#Stupid Crimes Episodes

True Crime Tuesday presents: Staged: Conspiracies, Cold Cases & Cold, Hard Cash with Journalist/Author Caitlin Rother! In this thrilling sequel to Hooked, the secret leaders of a deadly cabal prove to be a veritable match for the determined reporter and the insightful surfing detective who double down to expose them. Investigative reporter Katrina Chopin is back home in San Diego on a mission (or two). The first is personal: reheating the cold case of her parents’ murder and investigating he...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Hooked: A Deadly Drug With Deadlier Intentions with Journalist/Author, Caitlin Rother! When investigative reporter Katrina Chopin and surfing homicide detective Ken Goode lock eyes, there’s an immediate attraction. Sparks fly as they bond over cocktails, sharing their common experiences of being orphans and losing loved ones to suicide. But the next time they meet, it’s from opposing sides of a high-profile case. Two biotech execs, whose company is developing a...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: In Public Record: A Journey To The Truth of a Murder and Trial with Former Police Officer/ Author, Michael Kelly September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meet-up. Police soon find her nearby, stabbed to death and left exposed. Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver's license. She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician,...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Empire City Under Siege: Three Decades of NY FBI Manhunts, Murders, and Mafia Wars with Researcher/ Author, Craig McGuire EMPIRE CITY UNDER SIEGE: Three Decades Of New York FBI Field Office Manhunts, Murders, And Mafia Wars shares true stories of an FBI Special Agent spanning three tumultuous decades in New York City, beginning in the gritty 1970s when law enforcement refused to let their city be consumed by corruption and violence. Starting as an undercover operati...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The Las Vegas Massacre Connections: Finding Strength Through Tragedy with Journalist/Show Host/Author, Mark Gray! On October 1, 2017, Mary Jo von Tillow's world changed forever. Her husband, Kurt, was killed in the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in U.S. history. In just eleven minutes, her life-and the lives of thousands of others-were shattered. But what followed was more than grief. Out of devastation came unexpected bonds wi...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Presiding Over Shadows: From Chaos To Order In The Court with Circuit Court Judge/Author, Judge Michael Randazzo! Judge Michael Randazzo never should have been. His story begins in a pop-up trailer-no electricity, no running water-born to parents who dropped out of high school and carried the weight of the family's excommunication from the Sicilian Mafia. He came into the world premature, delivered by a veterinarian, clinging to life while doctors warned I'd never c...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: The Serial Killer Travel Guide Across America: Your Coast To Coast Tour of Terror with Researcher/Author. Johnny Trevisani! The Serial Killer Travel Guide Across America isn’t your typical road trip companion. This darkly fascinating guide is quirky and unconventional and takes readers on a darkly humorous journey through the United States, exploring notorious locations linked to infamous serial killers. From the shadowy forests of the Pacific Northwest to the sun-b...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Speaking Truth To Evil: The Myths & Facts Surrounding Today's Serial Killers with Investigator/Author, Phil Chalmers! American profiler Phil Chalmers destroys the myths of today's serial killers and offers a new look, updating the research done by the early FBI Profilers in the 1970s. Most of what people believe about serial killers today are myths and are no longer true, including "Most serial killers are white," "Most serial killers kill women," and "Serial killer...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Greg Scarpa, Legendary Evil: The Many Faces of a Mafia Killer with Lawyer/Historian/Researcher/Author, Jonathan Dyer! Goodfellow, capo, killer, thief. A man so diabolically evil that he ordered his eldest son to murder his closest associate, and his youngest son to murder his best friend. When Greg Scarpa was in his early twenties he became a goodfellow in the Profaci family by swearing a blood oath to the Mafia, at the time the country's largest organized-crime sy...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Chasson's Run: The Prison Break That Captivated America w/ Author, Daniel Zimmerman ! CHASSON'S RUN: The Prison Break That Captivated America And the Love Story That Fueled It is a gripping true crime tale that will leave you on the edge of your seat. On September 6, 1982, convicted murderer Leroy James Chasson made a daring break for freedom from the Massachusetts Correctional Institute-Walpole-one of the most infamous, escape-proof prisons in the country. But this...

True Crime Tuesday presents: How It's Done: The True Story of One Man Who Took Down Organized Crime to Save His Family with Author, Jerry Langton! Dave Lucas is like nobody you’ve ever met. Or maybe you have, but didn’t know it. Thrown out of his home at 14, he used his wits, charm and determination to become one of the most successful drug dealers in Canada. But, after the birth of his son, he knew he had to make one last big score before getting out of the game. So, he became an undercover po...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: True Crime Sleep Stories Volume 3: Love Gone Wrong with Podcaster/ Author, Kelli Brink! Journey through the darker side of love, where passion and devotion spiral into obsession, manipulation, and violence. Designed for true crime enthusiasts and mystery lovers alike, this volume presents twelve gripping tales of relationships that turned tragic, and at times, deadly. With deep insight and empathy, Kelli Brink uncovers the devastating consequences when seemingly unb...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Storm Of Suspicion: The Karen Read Murder Trials with Television Presenter/Podcaster/Author, Kevin Lenihan! STORM OF SUSPICION: The Karen Read Murder Trials is an electrifying, real-time courtroom thriller and the gripping personal account of author Kevin Lenihan’s detailed examination of the evidence—both known and what he’s discovered—as well as the dark rumors, courtroom bombshells, and conspiracy theories that are at the heart of two of the most explosive and co...

True Crime Tuesday Presents The Dumond Affair: How Lies And Politics Freed A Killer with Researcher/Author, D.R. Bartlette! Ashley Stevens, at 17 years old, thought justice would be done when she named Wayne Dumond as the guy who had abducted and sexually assaulted her in 1984. She was unaware that her horror was only getting started. Dumond was a vicious serial predator with a troubling past of assault and homicide, not just another criminal. However, a complex network of deceit, manipulation,...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Vacations Can Be Murder: The True Crime/Paranormal Travel Guide to New England with Author, Dawn M. Barclay! For the true crime lover—finally, a travel guide from an award-winning travel journalist and suspense author that gives you the down and dirty on exactly where the major crimes occurred, and where the bodies are buried. For aficionados of paranormal, prison, and tombstone travel, there’s a goldmine of tourism suggestions for you here as well. Along with summ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Chained Birds: Justice, Survival, & The Fight For Redemption Behind Bars w/ Author, Carla Conti! After three years in Europe, former journalist Carla Conti* wanted to settle her family in the suburbs of Philadelphia. But her high school friend Scott Powell, a lawyer handling a brutal prison stabbing case, needed a favor. Before she knew it, Carla became part of the defense team and was mired in the terrifying world of federal prison gangs, penal abuse, and corruptio...

True Crime Tuesday presents Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals 0211 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, A Hollywood Producer is looking at 148 years to life after trying to turn a screen plot into a real life crime, A Yorkshire burglar is jailed after police trace his footsteps in the snow to someone's backyard! A Grinch destroys a Santa statue that spreads year-round Christmas joy to Winnipeg ! And, an intoxicated man mistakes a bible study for a "human trafficking operation"! See the video of a Canadia...

True Crime Tuesday presents: A Hate Crime in Brooklyn with Defense Attorney/Author, David G. Secular! When Sofia Hushemi, a sheltered Albanian immigrant, carelessly collides with Sylvester Stanley on her way home from Prospect Park, both escape injury. Upon discovering the loss of her precious ring, gifted to her by Victor, the feared kingpin of the Albanian-American Mafia, she frantically presumes Sylvester, a Black man, was not a jogger, but a culprit. Hours later, Sylvester is attacked in br...

True Crime Tuesday presents: A Murder On Campus: North Carolina's Most Notorious Cold Case w/ Brian & Cameron Santana! On April 15, 1973, two high school students discovered the body of 19-year-old drama major Virginia Marie Olson on a trail near the campus of the University of North Carolina-Asheville. The scene was horrific. Olson had been bound, raped, and brutally stabbed to death. The murder shocked the Asheville community and set off an investigation that would span three generations of d...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, & The Scandal That Shocked The Nation with Journalist/Author, Michael Cannell! No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, two decorated detectives who covertly acted as mafia informants and paid assassins in the Scorsese world of 1980s Brooklyn. For more than ten years, Eppolito and Caracappa moonlighted as the mob’s early warning alert system, leaking names of mobst...

True Crime Tuesday presents Obsessed: Finding Justice For The Lost Boys Of New England with Investigator/Author, David McGrath! In the tranquil towns of New England during the 1970s, a sinister mystery unfolded when several boys vanished without a trace and the community’s peace was shattered. With law enforcement stymied in its search for answers, whispers of a possible serial killer surfaced, especially after one boy’s body was found years after his disappearance. But what happened to the oth...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago w/ John Borowski! On Today's TCT, Filmmaker John Borowski Talks about his new project, "The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago! An eight part miniseries, The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago (2024) is the first ever historical, comprehensive and chronological miniseries to study the life and crimes of the infamous serial killer. From his birth to the ongoing investigation of ide...

True Crime Tuesday presents Murder By Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb with Prof. Mitchel P. Roth! A late package from Amazon or USPS would be the least of your troubles on Christmas Eve! Imagine a deadly Yuletide greeting from a not so Christian fellow! The book, "Muder By Mail", unfolds the gripping history of weaponized mail, offering the first ever comprehensive exploration of this sinister phenomenon. Spanning two centuries, the book unveils the history of postal bombs, describin...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Trial By Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth About Barbara Graham with Attorney/Prosecutor/Media Personality/Best Selling Author, Marcia Clark! Marcia Clark may be most famous for her work as a Los Angeles prosecutor handling high-profile murder cases, but she’s also been a defense attorney and an appellate lawyer for many years—and therefore has spent most of her life immersed in true crime. A compelling and talented storyteller who has written about both her ...