The Prime Detective

Cathy DeBuono was a background actor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , playing one of Quark’s casino hostesses — known as “dabo girls.” But in real life, she helped expose a Hollywood predator whose scam auditions led to murder. This episode of The Prime Detective follows DeBuono’s close call, the testimony of women like Alice Walker, and the 2006 conviction of Victor Paleologus. Links: NBC News: He...

True crimes, strange coincidences, and cultural controversies that collide with the Final Frontier. In 2020, a Long Island grandmother surrendered her license plate and gave up driving for good. But that’s when the traffic tickets started arriving — from cities she’d never visited, for violations she couldn’t possibly have committed. And they all pointed back to the same number. LINKS: How a Star...

There are weak spots in the fabric of our reality, places where Star Trek and other science fiction stories spill over into real life. The Prime Detective is a short-form true crime and culture podcast that investigates those cracks between fact and fiction. Host Grayson (@TVGuyGrayson on social media) uncovers the unexpected ways sci-fi has inspired, and sometimes interfered with, real-world crim...