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Crime World
Hit podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld - now with further in-depth investigations and exclusive insights at our new website crimeworld.com.
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Episodes
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Episode 63: The spectacular downfall of Celtic Tiger playboy Jim Mansfield jnr
He was the playboy prince of the Celtic Tiger era and lived it up in a luxury mansion frequented by top models and socialites. But businessman Jim Mansfield…
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Episode 62: The two faces of Kinahan hitman-for-hire Alan Wilson
He’s the hitman for hire who claims to have turned his life around - and nowadays Alan Wilson says he is writing poetry and staying away from his former gang…
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Episode 61: Why the fallout from the murder of Keane Mulready Woods still threatens a community
It was a brutal gangland murder that made headlines across the world. Now, two years on from the murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready Woods, it seems an uneasy…
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Episode 60: CAB target Jonathan Gill and his new 'dispute-solving' business
He is a well known Criminal Assets Bureau target who was once put on trial for a tiger kidnapping, but Dubliner Jonathan Gill has now launched a new venture as…
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Episode 59: The most brutal 24-hour period in the North's troubled past
In Northern Ireland’s troubled past there have been hundreds of atrocities and thousands of lives lost - but one 24-hour period stands out as the most brutal…
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Crime World Extra: 'I married a psychopathic bigamist, con man and sex offender' (re-post)
Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would…
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Crime World Extra: The Ghislaine Maxwell guilty verdict and what next for Prince Andrew?
It’s been an unhappy New Year for former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell as she faces up to 65 years behind bars But, as the dust settles on her sensational…
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Crime World Extra: A stolen masterpiece and an unlikely thief (re-post)
Detective Anthony Amore tracks down stolen art and follows clues all over the world hunting priceless masterpieces which have been snatched by thieves. Today…
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Crime World Extra: The Wilsons - Ireland's most feared clan of killers for hire (re-post)
John, Keith, Alan, Eric and Luke Wilson were once Ireland’s most feared gangland family who terrorised the underworld and threatened the pillars of the State…
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Crime World Extra: The haunting case of missing Mayo woman Sandra Collins (repost)
It’s a missing person’s case that has cast a dark shadow over a small town in County Mayo where the haunting face of Sandra Collins stares out from posters…
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Crime World Extra: The Ghislaine Maxwell trial update
The jury in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has adjourned for the Christmas holidays with the fate of the infamous New York socialite hanging in the balance…
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Crime World Extra: My life banged up next to IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the H-Block (re-post)
Forty years ago this month, 21-year-old Jake Mac Siacais cried in his H-Block cell as his friend Bobby Sands died on hunger strike. Jake had been in the next…
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Crime World Extra: The American guns fuelling the deadly Mexican Cartels and drug wars (re-post)
Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold weapons in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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Episode 58: 2021 - The Crime Year In Review
It's been a year of takedowns and the end of the line for many. And while 2021 closes on a high note for gardai fighting organised crime, it has left many…
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Crime World Extra: The Encrochat phone hack and why no one has been busted in Ireland (re-post)
It was the phone hack that rocked the underworld and led to thousands of arrests and record breaking seizures of drugs, guns and dirty money. Yet, Ireland has…
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Crime World Extra: An award-winning year of true crime coverage
So we did it – we got through our first year on Crime World and managed to bag the 'Podcast of the Year' award along the way. It’s been a whirlwind 12 months…
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Episode 57: The Mr Moonlight murder and Patrick Quirke's failed bid for freedom
It was the trial that lifted a lid on sex and lust in rural Ireland and revealed the secrets of a small Tipperary village. When farmer Patrick Quirke received…
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Crime World Extra: The shameless lifestyle of €2m fraudster Julie McBrien
She was a fraudster who almost bankrupted the tight-knit company she worked for, and with the £1.9million she stole from Northern Mouldings Limited she lived a…
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Crime World Extra: The sordid tales behind the Ghislaine Maxwell trial
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in New York is finally underway after years of allegations about her relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and claims…
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Episode 56: Is prison the holiday camp many people believe it to be?
They spent years in the prison system for a string of offences linked to their chronic addiction problems, but today James Leonard and Timmy Long are podcast…
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Crime World Extra: The sex offenders stalking our streets
New legislation which introduces the tagging of sex offenders will now deal with the complex issues of releasing rapists and child abusers back into the…
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Crime World Extra: Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and his battle with the Special Criminal Court
Veteran criminal Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has been given permission to take a High Court challenge against the jurisdiction of the Special Criminal Court to hear…
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Episode 55: Face to face with wife killer Joe O'Reilly
When killer Joe O’Reilly bludgeoned his wife Rachel to death at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin, in October 2004 he thought he’d get away with murder. But…
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Crime World Extra: The failed gangland hit that brought down the Kinahan cartel
It was planned as the Kinahan Mafia’s trophy kill, with only Daniel Kinahan and Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh's most trusted circle of lieutenants privy to the…
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Crime World Extra: Is Graham Dwyer's murder conviction about to be overturned?
Ireland’s mobile phone data retention systems are under the spotlight and European legal experts have warned they may have breached the law. Now, killer Graham…
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Episode 54: The rise and spectacular fall of the Sean Quinn empire
He was the one-time billionaire and the pride of his native Cavan, where a generation of workers shared the spoils of his success. Businessman Sean Quinn was…
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Crime World Extra: 20 Years Of The PSNI in Northern Ireland
A vision for a new police force in Northern Ireland 20 years after Chris Patten’s ground-breaking report identified a need for a 50-50 recruitment policy for…
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Crime World Extra: Davy Tweed - the evil monster behind the legend
He was a towering Ulster rugby star who won four caps for Ireland in the mid 1990s and went on to forge a political career as an ultra-conservative unionist…
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Episode 53: The Downfall of Queen of Con - Marianne 'Mair' Smyth
When Irish heiress Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth walked in the door of Jonathan Walton’s LA apartment neither of them could have guessed what lay ahead. For reality TV…
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Crime World Extra - The Kevin Lunney Kidnapping Case
He was the violent enforcer of Slieve Rusheen who operated with impunity for more than eight years terrorising ‘traitors’ who turned on the mighty Sean Quinn…
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Crime World Extra: Prison Contraband and a Kinahan cartel party behind bars
A Kinahan mob prison party to celebrate the birthday of a dangerous criminal is held behind bars in an Irish jail. An inmate uses his smart phone to upload a…
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Episode 52: The final days of the once-notorious Ballymun Towers
It was the greatest social housing disaster in Ireland’s history - one which promised new beginnings for countless tenement families but instead became ground…
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Crime World Extra: The sorry end of once-powerful gangland 'fixer' John Traynor
He was the gangland fixer known as 'The Coach' and for decades he tried to play the criminal underworld, police and the media. Criminal John Traynor dreamed of…
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Crime World Extra: How Australia's biggest drug cartel was brought to its knees
It was a sensational blow to organised crime - and when Australia’s Federal Police joined forces with the FBI to create a phone network to infiltrate drug…
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Episode 51: Philip Cairns - The boy who never came home
He was the boy who never came home – the teenager whose innocent face has haunted generations of Irish parents. Now, the disappearance of schoolboy Philip…
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Crime World Extra: The dramatic takedown of Colombia's most notorious drug lord
It’s been described as the biggest blow against the Colombian drug cartels since the famous takedown of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s. Seven years since he was…
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Crime World Extra: The life and extraordinary death of Northern Ireland drugs baron Noel Johnston
He was the notorious drug dealer who introduced heroin to his hometown of Ballymena, County Antrim. And after a lifetime of staying one step ahead of the law…
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Episode 50: The rise of Narco terrorism in The Netherlands
A journalist shot dead on the street. A criminal lawyer assassinated on the doorstep of his Amsterdam home and the brother of a state witness gunned down as a…
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Crime World Extra: The bloody past of critically ill gang boss Cornelius Price
He is due to face kidnap charges later this year in the UK and has been a central and violent figure in the Drogheda feud - but it seems gang boss Cornelius…
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Crime World Extra: The hunt for on-the-run prisoner and gangland heavyweight Johnny Mangan
He is a gangland heavyweight serving time for drugs and weapon offences and was once named in court as the triggerman in the murder of mob boss Martin 'Marlo'…
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Episode 49: The murder of Sunday World journalist Marty O'Hagan - 20 years on
It’s been 20 years since Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan was murdered on a Lurgan pavement as he walked home from a pub with his wife Marie. Known…
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Crime World Extra: The life and crimes of Kinahan Cartel mobster Graham 'The Wig' Whelan
Convicted drug dealer Graham ‘The Wig’ Whelan is facing jail after pleading guilty to a number of offences relating to his arrest at a luxury Dublin hotel…
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Crime World Extra: The horror of Ireland's sex slave trade
They are the first people in Ireland to be convicted of human trafficking for a prostitution ring and now Alicia Edosa and Edith Enoghaghase are finding out…
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Episode 48: The former FBI agent on the trail of missing Annie McCarrick
A FORMER FBI agent working with the family of missing Annie McCarrick has said that a Spanish serial killer arrived in Dublin as a stowaway on a boat 48 hours…
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Crime World Extra: Why new DNA evidence could finally solve the 'Kerry Baby' murder case
It’s the 37-year murder mystery that has haunted Ireland and remains the biggest policing scandal in modern history. A dead baby washes up on a Kerry beach…
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Crime World Extra: Anthony Flynn and the sexual assault accusations that rocked a homeless charity
It was a charity set up to respond to Dublin’s homeless crises and to provide food and shelter to the most vulnerable. But now the Inner City Helping Homeless…
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Episode 47: The Horror Of Life Under The Brutal Taliban System of Justice
The news reports from Afghanistan are becoming more concerning by the day as Taliban militants return to their own rule of law with barbaric punishments…
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Crime World Extra: The moment Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch touched down to face Regency murder charge
Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch is back in an Irish prison for the first time in nearly 40 years after he was flown on a military jet into Baldonnel Aerodrome from…
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Crime World Extra: The Murder Of Gabby Petito - the case that has rocked America
It’s a murder mystery that has divided America, pitted armchair sleuths against seasoned detectives and turned a spotlight on how the media treats victims of…
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Crime World Extra - Criminal Godfather Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch
He has lost in his bid to halt extradition attempts in a Spanish court and now Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch must come home to Ireland and finally face the music. Six…
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Episode 46: The crime gangs and smugglers on the Irish Border
The tag ‘Bandit Country’ was long used for what was once described as lawless ‘South Armagh’. But times have changed and now the towns situated along the…
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Crime World Extra: The Rathkeale Rovers And The Rhino Horn Traffickers
A French court has convicted a gang of eight men including four members of the Rathkeale Rovers Organised Crime group for trafficking rhino horn and ivory…
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Crime World Extra: The Burglary Gang That Terrorised The Nation
In life they formed a prolific burglary gang that terrorised the country and made use of the motorway system as a getaway route. Criminals Graham Taylor, Karl…
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Episode 45: The Molly Martens Murder Files
He suffered a brutal death at the hands of his wife and her former FBI agent dad, but the path to justice for Jason Corbett’s family has been far from clear…
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Crime World Extra: Terror on the streets as two of Ireland's most-feared inmates walk free from jail
They are two of Ireland’s most-dangerous offenders but both have just walked free from jail and are now living amongst communities. Celyn Eadon stabbed his…
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Crime World Extra: The Gangs Of Limerick
It was once a city under siege where ruthless gangs and one notorious family ruled with fear and intimidation. But a massive crackdown on crime, followed by an…
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Episode 44: The Art Detective And James Bond’s Aston Martin
He’s the art detective who hunts stolen masterpieces and who re-unites works of art with their rightful owners years after they have been looted. From lost…
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Crime World Extra: The Lone Wolf ISIS Attacker Radicalised In An Armchair
A UN report released earlier this summer estimates that thousands of ISIS fighters have poured into Afghanistan where Taliban rule may once again provide a…
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Crime World Extra: The Ship Nabbed With 20 Tonnes Of Cocaine
The seizure of 20 tonnes of cocaine on board the MSC Gayane at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia two years ago remains the largest in US customs…
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Episode 43: The Witness - The Story Of Joey 'The Lips' O'Callaghan
State witness Joseph O’Callaghan gave up his name and his old life when he gave evidence against gangland killers Brian Kenny and Thomas Hinchon. Following…