Into The Fire: True Crime Stories

Ronnie and i will reflect on past episodes and take questions from our viewers & listeners.

This Friday, June 21, 2024, KGRA Digital Broadcasting's "Into the Fire" episode #27, we will have special guest Troy Belt who spent a career with the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Troy started his career in 1998 at the Kentucky State Penitentiary AKA "The Castle on the Cumberland", home to Kentucky's Death Row. Troy promoted through the ranks up to Captain, and served in Internal Affairs and...

June 14, 2024, Friday night at 7:00 pm CST, Into the Fire episode #26 hits the airwaves on KGRA Digital Broadcasting with special guest Kathy Kleiner. In the fall of 1976, she attended Florida State University and pledged Chi Omega Sorority. On January 15, 1978, she was attacked by Ted Bundy. He entered the sorority house and attacked four women, killing two. Kathy was one of the two women who wer...

June 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST on this weeks episode of Into the Fire on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, we will be joined by Dr. Ross Miller, who is a Forensic Pathologist with the Oklahoma State Office of the Chief Medical Examiners Office. Forensic pathologists perform autopsies to determine what caused a person's death. They are also involved in the investigation of the circumstances surrounding the d...

This Friday, May 31, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST episode #24 of KGRA Digital Broadcasting's Into the Fire will have Doug Young who is a crime scene specialist with the Thornton Police Department in Thornton, Colorado. Doug is someone I have know for years, who also is the Founder of Triad Forensics... Triad Forensics is a Forensic training and consulting company based in Colorado. Triad does both prosecut...

This Friday on May 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST episode #23 of Into the Fire, we will be honored to have Retired Chief Chuck Jordan of the Tulsa Police Department. Absolutely a legend officer, investigator, who later became one of my favorite chiefs on the department. He is someone who actually walked the walk, and his experience in law enforcement spanned over 50 years. Will be a fun episode talking t...

Tonight, May 10, 2024, Episode #22 of Into the Fire from KGRA Digital Broadcasting. This week will be honored to have two distinguished Cold Case Detectives from the East Palo Alto Police Department. Both Sgt. Joseph Klein and Sgt. Jason Peardon are standouts and have definitely made an impact. In 2022, this duo achieved a 100% clearance rate, along with 100% of shooting incidents being cleared by...

Episode #21 of Into the Fire this Friday May 3, 2024 at 7 pm CST Live on KGRA Digital Broadcasting will be Brittany Frederick. She is an award-winning journalist for nearly 24 years. Brittany currently runs TVBrittanyF.com and hosts the podcast MOTIVATE with Brittany Frederick. She is an authority on true crime and crime procedurals, well known for her coverage of A&E's The First 48. And trust...

April 26th 2024 at 7 PM CST, on episode #20 of "Into the Fire", we will have Senior Forensic Investigator Ashleigh Berg. She is a certified Latent Print Examiner, Bloodstain Pattern Analyst and Senior Crome Scene Analyst by the international Association for Identifiaction. She is literally one of the most impressive crime scene investigators out there. She will be a treat to have on our show!

April 19th, at 7 PM CST on #19 of "Into the Fire", i will be joined by Retired Det. Matt Frazier of the Tulsa Police Homicide Unit who has been retired for several years now... so this will be a fun "Where are the Now Episode" along with cool stories from the past. Matt was always one of my favorites to get out and help on a case... Will be a ton of fun having my good friend on the show...Ronnie w...

Friday April 12 2024, episode 18 of our radio show/podcast we will have a very special guest and friend of mine. This guest is definitely on of my favorite field producers/camera guys out there. He has worked on The First 48, American Chopper, Naked and Afraid, Live PD and Extreme Loggers and that is just the short list of the shows he has filmed on... I have said many times, that he is one of the...

April 5, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST on episode #17 of Into the Fire, we will be joined by Retired Warden Dan M. Reynolds who once served as warden of one of Oklahoma's most notorious prisons, known to most Oklahomans as "Big Mac".  He served in many different areas within Oklahoma Corrections, and has written many books along the way... He is going to be an interesting guest to talk about the world that...

March 29th, 2024 @ 8 PM EST, Week # 16 on  "Into the Fire" we welcome Tad DiBiase, known as the "No Body Guy". Federal Prosecutor and Author, he is the nation's leading expert on No-body homicide cases and has a website that tracks and discusses these cases at www.nobodymurdercases.com . Should be an interesting show. Hope all of my faithful watchers/listeners tune in and check it out. These are s...

This week we will have Stephanie Kiesow, who is a former police officer in California, wife of a police officer, and daughter of two police officers, so that right there tells you that she certainly has stories.... She recently published a book called "Workicide" which is already a bestseller. She has experienced personal tragedy, and this will be a great episode no doubt... 

This week, we will be joined by Jonathan Harrison and Danny Cupples who are both paramedics and are founders and business partners of The Locator 911 Light bulb. This will be a fun time visiting with the two of them about the business among other things... Also, they have agreed to give a couple away, so we are looking at how that will work out, but should be a really interesting and fun episode.....

March 8, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Central Standard Time on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, tune in for Episode #13 of "Into the Fire"  where we will be joined by the "Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge" Retired Sgt. Kevin Briggs from the California Highway Patrol. Kevin is credited with saving over 200 people from jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge as a crisis negotiator... He is a national speaker, author,...

This Friday on March 1, 2024, Episode #12 of Into the Fire, we will be joined by one of my friends in the world of homicide detectives, Jermaine Rogers from the Mobile Police Department. Their homicide team is one of my favorites to watch on A&E's The First 48. I think I could literally jump right in and not miss a beat with there unit. They have discovered the secret, which is "Teamwork makes...

February 23, 2024 Episode #11 will be with Retired Orlando PD Detective Lori Fiorino who served with the Orlando Police Department's Special Victim's Unit. Lori will talk about what it took to become a detective in that challenging unit, and she also will be be joined by Yanna, who is was one of her victim's of abuse. This interview will explicit and not for children. So please be advised... Yanna...

On February 16, 2024 at 7:00 pm on Into the Fire Episode #10 we will have Crime Reporter Reagan Ledbetter with Channel 6 news here in Tulsa. Reagan is one of the best out there when it comes to reporters... Since I am striving to have a good variety when it comes to guests, then its an obvious choice to have someone from the media. We work with them often, and this should be a ton of fun...

Episode #9 this week on Into the Fire should be very interesting. This weeks guest is going to be Teri Anderson, who I had a chance meeting with in an airport in St. Louis, MO. She told me that she happened to be a juror on one of my most infamous murder cases that I have had since working in homicide. That led to an fascinating discussion between she and I about the process and her experience as...

February 2, 2024 at 7 pm CST Live, Correction on the guest for Into the Fire Episode #8. Our special guest is going to be Homicide Detective Summer Benton with the Atlanta Police Department. Summer is definitely one of the best in the business who many of you have seen on The First 48 over the years. Summer has also served as a crisis negotiator for many years, and has also been profiled on other...

Our special guest this week will be Death Investigator Alexus Gage with the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. She will be talking about the challenges of working as a death investigator, PTSD, and EMDR Therapy... I saw Alexus speak several months ago and I was so impressed with her and her story that I knew I had to invite her to the show... No doubt she will be a hit with our listene...

Friday 8 PM EST "Episode 6" "Into the Fire" we will be speaking to President & Founder of Iowa Cold Cases, Jody Ewing. It is one of the most comprehensive cold case website. Tune in for an educational experience regarding various cases and her Website! https://iowacoldcases.org/

This Friday on the 5th episode of KGRA Digital Broadcasting's new hit show, it will be legendary Retired Detective Gil Carillo from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit. Gil was one of the lead detectives on the Night Stalker case, which is currently featured on a docuseries on Netflix called the Night Stalker The Hunt for a Serial Killer.

This Friday on the 4th episode of KGRA Digital Broadcasting's new hit show, it will be Retired Detective Scott Wagner from NYPD. He was a member of their prestigious Manhattan North Homicide Unit, as well as a member of their Hostage Negotiator Team, which is comprised of some of the best the department has to offer.... More to come on this, later in the week, but Friday night at 7pm Central shoul...