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Episodes
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Episode 163: The Liverpool gang wars and the killing of tragic 9-year-old school girl Olivia Pratt-Korbel
The killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool on August 22 has left Merseyside's underworld reeling from a major crackdown on organised…
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Episode 162: The jailing of ex-garda John 'Spud' Murphy and his suspected links to the Hutch gang
A former Garda Superintendent has been jailed for six-and-a-half years after he was caught with more than €250,000 worth of cannabis.But the investigation into…
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Episode 161: The dramatic new evidence that halted the murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch
The trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel has been put back for a few weeks after dramatic developments in the…
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Episode 160: The day I came face to face with a killer
Trainee journalists often have to find their feet in a dog-eat-dog world, where you are only as good as your last byline.And many of those who have been landed…
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Episode 159: The arrest of Gerard Mackin and the secret Kinahan Cartel ledgers
The Kinahan organisation has been financially pulverised after a raid on properties connected to money launderer Johnny Morrissey uncovered what police believe…
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Episode 158: The arrest of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch inside Wheatfield Prison
A wider investigation into how the State believe Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch directed a criminal gang and corrupted a retired police officer is on-going outside the…
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Episode 157: How Jonathan Dowdall ended up in the dock for one of the most notorious crimes in gangland history
Former Sinn Fein Councillor Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick have pleaded guilty today to their roles in the Regency Hotel shooting of David Byrne.The…
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Episode 156: The drug den murder of tragic Tony Dempsey
Murder victim Tony Dempsey’s end is as grim as a society could ever imagine. For 10 days his body lay decomposing in a Dublin flat while drug users came and…
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Episode 155: How cocaine is changing the face of rural Ireland
The Ploughing Championships are an annual highlight in the calendar for those living in rural Ireland who work the land and who don their wellies for the…
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Episode 154: Fear on the streets as Ireland's most notorious rapist Simon McGinley is freed from jail
He is Ireland’s most notorious rapist whose first attack sparked the controversial 'C Case' which saw the State pitched against the parents of his 13-year-old…
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Episode 153: The life and crimes of Belfast's most notorious gangster 'Maxi' McAlorum
BANK robber and drug dealer Kevin 'Maxi' McAlorum had to dodge plenty of enemies during his long criminal career as Belfast’s most-notorious gangster.But in…
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Episode 152: The last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America
HE is New York’s most notorious Russian mobster, who made and lost a fortune from heroin trafficking, tax fraud and diamond smuggling.A gulag survivor hardened…
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Episode 151: The dramatic arrest of Kinahan Cartel enforcer Johnny 'Cash' Morrissey
FLASH Johnny Morrissey became the first of the Kinahan 'SEVEN' to be arrested this week when Spanish police swooped on him for laundering a phenomenal €350,000…
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Episode 150: The 'GPO girl' and how her days posing as a teenager could be numbered
It was a story that read like the start of a true crime bestseller – a teenage girl is found wandering on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, a team of experts are…
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Episode 149: The American weapons fuelling the blood-thirsty Mexican Cartels and drug wars
Automatic weapons sold legally in the US are flowing over the border into Mexico to arm narco terrorists who control the drug supply that floods back.Deadly…
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Episode 148: Mass murder on a Canadian reserve - who was the killer on the run?
The last suspect in a horrific stabbing spree that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, and police hope the stunning end…
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Episode 147: How the close proximity of prison staff and inmates can sometimes lead to trouble
It’s a life alien to many but for prisoners the daily grind of jail time is a heady mix of boredom, survival and opportunism.Smuggled contraband brings power…
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Episode 146: Film maker Toby Muse on how cocaine makes its way from Colombia to Ireland
It’s the white gold that has turned street dealers into billionaires and corrupted politicians, police and even the judiciary with its promises of wealth…
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Episode 145: The rise and fall of cocaine cowboy Patrick Irwin
Cocaine cowboy Patrick Irwin is being hunted after he assaulted a lawyer in a midlands town and stole his Porsche car from outside a bar. The convicted…
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Episode 144: Criminologist John Deane O’Keeffe on how psychopaths form their instincts to kill.
What is it that fascinates us about murder and that makes us want to know how the minds of killers work. Are we trying to protect ourselves in a seemingly dark…
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Episode 143: The sadistic crimes of serial killer John Wayne Gacy
He's one of the most-notorious serial killers in American history and the inspiration for numerous slasher movies.'Pogo the clown' by day and mass murderer by…
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Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 3)
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the…
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Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 2)
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the…
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Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 1)
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the…
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Episode 142: The monster who murdered his family and plotted to pin the blame on his dead wife
AN Indian woman and her two children strangled with ligatures in their Dublin home. An abusive husband who ended his own life before he could face trial. And a…
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Episode 141: The mystery of Sharon Marshall and the horror of her tragic life
IT'S a mystery that spanned decades, full of fake identities, murders, and kidnappings.In April 1990, when Tonya Hughes was killed after a hit-and-run incident…
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Episode 140: The unsolved mystery of the Northern Irish newborn found dumped in a plastic bag
HIS career has seen him head up investigations into terrorism, corruption, human trafficking, drugs and homicide.The one-time head of Organised Crime for the…
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Episode 139: The dark secrets of Paul Moody - the disgraced ex-garda convicted of coercive control
Disgraced former garda Paul Moody lost his badge and his image as a womanising charmer when he pleaded guilty to coercive control against his ex-partner.The…
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Episode 138: The horror crimes of twisted child killer Robert Black
Convicted child killer Robert Black was caught when a curious postman turned his head to look at the unfamiliar van as it passed on his street and in those…
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Episode 137: The brutal murder of Mountjoy prisoner Robert O'Connor
The murder of Robbie O’Connor behind the walls of Mountjoy Jail has been a shocking and rare killing of an inmate in the Irish Prison System.Lured to a cell by…
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Episode 136: The life and crimes of sex trafficker 'Mucky' Marty Heaney
When journalist Hugh Jordan first exposed a Belfast taxi driver who’d offered his friend a job as a naked clearer he named him ‘Mucky Marty’.And 12 years on…
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Episode 135: The former rising star of Dublin GAA nabbed in €2.7m drugs bust
HE might appear to be just another drug dealer passing through the courts after he was nabbed with a consignment of cocaine.But the story of Patrick Casey…
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Episode 134: The targets of the Criminal Assets Bureau
From a notorious robber who splurged his loot on properties and a six-week Florida holiday, to a gangland criminal whose mammy tried to help get back his cash…
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Episode 133: What next for Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch after his failed bid for freedom
THROUGHOUT his life he was known as the greatest gangland player of all – a criminal who worked the system and always appeared to win.But now, Gerry ‘The Monk’…
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Episode 132: The death of feared loyalist terrorist Sam 'Skelly' McCrory
THEY remain Ireland’s most notorious loyalist terrorists, but 'Mad Dog' Johnny Adair and his right-hand man Sam ‘Skelly’ McCrory had been enjoying a retirement…
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Episode 131: The life and crimes of Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas
A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character dreamed up…
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Episode 130: The Mammy who helped cover-up for her killer son
Some mothers would do anything for their sons - and Sophie Kokkinos proved her loyalty when she took part in the killing of a man found burning in a London…
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Episode 129: The Coolock gangland war that claimed five lives
It was an explosion of violence that claimed five lives in a few months yet it is indicative of the new gangland where bullets do the talking.From the murder…
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Episode 128: The international police forces on the trail of the Kinahan cartel
THE US Sanctions on the Kinahan organised crime group and the $5million rewards for the capture of the 'Dapper Don', Christy Kinahan Snr and his criminal sons…
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Episode 127: The mystery Irishman suspected of running New Zealand's biggest drug racket
He has been described as one of New Zealand’s most wanted fugitives, accused of masterminding one of the country’s largest shipments of methamphetamine in…
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Episode 126: Ghislaine Maxwell - Epstein's innocent servant or the master manipulator?
Ghislaine Maxwell was the queen of the London social scene and would later mix with New York’s elite, courting billionaires, presidents and celebrities.Her…
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Episode 125: The unsolved mystery of the Shenandoah Park murders
It was a backpacking adventure that would become an unsolved cold case murder that has haunted Shenadoah National Park in Virginia since 1996, when hikers…
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Episode 124: Two years after the Encrochat hack - how many of gangland's big players have been brought to justice?
The Encrochat phonehack was described as a game changer for law enforcement in its fight against organised crime - and two years on the criminal cases are…
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Episode 123: The young guns striking fear on the streets of Dublin
A third assassination attempt on the life of convicted drug dealer Gary ‘The Canary’ Carey along with rising tensions in a volatile Dublin feud are stretching…
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Episode 122: The body in the barrel and the secrets of the Las Vegas lake
THE water level at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas has been concerning environmentalists for years as the effects of global warming threatens water supply to…
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Episode 121: The New York murderer who wants to move to Ireland (Part 2)
MEET the man convicted of murdering his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend — who now wants to move to Ireland.Dempsey Lewis, formally known as Dempsey Hawkins, was…
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Episode 120: The New York murderer who wants to move to Ireland
MEET the man convicted of murdering his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend — who now wants to move to Ireland.Dempsey Lewis, formally known as Dempsey Hawkins, was…
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Episode 119: The story of Joe Joyce jnr - bare-knuckle boxer to slash-hook killer
He is the bareknuckle boxer from a long line of champions - but it will a lifetime before he gets back to fighting.Joe Joyce Jnr said he was only defending…
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Episode 118: The rise of 'The Gypsy King' Tyson Fury and his ties to Daniel Kinahan
He's the world heavyweight boxing champ who has just been refused entry to the US as a result of sanctions levelled against the Kinahan Organised Crime…
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Crime World Long Read: The twisted secrets of sadistic killer Graham Dwyer (Part 2)
He’s one of Ireland’s most sinister and twisted killers who groomed his vulnerable victim and gave her take a starring role in her own murder.In this two-part…
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Crime World Long Read: The twisted secrets of sadistic killer Graham Dwyer (Part 1)
He’s one of Ireland’s most sinister and twisted killers who groomed his vulnerable victim and gave her take a starring role in her own murder.In this two-part…
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Episode 117: Crime Con - where murder meets entertainment
IT'S a Mecca for true crime super fans, where detectives, lawyers and even podcasters become celebrities for a weekend and the public mix and mingle with faces…
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Episode 116: Michael Stone - a true Loyalist paramilitary or simply a violent psychopath?
He is one of the most notorious killers in the history of the North's Troubles, and when he staged a single-handed attack on a Provisional IRA funeral at…
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Episode 115: Mob boss Ridouan Taghi and the murder trial of journalist Peter R. De Vries
The trial for two men charged with the murder of celebrity Dutch journalist Peter R. De Vries has heard of the text messages sent between the hit team and an…
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Episode 114: How I helped crack the case of the infamous 'Golden State Killer'
Retired detective Paul Holes knows just what it is like to immerse himself in a murder mystery. It was his work on the infamous 'Golden State Killer' case…
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Episode 113: The 'Lifers' behind bars in Irish prisons
They are the killers and rapists deemed so dangerous that they are serving life sentences behind bars.But what does life mean in Ireland, and while the…
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Episode 112: The truth behind North Korea's cyber-crime gang 'The Lazarus Group'
It is a story that reads like the plot from a Hollywood movie and punches right into the heart of one of the most secretive regimes in the world.Hackers from…
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Episode 111: Lisa Smith's journey into the dark heart of Islamic terrorism
She is the former Irish soldier who, a court heard, enveloped herself in the black flag of IS.Now, Lisa Smith awaits her fate in the Special Criminal Court…
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Episode 110: 'Mr Flashy' and Dublin's dirty gang war
When drug dealer James Whelan was gunned down in Finglas, north Dublin, two months ago gardai braced themselves for an explosion of violence and tit-for-tat…
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Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 3)
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target. A…