Declan Hill

CrimeWaves

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Interviews with the best investigators in the world. Cut through the spin and straight to the stories at the heart of major criminal cases with the people who solved the cases. Hosted by international journalist and academic Declan Hill, produced by his students at the University of New Haven - Ryan Decker, Aiden van Batenburg, and others. www.crimewavespodcast.com Follow us at @declan_hill 

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Declan Hill

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Society

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www.crimewavespodcast.com

Latest episode

Apr 14, 2026

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Henry C. Lee: A Master Class - The Phil Spector Case 14.04.2026

Two weeks ago, a genius died. Dr. Henry C. Lee, one of the first pioneers of DNA in detective work, and the investigator they call the "Sherlock Holmes of our times" went off to the better world.  Dr. Lee was the founder of my College at the University of New Haven. He was still working hard at age 86-years-old. We had several, long, intense conversations about various cases.  At another...

The Dark Side of Epstein: Payments to Prison Guards Exposed 23.03.2026

Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guard was accepting payments in cash. The official who was a short distance away from his cell the night he died - received thousands of dollars in cash. The guard’s bank deemed them “suspicious” and notified the FBI.  Again, like so many other things around the Epstein death an almost unbelievable perplexing lack of investigation - the guard was never asked to explain und...

It Takes an Artist – the Life and Strange Death of Ivar Kreuger. 12.03.2026

It is the ultimate, closed-room mystery.  94-years-ago, on March 12th of 1932, one of the richest men in the world, Ivar Kreuger, went into his Paris apartment.   He never came out again. At first, his death was declared a suicide and the authorities quickly burnt his body - despite orders to the contrary.   Then thirty-three years later Ivar Kreuger's brother, mistress, and many others, came...

Why American Sports are Going to Fail 28.02.2026

Dear Friends of CrimeWaves, A change for this week's episode - an interview I did with the Protectors Podcast on the threat that gambling poses to US Sports.  The headline is that US Sports Leagues are dancing with the devil.  All the money they got from bookmakers seemed very seductive but there are more and more scandals linked to betting.  Now, it is perfectly reasonable for a good-faith s...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 8: You are the Judge 19.02.2026

As the #Epstein documents are released - a review of the death investigation that CrimeWaves has done over the last two years.  The most recent documents and the resume of their significance on Epstein's death (along with a number of videos) can be found at: https://www.declanhill.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-what-the-documents-tell-us/ ** This is the best independent investigation into what ac...

Massive Breaking News in Jeffrey Epstein Case 02.02.2026

In the Jeffrey Epstein document release by the US Department of Justice, there is one HUGE document that adds significantly to the case for the potential murder of Epstein.  On July 29, 2019 - 3.5 weeks after Epstein had ended the hell-hole of a detention center, his lawyers reached out to the Federal Prosecutors saying that their client was willing to consider flipping. In other words, Epstein wa...

The Most Important Unsolved Murder in the World: The Killing of the Ukrainian Peace Negotiator 19.12.2025

As peace negotiations continue around the world to - purportedly - end the Ukraine-Russian War. CrimeWaves re-releases our episode about the murder of the peace negotiator days after the war began in 2022.  The killing is still unsolved. It reveals the challenges - the murders of Ukrainian opposition figures and journalists, the deep CIA involvement in Ukraine, the Ultra-Nationalist Ukrainian forc...

Rampant Match-Fixing: the Clear and Present Danger to Sports 24.10.2025

On the day that the FBI announced a major investigation into illegal gambling, the Mafia and the National Basketball Association (NBA), we re-release our CrimeWaves interview with Nicholas Raudenski.   Nicholas is a former Homeland Security Agent who fought against Latin American drug cartels before moving into the international sports arena. He has been fighting a tough, difficult fight against o...

The Jeffrey Episode Files 7: The Secret the Government Doesn't Want You to Know 12.08.2025

On the sixth anniversary of Jeffrey Epstein's mysterious death in a New York jail: the final episodes of the best independent investigation into what actually happened to America's most well-known prisoner.  On this episode - we examine the case of why 'a reasonable person' may believe that Epstein committed suicide You will hear all the evidence that suggest that Epstein may h...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 5: Rocking the Baby to Sleep - the criminal view of the Epstein Death 07.04.2025

With the announcement of US Attorney-General Pam Bondi releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents and the extraordinary trial of the ex-Senior JP Morgan & Barclay's Bank executive - Jes Staley - who exchanged "Snow White" e-mails with Epstein, we are releasing the much awaited final episodes of CrimeWaves investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein’s final days in prison. We begin with...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 4: Dr. Michael Baden Interview 05.04.2025

With the announcement of US Attorney-General Pam Bondi releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents and the extraordinary trial of the ex-Senior JP Morgan & Barclay's Bank executive - Jes Staley - who exchanged "Snow White" e-mails with Epstein, we are releasing the much awaited final episodes of CrimeWaves investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein’s final days in prison. We begin with...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 3: David Schoen Interview 03.04.2025

With the announcement of US Attorney-General Pam Bondi releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents and the extraordinary trial of the ex-Senior JP Morgan & Barclay's Bank executive - Jes Staley - who exchanged "Snow White" e-mails with Epstein, we are releasing the much awaited final episodes of CrimeWaves investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein’s final days in prison. We begin with...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 2: Mark Epstein Interview 01.04.2025

With the announcement of US Attorney-General Pam Bondi releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents and the extraordinary trial of the ex-Senior JP Morgan & Barclay's Bank executive - Jes Staley - who exchanged "Snow White" e-mails with Epstein, we are releasing the much awaited final episodes of CrimeWaves investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein’s final days in prison. We begin with...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 6: How Jail Actually Works 26.03.2025

This is the best investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death.    Almost every other examination of his death promotes a political or social agenda. Read the New York Times?  They will feed you the version that Epstein mysteriously killed himself and anything else is a diet of ‘misinformation’ and you are a moron for questioning the official narrative.  Note - the official narrative leaves out that...

The Jeffrey Epstein Files 1: It Was Murder 14.03.2025

With the announcement of US Attorney-General Pam Bondi releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents and the extraordinary trial of the ex-Senior JP Morgan & Barclay's Bank executive - Jes Staley - who exchanged "Snow White" e-mails with Epstein, we are releasing the much-awaited final episodes of CrimeWaves investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein’s final days in prison. We begin with...

Matoaka Pocahontas, The Founding Mother of America - Was She Murdered? 27.02.2025

Matoaka Pocahontas, the legendary daughter of Powhatan, has been one of the most misunderstood stories in American history.  The last chapter of her life is particularly intriguing.   She was sent to England to meet King James Ist.  It was part investment trip for the Virginia colonies. Part a spy trip for her father to check out his potential enemies. Matoaka Pocahontas was relatively well-treate...

A Parent's Nightmare: The Murder of Suzanne Jovin 20.02.2025

It's a murder that haunts a city.  A bright, beautiful young student is taken from the heart of Yale campus and 25 minutes later is found dead on the side of a darkened street.  It happened  26 years ago yet the case is still unsolved despite massive resources being poured into it and a huge controversy around the police investigation. In a special episode, CrimeWaves, investigates what happe...

The Highway of Death 06.02.2025

They call it a serial killer's graveyard.  A lonely stretch of rural highway in Connecticut, where half a dozen women and a man were murdered and their bodies dumped.  It was a yesteryear story. A nightmare hanging over from the 1990s:  unsolved, unresolved, and the killer still uncaught.  Until three years ago, when the same thing happened, a young woman's body was discovered in exactly...

Declan Hill: Covid - The Slow Motion Chernobyl 27.01.2025

This week (January 2025) the CIA announced that they believe the origin of Covid came from a laboratory leak. "Our intelligence, our science and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of Covid was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." Finally. Three years after CrimeWaves released our series - The Slow-Motion Chernobyl. These are episodes that we, at CrimeWaves Podcas...

Declan Hill: Covid - The Slow-Motion Chernobyl: Part 2 - The Big Lie 27.01.2025

The Head of the CIA has just announced - finally! - that Covid originated from the Wuhan Laboratory Complex.   Finally - because this is what we at CrimeWaves said three years ago.  At that point, we were shadow banned and censored on both Twitter and LinkedIn at the time of broadcast.   This is the re-release of our series 'The Slow-Motion Chernobyl'.  It tells the story  of the origin...

Declan Hill: Covid - The Slow Motion Chernobyl: Part 3 - The Big Silence 27.01.2025

In time for the US Congressional Hearings into the origins of Covid, we re-release this series - The Slow-Motion Chernobyl.   Originally broadcast in February/March 2022, it was censored and blocked on Twitter and LinkedIn.    Please listen. You will hear the true story of the Wuhan research laboratory complex.  You will not hear partisan political attacks but just the facts.   You will hear about...

Body of Evidence: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos 23.01.2025

Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five, disappeared one morning. She dropped off her children at school and then was gone. She was in the middle of a heated divorce with her glamorous, and seemingly-wealthy husband.  Then on Friday, May 24, 2019 - at approximately 8:30 a.m. she vanished without a trace.  The Connecticut police faced a seemingly impossible task: how to investigate a murder with no body....

Twisted Investigation: How the Italian police got the Perugia Murder Case so wrong 16.01.2025

It was the most famous murder mystery in the world. Two young women, one, British, Meredith Kercher, murdered, the other American, Amanda Knox, falsely accused.  There were rumors of sexual games and orgies - all with the backdrop of the gorgeous, Italian renaissance town of Perugia.   The problem was - almost none of it was true.  The case gave way to seventeen-years of trials, mistrials, newspap...

The Disaster of Boeing: Crashes, "Flying Coffins", and Dead Whistleblowers. What Happened to The Once Great Company? 30.12.2024

It is a bad time for Boeing.  Yesterday, there was - yet again - a deadly crash featuring one of their airplanes.  In June, the once mighty American plane manufacturer - pleaded guilty to a conspiracy of organized criminal fraud. Their executives were not enforcing a culture of safety and covered up potentially risky work at their factories.  This conviction was after two earlier crashes that kill...

The Killing of Tupac: What Do You Have To Do In Las Vegas To Get Arrested? 18.12.2024

Tupac Shakur was one of the biggest names in music history. He was murdered on the streets of Las Vegas.   The police had suspects. They had witnesses.  But for 27 years, they never arrested anyone.    An exclusive interview with the journalist who discovered Tupac's killer, decades before the police - finally - arrested someone...  Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe, rate, review or like this...

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