Detective Story: True Crime Insights with Mike Hammond and Chris Kafcas

Send us Fan Mail On a warm summer Chicago night, June 1974 someone brutally stabbed and murdered 25-year-old Becky Breedlove in her apartment. Bubbly, cute and fun loving she was a transplant to Chicago from Mississippi in the prime of her life.  She had a young son who was staying with her parents back in Mississippi at the time she was murdered. She worked hard and loved to socialize in her neig...

Send us Fan Mail In a special edition of the Detective Story Podcast, Retired Chicago Police Homicide Detective Mike Hammond discusses recent events in the Chicago area during which 12 people were murdered by two separate offenders. He talks about the police procedure, both from the perspective of a homicide detective and administrative responsibilities, during these mass casualty and public threa...

Send us Fan Mail Detective Story with Mike Hammond returns with the story of Nickole Kitchen. Nickole's amazing rise out poverty to become a successful young businesswoman and inspiration to her community was violently cut short by a man she had hoped was her life partner.  Retired Chicago Police Homicide Detective Hammond walks you through her rise, popularity and the love and respect she ha...

Send us Fan Mail Retired Chicago Police Homicide Detective Mike Hammond opens the Detective Story Podcast discussing the murder of Ms. Geneva Redding.  As you will hear, Ms. Redding was an amazing 85-year-old woman that was true leader in her Chicago community for nearly 60 years. Her murder devastated not just her family but an entire community on Chicago's west side and reverberated through...