True Blue Crime

On Jan 2, 1972 eight men took over the luxurious Pierre Hotel in New York City. The hotel was home to some of the richest people in New York and the men targeted the hotel's vault filled with safety deposit boxes belonging to the residents. After 2.5 hours the men left with an estimated $28 million (over $200 million in today's value). The men conducted the robbery with perfect precision and not a...

In 1991 the city of LA was a powder keg of racial tension between Korean store owners and members of the black community. The senseless killing of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old black girl, while trying to buy a $2 bottle of OJ was a turning point for the city. While the store owner was found guilty of a crime, the jury elected to convict her for voluntary manslaughter and the judge sentenced the...

In 1997 an extremely troubled and violent young man went on a killing spree that started in Minnesota and ended with the assassination of millionaire fashion designer Gianni Versace. The death of the fashion mogul capped off a crime spree that included 5 murders in 4 different states. Listen along as we break down the tragic and senseless murder spree of Andrew Cunanan. Music by Gioele Fazzeri fro...

In 2004 the town of Woonsocket RI experienced a series of attacks on sex workers. After one man was arrested the police thought the terrible crimes were over but while that man sat in jail, more women went missing. Over the course of 15 months 2 more women were attacked and 3 went missing. One of the surviving women was able to identify her attacker and police made a grisly discovery in his home....

On Xmas eve in 2002 a young pregnant woman went missing from Modesto, CA. Her story took the nation by storm. She had a great life with her "perfect husband" Scott but within a week, his perfect façade crumpled as a woman came forward stating she had been having an affair with Scott prior to Laci disappearing. Four months later, the bodies of Laci and her unborn son Conner washed up in an area whe...

On Xmas eve in 2002 a young pregnant woman went missing from Modesto, CA. Her story took the nation by storm. She had a great life with her "perfect husband" Scott but within a week, his perfect façade crumpled as a woman came forward stating she had been having an affair with Scott prior to Laci disappearing. Four months later, the bodies of Laci and her unborn son Conner washed up in an area whe...

On June 21, 1964 three civil rights activists went missing after investigating a hate crime in Mississippi. The case became one of the highest profile murder investigations of the 1960's and helped turn public support in favor of civil rights and was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the 1965 Voter Rights Act. Listen along as we discuss this historical and terrible ha...

On March 11, 2004 four commuter trains in the city of Madrid, Spain were hit with bombs hidden in several of the trains' cars. The act of terror claimed 193 lives and injured over 2050 people. The people of Spain were extremely upset with their government as their leaders tried to use the attack for political gain. 3 days later, during the national election a change of power occurred due to a lack...

During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta a bomb exploded resulting in the death of two people. Richard Jewell was the security guard who found the bomb and after initially being hailed as a hero, a Law Enforcement leak to the media that he was a person of interest in the bombing turned him from hero to suspected villian. For 88 days he was under immense media scrutiny until the Federal Governmen...

In late 2019 a mother and her 3 week old infant went missing during the middle of the day from their apartment in Austin, TX. Suspicion fell on the woman's boyfriend but the truth behind the disappearance was almost too insane to believe. Listen along as we discuss the sad and perplexing case of Heidi Broussard. Music by Gioele Fazzeri from Pixabay,

In 1997, a crew of six men completed a hostile takeover of a Dunbar Armored Car Depot in Los Angeles, CA. The mastermind was a former employee and he had planned the crime perfectly. After 30 mins the crew had taken almost $19 million in cash without firing a single shot or severely injuring any of the staff. It took a task force two years of constant investigation to finally catch a member of the...

On June 4, 2004 a man crashed through a storage shed driving a 60+ ton armored bulldozer he had spent the last 18 months building in secret. He was upset with many of the local leaders about some decisions they had made that didn't align with his viewpoints and during the next 90 minutes he leveled part or all of 13 buildings, destroyed several vehicles, and shot at but missed several law enforcem...

On Jan 2, 2020 a woman in Bismark, ND called to report her house was filled with smoke and her husband was inside. Firefighters found evidence of a fire and Chad Entzel was deceased on a bed with a shotgun at his side. What looked like a suicide at first was anything but and investigators soon focused on the grieving wife and found evidence of an affair, a murder, and attempts to collect on multip...

On April 22, 2020 a female soldier, PFC Vanessa Guillen, went missing from Fort Hood in Texas. It was soon discovered that PFC Guillen had suffered sexual harassment and abuse at the hands of fellow soldiers and was on the verge of reporting the incidents when she went missing. Her family and the general public were very vocal about the lack of action on the part of the Army in regards to curbing...

During late 2019 and halfway through 2020, the old Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos) in Texas was the most dangerous military installation inside the United States. In 2020 alone 39 deaths were associated with soldiers from the base, with the most famous case being that of Vanessa Guillen. But the base had a reputation for being dangerous well before 2020, thanks to the 2009 mass shooting, a thwarted 2...

On November 5, 2009 an Army Major named Nidal Hisan walked into a medical center on Fort Hood and began shooting soldiers. Nidal had become a radicalized Muslim and felt this act of violence against the US Army was a God given mission that would help atone his mother's sins for her failure to follow a devout Muslim life. His shooting spree would leave 13 dead and 32 injured before he was shot and...

In 1991 a man drove through the front window of Luby's Cafe in Killeen, Tx and opened fire on the patrons. He singled out women and fatally shot 23 people in the cafe before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide after getting shot twice by responding police officers. At the time it was the worst mass shooting in American history and would stay that way until the Virginia Tech shooting...

In 1994 and 1995 post-apartheid South Africa a monster was on the loose. He enticed women that were living on the streets or had low paying jobs with the promise of higher wages to work at his various fictitious organizations that centered around preventing abuse against women and children. By the time police caught up with him he had murdered between 38-76 women in 18 months, leaving their bodies...

On February 4, 2010 a family of four from Fallbrook, CA just up and vanished in a mystery that had their family and law enforcement stumped for over three years. No evidence of a crime of violence was found in their house and their vehicle was located 4 days later next to a border crossing into Mexico. Video later surfaced showing a family of four walking into Mexico on the night the family vehicl...

On February 4, 2010 a family of four from Fallbrook, CA just up and vanished in a mystery that had their family and law enforcement stumped for over three years. No evidence of a crime of violence was found in their house and their vehicle was located 4 days later next to a border crossing into Mexico. Video later surfaced showing a family of four walking into Mexico on the night the family vehicl...

In the early morning hours of July 9, 1995, Mary K Ross was asleep in her bed when two men attacked her with knives, stabbing her 16 times and ending her life. The investigation would reveal she gave safe harbor to a friend who was escaping an abusive husband. That man took it upon himself to hire two other men to kill Mary in retaliation for assisting his estranged wife. Listen along as we discus...

On August 28, 2003 a man walked into a PNC Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania with a bomb attached to his body via a metal neck collar. He was stopped by police after leaving the bank and roughly 40 mins after he robbed the bank, the bomb exploded, killing the suspect. A lengthy investigation revealed a sinister plot and to this day there are arguments about whether the man who robbed the bank participate...

On August 28, 2003 a man walked into a PNC Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania with a bomb attached to his body via a metal neck collar. He was stopped by police after leaving the bank and roughly 40 mins after he robbed the bank, the bomb exploded, killing the suspect. A lengthy investigation revealed a sinister plot and to this day there are arguments about whether the man who robbed the bank participate...

In September of 1981 in Bavaria, Germany, 10 year old Ursula Hermann was abducted while riding her bike near a forest in her hometown. A large ransom was requested by the kidnappers but after they stopped communicating with the family, a search of the forest located a buried wooden box with a seat, toilet, bench, books, food, water, radio, light and the lifeless body of Ursula. She had died very e...

In September of 1981 in Bavaria, Germany, 10 year old Ursula Hermann was abducted while riding her bike near a forest in her hometown. A large ransom was requested by the kidnappers but after they stopped communicating with the family, a search of the forest located a buried wooden box with a seat, toilet, bench, books, food, water, radio, light and the lifeless body of Ursula. She had died very e...