Game of Crimes

In this episode, Morgan and Murph announce some changes to the podcast. Morgan shares that he will be leaving the show to focus on personal and professional commitments, including a new opportunity with a cybersecurity company and a potential TV show. Murph will continue hosting the podcast and plans to bring on more fantastic guests. They also discuss their recent trip to search for the lost clip...

Mario Rodriguez was a Detroit cop who was shot in the stomach by a felon with a long history of crime. Body cam footage shows the shooter backing into his police vehicle, firing shots at Mario and two of his partners, wounding Mario, getting shot 7 times from return fire, and requiring SWAT to finally take the shooter into custody. It should be an open-and-closed case, but not in Detroit. See how...

Mario Rodriguez was a Detroit cop who was shot in the stomach by a felon with a long history of crime. Body cam footage shows the shooter backing into his police vehicle, firing shots at Mario and two of his partners, wounding Mario, getting shot 7 times from return fire, and requiring SWAT to finally take the shooter into custody. It should be an open-and-closed case, but not in Detroit. See how...

Tim Mason knew this call was different. An active shooter at the Tree of Life Synagogue was in progress, creating a response of dozens of police and first responders. During the search for the shooter, Tim had to keep the priorities of life top of mind as he stepped over several of the shooting victims. He and his team were on a mission to save lives and stop the threat. In a final confrontation w...

Tim Mason knew this call was different. An active shooter at the Tree of Life Synagogue was in progress, creating a response of dozens of police and first responders. During the search for the shooter, Tim had to keep the priorities of life top of mind as he stepped over several of the shooting victims. He and his team were on a mission to save lives and stop the threat. In a final confrontation w...

Jeff Higgins has attracted action wherever he has worked, from being involved in a shooting during training as a deputy sheriff in Hillsboro County, Florida, to opening up the first DEA office in Afghanistan to tackling a suicide bomber. He had so many stories that we decided to make this a four-part series. Jeff is also an accomplished author. His latest book, The Forever Game , is available ever...

Jeff Higgins has attracted action wherever he has worked, from being involved in a shooting during training as a deputy sheriff in Hillsboro County, Florida, to opening up the first DEA office in Afghanistan to tackling a suicide bomber. He had so many stories that we decided to make this a four-part series. Jeff is also an accomplished author. His latest book, The Forever Game , is available ever...

Jeff Higgins has attracted action wherever he has worked, from being involved in a shooting during training as a deputy sheriff in Hillsboro County, Florida, to opening up the first DEA office in Afghanistan to tackling a suicide bomber. He had so many stories that we decided to make this a four-part series. Jeff is also an accomplished author. His latest book, The Forever Game , is available ever...

Jeff Higgins has attracted action wherever he has worked, from being involved in a shooting during training as a deputy sheriff in Hillsboro County, Florida, to opening up the first DEA office in Afghanistan to tackling a suicide bomber. He had so many stories that we decided to make this a four-part series. Jeff is also an accomplished author. His latest book, The Forever Game , is available ever...

Adam Gamal (not his real name) came to America from Egypt at age 20. He didn’t know English, had no family, and had to be led out of the subway by his hand to find his way to the YMCA for his first night in New York City. He worked three jobs, learned English, and joined the US Army. His dedication and skills led to an invitation to join a group whose name was classified.  ‘The Unit’ isn’t just th...

Adam Gamal (not his real name) came to America from Egypt at age 20. He didn’t know English, had no family, and had to be led out of the subway by his hand to find his way to the YMCA for his first night in New York City. He worked three jobs, learned English, and joined the US Army. His dedication and skills led to an invitation to join a group whose name was classified.  ‘The Unit’ isn’t just th...

Eric Reynolds, son of Detective June Hawkins (Episode 136), was headed home to play basketball when he took one last call to locate a vehicle fleeing a bank robbery. He found the car, and in the shootout with the armed robber, Eric was wounded, and the suspect was killed. A series of events affecting him mentally and physically led Eric to start Cops and Campers to help other cops deal with the ef...

Eric Reynolds, son of Detective June Hawkins (Episode 136), was headed home to play basketball when he took one last call to locate a vehicle fleeing a bank robbery. He found the car, and in the shootout with the armed robber, Eric was wounded, and the suspect was killed. A series of events affecting him mentally and physically led Eric to start Cops and Campers to help other cops deal with the ef...

June Hawkins is the real deal. The hit Netflix series Griselda doesn’t begin to tell the real story of June’s accomplishments and what she had to go through in the late 1970s as a woman in policing. If not for her tenacity and inquisitiveness, it would have taken far longer to dismantle the drug organization Griselda Blanco had built in the Miami area. The Godmother of Cocaine was responsible for...

June Hawkins is the real deal. The hit Netflix series Griselda doesn’t begin to tell the real story of June’s accomplishments and what she had to go through in the late 1970s as a woman in policing. If not for her tenacity and inquisitiveness, it would have taken far longer to dismantle the drug organization Griselda Blanco had built in the Miami area. The Godmother of Cocaine was responsible for...

Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her inte...

Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her inte...

Bobby Henline is a retired Army Staff Sergeant, last serving with the 82nd Airborne Division. He spent 13 years in the Army, completing four tours. While on his fourth tour in Iraq, three weeks after his arrival, an IED exploded under his Humvee – April 7, 2007, is a day he will never forget. The four soldiers with him did not survive. As Henline stumbled out of the wreck, a human torch, he was ex...

Bobby Henline was on his fourth tour in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division when an IED exploded under his Humvee and burned over 40% of his body.

In 2015, Zach was part of a DEA team that worked across the globe to go after terrorism financing, specifically Lebanese Hizballah. Trafficking large amounts of cocaine allowed Hizballah to continue financing global terror operations. In this episode, Zach lays out how he worked with a Mossad intelligence officer, in addition to several other global law enforcement agencies, to track down and disr...

In 2015, Zach was part of a DEA team that worked across the globe to go after terrorism financing, specifically Lebanese Hizballah. Trafficking large amounts of cocaine allowed Hizballah to continue financing global terror operations. In this episode, Zach lays out how he worked with a Mossad intelligence officer, in addition to several other global law enforcement agencies, to track down and disr...

On January 6th, 2021, Julie Farnam was the assistant director of intelligence for the United States Capitol Police. She was seeing activity that told her there were imminent threats unfolding ahead of the verification of the vote for the 2020 presidential election. According to Julie, warnings were ignored by the senior leadership at the Capitol Police, and vital intelligence never made it to the...

On January 6th, 2021, Julie Farnam was the assistant director of intelligence for the United States Capitol Police. She was seeing activity that told her there were imminent threats unfolding ahead of the verification of the vote for the 2020 presidential election. According to Julie, warnings were ignored by the senior leadership at the Capitol Police, and vital intelligence never made it to the...

Ken Mead helped lead the investigation into the shooter’s motive and interrogation of the girlfriend in the largest mass shooting in the history of the United States that happened in front of Mandalay Bay at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival on October 1, 2017. Although Ken has trained dozens of law enforcement agencies on this incident, this is his first public interview. He answers som...

Ken Mead helped lead the investigation into the shooter’s motive and interrogation of the girlfriend in the largest mass shooting in the history of the United States that happened in front of Mandalay Bay at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival on October 1, 2017. Although Ken has trained dozens of law enforcement agencies on this incident, this is his first public interview. He answers som...