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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Ron Chepsuik on Crime Beat to discuss his book Framed:
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Ron Chepesiuk a native of Thunder Bay, Canada, is a full-time freelance journalist, screen writer, film producer and radio host based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA. He has a B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) degree from Minnesota State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, a Masters degree in library science (M.L.S) from Atlanta Clark University and a post-graduate diploma in archival administration from the National University of Dublin in Ireland. Before freelancing full-time, he was a professor of library service for twenty-five years at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Ron has also taught online courses in the journalism program of UCLA’s Extension Division. As an award winning screenwriter, Ron has had four screenplays optioned for movies. In all, Ron has published 40 books and more than 4,000 original articles in FHM, USA Today, Black Enterprise, Woman’s World, Modern Maturity, The Rotarian, New York Times Syndicate, Toronto Star, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Collier´s Encyclopedia, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the New York Daily News and more than 400 other print publications. Ron has reported from more than 35 countries, including Cuba, Northern Ireland, Colombia, Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong, Nepal and Czechoslovakia, and his 16,000 plus interviews include such luminaries as Robert Kennedy, Jr., Gerry Adams, Yasser Arafat, Russell Simmons, John Kerry, Dave Barry, Andie McDowall, Jimmy Carter, Abbie Hoffman, Noam Chomsky, Frank Lucas (the subject of the movie, ¨American Gangster¨), a former president of Nicaragua and three former presidents and two vice presidents of Colombia, South America. He serves as a consultant to the History Channel´s ¨Gangland¨ series and has been interviewed by NBC´s Dateline, the Biography Channel’s “Mobsters”, The Discovery Channel’s “Undercover” and Black Entertainment Television´s ¨American Gangster¨ Ron has also been interviewed or quoted on radio by the CBC, BBC, CBS, NPR, XM Satellite Radio, Radio Australia and numerous Irish radio stations, among other outlets, and by such newspapers as Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, The Weekly Standard, New York Times, St Petersburg Times, Associated Press, the Guardian (United Kingdom) and the Dallas Morning News. Ron has won numerous writing awards sponsored by such organizations as USA Book News, Foreword Magazine, and Independent Publishers Book Award. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Association of Journalists and Authors, the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Florida Freelance Writers Association and the Professional Writers Association of Canada. Ron's Links :
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Ron's newest book project!
Miracle Journey: The Chris Washburn Story.
Chris Washburn was a celebrated college basketball star and former NBA player who was banned for life for drug use by the NBA. Washburn's poignant story is one of a tremendous fall and momentous comeback. Stay Tuned. |
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Soon to be the basis for a major documentary to appear on the Discovery Channel.
The Real Mr. Big. This is the story of an ambitious Colombian refugee
who migrated to the United Kingdom and set up a sophisticated drug
trafficking organization that the British Security Service MI-5 said
made more than a billion pounds over a ten-year period, making him
Britian’s first billion dollar cocaine dealer. Ruiz Henao’s impact on
the British economy was such that the price of cocaine increased 50
percent for several months after his arrest, earning Ruiz Henao the
infamous title, as British law enforcement described him, of being “
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CRIME BEAT: ISSUES, CONTROVERSIES AND PERSONALITIES FROM THE DARK SIDE The Crime Beat Radio Show's Upcoming Schedule from August 22, 2024, through October 31, 2024.
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Command Appearance December 8, 2022 Show |
Bob Batchelor discusses his book, Roadhouse Blues: Morrison, The Doors and the Death Days of the Sixties. In Roadhouse Blues. |
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September 5, 2024 Show Paul Drexler author of Notorious San Fransico: True Tales of Crime, Passion and Murder.
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August 29, 2024 Show Susan Goldenberg talks about her book, Deadly Triangle: The Famous Architect, His Wife, Their Chauffer and a Murder Most Foul. Glamorous young wife Alma Rattenbury takes her chauffeur as a lover and their scandalous relationship leads to a murder most foul. The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his 30-years-younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, riveted people. The lovers were tried together for Francis's murder at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London, resulting in intense public interest and massive, frenzied media coverage. The trial became one of the 20th century's most sensational cases, sparking widespread debate over sexual mores and social strata distinctions. |
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Michel Paradis Michel Paradis, a human rights lawyer discusses his book, The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower. The book is a biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history. In a world of giants—Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur—it was a barefoot boy from Abilene, Kansas, who would master the art of power and become a modern-day George Washington. |
Command Appearance March 11, 2021 Show
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Command appearance of John Wesley Anderson,
author of Lou and JonBenet: A Legendary Law Man’s Quest to Solve the Child Beauty Queen’s Murder https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7111699.John_Wesley_Anderson |
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August 8, 2024 Show Rick Jervis Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Rick Jervis to discuss his shocking true-crime book, The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer. It's the story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred. The cold-blooded killer was hiding in plain sight. 669 |
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August 1, 2024 Show Peter Houlahan to talk about his book, Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn. The bestselling author of Norco '80 recounts the riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered Southern California. It was March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young . Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of Southeastern San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck's driver, Sagon Penn, fled the scene in an officer's patrol car. The incident stunned the city. What followed would change it forever. |
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July 25, 2024 Show Anthony Destefano Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Anthony Destefano to discuss his book, Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon: The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York. Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con woman. But given her dangerously intimate associations, Vivian was also a woman who knew too much and who rightfully feared for her life. On February 26, 1931, Vivian's bludgeoned and garroted body was found dumped in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. We will discuss with Anthony DeStefano Vivian Gordon's tumultuous life and the headline-making murder that became an obsession for many. 667 |
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Special FBI agent Jeffrey Iverson discusses his book, In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI journey behind the New Iron Curtain. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a historic turning point when many, especially those who grew up during the Cold War, began to let go of their long-held fears and embrace feelings of hope for the future. That included agents of the FBI, who were, by necessity, busy building bridges with their former adversaries in response to a flood of Russian criminals pouring into the United States. In The Belly of the Bear chronicles this collaboration through the eyes of a key FBI agent who was on the frontlines in Russia. Jeff Iverson explores obstacles he and his colleagues faced on our former rivals' home turf, including counterintelligence challenges that have traditionally posed a danger to American government officials and/or businesspeople traveling to Russia. |
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July 11, 2024 Show Arthur Kane discusses his book, THE LAST STORY: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas. Jeff German, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter, was no stranger to controversy or the danger of his work. For more than four decades, he wrote stories relentlessly confronting the mob, corrupt politicians, and greedy bureaucrats, Then, in the spring of 2022, German received a tip about abuses at a little-known county office. His subsequent investigation unearthed a scandalous, sexually incriminating video of a rising politician. The resulting stories in the Review-Journal ended the man's political aspirations. Less than six months later, on September 3, German's lifeless body was discovered outside his home with multiple stab wounds. His dedicated newsroom colleagues, including Kane, vowed to find the killer. In doing so, they exposed the true depths of corruption and malice in Sin City |
Command Appearance March 11, 2021 Show
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July 4, 2024 Show Rod Sadler author of Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror www.rodsadler.com
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June 27, 2024 Show Morgen Wetzel aka R.L. Graham England this week and welcomes Morgen Wetzel to discuss his book Death on the Lusitania. The book is written under the pseudonym, of R.L. Graham. The Lusitania was doomed before it ever left port. But what if the mortal danger to passengers was not only from outside enemy forces but also from sinister characters onboard? Wetzel explores this chilling scenario. Drawing on meticulous research, Wetzel presents an atmospheric murder mystery set on a luxurious trans-Atlantic liner headed for certain disaster. What's more, this historical crime thriller introduces an amateur detective with wits to rival Hercule Poirot. |
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Karen Conti discusses her book, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row. John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news. Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacy's final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client. Thirty years after Gacy's execution, Conti looks back through the eyes of a seasoned professional on the legal and media circus that ensued—and her countless hours of detailed conversation with the killer clown. We hear for the first time about Gacy's gruesome "Body Book." Were there more victims? Conspirators involved in the murders? What secrets were buried with him? #663 |
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June 13, 2024 Show Frank Figliuzzi Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi discusses his book, Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers. Figliuzzi presents a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting. In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the "Truck Stop Killer," who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and "The Interstate Strangler," who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative |
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June 6, 2024 Show Lance Williams talks about his book King David and Boss Daley: The Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the Edge. In Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one young, one old and both leaders of their clans. Each ruled with an iron fist. Each embodied the fighting spirit of the turbulent 1960s. One was David Barksdale, the Black Disciples leader, a Black youth club that would give birth to America's largest street gang; the other was Richard J. Daley, the legendary Mayor of the City of Chicago. He was one of the longest-serving, most prominent mayors in American history and the last of the big-city "bosses." Although the two never met, at least not face-to-face, their fates were linked by a time of change, an era of protest, which was a decisive moment of transformational power that was on the verge of a violent uprising in America's second-largest city. |
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May 30, 2024 Show Bruce LeMaster talks about his book The Wolf and the Killer: Volume 1. LeMaster interviewed a serial killer to produce this fascinating book. He talked with the serial killer about his life, his crimes, what made him become a killer and prison life. LeMaster explains: "As I have told you before and as you know I admire a true serial killer. They are the ultimate predator. They think, act, learn from their mistakes, hide in plain sight, and have no remorse for what they do. They are like a shark always hunting and killing." |
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May 23, 2024 Show Maureen Boyle discusses her book Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Serial Killer. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells the story of a case that has haunted New England for 30 years. Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community's diverse fabric The book spins a riveting narrative about the crimes, the victims, the hunt for the killers, and the search for justice, all played out against the backdrop of an increasingly impoverished community beset by drugs and crime.. Boyle first broke the story in 1988 and stayed with it for decades. |
Command Appearance January 12, 2023 Show |
May 16, 2024 Show Matthew Gentile In a command appearance, we welcome Matthew Gentile, screenwriter and director to discuss his movie, American Murderer. The thriller is based on the true story of Jason Derek Brown, elusive con man wanted by the FBI after hatching his most elaborate scheme yet. Brown has been on the run for 15 years. The movie stars Ryan Phillippe, Tom Phelphrey and Idina Menzel. We will be discussing movie making, as well as Brown's story brought to the big screen.
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May 9, 2024
Show Marla Bernard talks about her book, Precious Few Clues: The True Crime Investigation of Kansas City's "Precious Doe" Murder. On an unseasonably warm April evening in 2001, the headless body of a tiny girl was found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods on the southeast side of Kansas City, Missouri. In Precious Few Clues, Marla Bernard provides a candid and touching account of the painful impact that this brutal murder had on Sgt. Bernard, his family, and the KCPD's 1020 squad. It chronicles the all too frequent story of child abuse, failed social services, a flawed court system, and battered women who sacrificed their own children to shield their abusive lovers, echoing the same preposterous explanations of "...but I love him"
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May 2, 2024 Show Jo Thomas discusses her memoir: Striving: Adventures of a Female Journalist, a True Story. New York Times journalist Jo Thomas' career is amazing. It begins with a plane crash and continues in ruined neighborhoods in Ohio. She undertakes a terrifying investigation of the underworld and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa on the docks of Detroit. She visits the office of a scientist in New Orleans who did covert experiments for the CIA. She walks the streets of Havana as thousands depart for Miami during the Mariel boatlift. She is in Northern Ireland to investigate undercover police and army shootings during the Troubles. And she is at white right-wing enclaves in the American heartland after the Oklahoma City bombing. Jo Thomas' story speaks to the importance of journalism and the struggles of women in the workplace. 657
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April 25, 2024 Show Jerry Hester talks about his book, Mafia Miami: FBI Politics and How an Investigation Was Nearly Sabotaged. We will talk about the challenges, twists and turns, and inevitable administrative roadblocks one encounters while running a high-profile and complex FBI investigation. Interwoven throughout Hester's story are highlights of key bureaucratic changes driven by culture and policy that took place within the FBI at the time. We will also talk about how those changes had a negative impact on not only the Paesan Blues investigation, the heart of the book, but also the entire future of the FBI's effectiveness and reputation. 656 |
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April 18, 2024 Show Maureen Boyle discusses her book Child Last Seen: The Search for Patty Desmond. The year was 1965. In an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she'd come home in a week or two. That night was the last time her family ever saw her. Conrad Eugene Miller was well-known to local law enforcement. An older married man with a child, Miller's association with Patty was questionable at best. Yet he was the last person known to have seen her alive—and the suspect police continued to circle back toward. After nothing but false sightings and rumors, the case was moved to the backburner—where it stayed. As decades crept by, reality sunk in: Patty Desmond was never coming back. Then, a tiny crack unleashed a flood of information, and a mystery long kept unraveled. |
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April 11, 2024 Show Nick Parisi to discusses his book, Mafia Confession: King of the Bootleggers. Mafia Confession is a rare inside account of the rise of the "Springfield Crew" in Massachusetts, its ties with the Genovese Crime Family of New York, and its evolution into the present-day Mob. The crime story is from the personal diary of a man sitting in his jail cell awaiting trial. The electrifying trial itself had over 2,000 people huddled around the courthouse, awaiting every word uttered from within by Parisi's defense attorney, the future Governor of Massachusetts. |
Command Appearance December 8, 2022 Show |
April 4, 2024 Show Bob Batchelor discusses his book, Road house Blues: Morrison, The Doors and the Death Days of the Sixties. In Roadhouse Blues.
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March 28, 2024 Show Burl Barer an Edgar Award-winning author discusses three of his true crime books: MAN OVERBOARD, BETRAYAL IN BLUE, and A TASTE FOR MURDER. The books have been compiled in an anthology titled Murderer's Row. Burl Barer has a long, exceptional career in book publishing, television and radio. He is host of the popular true crime podcast, True Crime Uncensored. 652 |
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March 14, 2024 Show Jeffrey Sussman talks about his book, Tinseltown Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Hollywood. Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses. Control the unions to which projectionists, art directors, cinematographers, electricians, scene designers, stagehands, extras belong, and you control the whole industry. Sussman paints colorful portraits of numerous mobsters, producers, actors, and directors and tells the gripping, fast-paced, true story of corruption and greed in Hollywood throughout much of the twentieth century. |
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March 7, 2024 Show Eric Ulis is back to talk about his book, Silver Bullet: The Undoing of DB Cooper. In 1971, D.B. Cooper hijacked a flight for a $200,000 ransom, then disappeared after parachuting from the plane. The case remains the only unsolved commercial airline hijacking and one of history's biggest mysteries. Eric Ulis is one of the leading experts on the notable mystery, and we will be talking about his research on topic. |
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February 29, 2024 Show Nate Hendley is back to talk about his latest book, Atrocity at Sea. Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War. The book chronicles How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage. On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle ― an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military ― was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86, a German submarine. Sinking hospital ships violated international law. To conceal his actions, the U-86 commander had the submarine deck guns fire on survivors. One lifeboat escaped with witnesses to the atrocity. Global outrage over the attack ensued. The sinking of the Llandovery Castle was adjudicated at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials, an attempt to establish justice after hostilities ceased. The Llandovery Castle case resulted in a historic legal precedent that guided subsequent war crime prosecutions, including the Nuremberg Trials. |
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February 22, 2024 Show Alan Warren talks about his book, the Grindr Serial Killer: Stephen Port. (Killer Queens). It is based on the case of Stephen Port, a serial murderer in London, U.K., who was convicted of drugging, raping, and murdering four young men. He was also convicted of drugging and raping several other men. His victims were found through a new type of gay sex parties called 'Party N Play' or 'Chemsex' parties that have become all the rage. Killer Queens is a new series of historical fiction books based on true stories. The series explores the world of murder in the gay community, whether the victims or the killers themselves, and sometimes both, are homosexual. |
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Nick Parisi talks about his book, Rod Serling: His Life, Work, Imagination. Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Serling was the most prestigious writer in American television. As creator, host, and primary writer for The Twilight Zone, Serling became something more: an American icon. When Serling died in 1975, at the age of fifty, he was the most honored, most outspoken, most recognizable, and likely the most prolific writer in television history. Though best known for The Twilight Zone, Serling wrote over 250 scripts for film and television and won an unmatched six Emmy Awards for dramatic writing for four different series. His filmography includes the acclaimed political thriller Seven Days in May and co-writing the original Planet of the Apes. Parisi's book is a painstakingly researched look at all of Serling's work—in and out of The Twilight Zone. 647 |
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February 8, 2024 Show Aquilino Gonell discusses his book, American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy. Aquilino Gonell left the Dominican Republic when he was 12 in pursuit of the American dream. He joined the Army, fought in Iraq and became a police officer at the U.S. Capitol. On Jan. 6, 2021, Sargeant Gonell was attacked and beaten by Trump cultist rioters as he and his fellow officers tried bravely to hold the line in defense of democracy. The brutal injuries he sustained that day would end his career in law enforcement. But when some of the very people he put his life on the line to protect downplayed or denied the truth of that day, he chose to speak out against the injustice done to him and the country. Hear Aquilino Gonell's story. Join us.
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February 1, 2024 Show Mike Rothmiller and Douglas Thompson to talk about their book, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe. Rothmiller and Thompson pull no punches. They claim to prove that Robert Kennedy was directly responsible for her death. The book details the legendary star's tumultuous personal involvement with him and his brother, President John Kennedy, and how they sought to silence her. The new evidence and testimony is ostensibly provided by Mike Rothmiller who, as a detective of the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID) of the LAPD, had direct personal access to hundreds of secret LAPD files on exactly what happened at Marilyn Monroe's Californian home on August 5, 1962. Rothmiller used that secret information to get to the heart of the matter, to the people who were there the night Marilyn died—two of whom played major roles in the cover-up—and the wider conspiracy to protect the Kennedys at all costs. Explosive indeed!. |
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January 25, 2024 Show Robin Jarossi discusses his book The Real Ted Hastings. The True Story of the Copper at the heart of Line of Duty. The British TV series, Line of Duty, now in its sixth year and available on Amazon Prime, holds its status as the defining TV crime drama of today. The conspiracy theme of the series chimes at a time when public institutions and representatives are distrusted. Ted Hastings, the show's head of anti-corruption, has emerged as the beating heart of the series. The scale of the problem facing Robert Mark, the real life Ted Hastings, was institutionalized corruption in Criminal Investigation Department. During his four years eleven months as commissioner, he saw 478 men leave the force following or in anticipation of criminal/disciplinary proceedings. Departures in the previous decade had averaged about 16 a year. Robin Jarossi's book reveals how the compelling drama reflects real crimes, events and figures, most notably that of Robert Mark and his battle against Met corruption. Line of Duty is one of Crime Beat's favorite TV programs. |
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January 18, 2024 Show Laura Brand discusses her forthcoming book, The Siren of San Quentin: Getting to Know the Tool Box Killers. It's Book one of three books. More than a terrifying true crime trilogy, THE SIREN OF SAN QUENTIN is a deeply personal memoir, tracing Brand's journey from a haunting family tragedy to her quest to unlock the minds of serial killers. She has conducted hundreds of interviews with death row inmates at San Quentin State Prison, north of San Francisco. Brand's persistence earned her the nickname 'The Siren of San Quentin' from the inmates. Among the killers she asked to interview were the notorious 'Toolbox Killers,' Roy Norris and Lawrence Bittacker. Norris was eager to answer Brand's questions; however, Bittaker was initially hostile. But Brand persisted, and he eventually began to open up, sharing invaluable information, including a map pinpointing the locations of buried evidence. |
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January 11, 2024 Show Frank Girardot discusses his book, Becoming Clark Rockefeller: Murder, Love, Deception, and the Conman Behind It all. Girardot delves into the life of a young immigrant entangled in a multi-generational murder investigation ensnaring some of the wealthiest Americans. Posing as bogus aristocrat Clark Rockefeller, the audacious grafter duped the affluent, leaving a trail of deception and national headlines in his wake. Clark Rockefeller's real name: Christian Gerhartsreiter, |
Command Appearance June 9, 2022 Show |
January 4, 2024 Show Ralph Friedman Ralph Friedman, author of Street Justice: The True Story of the NYPD’s Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him. https://www.bronxstreetwarrior.com/
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Command Appearance April 7, 2022 Show |
December 28, 2023 Show Renee Fehr Renee Fehr, author of Wheels of Justice: The True Story of a 27-year Battle to Convict My Sister’s Killer https://www.facebook.com/FehrAdvocacyandConsultation/
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Command Appearance December 9, 2023 Show |
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21, 2023 Show Lucy Aldington Lucy Adlington, author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive. https://www.lucyadlington.com/
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December 14, 2023 Show Richard Carrico discusses his book, Monsters on the Loose: The True Story of Three Unsolved Murders in Prohibition San Diego. In 1931, San Diego's idyllic image as a beach town with peaceful suburbs concealed a harrowing reality: a series of unsolved crimes targeting women, fueling fear and vulnerability. Local law enforcement, out-of-town criminologists, and investigators from what would become the FBI pursued hundreds of leads. Statewide, newspapers covered every angle and clue and sometimes played a role in the investigations. Yet, the killer(s) were never identified and brought to justice. In MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE, award-winning author and historian Richard L. Carrico pieces fragments of evidence together for three cold cases, shedding light on a dark chapter in San Diego's history. |
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December 7, 2023 Show Rod Sadler discusses his book, Grim Paradise: The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer. When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery? In Grim Paradise, true crime author Rod Sadler delves into the secrets of one of Michigan's most perplexing murder cases. Offering an in-depth and suspenseful account of the long-standing mystery, he poses the question: Could advanced DNA technology lead to the identity of the Mackinac Island murderer as it did recently in the case of the Golden State Killer? |
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November 30, 2023 Show Andy Thibault discusses his book, You Thought It was More: New Adventures of the World's Greatest Counterfeiter. The book, done in collaboration with Louis Colavecchio, tells the story of Louis Colavecchio, the man considered the world's greatest counterfeiter. Colavecchio's prowess as a jeweler, manufacturer, and charmer has earned him a place in history, having been featured on prestigious platforms such as The History Channel and The BBC. His profound impact on the casino gaming industry has left a lasting legacy, forever changing it. 639 |