When Bill Richardson, a troubled oilman and pro pigeon shooter, was gunned down on his Corpus Christi doorstep in 1971, everybody assumed it was an open-and-shut organized crime hit. But when Richardson’s supposed killers walked free from court, and another body showed up in the Gulf of Mexico, investigators stumbled on a conspiracy that pitted millionaire g ... Show More
Oct 20
Cape Town's Bloody Mob Wars: The Steroid King, Dirty Cops, and Numbers Gangs
Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It's also home to one of the most violent and tangled criminal underworlds on the planet, where drug lords, prison gangs, crooked cops, and millionaire businessmen wage bloody wars over everything from nightclub security ... Show More
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Oct 13
Cuba’s New Synthetic Drug Wave
How Cuba is Slipping into Drug Chaos Since the beginning of the year, the US has placed Cuba under an oil embargo, crippling its public services and throwing a society that was already on its knees into chaos. Blackouts roll for days, trash piles high and locals are getting sick ... Show More
59m 52s
Oct 6
Cuba: From Lansky’s Casinos to Castro’s Guns
Sean got beaten up in Cuba! To celebrate this, we’ve thrown together a biopoly of crime in the tropics, beginning with the story of how American organized crime flocked to Havana in the 1920s as a Prohibition rum-runner’s paradise. After World War II, mobsters then executed a tak ... Show More
59m 13s
May 2023
Texan Money, Texan Murder
In September 1972, Houston detectives Joe Gamino and Jerry Carpenter are called to the affluent home of a well-known plastic surgeon, Dr. John Hill. Hill is dead, gunned down by an unknown intruder. Is this a robbery that got out of hand? Or is it revenge? Hill stood accused of k ... Show More
49m 2s
Sep 2023
194: The History of the Dixie Mafia
By the 1960s, organized crime gangs were well and truly already becoming a presence across the north of the United States, as underworld figures fought for sole control over highly lucrative gambling, illegal alcohol, and prostitution rings. Down south, things were done a slightl ... Show More
22m 34s
Feb 2023
Ep.4 - A Ludicrous Murder Plot in Carrollton, Texas
In Carrollton, Texas, Nancy Howard would end up shot outside her home. It would be revealed that someone had been extorting a "John" who wanted her dead, and had been for many years. In New Jersey, April Kaufman would end up murdered in her bed. From there would spawn links to na ... Show More
49m 31s