logo
episode-header-image
Feb 2024
37m 40s

Episode 480: The crimes of hitman Charle...

Sunday World
About this episode

A criminal serving two sentences for involvement in an attempted gangland murder and a shooting of an innocent man has now pleaded guilty to his role in the murder of notiorious mobster Mark’ Guinea Pig’ Desmond eight years ago.


Charles McClean from Clondalkin is serving 16 and a half years for facilitating the botched murder of criminal Wayne Whelan who was later shot dead and the doorstep killing of dad of five Thomas McCarthy while he holidayed at his mothers Ballyfermot home.


So who is McClean and what was his role in a brutal feud between violent drug dealers and former friends?




Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Up next
Today
Episode 1088: Deadly alliance in Sinaloa Cartel threatens flood of fentanyl to Europe
A rift in the powerful Sinaloa Cartel brings bloody war to the streets of Mexico - sucking the financial resources of the rival sides.Now, a crackdown by the US and Mexico on fentanyl trafficking has depleted their millions even further, spurring Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán’s sons ... Show More
41m 37s
Yesterday
Episode 1087: Costa del Crime: Irish nationals arrested in major cocaine crackdown
Four Irish arrested on the Costa Blanca with cocaine and cannabis as gardaí cooperate in the takedown of a separate Lithuanian drug mob with ties to Ireland.Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the new Costa del Crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 
8m 48s
Yesterday
Episode 1086: How Christy Kinahan's posh protégé Sam O'Sullivan used dirty money to send kids to Swiss school
Christy Kinahan’s posh boy protégé jetted around the world to boxing fights and sent his daughters to a finishing school in Switzerland, a court has heard.Ciaran ‘Sam’ O’Sullivan’s decades-long career in the international drugs trade was laid bare by the Criminal Assets Bureau in ... Show More
24m 23s
Recommended Episodes
Jul 2018
#061 Jason Flom with De'Marchoe Carpenter and Malcolm Scott
De’Marchoe Carpenter and Malcolm Scott were 17 years old when Tulsa police arrested them in connection to a gang-related shooting that killed 19-year-old Karen Summers, the mother of a 4-month-old baby, outside a house party in 1994. Neither teen was found with the murder weapon ... Show More
1h 8m
Jul 2020
I Lived With A Killer: Harry 'The Hook' Aleman
Harry Aleman’s daughter Franky stands by her father – through allegations that he is one of the Chicago Outfit’s top enforcers and throughout his trial for murder. But can she continue to stand by him, even when his second murder trial makes history? I Lived With A Killer is part ... Show More
46m 4s
Sep 2022
#292 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Eric Blackmon
On July 4, 2002, two men shot and killed 36-year-old Tony Cox outside a restaurant in Chicago, IL. Suspecting the murder was gang-related, police arrested Eric Blackmon. After claiming Blackmon was selected from a lineup by eyewitnesses, he was convicted of murder and sentenced t ... Show More
37m 11s
Apr 2021
Serial Killer starts with murder of wife, now suspected in 16 deaths
Sean Lannon says he murdered 16 people, including his ex-wife and a former mentor who allegedly sexually abused him as a child. Lannon allegedly enticed four of the victims to a residence in New Mexico before killing and dismembering two of them. Authorities have tied Lannon to t ... Show More
43m 19s
Oct 2019
Ep 1 | The Murder
In January of 1989 the director of Oregon’s Department of Corrections, Michael Francke, was brutally stabbed to death outside his office building in Salem. His killing was quickly ruled a “car burglary gone wrong”, but inconsistencies soon called the official investigation into q ... Show More
39m 59s
Jun 2021
MWM S11E07 Child killer Diane Downs
A video version of this podcast is also available at mwm.uscreen.ioOn the evening of May 19, 1983 Diane Downs pulled up to the McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield Oregon and calmly asked for help, claiming someone had just shot her and her children in an attempted carjack ... Show More
1h 15m
May 2022
Kenneth McDuff
Kenneth McDuff was a Texas serial killer known as “the broomstick killer.” In 1966 he murdered three innocent teenagers. Much to the public’s horror, he was released on parole in 1989. McDuff would go on to rape and kill more women. In total, he is suspected of as many as 14 murd ... Show More
1h 10m