Sandi Lyn

True Crime in Real Estate™

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Real estate looks good from the curb. Open house signs, fresh flowers on the kitchen island, an agent in a blazer telling you the schools are great. Now here's the part they don't put in your pre-license class. Agents get killed at showings, vacant houses turn into crime scenes, brokers run ponzi schemes with everyone's earnest money and disappear, traffickers use listings to move people in plain sight, and wire fraud empties a family's savings between the title check and the signing pen. That's just the personal side. Whole neighborhoods have been written off too, from Cabrini-Green and Pruit...

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Sandi Lyn

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Ep 5: Inspiration for "Candyman" - The Violent History of Cabrini-Green 03.06.2026 44:22

Sandi Lyn starts this episode with a deeply personal childhood story recalling growing up near violent housing towers in Rockford, Illinois, with the larger-scale history of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green projects as a backdrop. She uses her experience witnessing normalized street-level violence, drug activity, and gang presence as a framework to introduce Cabrini-Green as an amplified version of the sam...

Ep 4: The Davenport Building Collapse: Unanswered Questions 26.05.2026 33:07

The episode opens describing the moments leading up to the collapse of the historic Davenport Hotel apartment building at 324 Main St. on Memorial Day weekend in 2023. Residents were living normal lives when the building’s west wall suddenly failed, causing six stories to crumble. Three tenants were killed. Another resident survived after rescuers amputated her leg with her trapped under rubble. T...

Ep 3: Alex Murdaugh Conviction Overturned, Brennan v Brian 22.05.2026 57:26

The murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh became one of the most infamous criminal cases in South Carolina history because of the Murdaugh family’s decades-long influence over the Lowcountry legal system. For nearly a century, the family held enormous legal and political power in South Carolina through the 14th Judicial Circuit and their law firm, PMPED, while building wealth through lawsuits, land...

Ep 1: Booked, Paid, Nowhere to Stay (STR Scams) 18.05.2026 24:07

True Crime in Real Estate™ is reported journalism. Every name, charge, and figure is sourced from federal court filings, public records, law enforcement statements, and verified reporting. Pending cases are treated as allegations and the accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Nothing here is legal advice. Sources : Defendants : Shray Goel, 35 time of indictment, listed addresses Miami,...