Fall of a Titan
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 1.6K ratingsJuly 4, 2009. Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair is found murdered in his Nashville condo. After just four days of investigating it was ruled a murder-suicide. But what if it wasn’t? Over the course of this nine-part series, host Tim Rohan will guide you through the McNair case, reviewing the findings and re-examining crucial details in a new light.
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Introducing: The Bag - A show about Sports, Money, and Making It
September 20, 2022 08:00 - 1 minuteEver wonder how some teams can seemingly do everything wrong and still generate record-profits? Or how some athletes end up going broke? Or why suddenly, everyone in pro sports seems to be obsessed with cryptocurrency? Former NFL running back (and Dancing With The Stars champ) Rashad Jennings has teamed up with award-winning journalist Lindsay McComick to help make sense of all the dollars, NFTs, cryptos and contracts that make up modern sports. They'll talk to gambling experts, NIL insiders,...
SI Weekly Presents: Guns, Drugs and Football Thugs
August 24, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutesHi Fall of a Titan listener! We at SI are excited to share some of the best Sports + True Crime audio stories we have been working on for our podcast, Sports Illustrated Weekly. If you liked Fall of a Titan, we think these stories will be right up your alley. So give it a listen, and if you like what you hear head on over to the SI Weekly feed for more stories like this each and every week. Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show to get new episodes as they come out. Enjoy! Listen to Sports I...
SI Weekly Presents: The Scandal That Rocked College Basketball
August 17, 2022 21:27 - 18 minutesHi Fall of a Titan listener! We at SI are excited to share some of the best Sports + True Crime audio stories we have been working on for our podcast, Sports Illustrated Weekly. If you liked Fall of a Titan, we think these stories will be right up your alley. So give it a listen, and if you like what you hear head on over to the SI Weekly feed for more stories like this each and every week. Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show to get new episodes as they come out. Enjoy! Listen to Sports I...
SI Weekly Presents: The Extractor
August 10, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutesHi Fall of a Titan listener! We at SI are excited to share some of the best Sports + True Crime audio stories we have been working on for our podcast, Sports Illustrated Weekly. If you liked Fall of a Titan, we think these stories will be right up your alley. So give it a listen, and if you like what you hear head on over to the SI Weekly feed for more stories like this each and every week. Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show to get new episodes as they come out. Enjoy! Listen to Sports ...
SI Weekly Presents: Murder at Pinetree Country Club
August 10, 2022 07:00 - 22 minutesHi Fall of a Titan listener! We at SI are excited to share some of the best Sports + True Crime audio stories we have been working on for our podcast, Sports Illustrated Weekly. If you liked Fall of a Titan, we think these stories will be right up your alley. So give it a listen, and if you like what you hear head on over to the SI Weekly feed for more stories like this each and every week. Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show to get new episodes as they come out. Enjoy! Listen to Sports I...
The Handoff
January 13, 2020 09:00 - 9 minutesFall of a Titan host Tim Rohan hands the mic off to S.L. Price for season two of SI's True Crime podcast, and gets a sneak preview of the new story, "Lateral Damage," as well as Price's longtime connection to the Mariet Ford case. "Lateral Damage" will be coming out later this year. Subscribe to this feed and be on the lookout for new episodes in the coming months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Introducing Lateral Damage
November 20, 2019 09:00 - 2 minutesThe laterals, the band, the elation—The Play is everything we love about college football. Which makes the end of the story seem even darker. Coming soon, a new true crime podcast: Lateral Damage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Epilogue
December 19, 2018 08:03 - 47 minutesVincent Hill presents evidence before a Nashville Grand Jury, asking to formally re-open the Steve McNair case. After that fails, Hill’s own investigation hits a roadblock. Our reporter takes stock of where everything stands now, the questions that remain unanswered, and what it’ll take for the case to ever get re-opened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Epilogue | Fall of a Titan
December 19, 2018 08:03 - 40 minutesVincent Hill presents evidence before a Nashville Grand Jury, asking to formally re-open the Steve McNair case. After that fails, Hill’s own investigation hits a roadblock. Our reporter takes stock of where everything stands now, the questions that remain unanswered, and what it’ll take for the case to ever get re-opened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Homicide-Cold Case Unit | Fall of a Titan
December 12, 2018 08:21 - 44 minutesAfter months of combing through the Steve McNair case, our reporter sits down with two Nashville PD detectives who worked the investigation as members of the department’s prestigious Homicide-Cold Case Unit: Pat Postiglione and Charles Robinson. As the two men defend their investigation, they reveal a startling new detail about Jenni Kazemi—a detail that could change the entire complexion of the case … if it’s even true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Homicide-Cold Case Unit
December 12, 2018 08:21 - 50 minutesAfter months of combing through the Steve McNair case, our reporter sits down with two Nashville PD detectives who worked the investigation as members of the department’s prestigious Homicide-Cold Case Unit: Pat Postiglione and Charles Robinson. As the two men defend their investigation, they reveal a startling new detail about Jenni Kazemi—a detail that could change the entire complexion of the case … if it’s even true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Widow | Fall of a Titan
December 05, 2018 08:04 - 48 minutesOver the course of his 13-year NFL career, Steve McNair reportedly earned at least $90 million, and in the aftermath of his death those close to him wonder: Had McNair left behind a will explaining how to pass this on? He had. But it was unsigned. And so control over his estate is left to his estranged widow, Mechelle. The settling of that estate doesn’t exactly go over smoothly, and certain people are left to wonder: Why was the person who had perhaps the most to gain from Steve McNair’s dea...
The Widow
December 05, 2018 08:04 - 54 minutesOver the course of his 13-year NFL career, Steve McNair reportedly earned at least $90 million, and in the aftermath of his death those close to him wonder: Had McNair left behind a will explaining how to pass this on? He had. But it was unsigned. And so control over his estate is left to his estranged widow, Mechelle. The settling of that estate doesn’t exactly go over smoothly, and certain people are left to wonder: Why was the person who had perhaps the most to gain from Steve McNair’s dea...
The Mother and the Sister
November 28, 2018 08:14 - 56 minutesIn the aftermath of what police rule a murder-suicide, two family members on opposite sides of the tragedy take a serious and active interest in the case: Steve McNair’s mother, Lucille, and Jenni Kazemi’s older sister. Both women are distraught. Both have questions. Both go in search of answers. And that search leads them each to the same place: the Nashville Police Department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Mother and the Sister | Fall of a Titan
November 28, 2018 08:14 - 50 minutesIn the aftermath of what police rule a murder-suicide, two family members on opposite sides of the tragedy take a serious and active interest in the case: Steve McNair’s mother, Lucille, and Jenni Kazemi’s older sister. Both women are distraught. Both have questions. Both go in search of answers. And that search leads them each to the same place: the Nashville Police Department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Bodyguard
November 14, 2018 08:25 - 49 minutesOn the afternoon of July 4, 2009, one of Steve McNair’s friends, Wayne Neeley, drops by McNair’s downtown condo and quickly realizes he’s stumbled upon a crime scene. Neeley calls Robert Gaddy, Steve McNair’s bodyguard and close friend, and Gaddy says: Wait there; I’ll be right over. But 55 minutes pass between Neeley’s arrival and Gaddy’s call to 9-1-1. Why did the two men wait so long to call police? And what did they find in that condo? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
The Bodyguard | Fall of a Titan
November 14, 2018 08:25 - 42 minutesOn the afternoon of July 4, 2009, one of Steve McNair’s friends, Wayne Neeley, drops by McNair’s downtown condo and quickly realizes he’s stumbled upon a crime scene. Neeley calls Robert Gaddy, Steve McNair’s bodyguard and close friend, and Gaddy says: Wait there; I’ll be right over. But 55 minutes pass between Neeley’s arrival and Gaddy’s call to 9-1-1. Why did the two men wait so long to call police? And what did they find in that condo? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoice...
The Ex-Con and the Ex-Boyfriend
November 07, 2018 08:30 - 55 minutesJenni Kazemi’s phone records show that, in the last few weeks of her life, she was in regular contact with a number of male suitors. One of those men: Adrian Gilliam, an ex-con who allegedly sold Jenni the murder weapon. Another: Keith Norfleet, her ex-boyfriend who appeared to be jealous Jenni was dating McNair. The police interview and clear both men. But at least one of them seems to have lied about his alibi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Ex-Con and the Ex-Boyfriend | Fall of a Titan
November 07, 2018 08:30 - 48 minutesJenni Kazemi’s phone records show that, in the last few weeks of her life, she was in regular contact with a number of male suitors. One of those men: Adrian Gilliam, an ex-con who allegedly sold Jenni the murder weapon. Another: Keith Norfleet, her ex-boyfriend who appeared to be jealous Jenni was dating McNair. The police interview and clear both men. But at least one of them seems to have lied about his alibi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Waitress
October 31, 2018 07:17 - 48 minutesSteve McNair is retired from football, he’s trying to find his identity and his marriage appears to be on the rocks. Then he meets Jenni Kazemi, a 19-year-old Dave & Buster’s waitress, and they strike up a fast romance. When Steve and Jenni turn up dead six months later, investigators point a finger almost immediately at Jenni. They portray her as spiraling out of control, fueled by jealousy and financial freefall. But that isn’t the Jenni friends and family knew. Learn more about your ad cho...
The Waitress | Fall of a Titan
October 31, 2018 07:17 - 42 minutesSteve McNair is retired from football, he’s trying to find his identity and his marriage appears to be on the rocks. Then he meets Jenni Kazemi, a 19-year-old Dave & Buster’s waitress, and they strike up a fast romance. When Steve and Jenni turn up dead six months later, investigators point a finger almost immediately at Jenni. They portray her as spiraling out of control, fueled by jealousy and financial freefall. But that isn’t the Jenni friends and family knew. Learn more about your ad cho...
The Quarterback and the Professor | Fall of a Titan
October 24, 2018 07:16 - 32 minutesVincent Hill introduces us to his investigative partner of sorts: Dr. Alvin Simpson, a close family friend of Steve McNair’s. Doc met Steve back at Alcorn State, where McNair was the star quarterback and where Doc was everyone’s favorite professor. Now Doc takes us on a trip back to Mississippi, to explore Steve’s history and to retrace the steps that led him to the condo where he was killed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Quarterback and the Professor
October 24, 2018 07:16 - 39 minutesVincent Hill introduces us to his investigative partner of sorts: Dr. Alvin Simpson, a close family friend of Steve McNair’s. Doc met Steve back at Alcorn State, where McNair was the star quarterback and where Doc was everyone’s favorite professor. Now Doc takes us on a trip back to Mississippi, to explore Steve’s history and to retrace the steps that led him to the condo where he was killed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Private Eye | Fall of a Titan
October 17, 2018 13:15 - 32 minutesShortly after Steve McNair’s death, a former Nashville police officer named Vincent Hill starts digging into the case on his own, reaching out to the victims’ friends and family, talking to people tied to the events of July 4, 2009, and sifting through the swirling rumors. He also does a few TV interviews, questioning just about everything police say. When Hill realizes there’s an audience for his viewpoint, he takes his media tour to a whole new level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
The Private Eye
October 17, 2018 13:15 - 38 minutesShortly after Steve McNair’s death, a former Nashville police officer named Vincent Hill starts digging into the case on his own, reaching out to the victims’ friends and family, talking to people tied to the events of July 4, 2009, and sifting through the swirling rumors. He also does a few TV interviews, questioning just about everything police say. When Hill realizes there’s an audience for his viewpoint, he takes his media tour to a whole new level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
The Private Eye
October 17, 2018 13:15Shortly after Steve McNair’s death, a former Nashville police officer named Vincent Hill starts digging into the case on his own, reaching out to the victims’ friends and family, talking to people tied to the events of July 4, 2009, and sifting through the swirling rumors. He also does a few TV interviews, questioning just about everything police say. When Hill realizes there’s an audience for his viewpoint, he takes his media tour to a whole new level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Introduction to Fall of a Titan
October 03, 2018 15:47 - 6 minutesSI: True Crime’s first narrative podcast, “Steve McNair: Fall of a Titan” will make you re-examine everything you think you know about the quarterback. His death, on July 4, 2009, was ruled a murder-suicide. But what if it wasn’t? Over the course of this nine-part series, we’ll guide you through the McNair case, reviewing the findings and re-examining crucial details in a new light. Coming October 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices