Heists, Hustles, and Homicide

At the end of a remote road in northern Idaho, the Weaver family believed they could keep the outside world at a distance. Then a federal firearms case, a wrong court date, and a surveillance mission brought that world to their doorstep. In August 1992, Ruby Ridge became an eleven-day standoff that left three people dead. But what happened on the mountain was disputed from the first gunshot. Who f...

The Tylenol Murders: A Killer in Your Medicine Cabinet Seven people reached for relief. Someone had put murder in the bottle. In September 1982, a twelve-year-old girl suddenly collapses. A young father dies, then his grieving brother and sister-in-law take medicine from the same bottle. Across the Chicago area, seemingly unrelated emergencies reveal a terrifying connection: cyanide hidden inside...

What do you do when your financial empire is collapsing, investigators are closing in, and your carefully manufactured life is about to fall apart? If you’re Marcus Schrenker, you climb into a million-dollar airplane, report a catastrophic midair emergency, switch on the autopilot, and parachute into the Alabama wilderness while the empty aircraft continues flying toward the Gulf of Mexico. The pl...

Alex Murdaugh: Murder, Millions, and the Fall of a Family Dynasty For nearly a century, the Murdaugh name carried power in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. They were prosecutors. Attorneys. Insiders. A family whose influence seemed woven into the legal system itself. Then everything began to unravel. On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 from his family’s sprawling Moselle property and reported fi...

The Dumb Crime of the Month: The Armored Car Heist That Almost Worked Episode Show Notes Welcome to a brand new monthly segment on Heists, Hustles, and Homicide : The Dumb Crime of the Month - where we spotlight criminals who come dangerously close to pulling off the perfect crime…only to destroy the entire thing with one spectacularly stupid mistake. And for our first installment, we’re starting...

Colton Harris-Moore became famous for stealing cars, boats, and airplanes, escaping into the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and repeatedly embarrassing the authorities trying to catch him. But long before he was hunted as the Barefoot Bandit, he was a child asking for help. In this Wrap Sheet episode, Steve takes a deeper, sharper, and more entertaining look at the complicated story behind the...

He was a troubled teenager from a broken home who dreamed of becoming a pilot. Instead, Colton Harris-Moore became one of the most notorious young fugitives in America. After escaping from a juvenile halfway house, Colton disappeared into the forests and islands of the Pacific Northwest. He survived by breaking into vacation homes, stealing food, sleeping in empty houses, taking cars, boats, elect...

The Dumb Criminal Handbook: 10 Surefire Ways to Get Arrested Welcome back, Crime Crew. Some criminals spend months planning the perfect crime. Others bring their personal cell phone, use their own car, leave their identification behind, post the evidence on social media, and then return to the crime scene to see how the investigation is going. In this sarcastic true crime countdown, Steve presents...

In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we take one more look at the chilling and bizarre Xerox Credit Union Murder - a case involving a fake FBI agent, a bad disguise, a deadly robbery, and one umbrella that may have helped crack the case wide open. On August 12, 2003, a man walked into the Xerox Federal Credit Union in Webster, New York, dressed like an FBI agent and claime...

This week on Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we’re walking into a quiet credit union on the Xerox campus in Webster, New York...where what looked like an official FBI security audit turned into a deadly robbery, a murder, and a mystery that would haunt investigators for more than a decade. On the morning of August 12, 2003, employees at the Xerox Federal Credit Union were confronted by a man dress...

Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Crime Crew. In this Wrap Sheet episode, Steve dives back into one of the most ridiculous, brilliant, and legally bizarre corporate showdowns of the 1990s: Leonard vs. PepsiCo , better known as the infamous Pepsi Harrier Jet lawsuit . This is the story of a Pepsi commercial that most people saw as a joke, a parody, a goofy marketing stunt, and maybe t...

Leonard vs. PepsiCo: Where’s My Harrier Jet? Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Crime Crew. In this episode, we dive into one of the strangest legal battles in advertising history: Leonard v. PepsiCo , better known as the Harrier Jet case . In the mid-1990s, Pepsi launched its bold “Pepsi Stuff” campaign, where customers could collect Pepsi Points and redeem them for branded merchandi...

In Part 2 of our Pan Am Flight 103 story, we move beyond the explosion and into the decades-long search for answers. This episode digs into the investigation, the forensic evidence, the trial of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and the many questions that never fully went away. We look at how a tiny fragment of evidence helped shape the official case, why Libya became the center of the prosecution, and why...

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London bound for New York and never made it across the Atlantic. Less than an hour after takeoff, a bomb hidden inside the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Steve dives into the horrifying timeline of the Lockerbie bombing, the...

In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Steve breaks down one of the most unbelievable heists in modern history - the Brinks Truck Jewelry Heist , where tens of millions of dollars in diamonds and luxury jewelry were stolen… because security quite literally fell asleep on the job. This wasn’t Ocean’s Eleven. This wasn’t a high-tech operation. This was a perfect storm of lazy...

In July of 2022, a Brinks armored truck left a high-profile international jewelry exhibition in San Mateo, California carrying 73 bags filled with diamonds, luxury watches, gold, emeralds, and rare gemstones . By sunrise the next morning… 24 of those bags were gone. No shootout. No alarms. No dramatic Hollywood getaway. Just a quiet rest stop in Lebec, California…and over $100 million in jewelry d...

For months, the world focused on the wrong man. In Part 1 and Part 2 of our series on the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, we followed the rise and collapse of suspicion around Richard Jewell. But while Jewell endured 88 days under investigation, the real bomber was still free. In Part 3, we follow the trail that law enforcement eventually uncovered...a pattern o...

Three days after the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the man once praised as a hero became the focus of a national investigation. His name was Richard Jewell. In Part 1, we followed the explosion, the discovery of the backpack, and the stunning shift from applause to accusation. In Part 2, the story turns darker. For 88 days, Richard Jewell lived under relentles...

In the summer of 1996, the world gathered in Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Olympics...a celebration of unity, competition, and global pride. And then a bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park. In the first installment of this three-part series, Steve takes you inside the night that changed everything...the music, the crowds, the green backpack beneath a bench…and the security guard who noticed some...

Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, my little crime crew. This is The Wrap Sheet! In this solo deep dive, Steve unpacks Operation Oxy Alley - the wildly absurd, deeply disturbing Florida pill-mill scandal where addiction became a tourism industry and pain clinics operated like fast-casual restaurants. We’re talking about the George brothers , two Florida men who looked more suited selli...

In the late 2000s, South Florida became ground zero for a quiet catastrophe hiding in plain sight. Strip malls turned into distribution hubs. Doctors became volume machines. And thousands of people across the country died with legal prescriptions in their pockets. In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , host Steve takes you inside Operation Oxy Alley - the federal investigation that exp...

Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , my little crime crew...it’s your favorite host, Steve , and this week’s Wrap Sheet is going fully unhinged. We’re breaking down the FIFA scandal , and not the polite, press-conference version. This is the loud, sarcastic, laugh-through-the-pain deep dive into how soccer’s governing body turned the world’s most popular sport into a global crime syndic...

For decades, FIFA presented itself as the guardian of the world’s game - the final authority on fairness, competition, and global unity through soccer. But behind closed doors, that image quietly collapsed. In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we peel back more than a century of history to expose how FIFA evolved from a modest governing body into one of the most corrupt institutions...

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On August 28, 2003, a pizza delivery driver walked into a Pennsylvania bank with a bomb locked around his neck and a note demanding money. Minutes later, he was dead - killed by an explosive that detonated live on television. But this wasn’t a robbery gone wrong. In this story-mode episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we unravel the disturbing truth behind the Pizza Bomber case - a crime bui...