It's About Damn Crime! Podcast

OneCoin. OneScam. OneGone. (2017) In this episode, we have the story of the cryptocurrency OneCoin. Unlike a typical unsolved crime case, we all know exactly how this all went down. The mystery here isn’t who did it. We know exactly who did it. 44-year-old OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova disappeared in 2017, leaving millions of OneCoin investors with nothing. One the other hand, Ruja went into hidin...

The Vanishing Inventor (1890) On September 16th, 1890, artist and inventor Louis Le Prince boarded a train headed for Paris. He was ultimately headed for New York to join his wife and children. He was going to solidify the patent on his revolutionary invention that was about to change the world. Unfortunately, Louis Le Prince never arrived in Paris that night. He never arrived anywhere. Listen to...

The Max Headroom Interruption (1987) As the day wound down on Sunday, November 22nd, 1987, the greater Chicago area was in a fabulous mood. At exactly 9:14pm, something very strange and kind of surreal interrupted WGN sports anchor Dan Roan as he described the Bears’ victory over the Lions. In this episode, we dive head first into the crazy-ass case of the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion t...

The Boston Art Heist (1990) On March 18th, 1990, the largest theft of property in American history went down. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in world history. It happened at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Was it the job of seasoned international art thieves? Was it some local Boston thugs who happened to get away with the biggest robbery of their lives? Di...

The Hinterkaifeck Massacre (1922) In the winter of 1922 outside of Munich, Germany, six people were brutally murdered - including two children. The killer(s) then made themselves at home at the Bavarian farmstead known as Hinterkaifeck...for almost five days. There's a reason why this unsolved crime has captured the fascination of all who hear this story...worldwide...for over 102 years. Did t...

Was Halyna Hutchins Murdered? If an upset crew member put a live bullet in the prop pistol that Alec Baldwin used when she was shot, that's exactly what happened. Could it be that it was negligence and incompetence on the part of the rookie Armorer and the Assistant Director with a track record of missteps and misfires? Or was it simply a tragic accident that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins...

Thanks for dropping by and listening to Solve Crimes’ series, “Caught After Death”. With recent advancements in Reverse DNA / Forensic Genealogy searches, law enforcement detectives working on cold cases are excited to close some of their most frustrating unsolved murders. Michael Sumpter terrorized the city of Boston in the late sixties through the mid seventies. Sumpter had a lengthy record with...

We knew that the weekend would bring out more information and we were right. In this episode, we continue to talk about what happened last Thursday on the set of the Alec Baldwin film "Rust". We learn about an assistant director with a history of errors in judgement. We finally find out exactly what was going on when the tragic situation happened. We read a statement from Halyna's husband Matt onl...

You've seen the headline "Alec Baldwin Kills Cinematographer" - but did you know about the crew that walked out only hours before over concerns about safety on the set? Could a disgruntled crew member have placed live ammunition in Alec Baldwin's prop gun? Possibly to prove a point about the lack of safety during filming of "Rust" at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico? In other words, w...

Welcome to Season 2 of Solve Crimes! Thanks for dropping by and listening to Solve Crimes’ new series, “Caught After Death”. With recent advancements in Reverse DNA / Forensic Genealogy searches, law enforcement detectives working on cold cases are excited to close some of their most frustrating unsolved murders. Another recent success is from the Cascade County Sheriff's Office in Montana. They m...

Welcome to Season 2 of Solve Crimes! Thanks for dropping by and welcome to Solve Crimes’ new series, “Caught After Death”. With recent advancements in Reverse DNA / Forensic Genealogy searches, law enforcement detectives working on cold cases are excited to close some of their most frustrating unsolved murders. One such cold case unit was the El Dorado County Cold Case Task Force in California whi...

Welcome to Season 2 of Solve Crimes!  Thanks for dropping by and welcome to Solve Crimes’ new series, “They Killed Their Parents”. One thing we want to make clear is that we will attempt to tell stories of interest in the True Crime genre, not to glorify these killers or their horrible acts. This - and other series - will be documentary style for those of you who find True Crime fascinating and in...