CrimeWaves

The season you have been waiting for:  Investigations and exclusive interviews on  the killings of Tupac Shakur, Monica Reece, Jennifer Dulos, Suzanne Jovin and Meredith Kercher. We will do a special episode on the greatest unsolved murder in the world today. Another on the Highway of Death - a lonely dumping ground of bodies for an uncaught serial killer in rural Connecticut. Another episode is o...

For the Paris Olympics - a re-release of an extraordinary interview with the top anti-doping investigator in the world - Travis Tygart. A tough, lean Texan who took on Lance Armstrong and despite FBI warnings, death threats,  pressure from Hollywood stars and Washington politicians - exposed the truth behind the biggest doping scandal in US history. At this year's Olympics, Tygart is still fi...

It is the biggest and most under-reported story in the history of sport.  In time for the Paris Olympics, we re-release an exclusive interview with one of the world's best investigators in sports integrity and the appalling crime syndicate that ran international track and field. For years, there was "a mafia" at the heart of international athletics.   Runners, coaches and officials...

"Not every coach is a pedophile, but every pedophile wants to be a coach." For the Paris Olympics, a re-issue of an extraordinary interview with the great Nancy Hogshead about the silent plague in sports. There is rampant sexual, physical and mental abuse of athletes across sports, countries and cultures.  Very few people speak about it.  They want to pretend that our young people are sa...

To mark the beginning of the Paris Olympics -  a re-release of our interview with the bravest man in sports - Vitaly Stepanov, the Russian whistleblower who, along with his wife, exposed the dirty secrets at the heart of international sports. In the ten years, since the Stepanovs came forward with their extraordinary, covert investigation - countless sports officials have been convicted of running...

It was a silent, criminal corporation.   It was worth tens-of-billions of dollars. They killed and tortured their opponents, without giving any signals or clues to their existence.  They were the Super-Cartel.  One of the world’s largest drug traffickers and, virtually, no one knew anything about them.   This is the story of the investigation that brought them down.   Send us Fan Mail Please subsc...

It was the greatest case of match-fixing in international sports.   A group of criminals fixed soccer, basketball, handball, volleyball, tennis and many other sports.   They corrupted national teams, the UEFA Champions League, and games around the world.   They had top officials, referees and players on their payroll.  They threatened, extorted and murdered their way through sports. At the heart o...

You're in prison.  The system has convicted you of murder.   You're serving a lifetime in prison.  But you're innocent. You didn't kill anyone.   So who are you going to call?  It's no use phoning a lawyer. They didn't work too well at your trial. It's no use phoning a politician. Those guys campaign on locking up murderers.  Your family cannot help. Your friends...

The extraordinary true story of an innocent man convicted of murder and the small group of investigators who not only prove his innocence but find the real murderer. ** You're driving in your car on a Houston highway. The police stop you and the nightmare begins...  They open up the trunk and discover a wig and a ski mask. You say, rightly, "they're part of a Halloween costume.&quot...

WARNING - A very disturbing, but fascinating, episode. What kind of person tortures and kills innocent animals? The results of this investigation are shocking and they reveal a very dark side of the criminal soul: the links between criminal psychopaths and animal cruelty.  Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe, rate, review or like this episode of CrimeWaves at YouTube or wherever you get your podcast...

In the 1870s,  thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Some of those people are still famous today.    "Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner .  Wyatt Earp -  the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals. Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed  killed only s...

This is the story of two skulls.  It's actually the mystery of two skulls and a long, extraordinary investigation to find the identity of two people.   It  is a tale that features one of France's most famous explorers, pirates, shipwrecks, kidnappings, ambushes and, of course, murder... Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe, rate, review or like this episode of CrimeWaves at YouTube or where...

The pirates of the 1700s  were democrats.  Their ships were crammed with men, and women, of all kinds of cultures.  Many were former slaves.  Others were indigenous natives.  Others were our fore-parents escaping a lifetime of servitude as agricultural serfs. The pay level between a common sailor and a captain on a pirate ship was only twice as much. However, that pay could be massive. Edward &quo...

It's the world's oldest profession.   Sex workers, prostitutes, and the pimps who live off them have been around since the dawn of time. There are mentions of them in the Code of Hammurabi. The dusty case files of medieval Europe talk about them constantly.  There are references to them in Victorian literature from Charles Dickens' Nancy and Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist to the drunken...

How do you solve a crime when there is no evidence? How do you solve a crime in a world that doesn't even exist?  How do you solve a crime involving an NBA star, a computer hacker and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud that touches on every internet transaction that you ever do? Welcome to the multi-billion dollar world of criminal Internet real estate.  Send us Fan Mail Please subscri...

I am the watcher on the walls. I'm the shield that guards, the realms of men. I pledged my life and honor to the night's watch for this night and all the nights to come.  How do you stop a crime that has not happened yet?  How do you figure out how some assassin will strike before they've actually done so?  This is the essential conundrum of the American Secret Service. They are the...

Host Declan Hill is interviewed about his work investigating corruption and organized crime in sports.  Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe, rate, review or like this episode of CrimeWaves at YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.   For more information on CrimeWaves please see -  www.crimewavespodcast.com www.declanhill.com Twitter: declan_hill

A serial sexual predator was on the loose across four states.    Women and girls were being stalked, assaulted, and raped.   The investigators had no idea how to solve the case until one morning they get a phone call that breaks it wide open...  #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #CrimeWaves #CrimeWavesPodcast Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe, rate, review or like this episode of CrimeWaves a...

Michael Franzese was a Mafia Capo in the Colombo Crime Family of New York.   In this episode of CrimeWaves, he explains how the Mob actually operates.  He speaks about the rules and "Code of the Mafia".   How a mobster can survive and thrive in the criminal world and the greatest story of all -  how Franzese was able to get out of the Mafia - and still live.  #Mafia, #themob #Lacosanostr...

It was a monumental stock fraud. The "Wolf of Wall Street" ran a pump-and-dump operation that netted him and the other criminal leaders tens of millions of dollars. They stole the money of pensioners, widows, and the poor. They bought themselves luxury yachts, expensive cars, and opulent mansions. They enjoyed a lifestyle of parties, strippers, and drugs. No one stopped them. That is unt...

Sarah Chayes is one courageous person.  She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.    She speaks  about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there and the corruption taking place in the United States.  Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe, rate, review or...

You're standing over the body of a woman who's been murdered. She's been killed for loan sharking at a casino by organized crime mobsters. This is the price of blood. This is the thing that few people ever talk about when discussing money laundering, you know, the usual barking guff of expensive defense lawyers and their trained seals in the media How financial crimes are victimless...

Robert Mazur is one of the greatest undercover agents in the history of American law enforcement.  He infiltrated, first, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar; and then, the Cali Cartel.   The problem? He would not give up.  Surrounded by mobsters, drug traffickers, and corrupt officials, Mazur kept going.  On Crimewaves - the inside story of one of the biggest takedowns of drug dealers and t...

It was a meeting of two American legends:  Wayne Newton, one of the greatest stars in Country music, and Dr. Henry C. Lee, the man they call the Sherlock Holmes of America.   The subject of the meeting?   To find the body of America’s greatest princess, missing for over four hundred years, Pocahontas.  Send us Fan Mail Please subscribe, rate, review or like this episode of CrimeWaves at YouTube or...

Whitey Bulger was one of America’s most notorious mob bosses. He was a violent, sociopath but he accomplished the almost-unimaginable: he got FBI agents to let him kill whomever he wanted.  This week, the incredible, mind-blowing story of Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang and how they basically ran the organized crime squad of the FBI and key officers of the Boston Police Force for over a decade. Ou...