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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 - Ryan Decker, Aiden van Batenburg, and others. www.crimewavespodcast.com Follow us at @declan_hill
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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 mis-guided that some of them used to sell infected research animals to local butchers.The specific virologists in Wuhan lab played God. They created super-virulent viruses, more powerful than an...
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 campaign of disinformation - The Big Lie. It stretches from the hospitals and laboratories of Wuhan, to Chinese prison-camps, to international film festivals, western social media companies and ...
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 the world but in China the safety standards are so low that it is common practice for some technicians to sell lab animals to local butchers for meat. We examined the grotesque lack of profess...
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 Lennon's 'Imagine', George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord', and countless other top music hits, left his Los Angeles mansion. He came back at midnight with a gorgeous blonde actress, Lana Clarkson. They g...
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 ran the organized crime squad of the FBI and key officers of the Boston Police Force for over a decade.Our guest is the award-winning author and professor of journalism at Boston University—Dick Lehr...
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 Vatican Cardinal, they are the 'Ndrangheta. Antonio Nicaso is an expert on the 'Ndrangheta. He is an investigator who risked his life to reveal how the 'Ndrangheta built their g...
$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 Afghanistan and why millions of Afghans choose scumbags like the Taliban over our lot - listen to this podcast. It is deeply shocking. Our troops were, at times, little better than...
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. At 26, the family made him a Capo with dozens of mobsters underneath him and an illegal sports gambling network worth tens-of-millions of dollars that had players, coaches and league officials al...
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 Integrity Center - Brasco explains the rules of the Mob. How to dress, speak and comport yourself so you don't get killed. Please rate, review or like this episode: would be huge...
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 discovering what had happened. It was a literal 'closed room mystery'. There was intense international media attention, three different police agencies and no clues... Plea...
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 non-homicide police departments, not everything is chalked up to be what it seems. What does it really take to investigate these often brutal cases? Find out this week on Crime Waves…Please rate, review...
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 episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill
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. MOST OF THEM ARE MY COLLEAGUES FROM THE CRIMINAL FORENSICS DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN. BUT THEY ARE NOT YOUR STANDARD ACADEMICS RATHER THEY ALMOST ALL HAVE A BACKGR...
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 this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill
Tim Donaghy was an NBA referee who gambled on his games with mob-linked bookmakers. We asked the question that everyone wants to hear — did he fix? His answer will shock you.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill
Enes Kanter is an international sports star. He was a massive presence in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for over a decade. He was also under 24-hour protection from the FBI. The reason? His criticism of the human rights situation in his Turkey and Communist China.Enes Kanter joins Crime Waves to discuss his journey to becoming an athlete with a conscience — and the price he and his family have paid.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appre...
"Not every coach is a pedophile, but every pedophile wants to be a coach." There is a slight plague in sports.There is rampant sexual, physical and mental abuse of athletes across sports, countries and cultures. Very few people speak about it. They want to pretend that our young people are safe in a glamorous sports world, when the truth is often the opposite.One person has led the fight to stop this appalling behaviour - Nancy Hogshead.She is a fighter. A triple Olympic gol...
An EXCLUSIVE interview with the chief investigator of USADA, Travis Tygart who exposed the truth behind the biggest doping scandal in US history.The show: Learn more at www.crimewaves.com, you can follow the team on twitter at @declan_hill Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill
It is the biggest and most under-reported story in the history of sport. For years, there was "a mafia" at the heart of international athletics. Runners, coaches and officials were coerced, corrupted and forced to pay millions of dollars in bribes.Events at the Olympics, World Championships, and national contests around the world were arranged. The thief? The head of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the organization that ran all these event...
From a secret location, where he and his wife live hidden from any possible revenge, Vitaly Stepanov talks about the widespread doping and criminal extortion at the heart of the Russian Olympic team -- what it took to expose it, and the lengths officials went to keep it quiet.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/sports/olympics/yuliya-stepanova-russia-doping.htmlThe show: Learn more at www.crimewaves.com, you can follow the team on twitter at @declan_hill and @ericjohnkrebsPlease rate, review o...
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