series creates an intimate connection between criminal and listener. It’s true crime without intermediaries. Presented without judgment, each episode features a single voice - a person with a criminal past - telling us the deeply personal details of their lives. We hear about their crimes, sure, but Lives of Crime goes beyond that. We hear the stories that shaped them, the moments that made them, the details that changed the direction of their lives for good or for ill.
True Crime Told by true criminals.
Killer Story
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What happened to teenage dreamer Sabrina Kidd? Against the odds, tabloid reporter Lyndal Marks seeks justice in a Las Vegas cold case. Driven by a dark secret from her past, she follows the clues to solve the murder of an innocent girl, avenging herself in the process.
From serial killer nurses to psychic scammers – The Binge is your home for true crime stories that pull you in and never let go.
Follow The Binge Crimes and The Binge Cases to get new stories on the first of the month, every month.
Hit ‘Subscribe’ at the top of The Binge Crimes show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com.
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The Binge – feed your true crime obsession.
Death & Deceit in Alliance
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On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish?
New episodes of Death and Deceit in Alliance will be available every Tuesday and Friday starting on December 2 wherever you get your podcasts. To binge the entire season, ad-free, subscribe to True Crime Clubhouse on Apple podcasts.
Get the Money and Run
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“Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Joe was one of California’s most daring bank robbers. He used disguises, body doubles, speeding getaway cars…and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, even as the FBI was closing in. Joe was also a soul searcher, driven by a dark rage he set out to understand. To do that he must understand why trying to murder his father felt so good.
Get the Money and Run immerses you, the listener, into the world of Joe Loya. This podcast is a fast-moving and entertaining listen that keeps you locked in from start to finish.
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To find out how the greatest financial fraud in history imploded, journalist Steve Fishman tracks down the victims, the federal investigators, the accomplices, and the mastermind, Bernie Madoff himself. Ponzi Supernova takes listeners through the calculated lies, frantic hi-jinx, and lax financial oversight that ultimately weaponized a Ponzi scheme into a $65 billion destructive force that reached across the globe and still has lasting effects today.
Empire on Blood
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The Burden: Empire on Blood is the Director’s cut of the true crime classic Empire on Blood, which reached #1 on the charts when it was released half a dozen years ago. Then, the corporate bigshots turned their backs on the beloved series—it hasn’t been available for years. But creator Steve Fishman wrangled it back, and now Empire on Blood is updated and set for launch on August 7 with three new bonus episodes.
Empire on Blood is set In the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, that’s Calvin Buari, lived large, wearing mink, drinking champagne, stacking bills. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed, dead bodies piled up, and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Witnesses came forward. A prosecutor, who went by Turtle Man, swore Calvin was the culprit. Father Frank, the detective who got the impossible-to-get confessions, gathered evidence. Meanwhile, Calvin put his faith in a born-again preacher who carried a gun and a Bible, and who promised to find the mysterious Evilina – she supposedly saw it all go down. Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years trying to untangle this dark intrigue.. Then one day, his phone rang. It was the protege. He had a message. He knew the real killer. Empire on Blood is one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. But someone’s gotta pay.
The Burden
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In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun with violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases, put away the worst criminals, in bare-knuckled street brawls if necessary. “The Hulk'' was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers turned elite jailhouse lawyers. In prison they founded a law firm, and one day made a discovery: Scarcella was the cop who’d helped put many of them away. They made a vow: We gotta get this guy. And with the help of a relentless NY Times reporter they took him down. Thirty years later, 20 people Scarcella helped put away have walked free. The legendary detective is a get-out-of-jail card. In the media he’s the disgraced, rogue cop who hoodwinked an entire system. Really? One cop? We spent hundreds of hours with jailhouse lawyers, the intrepid reporter known as Frenchy, coerced witnesses, outraged attorneys, righteous cops. Scarcella insisted he didn’t do anything wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Louie Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse. The guilty have gone free, he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast ... where justice is done (and undone). Welcome to The Burden.
Finding Mom’s Killer
Avenger
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What happened to teenage dreamer Sabrina Kidd? Against the odds, tabloid reporter Lyndal Marks seeks justice in a Las Vegas cold case. Driven by a dark secret from her past, she follows the clues to solve the murder of an innocent girl, avenging herself in the process.
From serial killer nurses to psychic scammers – The Binge is your home for true crime stories that pull you in and never let go.
Follow The Binge Crimes and The Binge Cases to get new stories on the first of the month, every month.
Hit ‘Subscribe’ at the top of The Binge Crimes show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com.
Join The Binge’s free newsletter – Patreon.com/TheBinge
The Binge – feed your true crime obsession..
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Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. But as a 19-year-old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of inmates were executed, tossed from a cargo plane into the ocean. Avenger is Miriams’s story, the story of a woman’s struggle to overcome her tortured past, to change her future, and the future of her country. Miriam will survive the camp – one of just a handful of who do – then, as a journalist, she will bring her tormentors to justice.
My Friend the Serial Killer
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In the 1970s, Steve Fishman was an intern at his local newspaper, when one day he hitched a ride back from Boston with Robert Carr III, better known as “Red.” Red seemed trustworthy enough, but he was hiding a secret: by the time he had picked up Steve, he had already killed three people—and all of his prior victims were hitchhikers themselves. This chilling car ride was the first time Steve would meet the man he came to call “Red”, but it wasn’t the last...Join Steve Fishman himself as un unravels and recounts this harrowing tale that is equally terrifying as it is fascinating, uncovering new revelations all these years later.
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