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February 16, 2023 Show

Julie K. Brown  the journalist who took down the infamous Jeffrey Epstein discusses her book, Perversion of Justice: the Jeffrey Epstein Story.

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February 9, 2023 Show

Jeffrey Sussman

discusses his book, Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas, Sussman charts Vegas from the first modest mob-owned casinos to the present billion-dollar-resorts; its cast of characters is an assembly of exceedingly ambitious risk takers who let nothing stand in their way of turning their dreams into stunning realities. Vegas became the domain of Jay Sarno, Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn, and Sheldon Adelson, visionaries who transformed Vegas into the entertainment capital of the world by building billion-dollars-plus resorts and hiring the most popular contemporary entertainers. Sussman chronicles how the most powerful mobsters in the country built, bought, and controlled not only gambling casinos in Vegas, but also many important politicians, who did the mob’s bidding. Some of the more notorious mobsters were Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo, and Nick Civella.

Don Stradley

discusses his book, Boston Tabloid: The Killing of Robin Benedict. The disappearance of Robin Benedict, a twenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts suburb, became one of the most discussed crimes of the twentieth century. The discussion intensified when the public learned that she worked as a prostitute in Boston's notorious red-light district, the “Combat Zone,” and was linked by a trail of blood to a famous professor from Tufts University. When Robin Benedict vanished the investigation and media circus that gripped the city of Boston hadn't been seen since the days of the Boston Strangler case. Stradley reconstructs a grisly murder, and explores one man's bizarre obsession.

January 26, 2023 Show

Marla Bernard

discusses her book, By the Side of the Road: The True Story of the Abduction and Murder of Anne Harrison. Bernard chronicles is the true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Ann Harrison and the long journey forced upon her family who had to wait nearly three decades to see her killers brought to final justice. In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends – career criminals with violent felony convictions - drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, A little before 7 a.m., 15-year-old Ann Harrison walked to the end of her driveway on Kansas City’s east side to wait for the bus to take her to Raytown South High School. Ten minutes later, she disappeared, but no one saw what happened. As if waiting for her return, her belongings were still stacked carefully by the side of the road.

January 19, 2023 Show

Norm Boucher

discusses his memoir, Horseplay: My Time Undercover on the Granville Strip. Boucher offers a gripping, account of his eight months as an undercover drug agent for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1983, starting with his insertion into the Granville Street drug scene.. Boucher’s varied career included postings on the national anti-terrorist Special Emergency Response Team, as Marine drug enforcement coordinator on Canada's West Coast, and as liaison officer in Madrid, Spain, and Santo-Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is the recipient of the Governor General's Medal of Bravery, the Carnegie Medal, and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

January 12, 2023 Show

Matthew Gentile

screenwriter and director to discusses 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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December 29, 2022 Show

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December 15, 2022 Show

Alan Warren

discusses his book, Bruce MaArthur: The Gay Village Murders. During the seven years between 2010 and 2017, Bruce McArthur, a Canadian landscaper, preyed on men from Toronto's gay community and managed to avoid any detection by carefully cutting the bodies of his victims into pieces and burying them in the pot planters and grounds of his landscaping customers. During the first two years of gay men going missing, the LGBTQ community of Toronto suspected that there was someone stalking men in their community. The police didn't feel there was any evidence of this until, in 2012, 42-year-old Faizi, 40-year-old Navaratnam, and 58-year-old Kayhan went missing. By November of that year, police launched an investigation called "Houston "into the gay men who were missing. After two years with no results, they closed the investigation. Three years later, in 2017, after 49-year-old Kinsman and 44-year-old Esen went missing, police launched another investigation. When the investigation finally ended, there were over 1800 pieces of evidence from searches of over 100 properties. McArthur's reign of terror in the gay village of Toronto finally ended on January 17, 2018, when police arrested and eventually charged him with the eight murders.

December 8, 2022 Show

Bob Batchelor

discusses his book, Road house Blues: Morrison, The Doors and the Death Days of the Sixties. In Roadhouse Blues. Batchelor presents an epic tale of one of rock’s (and America’s) most significant periods, as the Age of Aquarius gave way to a new age of mayhem, presidential misdeeds, and murder. Batchelor combines cultural history, musical and lyrical analysis, and a broad stroke of pop-culture mythos to give fresh perspective on a pivotal time. Roadhouse Blues is a biography of Jim Morrison, a man, a band, and an era that set the tone for the contemporary world.

December 1, 2022 Show

Linda Lou Long

discusses her book, The Tuskegee Strangler: The “Nicest” Serial Killer They Ever Met. Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was “a nice guy,” always helped at home, did well in school, an athlete, and always employed. When things went wrong, he was the first to help clean up the mess. He was the last person anyone suspected of being a serial killer. After Marcus was caught and sentenced to life in prison in the late ’70s, author Linda Lou Long spent years corresponding with him. The Tuskegee Strangler gives an inside look into the workings of a man who is not your typical serial killer.

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November 24, 2022 Show

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November 17, 2022 Show

Alan Geik

talks about his book, Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz: The Jewish Mob: A Family Affair. Labor racketeers, casino operators, jewelry thieves and one time Murder Inc. assassins provide an intimate look into the biggest cash flow business in American history—organized crime. They were there from the beginning. They were Alan Geik’s Jewish family crime culture. Alan Geik, his sister, an attorney, and their late brother, a New York Police Department detective, were an appreciative, and often amused, audience for this history that has since become part of American folklore. These same gangsters’ battles with Nazi sympathizers are a recurring theme. They relished street brawls with Henry Ford’s strike breaking thugs and other Nazi sympathizers on American streets. The author’s late father-in-law, Lou Lenart, the first fighter pilot in the Israeli Air force, tells of organized crime’s crucial support of the Israelis in their armed struggle for an independent state in Palestine.

November 10, 2022 Show

John Borowski

discusses his book Panzram at Leavenworth. On February 1, 1929, Carl Panzram, the self-described “meanest man who ever lived”, stepped through the gates at the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Upon entering the penitentiary, Panzram mentioned to the Warden that he would kill the first person who bothered him. Keeping his word, Panzram murdered the civilian laundry foreman who was taunting Panzram about his past crimes. A life of torture and suffering led Panzram to hate the entire human race and himself. His only friend was Washington D.C. corrections officer Henry Lesser, who Panzram continued corresponding with while incarcerated at USP Leavenworth. Eventually, Panzram is placed in segregation across from another famous criminal, Robert Stroud, The Birdman of Alcatraz, who observes Panzram and writes about him. Panzram does not censor himself as he conveys his thoughts on murder, segregation, the death penalty, and his desire to die. Panzram at Leavenworth is the first book to accurately depict murderer Carl Panzram's time at the federal penitentiary.

November 3, 2022 Show

Mike Vecchione

discusses his book, Homicide Is My Business- Luigi the Zip, A Hitman’s Quest for Honor. The story of Luigi Ronsisvalle is an intimate look at the life of a professional killer. Luigi had done everything asked of him by his Mafia bosses. This included the murder of 13 people. But unlike other hit-men, whose stories have been told in the pages of bestsellers and on movie screens, Luigi was denied the Mafia recognition he felt he deserved. Drawing on personal files, handwritten notes, and official sources, this book attempts to explain his complicated life.. Ronsisvalle once told a presidential commission, “American child falls in love with baseball, I fall in love with Mafia.”

October 27, 2022 Show

David Larson

is back to discuss his book, The Last Jewish Gangster, The Middle Years, The book is the second installment in a three-part chronicle of Michael Hardy, one of organized crime’s least known but most fascinating gangsters. The book starts in 1968 with gangster Michael Hardy sentenced to twelve years in the world’s most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother’s counterfeiting scheme, hoping to have finally earned her love and respect. It then follows Hardy, further down his twisted criminal path. Throughout his career as a criminal, Hardy robbed banks and drug dealers alike, ran a finger of an international stolen car ring, kidnapped drug lords, and even became a hired gun.

October 20, 2022 Show

John Madinger

discusses his book, Going Undercover: Kidnapping, Murder, and A Life Undercover. "What is it like to work undercover?" Here is the skinny. You’re a sheepdog in wolf’s clothing, running with the pack, and Madinger ran with the wolves for almost two decades. Madinger will offer us a unique look at American crime and the "War on Drugs" from the perspective of both cops and criminals. You’ll go with the undercover cops to meetings with street-corner hustlers and rip-off artists and into the lives of America’s biggest rock stars, the world’s richest man, an Academy Award-winning actor, the marijuana traffickers conspiring to assassinate a federal judge, and the President of the United States. It’s an amazing ride, and there has never been another story like it.

October 13, 2022 Show

Michael Benson

discusses his book, The Devil at Genesee Junction: The Murders of Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formicola. While June 25 started like any other day it ended in a nightmare. In The Devil at Genesee Junction, Benson, returns to his formerly rural hometown to take on the double homicide of his friends Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Forrmiciola that took place that night. The two girls were missing for a month and then found in the bushes horribly mutilated. The double homicide changed the author’s childhood suddenly, and drastically. He went from living in a rural play land, to being encased in fear, wondering who among them was the werewolf who cut up Kathy and George-Ann. This heinous crime was never resolved, and didn’t go away. In recent years, the author has teamed up with a victim’s mom, and a local private investigator to delve deep into the 6/66 murders, developing along the way some strong new leads and shocking details. Together they have heated up this icy cold case, and their investigation has led them in a startling new direction.

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October 6, 2022 Show

Nate Hendley

discusses his book, Dutch Schulz, The Brazen Beer Baron of New York. Dutch Schultz was a vicious gangster who rose to prominence as a bootlegger in New York City. “The Dutchman” always seemed to come out on top in conflicts with courts, cops, and disloyal members of his own crew. Uncouth and unpredictable, Schultz was also unpopular with his mob peers who conspired to bring him down. Dutch signed his own death warrant when he defied the powerful Mafia Commission led by Lucky Luciano.

Alan Warren

discusses his book, D.B. Cooper: The Interviews. The book investigates the story of the famous unidentified man who hijacked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking  Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_727  aircraft operated by Northwest Orient Airlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. . We will talk about the facts we know about the hijacking, the primary suspects listed according to the FBI, media, or public opinion, supported by the show’s best interviews with authors and researchers who covered these suspects, the other major suspects popular among the public but not considered Cooper by the FBI or law enforcement authorities and the major suspects who came forward to police and confessed to being D.B. Cooper. The last part of our discussion will focus on the wave of copycat hijackings that occurred after the Cooper case. And there were quite a few.

September 15, 2022 Show

William Craig

discusses his book, All Along the Watchtower: Murder at Fort Devins. It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type which is romanticized in Robert Frost’s poems. But on January 30, 1979, a woman’s scream was heard piercing the northeast tempest wind.In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine Tyree, a mother, wife, and US Army soldier, had her life brutally ripped from her. Her husband, William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier, was convicted of this heinous murder, which he has always vehemently denied. The Tyree case sent a shockwave through the idyllic community of Ayer, the United States Army, and the judicial system of Massachusetts. This case provoked suspicions of judicial misconduct, government cover-up, clandestine Black Ops by the military, and various conspiracy theories ultimately implicating “Deep State” involvement.

September 8, 2022 Show

Leslie Ghiglieri

discusses her book, The Decision to Kill: A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother who Loved Him. The book chronicles the story of a family tragedy that propels a mother to search for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son. In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier’s life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief she suffers from her loss and the difficulty she faces as she attempts to forgive her son. The courtroom accounts of gruesome details and the shocking testimonies from experts, only add to Cherie’s yearning to make sense of the crime. She is tormented, wanting to know how and why this tragedy happened and if there was anything she could have done to prevent it.
 

September 1, 2022 Show

Charles Gardner

discusses his book, Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State. In June 2015, two convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York’s North Country—launching the most extensive manhunt in state history and dominating the news cycle with the sex scandal linking both inmates to the prison employee who aided them. Double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels and pipes under the thirty-foot prison wall, and climbed out of a manhole to freedom. For three weeks, residents of local communities were prisoners in their own homes as law enforcement swept the wilderness near the Canadian border. Dannemora is a gripping account of the bold breakout and manhunt, and addresses lingering questions about those who set the deadly drama in motion.

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August 25, 2022 Show

Warren Dudley

British filmmaker Warren Dudley talks about his film career and making crime films and working as a screenwriter, something that is dear to my heart. We discuss two of his excellent films, Cage and Six Years Gone, both crime thrillers BOTH and how he got to make those films.

August 11, 2022 Show

S.J. Peddie

discusses her book, Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses: John “Sonny” Franzese. Sonny Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a “made man” for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, loan sharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades—and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery charges. But even behind bars, Sonny Franzese never stopped doing business. Newsday reporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese, an old school mafifioso, in prison—and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself

July 28, 2022 Show

Carmine Imbriale and his biographer Craig McGuire

discuss their book, Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys: Surviving Brooklyn’s Colombo Mob.  The book is the true story of Carmine Imbriale, gambler, brawler, bandit, bookie, and enforcer with the Colombo crime family. For two decades, Imbriale was a street-level operative in one of the most violent crews in the Colombo Family, and he endeared himself to some of the major figures of organized crime while developing deadly disputes with others. We will go inside the 13th Avenue rackets at the height of their violence. The book is a jarring account of his lawless lifestyle culminating in a gang war in South Brooklyn, from which Imbriale emerged a survivor.

July 14, 2022 Show

Alan Warren

to discusses his book, Leopold & Loeb: The Killing of Bobby Franks. The book focuses on what has been called "The Crime of the Century" in 1920s United States. At the center of this murder case were Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb – two wealthy University of Chicago students who, in May of 1924, kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks. With Leopold and Loeb, both males, the dominance shifted from one to the other. Regardless of who held it, the result was the same. They were both very interested in crime and pushing the envelope for the next thrill. The vicious "thrill kill" of Bobby Franks was the bloody result of an intense and unhealthy co-dependent bond between the murdering duo.

July 7, 2022 Show

Craig Shirley

Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley discusses his book, April, 1945: The Hinge of History, The book is a  compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower. The year of 1945 bought a series of watershed events that transformed the country into an arsenal of democracy, one that no longer armed the world by necessity but henceforth protected the world by need. In April, 1945, we had the sudden death of President Roosevelt followed by Harry S. Truman's rise to office; Adolph Hitler's suicide; and the horrific discoveries of Dachau and Auschwitz. Americans doubled down on their completion of the atomic bomb and their plans to drop them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the destruction ultimately leading the Japanese Empire to surrender on V-J day and ending World War II for good. The world was transformed.

June 30, 2022 Show

Alice Kay Hill

discusses her book, Under a Full Moon: The Last lynching in Kansas. Hill’s book recounts the shocking murder of an eight-year-old girl which in turn led to the last mob lynching in Prohibition Era Kansas. In April of 1932, eight-year-old Dorothy Hunter was abducted while walking home from school. Her mutilated body was later found hidden in a haystack. Not long after, police reported that a local farmer named Richard Read confessed to Dorothy’s rape and murder. But his arrest was not enough for the citizens on Northwestern Kansas. Removing him from his jail cell in Cheyenne County, a mob bound and hanged Read from a tree in what would be the state’s final lynching.

June 23, 2022 Show

David Larson

discusses his book, The Last Jewish Gangster: The Early Years. Larson chronicles the story of Michael J. Hardy, a chubby Jewish boy from the Brownsville streets in Brooklyn to the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico. Michael wants nothing more than to prove to his "Queen of NYC crime" mother that he deserves her love and is tougher than the famous gangsters she dates (Bugsy Siegel is Michael's godfather). Coming from a mixed heritage of Southern Baptists and Ashkenazic Ukrainian Jews, without a father, and rejected by his mother at birth, Michael Hardy becomes a fearless and lawless gangster over the next five decades.

June 16, 2022 Show

Frank Stanfield

discusses his memoir, Vampires, Gators and Wackos: True Stories From a Florida Newspaper Man’s Life. During his decades-long crime coverage in Central Florida, journalist Frank Stanfield covered every atrocity that man or nature could unleash. We will talk about some of the frequently craven, and at times downright stupid, crimes Stanfield covered during his time in the field. He somehow made it through without winding up more mental than the crackpots he tracked. However, his unvarnished, no-holds-barred account of news events reveals just how crazy making a case can be when you are dead set on nailing the truth.

June 9, 2022 Show

Ralph Friedman

author of Street Justice: The True Story of the NYPD’s Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him. Two thousand arrests. One hundred off-duty arrests. Six thousand assists. Fifteen shootings. Eight shot. Four kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman a legend.  Friedman was arguably the toughest cop ever to wear the shield and was the most decorated detective in the NYPD's 170-year history. Stationed at the South Bronx's notorious 41 Precinct, known by its nickname "Fort Apache", Friedman served during one of the city's most dire times: the 1970s and '80s, when fiscal crisis, political disillusionment, an out-of-control welfare system, and surging crime and drug use were just a few of its problems. Listen to Friedman discuss his career and the era he served in

Michael Benson

discusses his book, Gangsters Versus Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Gangsters in World War 11 America. Benson tells the stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the years leading to WWII—and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back. Benson reveals the thrilling role of Jewish mobsters like Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious mobsters waged their own personal war against the Nazis in their midst, Gangland-style.

May 26, 2022 Show

Luis Navia

Luis Navia and Jesse Fink are the co-authors Luis Navia’s memoir, Pure Narco,. It’s Goodfellas on go-fast boats, the inside story of Luis Navia, the 'Gentleman Narco'. Navia smuggled $10 Billion of cocaine for the Italian mob and Colombian cartels until, after 25 years, drug agents from 12 countries brought him down in 'Operation Journey'. The Cuban-American Navia smuggled hundreds of tons of white powder for the biggest cartels in Colombia and Mexico, including Pablo Escobar 's Medellín Cartel. What made him good at his dangerous job was amassing trusted contacts, losing very few shipments of coke, and maintaining a low profile. He refused to carry a weapon.

May 12, 2022 Show

Alan Warren

discusses his book, The Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann. The book focuses on Fritz Haarman,  the serial killer of at least 27 young men and boys in Germany in the post-World War 1 era. At the center of this murder case with Fritz Haarmann was Hans Grans. The two were lovers while committing these murders. It wasn't until the skulls and bones started washing ashore from the Leine River in Hanover that Germany realized they had a cold-blooded serial killer in their country.

May 5, 2022 Show

Suzanne Buchanan

discusses her book, The Curse of the Turtle: The True Story of Thailand’s” Backpacker Murders.  Koh Tao is a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, surrounded by pristine beaches, swathed in sunshine, and a Mecca for tourists, divers, and backpackers. But “Turtle Island” has its dark side. In 2014, Koh Tao was the site of the brutal double murders of two British backpackers, but theirs weren’t the only suspicious backpacker deaths. Suzanne Buchanan was the former owner and editor of the Samui Times, a news publication on Koh Samui, and she covered the stories of the so-called “backpacker murders” and other suspicious deaths. Although she is a British citizen, because of her investigation and stories, as well as her support for the two Burmese migrant workers sentenced to death for the murders, she had to flee Thailand for her own safety. There is currently an active warrant for her arrest should she return to Thailand, which had been her home for more than 20 years, and she continues to receive death threats.

April 28, 2022 Show

Chuck Lutz

discusses his memoir, Unpopular Causes: A Career in Service to America. The book tells of Lutz’s year in the Vietnam War, the most unpopular in our history, and his thirty-two years as a federal agent in the war on drugs working in virtually every region of the world where drugs were produced or transited through to the United States. It also covers his four years with the Transportation Security Administration, the agency everyone loved to hate and ends with his service in the war on international terrorism with the Department of State. Chuck Luitz was a major source for Ron Chepesiuk's book on Ike Atkinson, Sergeant Smack, for which Lutz received the 1976 Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service.

April 21, 2022 Show

Robert Buschel

discusses his novel God’s Ponzi.  The novel revolves a genius computer who desires vengeance for the death of his best friend—a man essentially killed by relentless greedy lawyers baiting to possess his revolutionary wok in data mining and analysis. Robert Buschel litigates criminal and civil cases. He often advocates and counsels clients when business and public image issues are at stake. His high profile cases have been featured on 48 Hours, Dateline, People Magazine and other national news outlets, and USA Today.

April 14, 2022 Show

Sean Patrick Hazlett

is the author of Weird World War IV. What if there was a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War III’s radioactive slag heaps fight in this conflict? Would they wage it with sticks and stones . . . and sorcery? Or would they use more refined weapons, elevating warfare to an art and unleashing bureaucratic nightmares worse than death? Would they struggle against themselves or inter-dimensional invaders? What horrors from the desolate darkness might slither into the light? Hazlett’s book, Weird World War IV wipes away the ashes of civilization and peers into a pit of atomic glass to witness the haunting visions of World War IV from today’s greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Renee Fehr

is the author of the Wheels of Justice: The True Story of a 27-year Battle to Convict My Sister’s Killer. The Wheels of Justice is the story of a monstrous killer, a harrowing look at domestic violence, and an inspirational story of a family that wouldn’t quit until justice prevailed. The moment it happened, Renee Fehr knew that Gregory Houser had murdered her sister Sheryl. Cruel, abusive, and increasingly violent, Greg had threatened to kill Sheryl if she tried to leave him. Yet Sheryl’s death was ruled a suicide. And for twenty-seven years after her death, Greg continued walked free. But Renee wouldn’t rest until he was convicted for murder. As the old saying goes, “the wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”

Ken Croke (Top) and Dave Wedge (Bottom)

the co-authors of the Croke’s memoir, Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang Former ATF agent Ken Croke was the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamous—and infamously violent—Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker gang.  Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white supremacists, gun runners, and gang members. But after a chance encounter with an associate of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang created an opening, he transformed himself into “Slam,” a monstrous, axe-handle wielding enforcer whose duty was to protect the leadership “mother club” at all costs. He befriended the club’s most violent and criminally insane members and lived among them for two years, covertly building a case that would eventually take down the top members of the gang in a massive federal prosecution, even as he risked his marriage, his sanity, and his life.

March 17, 2022 Show

Bob Batchelor

talks about his book, Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel. In his book, Bob Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at this iconic visionary, a man who created (with talented artists) many of history’s most legendary characters. From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee’s life has been almost as remarkable as the thrilling adventures he spun for decades. From millions of comic books fans of the 1960s through billions of moviegoers around the globe, Stan Lee has touched more people than almost any person in the history of popular culture. Join

David Crow

discusses his best-selling book, The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story. Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics, one that justified cruelty, violence, lies—even murder. Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his criminal bidding. David’s mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn’t protect him. Through sheer determination, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. When he finally found the courage to refuse his father’s criminal demands, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a deadly showdown with Thurston Crow. David would have only twenty-four hours to outsmart his father—the brilliant, psychotic man who bragged that the three years he spent in the notorious San Quentin State Prison had been the easiest time of his life.

March 3, 2022 Show

Alan Warren

discusses his book, After Zodiac, an examination of celebrity mystery deaths. We will look at the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Bob Crane, Princess Diana, Natalie Woods, among others. Are questions about their deaths just conspiracy theories or is there some truth to them?

Bill Kimberlin (R)

is the author Watch Me Die: Last Words from Death Row, a firsthand account of Ohio's death row and the state’s execution process unlike any other. In his book, Kimberlin, a trained clinical psychologist and professor of psychology, presents an unbiased look at the realities of death row, in Ohio and America as a whole. This book is much more than an argument about the death penalty. Instead, Kimberlin exposes the harsh truth of what it is like to be on death row, counting the days until your own execution, as told to him by those who have lived it.

February 17, 2022 Show

Matthias McCarn

is the co-author of Deadly Associates: A True Story of Murder, Survival, and Bringing Down the Chicago Mob. It is the 1960s, and Danny Seifert, a street-smart and ambitious young man, follows his father’s example in his efforts to provide a good, comfortable life for his wife and children. Soon, however, his path leads him toward the dark heart of the Mob. His career choices eventually bring him to a point where he must choose between loyalty to the Mob and probable prison time, or coming clean to the FBI, testifying against Mob leaders, and risking retaliation to himself and his family. He chooses the latter, which ultimately leads to his murder and decades of living in fear for his widow, Emma, and their children. As they grow into men, Danny’s sons, Joe and Nick, take it upon themselves to find the man responsible for their father’s death and make him pay. In seeking retribution for Danny, will they also succumb to lives of crime, or will they follow the high road of law and justice all the way to the Family Secrets trial in 2007, one of the largest Mob trials in history?

February 10, 2022 Show

Patrick Strickland

discusses his book, The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands. Strickland spotlights one Arizona town’s efforts to fight back against a flood of extremely dangerous, virulently racist, and heavily armed outsiders who have flocked to the U.S. border with Mexico in recent years. Patrick Strickland is a journalist and author based in Athens, Greece. His first book is Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe's Anti-Fascist Struggle.

January 27, 2022 Show

discusses his book, The Beatle Bandit: A Serial Bank Robber's Deadly Heist, a Cross-Country Manhunt, and the Insanity Plea that Shook the Nation. The book is about Toronto, Canada bank robber Matthew Kerry Smith, who donned a Beatle wig when robbing banks in the mid-1960s Beatles’ era. In 1964, bank robber Matt Smith’s getaway was interrupted by Jack Blanc, an army veteran brandishing a revolver. A wild shootout left Blanc dead and Smith the object of a massive manhunt. Smith, a troubled young man, is hunted down and captured and faces the death penalty for the murder.

January 20, 2022 Show

Peter Bronson

discusses his book, Forbidden Fruit: Sin City’s Underworld and the Supper Club Inferno. The Beverly Hills Supper Club was Vegas before Vegas was cool. It was known as the "Showplace of the Nation" before it burned to the ground in 1977, killing at least 165 people—one of the worst fires in U.S. history. But few knew that the Beverly Hills had a violent past of deadly arson beginning in 1936, when it was taken over by the Cleveland mob that ran "Sin City" in Newport, Kentucky—an open city of prostitution, extortion, gambling and violence for decades, until new U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy went to war on the mob in 1961. His first target was Newport. This is the story of a crime empire on the banks of the Ohio River, in the backyard of Ivory clean Cincinnati, and the war to clean it up that led to the assassination of Bobby's brother, President John F. Kennedy. It’s a story of mobsters, hookers, murder and dice; dirty cops, crooked politicians and the underworld bosses whose power reached into the FBI, Congress and the White House.

January 13, 2022 Show

Jeffrey Sussman

discusses his book, Holocaust Fighters: Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers. The book is a remarkable portrait of the heroic people who faced the threat of extermination by the Nazis and resisted by any means possible—whether through boxing, exposing the reality of death camps, armed guerrilla attacks, or deadly acts of vengeance.  The lives of five boxers who were forced to fight for their lives while imprisoned in concentration camps are explored in depth, followed by the stories of those who managed to escape captivity and reveal the truth about the death camps.

December 16, 2021 Show

Larry Loftis

discusses his New York Times best-selling book, The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones. Loftis’ book tells the remarkable and thrilling hidden history of Aline Griffith, an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring spies in World War II before marrying into European nobility. It’s the story of a remarkable American woman who risked everything to serve her country.

December 9, 2021 Show

Lucy Adlington

discusses her book, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive. Lucy Adlington’s book is a powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. It was the height of the Holocaust, and twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. Historian Lucy Adlington exposes the greed, cruelty, and hypocrisy of Hitler’s Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of World War II and the Holocaust.

December 2, 2021

James Stewart

discusses his book, Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego’s Jazz Age. Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, Prohibition corruption and a lively culture war, Mystery At The Blue Sea Cottage tells the intriguing true crime story of a beautiful dancer, a playboy actor, and a debonair doctor. In January 1923, 20-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beautiful and bewitching dancer washed up on lonely Torrey Pines beach, her party dress and possessions strewn about on the sand. The scene baffled investigators. Was it suicide, murder, or an accidental drowning? The investigation revealed a scandalous secret and, possibly, a powerful motive for murder. After a suspect was arrested and charged with murder, an ambitious district attorney battled a high-profile L.A. private counsel in the most sensational trial in San Diego’s history that was followed avidly across the nation. The big question: What really happened at the Blue Sea Cottage?

November 18, 2021 Show

Alan Warren

discusses his book, the The JFK Assassination: The Interviews.  The John F. Kennedy assassination is the grandfather of all conspiracies in America and arguably where they all started. A highly popular President with movie star looks and charisma, effecting significant changes in society, was brutally cut down in his prime. The official story was that JFK was killed by a sole assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. However, many conspiracy theorists believe in an assassination plot involving the FBI, CIA, U.S. military, VP LBJ, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Russia's KGB, the Mafia, or some combination of those entities. These fascinating interviews were done for the House of Mystery radio show, presented by Alan Warren. Who killed JFK?

November 11, 2021 Show

Charles Farrell

is a world-class jazz pianist who made his living working Mob clubs from the time he was a teenager to the 1960s, to discuss his book, (Low)life: .A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing and the Mob. Farrell later moved from music to the complex world of professional boxing, managing dozens of fighters, including former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks and former gang leader Mitch “Blood” Green, who famously went toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson―once in the ring and once in the street. A fight-fixer and gangster, Farrell ran afoul of New York mobsters in the 1990s and retreated to the mountains of Puerto Rico, coming home only after an infamous boxing legend brokered his safe return. Retired from the fight game, he returned to jazz and, among other collaborators, played frequently with his friend Ornette Coleman, the godfather of “Free Jazz” and one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

November 4, 2021 Show

Alicia Dill

discusses her new novel, Beyond Sacrifice. The book tells the story of Concepcion Chapa, an Army veteran, FBI special agent, and the orphaned daughter of two CIA .agents, has lived a life of sacrifice for her country. When she learns that her parents may not be dead, just undercover, she allows herself to be recruited as a killer-for-hire for the CIA. Faking her death and undergoing surgery to change her looks, Concepcion leaves everything behind-her friends, family, and country. Under the identity of Sofia Paltrini, she travels the globe doing the dirty work of the US government. But in a world of subterfuge and hidden motives, no one is quite who they seem. Concepcion is left not knowing who to trust and wondering if there's a way to live a life for herself that's beyond sacrifice. Alicia is an army veteran.

October 28, 2021 Show

Sara Gay Forden

discusses her book House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed. The show will be focused on a book that’s been turned into a major motion picture from director Sidley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver.  The book deals with the murder of Maurizio Gucci and chronicles the sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty. On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan’s elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his office by an unknown gunman. Two years later, Milan’s chief of police entered the sumptuous palazzo of Maurizio’s ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani—nicknamed “the Black Widow” by the press—and arrested her for murder. Did Patrizia kill her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it out of jealousy, because he was preparing to marry his mistress? Or is it possible Patrizia didn’t do it at all?

October 21, 2021 Show

Pete Walsh

Crime Beat goes across the pond to the United Kingdom and a discussion with investigative journalist Pete Walsh about his book Drug War: The Secret History. Drug War is a landmark modern history: the first ever full account of the United Kingdom's fight against the illegal importation of drugs. It tells for the first time the story of the high-level traffickers who drugged Britain, and the secretive organization that tried to stop them: the Investigation Division of HM Customs and Excise. The ID's elite officers waged a fifty-year battle to stem the tide of cannabis, cocaine and heroin arriving by land, air and sea, and to track, arrest and prosecute the smuggling gangs, both organized and chaotic, who turned an amateur pastime into a multi-billion-pound trade.

October 14, 2021 Show

Janice Hisle

discusses her book, Submerged: Ryan Widmer, His Drowned Bride and the Justice System. Sarah Widmer, a young bride, drowns in her bathtub. Ryan, her husband of four months, is accused of murder. What happened in their tiny suburban bathroom--and why--was never resolved? It’s a gripping true-crime drama, based on exclusive new information. In SUBMERGED, Hisle exposes hidden angles of a case that divided an American community, tore apart two families and tested the criminal justice system.

October 7, 2021- Show

Robyn Maharaj

Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy

discusses her book, Grilling Dahmer: The Interrogation of the “Milwaukee Cannibal.” In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer. As the media clamored for details, Kennedy spent the next six weeks, sixteen hours a day, locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. There the 31-year-old killer described in lurid detail how he lured several young men to his apartment where he strangled, sexually assaulted, dismembered, and in some cases, cannibalized his victims. It was a horrifying tour into the mind of evil and Robyn Maharaj will share the story.

September 30, 2021 Show

Dean Jobb

discusses his book, The Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era serial Killer. When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incredibly, at the time the words of the world’s most famous fictional detective appeared in print in the Strand Magazine, a real-life Canadian doctor was stalking and murdering women in London’s downtrodden Lambeth neighborhood. Dr. Thomas Neill Cream had been a suspect in the deaths of two women in Canada, and had killed as many as four people in Chicago before he arrived in London in 1891 and began using pills laced with strychnine to kill prostitutes. The Lambeth Poisoner, as he was dubbed in the press, became one of the most prolific serial killers in history. 

September 23, 2021 Show

Carl Denaro

In 1976, a killer who called himself ‘The Son of Sam’ shot and killed a half dozen people and wounded as many more in New York City. During his crime spree, the madman left bizarre letters mocking the police and promising more deaths. After months of terrorizing the city while garnering front-page headlines and international attention, a man named David Berkowitz was arrested. He confessed to the shootings, claiming to be obeying a demon that resided in a dog that belonged to his neighbor “Sam.”

Among the alleged victims was Carl Denaro, but miraculously, Denaro survived the attack. When Berkowitz was arrested, he was charged with trying to kill Denaro. However, there was a twist. Although he confessed to the other shootings, after his conviction Berkowitz denied attacking Denaro. Now, after years of research, Denaro is convinced that Berkowitz was telling the truth, and that someone else tried to kill him. Denaro, the co-author of the Son of Sam: The Truth About Why I Wasn’t Shot by David Berkowitz,
 

Monte Barrett

former heavyweight boxing challenger who competed from 1996 to 2014 and challenged once for the WBA heavyweight title in 2006. Barrett fought many top heavyweight champions and contenders during his career, including Wladimir Klitschko, Greg Page and David Tua. This past July, Barrett revealed how he was molested as a child, the trauma it caused, and how it impacts him as an adult. Monte Barrett shares his story.
 

September 9, 2021 Show

Daniel Levin

discusses his book, Proof of Life: Twenty Days in the Hunt for a Missing Person in the Middle East. Daniel Levin was in his New York office when he got a call from an acquaintance with an urgent, cryptic request to meet in Paris. A young man had gone missing in Syria. No government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help. Could he? Would he? So begins a suspenseful, shocking, and at times brutal true story of one man’s search to find a miss­ing person in Syria over twenty tense days. Levin, a lawyer turned armed-conflict negotia­tor, chases leads throughout the Middle East, meeting with powerful sheikhs, drug lords, and sex traffickers in his pursuit of the truth. In Proof of Life, Levin dives deep into the shadows—an underground industry of war where everything is for sale, including arms, drugs, and even people.

September 2, 2021 Show

Noah Hurowitz

discusses his book, El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Drug Lord. Hurowitz. The book is a stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz’s revelatory coverage for Rolling Stone of El Chapo’s federal drug-trafficking trial. It’s the true story of how El Chapo built the world’s wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking operation, based on months’ worth of trial testimony and dozens of interviews with cartel gunmen, Mexican journalists and political figures, Chapo’s family members, and the DEA agents who brought him down.

Julie K. Brown

the journalist who took down the infamous Jeffrey Epstein discusses her book, Perversion of Justice: the Jeffrey Epstein Story. In her book, journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him. Brown investigates and tracks Epstein’s evolution from a college dropout to one of the most successful financiers in the country—whose associates included Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton. Brown’s investigation revealed how Epstein ran a global sex trafficking pyramid scheme with impunity for years, targeting vulnerable teens, often from fractured homes and then turning them into recruiters

August 12, 2021 Show

Alan Warren

discusses his book, Conspiracy Culture: The Interviews. The book focuses on theories that go against the scientific facts that we have learned over many generations of the human race. There is something uniquely intriguing about a good conspiracy theory. They tell tales of heroes, villains, and alternative realities. Conspiracy theories represent secret knowledge: real or not, and there is something very pleasing about having supposed insider knowledge. Because of their entertainment value, you can find conspiracy theories everywhere. Implausibility doesn’t make conspiracy theories less entertaining. What if the moon landing was faked? Who would have been involved? How could they have pulled it off, and why? What if the earth is encapsulated by a celestial lid? What if the infamous leader of the Third Reich escaped Germany? What if the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen? These are a few of the theories we will discuss.

August 5, 2021 Show

Gabrielle Bluestone

discusses her book, Hype: How Scammers, Grifters and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—And Why We're Following, We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. Reviewers and celebrities flock to London’s top-rated restaurant that’s little more than a backyard shed. These unsettling stories of today’s viral grifters have risen to fame and hit the front-page headlines, yet the curious conundrum remains: Why do these scams happen? Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, former Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it’s from the trusted influencers that peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero

Mike Rothschild

discusses of his book, The Storm is upon Us In The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy of Everything. QAnon is an online conspiracy theory that claims Trump is waging a secret war against a deep state of Democratic elites and Hollywood stars who are pedophiles and Satan worshipers. In his book, mike Rothschild takes readers from the background conspiracies and cults that fed the Q phenomenon, to its embrace by right-wing media and Donald Trump, through the rending of families as loved ones became addicted to Q’s increasingly violent rhetoric, to the storming of the Capitol. What is QAnon really, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where it’s going next? Tune in to Crime Beat for the answers by one of the leading experts of conspiracy theories.

Frank Stanfield

discusses his chilling book Cold Blooded: A True Crime Story of a Murderous Teenage Vampire Cult. Investigators and Central Florida residents were horrified when 16-year-old vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell was arrested and charged with bludgeoning a cult member's parents. When they realized the slain couple's 15-year-old daughter was missing, they feared she was a victim, too.  Detectives and journalists swarming over three states soon uncovered a web of blood-drinking occult rituals, illicit sex, wildly dysfunctional families and spiritual warfare. Then, when police officers captured the teens, they discovered that the murdered couple's daughter was among them. But was she a victim or a participant? Decide for yourself when you listen to veteran newspaper reporter Frank Stanfield, who has covered the case from the beginning in November 1996, and sheds new light on one of the darkest killers in modern history.

Warren Cole Smith

discusses his book Faith Based Fraud: Learning From The Great Religious Scandals Of Our Time. In his book, Warren offers a clear-eyed look at fraud in the church from Jim and Tammy Baker's PTL Network to Mark Driscoll, Todd Bentley, Davis Jeremiah and Bill Hybels.  Smith Author and Ministry Watch President penned his new book to advocate for transparency and accountability in Evangelical churches.

July 8, 2021 Show

Anthony Destefano

Pulitzer prize winning journalist Anthony Destefano to discuss his newest book, The Deadly Don, Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss. Genovese is the namesake of a crime family that is still considered one of the most viable and dangerous in the U.S. today. From enforcer to Godfather, Vito Genovese rose through the ranks of La Cosa Nostra to head of one of the wealthiest and most dangerous crime families in American history. Destefano’s book is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso--from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of an illegal narcotics empire.

July 1, 2021 Show

Jim Campbell

talks about his best-selling book, Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History. No name is more synonymous with the evils of Wall Street than Bernie Madoff. Arrested for fraud in 2008―during the depths of the global financial crisis―the 70-year-old market maker, investment advisor, and former chairman of the NASDAQ had orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in world history, fleecing thousands of investors across the globe to the tune of $65 billion. To this day, questions remain: Why did he do it? How did he get away with it for so long? What did his family know? Who is the elusive Bernie Madoff? In Madoff Talks, author Jim Campbell presents the most comprehensive, insider account of the Madoff saga to date, and he will share his insights with Crime Beat.

June 24, 2021 Show

Eric Dezenhall

discusses his book, Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War., In Best of Enemies, two espionage cowboys reveal how they became key behind-the-scenes players in solving some of the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century. They include the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert Hanssen, the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet imprisonment, and how Robert De Niro played a real-life role in helping Gennady stay alive during his incarceration in Russia after being falsely accused of spying for the Americans. We will discuss the distinctions between the Russian and American methods of conducting espionage and the painful birth of the new Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, dreams he can roll back to the ideals of the old USSR.

Ron Chepesiuk, and Jesus Ruiz Henao, discuss their recently published book, The Real Mrs. Big: How a Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom’s Biggest Cocaine Kingpin. The interview will be conducted by Zman, ArtistFirst Radio Founder. British intelligence’s MI6 described Ruiz Henao as “the Pablo Escobar of British trafficking,” and he is considered the UK’s first billion pound cocaine kingpin. After the Real Mr. Big was busted in 2003, the price of cocaine rose 50 percent in the UK, such was his foothold in the British cocaine trade.

June 10, 2021 Show

Jeremy N. Smith

discusses his fascinating book, Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a hacker called Alien. We often hear about the exploits of some of the most infamous cybercriminals--but who are the hackers working against them? Breaking and Entering follows the career of one of the good guys, a brilliant woman who calls herself “Alien”—a moniker she adopted on her first day at MIT—who now runs her own cybersecurity firm. The company is a boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the world’s biggest and most vulnerable institutions—banks, retailers, government agencies Jeremy Smith has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Discover, among other outlets, and he and his work have been featured by CNN, NPR News, and Wired.