Matoaka Pocahontas, the legendary daughter of Powhatan, has been one of the most misunderstood stories in American history. The last chapter of her life is particularly intriguing. She was sent to England to meet King James Ist. It was part investment trip for the Virginia colonies. Part a spy trip for her father to check out his potential enemies. Matoaka Pocahontas was relatively well-treated by the English Royal Court. One person described her, "as the most noble...
It's a murder that haunts a city. A bright, beautiful young student is taken from the heart of Yale campus and 25 minutes later is found dead on the side of a darkened street. It happened 26 years ago yet the case is still unsolved despite massive resources being poured into it and a huge controversy around the police investigation. In a special episode, CrimeWaves, investigates what happened that night... #TrueCrimepodcast #ColdCase #TrueCrimemystery Send us a text P...
They call it a serial killer's graveyard. A lonely stretch of rural highway in Connecticut, where half a dozen women and a man were murdered and their bodies dumped. It was a yesteryear story. A nightmare hanging over from the 1990s: unsolved, unresolved, and the killer still uncaught. Until three years ago, when the same thing happened, a young woman's body was discovered in exactly the same place... Send us a text Please subscribe, rate, review or like this episod...
On March 12th of 1932, one of the richest men in the world, Ivar Kreuger, was found dead in his Paris apartment. Kreuger was scheduled to meet and fund the then-democratic government in Germany. Kreuger never made it to the meeting, and the government fell, leading to the rise of Adolf Hitler. Kreuger's death was ruled a suicide by Parisian Police. However, thirty-three years later Ivar Kreuger's younger brother, and many others, came forward to say it was a murder. In this epi...
In time for the US Congressional Hearings into the origins of Covid, we re-release this series - The Slow-Motion Chernobyl. Originally broadcast in February/March 2022, it was censored and blocked on Twitter and LinkedIn. Please listen. You will hear the true story of the Wuhan research laboratory complex. You will not hear partisan political attacks but just the facts. You will hear about the extraordinary censorship from film festivals to mainstream journali...
The Head of the CIA has just announced - finally! - that Covid originated from the Wuhan Laboratory Complex. Finally - because this is what we at CrimeWaves said three years ago. At that point, we were shadow banned and censored on both Twitter and LinkedIn at the time of broadcast. This is the re-release of our series 'The Slow-Motion Chernobyl'. It tells the story of the origin of the disease in a ridiculously stupid playing-at-God scientific experiment, th...
This week (January 2025) the CIA announced that they believe the origin of Covid came from a laboratory leak. "Our intelligence, our science and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of Covid was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology." Finally. Three years after CrimeWaves released our series - The Slow-Motion Chernobyl. These are episodes that we, at CrimeWaves Podcast are both very proud of - the research is in-depth, shocking and has been proven absolutely correct - ...
Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five, disappeared one morning. She dropped off her children at school and then was gone. She was in the middle of a heated divorce with her glamorous, and seemingly-wealthy husband. Then on Friday, May 24, 2019 - at approximately 8:30 a.m. she vanished without a trace. The Connecticut police faced a seemingly impossible task: how to investigate a murder with no body. Rich Colangelo was the lead prosecutor of the case and in an exclusive interview he ...
It was the most famous murder mystery in the world. Two young women, one, British, Meredith Kercher, murdered, the other American, Amanda Knox, falsely accused. There were rumors of sexual games and orgies - all with the backdrop of the gorgeous, Italian renaissance town of Perugia. The problem was - almost none of it was true. The case gave way to seventeen-years of trials, mistrials, newspaper stories and scandals. Now, for one of the first times in the podca...
It is the most Important, unsolved murder in the world today. Just after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, peace talks began between the two countries. A few days later, at the negotiations, there was an alleged case of poisoning where a number of the delegates, mysteriously, feel ill. Then one of the Ukrainian team - Denys Kireev - was gunned down on the streets of Kiev. Immediately after his death, another Ukrainian peace negotiator fled to the Polish border...
On the sixth anniversary of Jeffrey Epstein's mysterious death in a New York jail: the final episodes of the best independent investigation into what actually happened to America's most well-known prisoner. On this episode - we examine the case of why 'a reasonable person' may believe that Epstein committed suicide You will hear all the evidence that suggest that Epstein may have taken his own life. You will hear all the details that government officials - Republican or Democrat ...
This is the best investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death. Almost every other examination of his death promotes a political or social agenda. Read the New York Times? They will feed you the version that Epstein mysteriously killed himself and anything else is a diet of ‘misinformation’ and you are a moron for questioning the official narrative. Note - the official narrative leaves out that the prison was appalling corrupt and the conditions inside amounted to tortu...
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...
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 ...
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 the...
$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 bet...
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 ...
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. Send us a text Please subscribe, rate, review or like...
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... Sen...
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… Send us a text Pl...