True Crimecast

A former NFL player consults ChatGPT when trying to cover up a murder, and a recent machete ban in Australia leads to the most dangerous geocaching event ever.  --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In April 2025, Karen Read returned to Norfolk Superior Court facing a second murder trial for the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. With lead investigator Michael Proctor officially fired and a complete roadmap from the first trial, both sides delivered an explosive replay of contested digital evidence, accident reconstruction, and claims of corruption. Also, who and what is a Turtleboy? --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Amber Kaset is a criminal defense investigator and mitigation specialist with more than 20 years of experience and over 1,000 cases. She spent seven years as an investigator with the Public Defender's Office in Nashville before founding AK Investigations in 2010. Today she leads a team of investigators and mitigation specialists working with defense attorneys nationwide on serious felonies, drug cases, complex federal cases, wrongful convictions, death penalty cases, and large civil matters.https://www.akinvestigations.com/True crime usually follows the investigation that leads to an arrest. But what happens when the defense starts investigating the case all over again? Amber joins True Crimecast to take listeners inside the defense investigation: retracing police work, interviewing witnesses, finding evidence that may have been missed, and, in death penalty cases, investigating a client's life generations back. She also talks about wrongful convictions, mitigation, and what more than two decades on the defense side have taught her about the people we label "bad guys" and about recognizing the humanity of everyone a case touches, victims included, in a system that falls hardest on people who are poor, people of color, and people the other systems failed first.Amber consults with public defender leadership on how their offices investigate cases and how their teams work together, and she has taught investigations to innocence projects, law schools, university programs, and at legal conferences. She is also the creator of the Investigative Expert Method, an online training program for people who want to become criminal defense investigators and those already doing the work in private practice and in public defense.https://investigativeexpertmethod.com Connect with Amber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberkaset/Free course in investigations: https://investigativeexpertmethod.com/inside-backgrounds-records-and-case-research/How to think like an investigator, Amber's talk for Entrepreneurs' Organization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u5DwZ-PgZE  --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A (Florida, of course) man is caught at a construction site hiding a weapon in his unmentionables, and a would-be robber in Scotland gets himself in a pickle.  --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Can one person give consent to another person to shoot them? If not, what would justify throwing a bucket of feces on another human? --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.