Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

A classic, fully restored, one-of-a-kind cherry red 1971 Chevrolet Cheyenne truck leads to a double murder of a couple near St. Petersburg.  The real killer planted evidence to steer police toward another suspect, and the twists and turns in the case continue to this day.  Now the double murderer, while sitting on Florida's death row,  is demanding ownership of the red truck that led to "Redrum."...

This week on Full Rigor, the creepy and unbelievable story about a young co-ed from Miami who went missing in Georgia after a softball game in the early 1990's. It took a decade to finally nail her abductor and now the family is fighting to prevent the killer's inevitable release from prison on parole. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c...

An incredibly stupid Florida man tries to outsmart law enforcement by staging a missing person's case in the Keys when he really shot his second wife in the back of the head in Jacksonville. Oh, and his first wife was found dead too. Plus, Karen tries to crack the greatest art heist of all time. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...

At the age of 14, Palmetto Bay middle school student, Michael Hernandez, fatally stabbed and slit the throat of a his best friend and classmate in a bathroom stall. Hernandez, a wannabe serial killer was sentenced to life in prison without parole, twice. However, he is now out of prison. Find out why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co...

Florida leads the country with the most law enforcement officer deaths in the line-of-duty in 2021.  But, cops are under fire now for how they police, especially people of color.  Karen talks with Sgt. Jeff McGreevy, former Marine and law enforcement officer for 30 years about police reform in Florida and America. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at htt...

As a marathon runner herself, Karen explores the bizarre story of Cuban-American fraudster Rosie Ruiz who was the Boston Marathon's women's division winner in 1980, until she wasn't. After she ran amok at the Boston, she moved to South Florida where she was arrested on drug-trafficking charges. Eventually she died in Lake Worth Beach in 2019 at the age of 66. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...

John Walsh's son, Callahan Walsh, reflects on late brother Adam Walsh's murder, capturing fugitives while filming Investigation Discovery's (ID) 'In Pursuit with John Walsh. ' He tells Karen, as director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, he's determined to help families in need after his parents endured their own personal tragedy in South Florida.  Karen also revisits the...

This is a story about Dalia Dippolito, a Boynton Beach housewife convicted of a murder for hire plot against her husband in 2017...even though the whole thing was recorded for the television show COPs, the case was not a slam dunk. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Well-connected Fort Lauderdale attorney, Scott Rothstein, ran a side investment company/Ponzi scheme through his law firm. The now disbarred South Florida lawyer was convicted of operating a $1.2 billion fraud scheme is currently serving a 50-year prison sentence. Plus, this Ponzi scheme has a murder twist. And Canes donor and Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro takes down the U. See Privacy Policy at htt...

Convicted Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff, "worked the so-called 'Jewish circuit' of well-heeled Jews he met at country clubs on Long Island and on Palm Beach." He hit the ritzy enclave of Palm Beach, where he had a home, especially hard. Madoff particularly preyed on wealthy members of the Palm Beach Country Club. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https...

A crafty Pembroke Pines cold case detective tracks down some bones that were identified as a Broward man 15 years after he went missing. As a result, the disappearance of David Churchill Jackson became a homicide investigation. But, who would want to murder the 27 year-old divorced father? Find out.... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c...

A Palm Beach County jury was able to convict a police officer of killing a black motorist and sentence him to 25 years in prison. Former officer Nouman Raja shot church drummer Corey Jones as he stood outside of his broken down SUV on I-95. Will this case have any impact on the murder trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin who is charged with killing George Floyd? Plus, the adoptive fat...

On January 23rd 1974, Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was hacked to death with a machete by an unknown assailant. Her body was found crumpled on the front steps of her St. Augustine home, in a pool of blood.   Athalia was no ordinary woman.  She was a New York fashion model who almost married a Kennedy.  Her murder remains unsolved. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N...

A St. Petersburg woman mysteriously bursts into flames back in the 1950's. One leg with a black slipper and her skull survived the inferno, but the skull was shrunken. Plus, golf legend Tiger Woods, lucky to survive a recent car crash in LA, has had problems driving in South Florida too. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

Lois Riess, aka Losing Streak Lois, is a chameleon and convicted killer grandmother with a gambling problem.  Also, a former Miami lawyer whose pants caught on fire during an arson trial several years ago, has now been arrested for cocaine possession. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The NTSB issued its report into the cause of the helicopter crash that killed basketball great Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others. Just as I suspected it was the same problem that nearly killed me and led to the death of JFK Jr. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Florida holds the highest rate of juveniles in adult prison and many are serving life without parole, LWOP. Hear from an inmate two decades after he murdered the neighbor girl when he was 14. Also, two FBI agents are gunned down in Broward County serving a search warrant. Former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel explains the dangers of the unknown behind the door. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...

A Florida woman shoots her husband multiple times, including in the head, during an HOA argument and a French guy has taken body modification to an extreme...he's become the "Black Alien" See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

A Florida man is gunned down in cold blood and his murder is never solved. But the victims continues to haunt the murder scene, an old Victorian house in Central Florida. Plus, we can't imagine eating a dog, but they do in China. Why and what can you do to save these poor pooches. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...

Two central Florida men have been arrested for allegedly stealing human skulls from the Edgewood Cemetery last December. Did they take the heads for their religious practices? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Three men are finally arrested in a 15-year old cold case in Manatee County.  A 16-year old girl was allegedly murdered because her older boyfriend thought she was pregnant.  Plus, the accused Wellington killer clown wants out of prison on house arrest while she awaits her trial on first degree murder. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c...

The most prolific serial killer, Samuel Little, who began his spree in Miami has finally died and the fake teen doctor, Dr. Love, is arrested again for fraud. Plus updates on several podcasts to start off the new year. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

A young single mother disappears off a boat into the Halifax River in Florida and her boyfriend tells police, she jumped overboard with the keys. When a fisherman finds her body, her injuries tell a gruesome tale of a brutal beating and strangulation with her own bikini top. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-in...

Police are looking for suspects who desecrated at least four graves in the Mount Dora cemetery and removed the heads from the corpses. Plus five curious, religious and macabre things to do with a human skull and Wrinkles the Clown from Naples. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

"Enquiring minds want to know" was an advertising slogan used in the '80s by the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid based in Lantana, Florida. In this episode, Karen looks into founder Generoso Pope Jr.'s possible mob ties, the world's largest Christmas tree and the anthrax attack on the rag's Boca headquarters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...