Since 2019, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has smashed the country’s two main gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18, throwing almost 80,000 people into megaprisons and implementing a harsh but effective “state of exception,” aka martial law. Murder rates have plummeted and, for the first time in years, Salvadorans can live without the fear of violence, extortion, or ... Show More
Apr 7
Boston's Irish Mob Gang War: The Winter Hill Gang
In 1960s Boston, Buddy McLean ignited a savage gang war after tensions with the McLaughlin brothers boiled over into open bloodshed. What started as neighborhood beef turned into a cycle of ambushes, barroom executions, and street hits that terrorized Boston. McLean’s Winter Hill ... Show More
52m 15s
Mar 31
The Trillion Dollar Scam King Gangster Taking Over
When fleets of young Chinese men arrived in the tiny, Pacific nation of Palau in 2018, authorities wondered why they’d eschewed the archipelago’s pristine shores and coral reefs for a handful of tumbledown buildings on the edge of Koror, its biggest town. It wouldn’t take long fo ... Show More
1h 17m
Sep 2025
The Tragic Cost Of 'Soft-On-Crime' Policies
A string of recent high-profile crimes have caught the attention of lawmakers in Congress, with some calling for stricter laws to crack down on career criminals, and prevent their recidivism. The father of 22-year-old Logan Federico, an aspiring teacher who was murdered during a ... Show More
32m 19s
Aug 2025
Case 327: Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano
*** Content warnings: Gun violence ***Early on the morning of Sunday, May 10 2009, corporate attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano left home to take a bike ride around his neighbourhood in Guatemala City. Within minutes, he’d been shot dead.Rodrigo’s friends and family were left ree ... Show More
1h 31m
Jun 2024
Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism (The New Press, 2020), Laura Gómez, a l ... Show More
1h 3m
Feb 2025
543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of God!”
At the height of the age of exploration, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, one story in particular gripped the imagination of European colonialists: El Do ... Show More
1h 7m
Oct 2025
Murdaugh Murders: Inside A Deadly Dynasty
A staged suicide, stolen millions, and a trail of lies, Dr. Phil uncovers how Alec Murdaugh's empire collapsed under the weight of deception and greed. In Part 2 of The Murdaugh Murders: Inside a Deadly Dynasty, Dr. Phil unpacks the shocking twists that shattered the Murdaugh leg ... Show More
42m 30s