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Red Collar

63 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6.4K ratings

When we think of white-collar criminals, we picture a CEO getting caught up in the latest financial scandal. But there is a subgroup within these seemingly nonviolent offenders who are never discussed in mainstream media - the white-collar criminals who kill. Join Catherine Townsend as she dives into the minds of these real-life American Psychos...who are often hiding in plain sight. This is Red Collar.

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Dying for Dollars

November 09, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MB

Three roommates are massacred in the quiet town of Verona, Wisconsin - and everyone in the apartment complex becomes a suspect. One of the victims was heavily into the world of-high stakes gambling – and they were all about to pay the ultimate cost.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instag...

The PI Murder

November 02, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

After a private investigator and mother of one vanishes without a trace from Pensacola, Florida, police begin to unravel her messy private life – and take a closer look at those closest to her: Including her ex-husband, her new girlfriend…and her best friend.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social med...

Double Indemnity

October 26, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MB

A faked death, a mysterious blonde and a million-pound insurance policy lead police to reinvestigate the disappearance of a housewife in 1985, as they wonder: Where is the real Carole Packman?   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitter: @audiochuck Facebook: /audio...

Double Indemnity

October 26, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes

A faked death, a mysterious blonde and a million-pound insurance policy lead police to reinvestigate the disappearance of a housewife in 1985, as they wonder: Where is the real Carole Packman? Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Playboy and Dr. Death

October 19, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes

A handsome young international playboy, a middle-aged salesman and a doctor cooked up a million-dollar insurance scam involving a faked death. But when they couldn't find a cadaver, they had to go out and get their own... Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Playboy and Dr. Death

October 19, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

A handsome young international playboy, a middle-aged salesman and a doctor cooked up a million-dollar insurance scam involving a faked death. But when they couldn't find a cadaver, they had to go out and get their own...   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitter: ...

Murder in Monaco

October 12, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MB

When a billionaire heiress is gunned down in broad daylight, her friends and neighbors in Monaco are shocked. But they will soon learn why the principality earned its nickname "a sunny place for shady people".   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitter: @audiochuck ...

Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll… and Death

October 05, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB

After a nude body is discovered on a deserted Florida beach, investigators follow the trail to an infamous Ibiza party hotel - and an international ring of con men.    Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitter: @audiochuck Facebook: /audiochuckllc TikTok: @audiochuck

Ivy League Killer

September 28, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes

The killing of Thomas Gilbert Sr. and the arrest of his 30-year-old son Tommy divided Manhattan high society: Did Tommy Gilbert have a psychotic break, or was he a spoiled playboy who killed his dad for cutting his allowance? Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ivy League Killer

September 28, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MB

The killing of Thomas Gilbert Sr. and the arrest of his 30-year-old son Tommy divided Manhattan high society: Did Tommy Gilbert have a psychotic break, or was he a spoiled playboy who killed his dad for cutting his allowance?   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitt...

Her Biggest Fan

September 21, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

The music world was shocked when 23-year-old Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla, the “Tejano Madonna,” was gunned down at a motel. The killer was her “biggest fan” – and someone who Selena’s family had trusted to help manage her business. Was the killing an accident, a fatal attraction, or was there something more sinister going on behind the scenes? And what really happened inside that motel room?     Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitat...

NEW SHOW: Armored

September 15, 2021 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.32 MB

We know far too well how far some people will go for financial gain, even if that means carrying out one of the most difficult and dangerous crimes one can commit. Since you love Red Collar I wanted to drop in your feed to tell you about audiochuck’s newest limited series, Armored, which details some of the most notorious armored truck robberies to-date. What fuels these perpetrators? How do they get away? How are they caught? Get an inside look into these cases and hear the untold stories f...

The Marlboro Man

September 14, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes

On September 11, 2001, the world was watching the attacks on the World Trade Center – and no one noticed as Larry McNabney, a 52-year-old wealthy and prominent attorney, was drugged and taken out of his hotel room in a wheelchair. After his body was found hundreds of miles away in a vineyard, the hunt for the killer would lead police to a woman who changed names and identities as often as she changed her hair color. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character lim...

The Marlboro Man

September 14, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

On September 11, 2001, the world was watching the attacks on the World Trade Center – and no one noticed as Larry McNabney, a 52-year-old wealthy and prominent attorney, was drugged and taken out of his hotel room in a wheelchair. After his body was found hundreds of miles away in a vineyard, the hunt for the killer would lead police to a woman who changed names and identities as often as she changed her hair color.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character...

Audits Can Be Murder

August 31, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

Sallie Rohrbach, a 44-year-old insurance investigator for the State of North Carolina, went to Charlotte on a routine business trip and vanished without a trace. Detectives find a mysterious handwritten letter in her abandoned car, a shady local businessman, and a trail of blood as they desperately try to piece together what really happened to Sallie on the road.    Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visi...

Goth Teen “Jack the Ripper”

August 24, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

When 52-year-old Pamela Vitale was brutally beaten to death in a sleepy suburb of San Francisco, everyone in the neighborhood became a suspect. Was Scott Dyleski, the 16-year-old boy next door, a misunderstood goth, or a psychopathic serial killer in training?   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social me...

Wild Bill

August 17, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MB

Smooth-talking cowboy William "Cody" Neal loved to treat his girlfriends to romance, rose petals and bubble baths. But once they began to uncover his scams, and he invited them over for a "surprise" –they had no idea that they were walking into a house of horrors.    Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on soci...

NEW SEASON: Something Was Wrong

August 12, 2021 12:00 - 2 minutes - 2.59 MB

Season 9 of Something Was Wrong features the story of two survivors, Danielle and Kenji, who were brought together by traumatic life circumstances to solve a shared mystery - who the f*ck is Ardie? Listen to Season 9 of Something Was Wrong now and subscribe to hear the next chapter of their story every Thursday. 

The Fake Cancer Conman

August 10, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes

A young father of three is beaten to death with a fire extinguisher in a motel room near Heathrow airport. Police wonder if his mysterious lover, a conman who faked cancer to scam his friends and family out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, could have been hiding even darker secrets. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...

The Fake Cancer Conman

August 10, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB

A young father of three is beaten to death with a fire extinguisher in a motel room near Heathrow airport. Police wonder if his mysterious lover, a conman who faked cancer to scam his friends and family out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, could have been hiding even darker secrets. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Conne...

Who Killed the Senator?

August 03, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes

When former state Senator Linda Collins is brutally murdered, everyone in her tiny Arkansas town becomes a suspect. Could she have been targeted by political enemies? Was her bitter divorce a factor…or could she have been involved in a fatal love triangle? The answer would shock the entire state. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...

Who Killed the Senator?

August 03, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB

When former state Senator Linda Collins is brutally murdered, everyone in her tiny Arkansas town becomes a suspect. Could she have been targeted by political enemies? Was her bitter divorce a factor…or could she have been involved in a fatal love triangle? The answer would shock the entire state.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck produ...

Murder for Gold

July 27, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MB

When Pamela Fayed, a beautiful and successful mother of two, has her throat slit in broad daylight in a Century City parking garage, investigators launch a manhunt for the hitmen... and unravel a multimillion-dollar global gold fraud scheme.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @a...

Massacre in Celebration

July 20, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

A loving father and husband is accused of killing his wife,  three children, and the family dog at their home in Celebration, Florida and living with their rotting bodies for weeks. What could have triggered the massacre in the “Happiest Place On Earth.” Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/.   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: I...

The Google Murder

July 13, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes

When cellist Janine Sutphin's body was found floating in a lake, police wondered what secrets her husband Robert Petrick was hiding in the basement. They were about to find out that the mild-mannered computer expert was living a double life that included polyamorous Wiccan relationships, love scams and millions of dollars in fraud…and that was just the beginning. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit htt...

The Google Murder

July 13, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB

When cellist Janine Sutphin's body was found floating in a lake, police wondered what secrets her husband Robert Petrick was hiding in the basement. They were about to find out that the mild-mannered computer expert was living a double life that included polyamorous Wiccan relationships, love scams and millions of dollars in fraud…and that was just the beginning.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit...

The CBS Murders

July 06, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB

In 1982 New York City, a woman is kidnapped from a parking garage in broad daylight. As police hunt the hitman they find five dead bodies, a secret lesbian love affair and millions of dollars in missing diamonds. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/.    Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitter: @audiochuc...

The Deadly Magnolia

June 29, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MB

With her Gone With the Wind themed wedding, her handsome young husband and her massive mansion, it seemed that beautiful bride Pat Allanson had achieved her dream of becoming a real-life Scarlett O’Hara. But two months later, her husband's parents were gunned down in a horrific double murder. And soon, more people started dropping dead around the sweet Southern belle... Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please v...

The Bikini Killer

June 22, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB

During the 1970s, young people followed the Hippy Trail were looking for peace and love. They found serial killer Charles Sobrahj, a handsome, charismatic master con man who poisoned them, stole their identities, and burned them alive. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/    Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuc...

The Bikini Killer

June 22, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes

During the 1970s, young people followed the Hippy Trail were looking for peace and love. They found serial killer Charles Sobrahj, a handsome, charismatic master con man who poisoned them, stole their identities, and burned them alive. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mommy and Clyde

June 15, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MB

A wealthy widow goes missing in Manhattan. The hunt for the shady tenant who lives downstairs will lead investigators to a ruthless mother and son grifting team who commit fraud, arson, and human trafficking…then drug and murder their victims. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/.    Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @...

NEW SEASON: Park Predators

June 02, 2021 07:00 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MB

Delia D’Ambra is back to remind you that sometimes the most beautiful places hide the darkest secrets.  Park Predators Season 2 is available right now wherever you get your podcasts and new episodes drop every Tuesday this summer.   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitter: @audiochuck Facebook: /audiochuckllc TikTok: @audiochuck

The Staged Suicide

June 01, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes

When Jim Seegan was found dead, sitting in an office chair with a gun in his left hand, all signs seemed to point to suicide. Until detectives discovered that Jim was right-handed. And then, they found the cryptic typewritten note sitting next to the body... Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Staged Suicide

June 01, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MB

When Jim Seegan was found dead, sitting in an office chair with a gun in his left hand, all signs seemed to point to suicide. Until detectives discovered that Jim was right-handed. And then, they found the cryptic typewritten note sitting next to the body... Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/.   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media:...

Widow In The Freezer

May 25, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MB

Summary: The body of a wealthy widow was found in her deep freezer in the heart of East Texas oil country...and the events that unfolded were so wild that they inspired a Hollywood movie starring comedian Jack Black. Was Marjorie Nugent a sweet little old lady - or the meanest woman in town? And was her manservant Bernie a guy with a heart of gold in an abusive relationship, or a con artist and sweetheart scammer? Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limi...

The Yoga Murder

May 18, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

Two are attacked in a Lululemon store: One is tortured and beaten to death; her co-worker is found bloody, tied up and traumatized. The manhunt for two masked men would send shock waves through the affluent community of Bethesda, Maryland and expose an evil killer hiding inside the yoga community.  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/.    Red Collar is an audiochuck prod...

The Candy Heiress

May 11, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

In 1977, wealthy widow Helen Brach, heiress to the Brach candy fortune, disappeared without a trace after a doctor’s appointment in Chicago. The investigation into who killed Helen Brach would lead police to her con man/boyfriend, her shady houseman and into the underground world of horse-killing hitmen who murder thoroughbreds for money.  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.c...

“Blind Faith” Killer

May 04, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB

Robert and Maria Marshall were the ultimate power couple…until the night when they got a flat tire. A gunman came out of the darkness, Rob was attacked and Maria was brutally murdered. The killing and its shocking aftermath would plunge the town of Tom’s River into a story of sex, greed and murder.  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck produ...

“Blind Faith” Killer

May 04, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes

Robert and Maria Marshall were the ultimate power couple…until the night when they got a flat tire. A gunman came out of the darkness, Rob was attacked and Maria was brutally murdered. The killing and its shocking aftermath would plunge the town of Tom’s River into a story of sex, greed and murder.  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

A Holiday Homicide

April 27, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB

When beloved local businesswoman Mary Ann Clibbery is found bludgeoned to death in her office right before Christmas, police question multiple suspects at work. They find the black garbage bag floating on an icy river…and the sweater and blood-covered hammer inside it. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on soc...

A Holiday Homicide

April 27, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes

When beloved local businesswoman Mary Ann Clibbery is found bludgeoned to death in her office right before Christmas, police question multiple suspects at work. They find the black garbage bag floating on an icy river…and the sweater and blood-covered hammer inside it. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Heart of Darkness

April 20, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

John McAfee found fame, and made millions, as a cyber security expert in the 1990s. But then he moved to Belize, and surrounded himself with an armed group of gangsters and a group of teenage girlfriends. As he descended deeper into a world of guns, chaos and madness, his next door neighbor was shot in the head. Could the former tech CEO really be capable of rape, torture, and murder?   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of...

Dr. Death

April 13, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MB

Kathleen McLean thought she had found the man of her dreams when she married tall, handsome doctor Ingolf Tuerk. Five months later, police pulled her body out of the bottom of a neighbor's pond - and the superstar surgeon's web of lies began to unravel. Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Inst...

The Enforcer

April 06, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MB

When Juliana Redding, a beautiful young aspiring actress, is found beaten and strangled in her Santa Monica bungalow, the case turns into a real-life Hollywood thriller. Could it be the boyfriend with a bad temper, the married surgeon - or a female assassin?     Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: Instagram: @audiochuck Twitter: @audiochuck Facebook: /audiochuckllc TikTok: @audiochuck

What Really Happened in Apt. 4C?

March 30, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

It was Saturday night, and Joey Communale headed to an after party at the home of James Rackover, son of multimillionaire jewelry to the stars Jeffrey Rackover. But Joey would never leave the apartment alive. Then detectives discover that James Rackover is not who he appears to be, and try to unravel the mystery: Is James Jeffrey’s surrogate son, or his lover? Where is Joey’s body? And what really happened in Apartment 4C? Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to chara...

Deadly Rotten Scoundrels

March 23, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MB

In 2012, a mysterious millionaire who was looking for love in all the wrong places disappears from her luxury London flat. Police must uncover the secrets that she was hiding in order to launch a manhunt for the two career conmen who saw her as a human “million dollar jackpot” and hired imposters in order to steal her life.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red C...

"S&M" Serial Killer

March 09, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MB

In 2000, investigators found decomposing bodies in barrels belonging to John Robinson, a pudgy, middle-aged farmer in rural Kansas. The Scout Master and Sunday School regular had been leading a secret double life for decades as "Slavemaster", who lured his victims in with promises of sadomasochistic sex and jobs - and bludgeoned them to death with a hammer.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https...

How To Steal A Life

March 02, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB

Housepainter Tim Wicks packed up his drum kit on Christmas Eve, headed for a dream gig in Canada and vanished without a trace. When detectives located him, they found someone completely different using his identity. And the search for the "real" Tim Wicks would lead to twisted tale of friendship, betrayal, stolen identity, and a headless, handless corpse found in a frozen river.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sourc...

Supermom Murder

February 23, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB

When mother of five Jennifer Dulos vanishes into thin air from her home in the wealthy community of New Canaan, Connecticut, police immediately focus on her estranged husband, Fotis. As they dig into his alleged multi-million dollar financial frauds and attempt to retrace his movements on the day Jennifer disappeared, some people wonder: Could Jennifer, the brilliant budding writer, have pulled a Gone Girl and faked her own death?   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here d...

Seduced and Destroyed

February 16, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MB

After the body of an elderly World War II veteran was found stuffed into a steamer trunk, the paper trail led police to Nancy Siegel, the beautiful con artist who seduced him and stole his heart before stealing all of his money, and going in for the kill.   Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://redcollarpodcast.com/   Red Collar is an audiochuck production.  Connect with us on social media: ...