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A routine airport baggage inspection in Alabama uncovered something security officers never expected: five stolen Civil War cannonballs hidden inside a grandmother’s suitcase. But the woman reportedly had no idea she was carrying the historic military artifacts, and investigators soon turned their attention toward an unlikely young suspect. How did the cannonballs end up in her luggage, where had...

In 1980s New York City, something as routine as pouring concrete on a major building site could mean dealing with far more than contractors and unions — federal prosecutors alleged organized crime families were manipulating the construction industry through what became known as the Concrete Club. This episode walks through how the scheme actually functioned, from restricted competition to inflated...

On October 7, 2026, federal prosecutors announced charges against cybersecurity expert Zohar Pinhasi, accusing him of secretly paying ransomware criminals while promising customers that his company could recover their data without paying hackers. Investigators allege that his company collected more than $19 million from desperate clients while sending over $8 million to the very criminals responsi...

Police say a man shoplifted unopened Pokémon card packs from a Walmart and drove off in an SUV with Tennessee temporary tags. When officers tried to stop him, he allegedly ran. Officers say they found the packs hidden in his…

For twenty years, the murders of 26-year-old Chynna Dickus and her 10-year-old stepson Blake haunted the small community of Franklin, Indiana. Now police have arrested a 35-year-old man who prosecutors allege committed the killings when he was only 14 years old. What changed after two decades, and what evidence finally convinced a grand jury there was enough to charge someone with two counts of mu...

A man appears at a North Carolina home at 3:30 in the morning wearing a police uniform, ballistic vest, badge, and a handgun—and says he’s working undercover. The equipment was real, but police say the man wearing it wasn’t an officer. What happened next is both a remarkable alleged crime and a reminder that a uniform alone should never be considered proof of authority.

Former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko walked into a London hospital in 2006 with a mystery illness that baffled doctors — until tests revealed polonium-210, one of the rarest and deadliest poisons ever used in a homicide, inside his body. This episode traces how the discovery triggered a citywide radiological investigation, forcing officials to hunt down a contamination trail across...

On September 17, 2026, the GBI announced murder and related charges against Rashad Jackson in the 2020 death of 21-year-old Tyler Hall, who was found shot in his Norcross, Georgia home in August 2020. Six years later, the case finally broke open through advanced DNA and genealogy work carried out by the GBI Cold Case Unit and Othram. This episode walks through how that technology turned a stalled...

In 2015, 19-year-old Stephen Smith was found dead on a rural South Carolina road, his death initially ruled a hit-and-run. Eight years later, his body was exhumed and re-examined as investigators began questioning that original conclusion. This episode traces what the second autopsy uncovered, and how it reshaped one of South Carolina's most debated death investigations. We dig into the physical e...

On a Signal chat in August, a user called “Sponge Jobb” advertised a contract killing with a SpongeBob SquarePants avatar and a cryptocurrency fee. A Danish undercover officer answered as the hitman and walked straight into an alleged cross-border plot aimed at twin brothers holidaying in Cyprus. Cash drops, target photos, and talk of Turkish pistols followed before the twins left the island and p...

Students at Tracy High School east of San Francisco found a cellphone actively recording them as they changed in the boys’ locker room on September 10. Police say the phone belonged to 48-year-old varsity football head coach and PE teacher Jeffrey Pribble, who was arrested on campus the next day. The district placed him on leave while a criminal investigation continues.

When 22-year-old Malone Lam helped orchestrate the theft of over 4,100 Bitcoin, he didn’t stash the proceeds in an offshore trust—he set them ablaze across Miami and Los Angeles. From chartered jets and half-million-dollar watches to hurling Hermès Birkin bags into nightclub crowds, Lam lived out an unhinged digital fantasy until the feds crashed the VIP booth. This is the autopsy of a $245 millio...

Hospitals in the United States lose more than $18 billion annually to workplace and community violence, with over half of healthcare workers reporting the problem is worsening. This episode examines tragic incidents involving security personnel, the systemic failures that treat such violence as routine, and the urgent need for professional-grade protection standards. We discuss pending federal leg...

Cartels don't just move product — they build brands, and narcocultura is the marketing engine behind it. This episode looks at how cartels use music, imagery, social media, and folklore to recruit members, intimidate rivals, and shape public perception in the communities they operate in. It's a look at organized crime as a media operation as much as a criminal one.

Jana Monroe broke ground as the first female FBI agent in the Behavioral Science Unit, consulting on roughly 850 homicide cases over her career, including work connected to Jeffrey Dahmer and the Rogers family murders. Drawing on her book Hearts of Darkness and recent interviews, this episode explores what profiling actually looked like inside the Bureau — crime-scene analysis and victimology used...

On May 20, 2012, a gang fight inside a privately run Mississippi prison exploded into a multi-hour riot that left the facility in chaos. Twenty-four-year-old Senior Correctional Officer Catlin Carithers, called in on his day off, was cornered and beaten to death on the roof after inmates used food carts as a makeshift ladder to reach him. This episode walks through how the riot escalated, what hap...

The legend goes that gangster "Machine Gun" Kelly coined the term "G-Men" when he begged federal agents not to shoot during his 1933 arrest — but the real story is a lesson in institutional myth-making. This episode traces how J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau and a cooperative press turned a routine capture into a branding coup months after the fact. It's a case study in how authority, narrative control,...

In 1997, a fugitive con man who had stolen over a million dollars in religious artifacts while posing as an Anglican priest sought refuge inside a Benedictine monastery in Massachusetts. This episode examines how Michael Dongarra exploited the psychological architecture of trust that monastic life depends on, exposing the blind spots built into institutions designed around faith rather than suspic...

In 2006, a seasoned Belgian skydiver leapt from a plane only to find that neither of her parachutes would open. What first looked like a freak equipment failure was actually a meticulously staged killing, engineered days in advance by someone who never needed to be at the scene. This opening installment traces the jump, the ensuing investigation, and the rival whose patience turned a sport into a...

When Henry Masuka rushed his infant son into St. Michael's Hospital during a severe asthma attack, long ER wait times and systemic roadblocks pushed a desperate parent to the absolute edge. What began as a father’s panicked plea to save his child’s life tragically escalated into a deadly confrontation with law enforcement outside the hospital doors. This episode examines the forensic psychology of...

In this episode, we sit down with veteran criminologist Dr. Eric Hickey to talk about how cops finally cornered Roger Kibbe, the sick predator who turned California’s highways into his personal hunting grounds. We break down the wild street-level detective work, crazy patrol encounters, and gut-wrenching evidence that brought down a serial killer targeting lone drivers late at night. Get ready for...

This episode uncovers the chilling case of Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt, two elderly Los Angeles women who befriended vulnerable, homeless men under the guise of charitable support. Behind the charitable facade, the duo took out millions of dollars in life insurance policies before staging fatal hit-and-run accidents in dark alleys to collect massive payouts. From the initial suspicions rais...

On a winter day in 1987, 20-year-old Melissa Ellison was tragically beaten to death in her Jacksonville home, leaving behind a cold case that baffled detectives for nearly four decades. The trail seemed completely frozen until 70-year-old Gary Edward Glowacz unexpectedly picked up the phone to confess to the crime himself. This episode dives into the fascinating forensic psychology behind why a ki...

While most Americans were going about their daily lives, the heavily armed Marines and Sailors of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit were ten months deep into one of the most aggressive and least publicized counter-narcotics operations in recent American military history, taking the fight directly to transnational narco-terrorist networks operating across the Caribbean under the umbrella of Operat...

At the height of the Colombian cartel era, the DEA was running some of the most complex and dangerous investigations in the history of American law enforcement, going up against organizations with billions of dollars, private armies, and a willingness to assassinate judges, politicians, and anyone else who stood between them and their empire while agents worked with informants, foreign partners, a...