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Greg Coleman

CrimeWaves - March 21, 2023 15:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Interviews with the best investigators in the world. Cut through the spin and straight to the stories at the heart of major criminal cases with the people who solved the cases. Hosted by international journalist and academic Declan Hill, produced by his students at the University of New Haven - ...

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America Runs on Corruption

CrimeWaves - March 14, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Sarah Chayes is one courageous person.  She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.    She speaks  about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there a...

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Sarah Chayes: America Runs on Corruption

CrimeWaves - March 14, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Sarah Chayes is one courageous person.  She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.    She speaks  about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there a...

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The Slow Motion Chernobyl

CrimeWaves - March 07, 2023 21:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
It was a slow motion Chernobyl.  Here is what, the balance of probabilities tells us about the origins of this Covid epidemic that haunts us all.  It was the worst industrial accident in the history of humanity. In general, Chinese laboratory technicians are so badly trained, so ill-paid and so ...

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The Slow-Motion Chernobyl: Part 2 - The Big Lie

CrimeWaves - March 07, 2023 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
These are the photos of Chinese whistleblowers and citizen journalists.  All of them, and thousands more, have gone to prison camps because they wanted to bring you the truth about the appalling conditions in Wuhan during the early days of Covid.  We examine the massive Communist Chinese campaig...

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The Big Silence

CrimeWaves - March 07, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
The inside story of the most preventable, human-made disaster in history: the Covid virus that has affected countries around the world and killed somewhere between 18 and 24 million people.  In our first episode - 'The Silent Chernobyl' - we showed how laboratory leaks occur frequently across th...

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The Price of Blood

CrimeWaves - February 28, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
You're standing over the body of a woman who's been murdered. She's been killed for loan sharking at a casino by organized crime mobsters. This is the price of blood. This is the thing that few people ever talk about when discussing money laundering, you know, the usual barking guff of expensive...

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Peter German: The Price of Blood

CrimeWaves - February 28, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
You're standing over the body of a woman who's been murdered. She's been killed for loan sharking at a casino by organized crime mobsters. This is the price of blood. This is the thing that few people ever talk about when discussing money laundering, you know, the usual barking guff of expensive...

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Intelligence was my Heroin

CrimeWaves - February 14, 2023 21:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Robert Mazur is one of the greatest undercover agents in the history of American law enforcement.  He infiltrated, first, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar; and then, the Cali Cartel.   The problem? He would not give up.  Surrounded by mobsters, drug traffickers, and corrupt officials, M...

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Robert Mazur: Intelligence was my Heroin

CrimeWaves - February 14, 2023 21:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Robert Mazur is one of the greatest undercover agents in the history of American law enforcement.  He infiltrated, first, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar; and then, the Cali Cartel.   The problem? He would not give up.  Surrounded by mobsters, drug traffickers, and corrupt officials, M...

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Henry C. Lee: A Master Class - The Pocahontas Case

CrimeWaves - January 31, 2023 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
It was a meeting of two American legends:  Wayne Newton, one of the greatest stars in Country music, and Dr. Henry C. Lee, the man they call the Sherlock Holmes of America.   The subject of the meeting?   To find the body of America’s greatest princess, missing for over four hundred years, Poc...

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A Master Class with Henry C. Lee: The Pocahontas Case

CrimeWaves - January 31, 2023 19:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
It was a meeting of two American legends:  Wayne Newton, one of the greatest stars in Country music, and Dr. Henry C. Lee, the man they call the Sherlock Holmes of America.   The subject of the meeting?   To find the body of America’s greatest princess, missing for over four hundred years, Poc...

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A Master Class with Henry C. Lee: The Phil Spector Case

CrimeWaves - November 29, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
It was a killing that involved a Hollywood actress, one of the greatest musicians that America has ever produced, and a mystery that took almost 12 years two court trials and three legal appeals to resolve.  On February 2, 2003. Phil Spector, the man behind the Beatles album 'Let it Be’, John L...

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Henry C. Lee: A Master Class - The Phil Spector Case

CrimeWaves - November 29, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
It was a killing that involved a Hollywood actress, one of the greatest musicians that America has ever produced, and a mystery that took almost 12 years two court trials and three legal appeals to resolve.  On February 2, 2003. Phil Spector, the man behind the Beatles album 'Let it Be’, John L...

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A License to Kill

CrimeWaves - November 18, 2021 18:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Whitey Bulger was one of America’s most notorious mob bosses. He was a violent, sociopath but he accomplished the almost-unimaginable: he got FBI agents to let him kill whomever he wanted.  This week, the incredible, mind-blowing story of Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang and how they basically r...

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Whitey Bulger: A License to Kill

CrimeWaves - November 18, 2021 18:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Whitey Bulger was one of America’s most notorious mob bosses. He was a violent, sociopath but he accomplished the almost-unimaginable: he got FBI agents to let him kill whomever he wanted.  This week, the incredible, mind-blowing story of Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang and how they basically r...

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Antonio Nicaso: Holy Mafia - Drugs, Corruption and the Vatican

CrimeWaves - November 09, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe.   They use a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make billions of dollars every year.  They laundered their money through the Vatican Bank with the help of a corrupt V...

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Holy Mafia: Drugs, Corruption and the Vatican

CrimeWaves - November 09, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe.  They have kidnapping thousands of businessmen, politicians, journalists and their families. They command a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make tens-of-billions o...

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Holy Mafia: Drugs, Corruption and the Vatican

CrimeWaves - November 09, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe.  They have kidnapping thousands of businessmen, politicians, journalists and their families. They command a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make tens-of-billions o...

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Afghanistan: the $2 Trillion Dollar Scam

CrimeWaves - September 22, 2021 22:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
$2 Trillion is stolen, there is a well-covered-up network of sexual abuse and tens-of-thousands of people are killed - if those are not crimes, what are?  Welcome to NATO's mission in Afghanistan.  It was an appalling, cluster-problem.  For those of you who don't know what happened in Afghanis...

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Michael Franzese: American Mobster

CrimeWaves - May 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Michael Franzese was a high-ranking mobster in the Colombo Crime Family, one of the big five families of the New York Mafia. His father was a hit man with dozens of kills. Michael was making millions of dollars a week for the mob in a complicated gas tax fraud scheme across four different states...

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Michael Franzese

CrimeWaves - May 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Michael Franzese, the youngest Capo in the history of American Mob Crime, spent decades in organized crime and fixed corporate sports events. The legend is born because America is a country of second chances, and Michael Franzese has been able to turn his life around. He become a born-again Chri...

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Donnie Brasco: The Rules of the Mafia

CrimeWaves - May 17, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Donnie Brasco is the most successful undercover agent in U.S. law enforcement.   For years, he infiltrated the Colombo and Bonanno Mafia families, resulting in hundreds of arrests, convictions and murders.   In this episode - a special international lecture for the University of New Haven Sports...

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The Disappearance of Annie Le

CrimeWaves - April 09, 2021 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
On a Tuesday morning in September of 2009, Annie Le walked into a building on Yale University Campus and she disappeared. Her mobile phone and her wallet were still in the office, yet there was no trace of Annie anywhere.  Three days later,  police Lieutenant Lisa Dadio was given the job of disc...

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Peter Valentine: Navigating a Criminal Minefield

CrimeWaves - April 09, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
It’s 2:00 in the morning and you get a call from your partner telling you a body has been found, what do you do? Our guest, the brilliant policeman turned professor, Peter Valentin, joins us this week to discuss crime scene analysis. From surveying the land, collecting evidence to dealing with n...

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Navigating a Criminal Minefield

CrimeWaves - April 09, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
It’s 2:00 in the morning and you get a call from your partner telling you a body has been found, what do you do? Our guest, the brilliant policeman turned professor, Peter Valentin, joins us this week to discuss crime scene analysis. From surveying the land, collecting evidence to dealing with n...

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Claire Glynn: The Golden State Killer

CrimeWaves - March 26, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
For over a decade a killer stalked the women of Northern California. He raped and murdered dozens of people. And no one was able to catch him.  Until a new technology of investigative forensics was invented and - finally - the police had him in their sights…. Please rate, review or like this ep...

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The Golden State Killer

CrimeWaves - March 26, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
For over a decade a killer stalked the women of Northern California. He raped and murdered dozens of people. And no one was able to catch him. Until a new technology of investigative forensics was invented and - finally - the police had him in their sights….

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A Murder in Our Town

CrimeWaves - March 19, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
A dead man is found on a beach.   The detectives arrive.  They begin their investigation - when suddenly a massive storm cloud pours down rain.  It destroys all the evidence. The story of the painstaking two-year investigation and how the police solved the case... Please rate, review or like th...

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How to Catch a Killer - Season 2 Promo...

CrimeWaves - March 19, 2021 15:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
TO CATCH A KILLER.   ITS THE SUBJECT OF COUNTLESS MOVIES, TV SERIES AND BOOKS… BUT HOW DO INVESTIGATORS ACTUALLY DO IT?  WHAT ARE THEIR TECHNIQUES, THEIR TOOLS, THEIR TRICKS? ON THE NEXT MINI-SEASON OF CRIMEWAVES PODCAST WE HAVE A FASCINATING SERIES  OF INTERVIEWS WITH RANGE OF INVESTIGATORS....

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