Best Michael L Williams Jr Podcasts (2024)

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John Ferriso - All in a day's work: An officer's accounts 20 years NYPD 40:24

3d ago40:24

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Alan R Warren & David North-Martino Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Matthew Richer - Kurt Cobain Update: Tom Grant 42:42

7d ago42:42

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Matthew Richer, coauthor of the book ' Kurt Cobain Murder or Suicide, You Decide' Talked updates and about all of the untruths of his coauthor Tom Grant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Doug Kari - The Berman Murders 43:32

1M ago43:32

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For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "stirring account," and says, "Dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans." At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned. The local sher…

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McCracken Poston Jr. - Zenith Man 48:44

1M ago48:44

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Was this small-town TV repair man “a harmless eccentric or a bizarre killer” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). For the first time, Alvin Ridley’s own defense attorney reveals the inside story of his case and trial in an extraordinary tale of friendship and an idealistic young attorney’s quest to clear his client’s name—and, in the process, rebuild hi…

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Brian Stannard - Alcatraz Ghost Story 39:16

2M ago39:16

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The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast History––and the Woman He Loved Before the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood––except his own––as he cut …

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Michael Benson - Filthy Murders : In the Era of Jack the Ripper 47:38

2M ago47:38

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A tremendous history lesson and essential reading for everyone in the Rochester area. You'll recognize the locations and find interest in how those places looked 140 years ago. Book tells the story of five murders, all taking place in the City of Rochester, N.Y., during the latter decades of the nineteenth century. The first story, which takes up t…

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Jan Brogan - The Combat Zone 47:01

4M ago47:01

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The story of a Harvard student’s murder in 1970s Boston amid racial strife and rampant corruption, told with “careful reporting and historical context” (Providence Journal). Shortlisted for the 2021 Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction and the 2022 Anthony Award for Best Critical or Nonfiction Work At the end of the 1976 football season, more than for…

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Michelle Dresbold - Sex, Lies, and Handwriting 47:21

4M ago47:21

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A handwriting expert reveals the secrets hidden in your penmanship—now featuring a new afterword analyzing the handwriting of President Donald Trump. Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold—the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination training program—draws on her extensive experience helping law …

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M William Phelps - The Dead Soul 45:42

5M ago45:42

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When a young college student’s car was abandoned on the side of a busy midwest highway in 1992, police figured it was a runaway case. Nine days later, she was found brutally murdered, nearly 500 miles away. In season 3 of PAPER GHOSTS, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling true crime author M. William Phelps digs deep into the mur…

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Michael L. Hawley - Dr. Francis Tumblety & The Railway Ripper 52:30

7M ago52:30

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Undetected by the FBI for three decades until the turn of the twenty-first century, a handful of elusive, transient long-haul trucker serial killers had been murdering hundreds of sex workers and hitchhikers along major US highways. This was not the first time innocent victims were attacked along major US interstate thoroughfares. Nearly lost to hi…

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Ron Chepesiuk - Pariso Blanco 37:29

7M ago37:29

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Paraíso blanco is a Colombian streaming television series produced by Caracol Televisión for TelevisaUnivision.[The series is based on the life of former German-Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder, inspired by the book Crazy Charlie written by Ron Chepesiuk.Sebastián Osorio stars as Lehder.The series premiered on Vix on 20 July 2023 Hosted on Acast. …

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Sara DiVello - Broadway Butterfly 48:56

8M ago48:56

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New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot’s hea…

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Rod Sadler - Grim Paradise 41:57

8M ago41:57

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When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery? On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was …

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Ron Chepesiuk - BAD HENRY: The Murderous Rampage of ‘The Taco Bell Strangler’ 39:04

8M ago39:04

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2023 Alan R Warren Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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James Renner - Little Crazy Children 50:24

9M ago50:24

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In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy’s home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked…

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Matt Birkbeck - The Life We Chose 42:54

9M ago42:54

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From Matt Birkbeck—investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix’s #1 movie Girl in the Picture—a revelatory father/surrogate son story that takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob through the eyes of William “Big Billy” D’Elia, the right-hand man to legendary mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino, who ran organized crime in t…

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Jillian Lauren - Behold the Monster 52:42

9M ago52:42

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"Sam Little is the monster in this story and Jillian Lauren is the slayer. She is the one who stuck her nose into it, saw something was not right, was dreadfully wrong, in fact, and did something about it." —Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author He was sitting right across the table... and he would have killed her if he could Jilli…

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Maureen Boyle - Child Last Seen 42:52

10M ago42:52

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HER CASE HAD BEEN CLOSED—BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she’d come home in a week or two. The year was 1965. That n…

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Jeff McArthur - Pro Bono : The Fugate Files 44:14

10M ago44:14

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In 1958, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather went on a murder spree that paralyzed Nebraska, shocked the nation, and left 11 people dead. With him when he was captured was his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend Caril Fugate. The question soon arose, was Caril a kidnapped victim, or a heartless accomplice? Appointed to her case, attorney John McArthur initially…

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Jeff Guinn - Waco 45:27

12M ago45:27

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The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who particip…

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Framed 33:35

12M ago33:35

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On Halloween, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley’s body was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. The trial ignited a media firestorm that transfixed the nation…

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Stuart Gibbon - Catching A Killer 48:07

12M ago48:07

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Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the investigation of Murder from a historical and modern-day perspective, with reference to criminal law, police procedure and forensic evidence. Stuart Gibbon was born in the north-east of England and travelled to London to join the Metropolitan Police as a teenager. He remain…

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Dr. Gary Brucato & Ann Burgess - Killer by Design 54:08

1y ago54:08

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A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers. Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970-80s, a dark undercurrent of vio…

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LaDonna Humphrey - Strangled (Who Killed Melissa Witt? ) 36:04

1y ago36:04

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For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt’s murderer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark National Forest. Determined to find answers, LaDonna Humphrey has spent the past seven years hunting for Melissa’s killer. Her investigation, both thrilling…

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Dr. Michael Baden - American Autopsy 47:04

1y ago47:04

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A revealing history of covering up the true causes of deaths of BIPOC in custody—from the forensic pathologist whose work changed the course of the George Floyd, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown cases Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in US history, from the government’s 1976 …

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Tony Reid - 12/26/75: Twelve Twenty-Six Seventy-Five 53:08

1y ago53:08

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For Tony Reid, this case began as a claim of innocence in the murder of Donna Jo Richmond in 1975. While the errors in the original investigation and a flawed trial resulted in a guilty verdict, the reassessment confirmed that the defendant was framed but the question became: by whom? Working with a new team of investigators, which included two of …

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Susan Wels - An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder 39:26

1y ago39:26

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It was heaven on earth—and, some whispered, the devil’s garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place—especially…

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Robert J. Hoshowsky - Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases 53:17

1+ y ago53:17

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Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada. With every passing day trails grow colder and decades can pass before a new lead or witness comes forward if one comes forward. In Unsolved, Robert J. Hoshowsky examines twelve crimes that continue to haunt us. …

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Sarah Doucette - Stronger Than That: A Domestic Violence Survivor 50:50

1+ y ago50:50

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This memoir is an inspirational yet harrowing story of a domestic violence victim's search for the truth about her marriage. Twenty-one-year-old Sarah Doucette married a charming, gregarious and attentive man. Six years later, she left the marriage, lucky to be alive. Suffering from PTSD and dissociation after years of physical and emotional abuse,…

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Nick Chiarkas - Nunzio's Way: (Book 2 in the Weepers Series) 50:44

1+ y ago50:44

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"In this city, you can have anything you want if you kill the right four people." ~ Nunzio Sabino In Weepers (Book 1), Angelo and his gang, with a bit of help from his beloved "uncle" Nunzio Sabino, defeated the notorious Satan's Knights. Now, in this standalone sequel to Weepers, it's 1960 and Nunzio is still the most powerful organized crime boss…

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Malcolm John Campbell - Call Sign Charley One: An Incredible True Story Of Crime and Revenge 39:40

1+ y ago39:40

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When they attacked him for no reason, they unleashed Hell! Now, the demons are on the run!"Malcolm, an ex-soldier and law-abiding family man, starts a new job as a retail security officer, covering West Midlands cities. On his third day, his life changes forever after being viciously attacked by a newly released prisoner high on crack cocaine.The i…

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Melissa Cronin - Epstein Dead Men Tell no Tales 41:32

1+ y ago41:32

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Jeffrey Epstein was a close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars and British royalty. He rose from blue-collar Brooklyn to the heights of luxury, becoming known for lavish parties at his private Caribbean Island. But Epstein was also a criminal mastermind, running his own private sex trafficking operation. The conspiracy of corrupt…

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Bill Shaffer - The Scandalous Hamiltons 53:54

1+ y ago53:54

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It’s a story almost too tawdry to be true—a con woman prostitute who met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage using an infant purchased from a baby farm, then went to prison for stabbing the couple’s baby nurse—all while in a common-law marriage with another man. The scandal surrounding Evangeline and Robert Ray…

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Lee Sansum & Howard Linskey - The Bodyguard 49:50

1+ y ago49:50

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This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close protection. Part of Mohamed and Dodi Al-Fayed's protection team, Lee had to guard the most famous woman in the world, Princess Diana. He formed a close bond with Diana and the young princes, particularly Harry, and it was onl…

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Robert Kerbeck - Ruse Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street 54:34

1+ y ago54:34

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B-list actor, A-list corporate spy In the world of high finance, multibillion-dollar Wall Street banks greedily guard their secrets. Enter Robert Kerbeck, a working actor who made his real money lying on the phone, charming people into revealing their employers’ most valuable information. In this exhilarating memoir that will appeal to fans of The …

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Ruth Markel - Unveiling 55:19

1+ y ago55:19

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Ruth Markel’s tenacious fight for justice on behalf of the murder of her son, Dan Markel, and the struggle to be legally reunited with her grandchildren. Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida in 2014. In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan’s dea…

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Meg Hafdahl - The Science of Serial Killers 31:07

1+ y ago31:07

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Discover the real-life inspirations behind history’s most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more. Gothic media moguls Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl, authors of The Science of Monsters, The Science of Women in Horror, and The Science of Stephen King, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast calle…

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Ron Franscell - ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling 54:25

1+ y ago54:25

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"Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare."—Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch …

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Edward Humes - The Forever Witness 54:30

1+ y ago54:30

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A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case—and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy. In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her boyfriend Jay Cook were found…

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Thom Hatch - The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 52:59

1+ y ago52:59

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The Old West was coming to an end. Two legendary outlaws refused to go with it. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—as leaders of the Wild Bunch, they planned and executed the most daring bank and train robberies of the day, with a professionalism never before seen by authorities. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along wit…

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Thom Hatch - The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer 49:44

1+ y ago49:44

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In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custer's last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. While numerous historians have investigated the battle, what happened on those plain…

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Daniel A. Edwards - Billy the Kid 42:43

1+ y ago42:43

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Did Pat Garrett kill Billy the Kid? It was a moonlit night in Ft. Sumner, NM when history tells us that Sheriff Pat Garrett shot down the notorious outlaw Billy “the Kid”. Newspapers across the country quickly reported that the Kid was dead and Garrett quickly put the body in the ground. But rumors spread that the Kid had survived and the testimony…

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John Boessenecker - Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang 50:16

1+ y ago50:16

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Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story of his two-year war with a band of outlaws known as the Cowboys has never been told in full. The Cowboys were the largest outlaw gang in the history of the American West. After battles wit…

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Paul Drexler - Notorious San Francisco 47:55

1+ y ago47:55

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San Francisco, a city founded in part by criminals, was once one of the most dangerous cities in America. Its Barbary coast was called “a unique criminal district that was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but it possessed more glamour, than any other area on the American continent.” “San Francisco Notorious” brings back the glamorous de…

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Angela Hattery - Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled 46:51

1+ y ago46:51

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From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many s…

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Robert Walason - Unmade: Honor Loyalty Redemption 44:43

1+ y ago44:43

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With Foreword by Zac Stuart-Pontier, producer of Crimetown For Bobby Walason, the turning point in his life began when he was thrown out of his house at age twelve. It was also the best moment in his short life. Forced to survive on his own, with no friends or family to turn to, his determination drives him without the benefit of a moral compass. F…

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Tommy Rhattigan - 1963 A slice of Bread and Jam 51:44

1+ y ago51:44

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Amid the derelict terraced houses of Manchester's Hulme, one boy experiences adventures, abuse, crippling poverty and an encounter with The Moors Murderers. A raw and often funny snapshot of 7-year-old Tommy's brutal young life. He moves us through his daily struggle with poverty and neglect in 1960s Manchester like it's the most natural thing in t…

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Mark Potok - Oklahoma City Bombing 48:10

1+ y ago48:10

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Oklahoma City Bombing In September 1994, McVeigh put into motion his plan to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. With accomplices Nichols and Fortier, McVeigh acquired tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and gallons of fuel to form a highly volatile explosive. McVeigh chose the Murrah Federal Building because i…

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Carl Koppelman - DNA Doe Project 19:15

1+ y ago19:15

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The DNA Doe Project is an exciting new initiative that uses genetic genealogy to identify John and Jane Does. We have become a go-to organization for law enforcement agencies and medical examiners across the country, helping them solve their most intractable cases. Our innovative DDP Fund program allows smaller and less-well-funded agencies to take…

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Abigail Pesta - The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor 50:22

1+ y ago50:22

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We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of Olympic gymnasts -- but there is an astonishing, untold story. For decades, in a small-town gym in Michigan, he honed his manipulations on generations of aspiring gymnasts. Kids from the neighborhood. Girls with hopes of a college scholarship. Athletes and parents with a dream. In The Gi…

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