Stupid Crimes Episodes

True Crime Tuesday presents: Killing The Lieutenant with retired Lieutenant/Sargeant/Private Investigator/ Author Raul J. Diaz and Podcaster/Author, Sean Oliver! The infamy of Miami's cocaine wars of the 1970's and 80's is forever etched in the darkest chapters in US History, and Lt. Raul Diaz was on the front lines for it all! The decorated and controversial lawman had his finger on the pulse of the Magic City when law enforcement lost its grip on crime when a new breed of criminal flooded S...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Atropos: Serial Killer On the Loose In The Southeast with 40-year law enforcement expert/Author, Royce Wilson! Detective Riley Scott just wants a routine murder. He gets anything but. One mutilated body in Tampa turns into a city-wide killing spree with no motive, no witnesses, and no end in sight. The deeper Scott digs, the more the case coils around his own life—until his girlfriend vanishes and fellow officers start dying. Suspended from duty and running ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Skyring Water: Cold War Spies & Family Ties with Researcher/Author Beau L'Amour! Louis and Beau L’Amour present a collaboration across time, an epic novel of Cold War suspense, as a pair of unlikely heroes, a woman without a name, and the undefeated agents of the Third Reich find themselves locked in a deadly race to control the greatest secret of the 20th century. 1961. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. Walls are dividing East and West. Empires are cru...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Murder By Design with Screenwriter/Producer/New York Times Best Selling Author, Lee Goldberg! Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets. Their first case together looks l...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Curse of the Blumenthals with Professor of Journalism/Researcher/Author, Phyllis Karas! The Blumenthals are one of millions of Eastern European Jewish families who immigrated to the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Settling in Providence, Rhode Island, they grow and prosper. During Prohibition, the Blumenthals became bootleggers—starting their fraught history with alcohol and crime. Once Prohibition is repealed, Barney Blumenthal opens a liquor ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The Library After Dark: Death Dealt at the Daedalus with Author, Ande Pliego Not all fairytales were meant for children. Aria Stokes is finally feeling settled—she lives in a tiny New York apartment, works as a bookseller at a local shop, and has even taken a leap of faith in love by indulging her attraction to bookstore regular Jasper. And he seems to already know her so well. As a Valentine’s Day surprise, Jasper gets the two of them tickets to an exclusive, ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Model Detective: Inside The Mind Of A Female Homicide Boss with Police Sergeant, Michele Wood! Sergeant Michele Wood, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, has spent nearly two decades in the Detective Division. With hundreds of arrests and an extraordinary record of solving murders, she has led homicide teams while also appearing as a legal expert on ABC’s 20/20 and other national true crime series. In her book, MODEL DETECTIVE, Wood takes reader...

True Crime Tuesday presents Clay and Bones: My Life As A Forensic FBI Artist with Forensic Artist/Author, Lisa Bailey! Just two months after the September 11 terrorist attacks, Lisa Bailey began her career as an FBI forensic artist. She threw herself into the work and over the next eighteen years handled hundreds of cases: unidentified remains pulled from shallow graves, sexual assaults, acts of terrorism, and kidnappings. She became a recognized authority in facial approximation from the ...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Blueprint Of A Killer: Monsters in the Making, from Childhood to Murder with Researcher/Author. Heather Mroczenski! What if the most dangerous part of a serial killer's story happened long before the first victim? BLUEPRINT OF A KILLER: Monsters in the Making, from Childhood to Murder asks the uncomfortable question most true crime books avoid: how did this start? What happened to cause the headlines, body counts, and documentaries? It uniquely does this: for the ...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: A Spell for Saints and Sinners with Author, Emily Carpenter ! In front of an elegantly shabby townhouse on a Savannah side street sits a hand-painted sign: Miss Edie, Psychic. Ingrid White inherited the house and business from her beloved grandmother, a local celebrity in town. But unless Ingrid can find a way to pay for crushing property taxes and mounting repairs, she’s going to lose them both. Ingrid has faith in the homespun witchcraft Edie passed down to h...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: The Tylenol Murders: A Father's Confession To His Son with Forensic Psychologist/ Survivor/ Author, Joseph Cibelli! From the son who would not stay silent, THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A Father's Confession to His Son reveals a confession buried under four decades of fear, complicity, and blue-walled denial. Chicago, 1982. Seven people swallowed Tylenol capsules meant to heal, then they died within minutes. America changed overnight, then the killer vanished into darkness...

True Crime Tuesday presents The Viper: A Fast Paced Thriller of Family Bonds and Deadly Conspiracies w/Researtcher/Writer/TV Host/Author, Brad Meltzer! Andrew Fechmeier is a master at hiding. He'd better be—he’s spent decades concealing a secret that could get him killed. So when he’s diagnosed with a terminal disease, he heads for the local funeral home carrying the blue suit he eventually wants to be buried in. But what no one knows is that Fechmeier secretly tucked something inside, turnin...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather with Actor/Singer/Movie Producer/Businessman/Author, Gianni Russo! The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, The Godfather, the Mob, and more . . . During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrants, Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age. It was a quality that didn’t go unnoticed by Frank Costello—father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss. Thanks to Costell...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Crimes Of Passion: Love Gone Wrong & Dumb Crimes-Stupid Criminals 0210 w/Jessica Freeburg! On today's TCT, with the Valentine's Day holiday upon us, Tim and Jess look at why maybe it is best to always love yourself first, and think twice about trusting that partner! On Today's Show we cover such Valentine's Day crimes as: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Gang hit of Jack McGurn, The Subway Sweethearts Murder, The 1985 triple Colorado Springs Murder, The To...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Murder In The Graveyard: A Family Cult Tragedy with Journalist/Researcher/Author, Frank Stanfield! The 911 call was harrowing. "I accidentally killed someone. Please!" the man said, his voice rising. "Who?" "My stepmom. My name is Ian Anselmo. Sue-Ellen Anselmo, she's in the car with me. My dad is going to kill me. I guess I strangled her. I don't remember doing it. I remember the argument." The call disintegrated quickly, with the 20-year-old howling ...

True Crime Tuesday presents Where M*rder Lies: Death And Deception In West Hollywood with Authors, Frank Girardot Jr & Burl Barer! Burl Barer is an Edgar Award winning author and accomplished media professional, with a career spanning several decades. Among his many books, his WildBlue Press true crime classic, MURDER IN THE FAMILY, is ranked #3 on the "Ten Best True Crime Books Ever Written," and he is listed as one of America's 100 "MUST READ" authors. Frank Girardot Jr. is an award winn...

true Crime Tuesday presents: Who I Really Am: Life After The Attempt On Reagan with Singer/Songwriter/and Author, John Hinckley Jr.. As shots rang out on March 30, 1981, outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Ronald Reagan and three others lay seriously wounded. Just two months after Reagan was sworn in as the 40th president, John Hinckley Jr. shocked the world with his obsession with a movie star. What followed was chaos. America learned of the deep psychosis that led to Hinck...

True Crime Tuesday presents The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling with Writer/Columnist/Author, Rachel Corbett! Criminal profiling―the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological “fingerprints” of the monsters among us―holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we gain, and endanger, from studying why people commit murder? In The Monste...

True Crime Tuesday presents : Married To An Impostor: Deception and Death Dealt From The Hands of a Navy Wife with US Navy Veteran/Abuse Survivor, Aaron Villa! When Aaron Villa met his now Ex-wife, Dixie Denise Villa, after a hockey game, he was initially smitten with her and thought maybe she was the one! but ominous omens and huge red flags littered his path as he continued to pursue the blonde woman from Washington to Hawaii! Along the way, Dixie turned quickly(and on a dime) from caring lov...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Sisters In Death: The Black Dahlia, The Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter with Producer/ Network Executive/Director/Creator/Author. Eli Frankel! Who killed the Black Dahlia? In this eye-opening shocker, an award-winning producer, true-crime researcher, and Hollywood insider finally solves the greatest - and most gruesome - murder mystery of the twentieth century just before its 80th anniversary. In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drai...

True Crime Tuesday presents The People Vs. The Golden State Killer with Attorney/District Attorney of Sacremento/Author, Thien Ho! In The People vs. the Golden State Killer, Thien Ho, the current District Attorney of Sacramento, recounts his harrowing and exhilarating experience as the lead prosecutor responsible for capturing and prosecuting Joseph DeAngelo. Referred to at various times by law enforcement and the media as the Visalia Ransacker, the East Bay Rapist, the Original Nightstalker, a...

True Crime Tuesday presents Every Killer Leaves A Trace: The Fatal Mistakes That Exposed America's Most Elusive Killers with Researcher/Investigator/Author, Dennis Carson! They blended in. They raised families, held steady jobs, and hid in plain sight. But behind the mask of normalcy, they were monsters—responsible for decades of terror, pain, and death. Every Killer Leaves A Trace is a chilling narrative nonfiction thriller that exposes moments that led to the shocking unmasking and ultimate c...

True Crime Tuesday presents Peace, Love, & Murder: The Charles Manson Story with Broadcaster/TV Personality/ Crime Expert/ Author, Alan R. Warren! In the late 1960s, America’s promise of peace, love, and freedom collided with a nightmare that would forever change the nation. At the center of it was Charles Manson—failed musician, self-styled guru, and one of the most infamous figures in criminal history. Peace, Love, and Murder: The Charles Manson Story goes beyond the familiar headlines to rev...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Out Of Bounds: From Broken NBA Dreams To Redemption w/ Former NBA player/Co-Author, Chris Washburn, and Co-Author, Ron Chepesiuk! Highly promising basketball player Chris Washburn was selected third overall in the 1986 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. But a chance encounter with famed basketball player Len Bias introduced him to crack cocaine. Soon, the overwhelming temptations of fame, fortune, and drugs derailed his promising career. And by 1989, after fail...