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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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Crime World Extra: Last Days Of Freedom For Daniel Kinahan
He once enjoyed a lifestyle fit for a Sultan in Dubai but now Daniel Kinahan is running scared in his desert bolthole as his €2 million per month mafia wage…
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Episode 42: The Two Norries - The extraordinary tale of two reformed Cork drug addicts
For countless young men and women living with addiction each day is a chaotic tapestry of crime, drug taking and violence. The well-worn paths to prison and…
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Crime World Extra: The Arrest Of Kinahan-Linked Mafia Boss Raffaele Imperiale
Considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives, suspected of being a boss of the Camorra mafia and the one-time owner of two stolen Van Gogh masterpieces…
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Episode 41: The criminal gangs behind the illegal puppy farming market
Puppy farming has become a multi-million euro business, and thanks to the huge demand in the UK, Ireland has become a major player in the market. But much of…
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Crime World Extra: The dramatic capture of Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch
His arrest is the latest chapter in the extraordinary saga of Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch, regarded as one of Ireland’s most wily criminals. In prison in Madrid…
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Episode 40: The reformed dope dealer who lifted the lid on the international drugs trade
HE was the ‘geek’ who ended up in prison after becoming a college drug dealer - but now Niko Vorobyov has made it his mission to get to the heart of the global…
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Episode 39: The dark tales of murder and mayhem from a tabloid crime journalist
He’s 30 years covering tales of murder and once began his day being briefed on the nightly body count of New York city, where he knocked on doors and…
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Episode 38: The changing face of Northern Ireland's underworld
It was once a clearly divided underworld where paramilitary groups ruled with fear in a strictly organised way. There were rules, sides and an unwritten code…
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Crime World Extra: Killer Dave Mahon and the tragedy of the Fitzpatrick family
Killer Dave Mahon walked free from prison this week after serving five years for the manslaughter of his stepson, 23-year-old Dean Fitzpatrick, who he knifed…
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Crime World Extra: When the business of crime takes centre stage on the church altar
It’s a time for celebration and a place to remember the values and morals which shape an individual’s journey through life. But sometimes funerals can be…
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Episode 37: The haunting case of missing Mayo woman Sandra Collins
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: Notorious gangland criminal Brian Rattigan to be released
He headed up one side of two notorious feuding gangs that claimed 15 lives in 10 years in Ireland’s first cocaine war. And even behind bars Brian Rattigan…
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Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'
A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal, which landed in Rotterdam, was seized at the port after an intelligence-led operation headed up by Irish gardai…
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Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'
A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal which landed in Rotterdam was seized at the port after an intelligence-led operation headed up by Irish gardai…
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Episode 36: The ex-LA cop who claims Marilyn Monroe was poisoned by Bobby Kennedy
It’s a tale made for the big screen – a Hollywood starlet threatening to expose an illicit love affair, a missing diary revealing a web of intrigue from a…
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Crime World Extra: The murder of journalist Peter R. De Vries and the case against Ridouan Taghi
Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries died in hospital yesterday, a week after he was shot on a busy Amsterdam street in an attack which has drawn outrage…
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Crime World Extra: The warring factions behind the Drogheda gangland feud
It’s just three years since a hitman attempted to murder gang boss Owen Maguire, leaving him paralysed and dividing a town’s underworld into two feuding sides…
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Episode 35: Ireland's war on drugs - should we legalise cannabis and cocaine?
It may seem like a simple solution to the war on drugs – legalise weed and cocaine, regulate the market and then tax the profits. This week, 100 youth workers…
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Crime World Extra: The Cold-Blooded Shooting Of Dutch Crime Journalist Peter R. De Vries
Politicians, police and media colleagues in The Netherlands have been horrified by the shooting of famous crime journalist Peter R. De Vries, who was gunned…
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Crime World Extra: Trouble in paradise for mob boss Daniel Kinahan
Mob boss Daniel Kinahan has been keeping his head down in Dubai since a BBC Panorama documentary catapulted him and his links to boxing into the spotlight last…
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Episode 34: Drug mule Michaella McCollum and the case of the 'Peru Two'
She was the teenage drug mule who became a household name and when she was jailed in Peru for attempting to smuggle 11 kilos of cocaine to Ibiza her fame was…
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Crime World Extra: The search for answers in the death of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohoe
It’s the case that has baffled Northern Ireland - and on the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the body of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohue in a drain, it…
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Crime World Extra: The mobsters behind the Kinahan murder plot of James 'Mago' Gately
His guilty plea has meant little evidence of Peadar Keating's role in a plot to kill will ever be heard. But behind the headlines lies one of the Kinahan…
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Episode 33: True crime junkies - what intrigues us about violence, fear and gruesome death?
It’s the most popular genre for book lovers, podcasters and even documentary makers, with a growing audience who love all things true crime. But what is it…
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Crime World Extra: A Bumper Year For The Criminal Assets Bureau
Three residential properties, one city centre business premises and one million of stolen crypto currency isn’t bad for a day's work at the Criminal Assets…
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Crime World Extra: How Turkish Mafia & 'The Family' Crime Gang Plotted To Flood Ireland With Heroin
They were part of a plot to flood Ireland with heroin, but when the Turkish mafia formed an alliance with the gang known as 'The Family' things didn’t work out…
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Episode 32: The horrifying crimes of Maddie McCann suspect Christian Brueckner
He’s the oddball German drifter suspected of abducting and murdering Madeleine McCann in 2007 who has now been identified by Irish woman Hazel Behan as…
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Crime World Extra: The Unsolved Murder Of Michaela McAreavey
The murder of newly-married Michaela McAreavey on the honeymoon island of Mauritius is one of the most high-profile, unsolved cases in the world. Yet still, 10…
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Crime World Extra: Declan Brady - the gangland 'Mr Nobody' who laundered the Kinahan cartel cash
He was the unknown face in the crowd spotted by Garda officers as they poured over footage and images of mourners at the funeral of Regency Hotel murder victim…
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Episode 31: Hakan Ayik - the criminal who accidentally helped the FBI smash a global crime network
Just 24 hours before news broke of the ANOM phone hack, the newsroom of the New Zealand Herald got a tip-off that there was a raid on the properties of known…
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Crimeworld Extra: How The FBI hacked the ANOM phone network in the world's greatest crime sting
Hot on the heels of the Encrochat and Sky ECC takedowns, criminals are again counting the costs of their so called ‘bullet proof’ mobile phone systems. The…
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Crimeworld Extra: The Marengo Crime Trial, Ridouan Taghi and the links to Daniel Kinahan
It’s the Netherlands' trial of the century, with infamous underworld boss Ridouan Taghi in the dock along with 16 of his men who face accusations relating to…
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Episode 30: 'Fat' Andy Connors And The Controversial Home He Called 'The Ranch'
‘Fat’ Andy Connors was part of a notorious burglary gang that terrorised Ireland for years, robbing elderly people in their homes and often using horrendous…
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Crimeworld Extra: The final blow against the 'Byrne Organised Crime Gang'
The home of senior Kinahan lieutenant Liam Byrne has just been put on the on the market for just €400,000 after it was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau…
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Episode 29: The Life And Crimes Of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson
CARTEL killer Freddie Thompson organised the murder of 'easy target' David ‘Daithi’ Douglas to bulk up the mob’s body count in Dublin and impress his…
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Crimeworld Extra: The Notorious Criminal Behind The Blanchardstown Shootout
The chaotic life of gangland thug Daniel Goulding came to an abrupt and dramatic finale when he walked quietly from his Blanchardstown home two hours after a…
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Crimeworld Extra: The Rise And Fall Of Kinahan Cartel Boss Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh
Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh is facing a tonne of misery in the UK after a recent court appearance heard that he is to be sentenced in relation to an incredible…
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Episode 28: My life banged up next door to IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the H-Block
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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Crimeworld Extra: The Shadowy Cyber Criminals Behind The HSE Hack
The shadowy 'Wizard Spider' gang behind the HSE hack - who are they and what has motivated them to attack our health service? Senior cyber security expert Rob…
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Episode 27: The Merseyside Mobster who flooded the UK and Ireland with Cocaine
He is one of Europe's most-notorious drug dealers who flooded the UK and Ireland with cocaine and heroin until he was nabbed in 1996. While behind bars…
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Crimeworld Extra: Ireland's war on drugs and the communities that bear the cost
Criminologist Trina O'Connor speaks to Nicola Tallant about the drug dealing at Oliver Bond flats in Dublin's south inner-city. She details how the community…
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Crimeworld Extra: The Kinahan Cartel's Inner-City Drugs Supermarket
CRACK cocaine dealers are running an open drugs supermarket in the flat complex where mob boss Daniel Kinahan grew up. This week, a Sunday World investigation…
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Episode 26: The Man Who Has Come Face To Face With The World's Most-depraved Serial Killers
He’s the UK’s number-one true crime author who made his name from his conversations with serial killers. But what made former Royal Marine Christopher…
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Episode 25: The Encrochat phone hack and why no one has been busted in Ireland
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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Extra- The former SF councillor charged with the murder of David Byrne
One week after three men were charged in connection with the Regency Hotel attack and a European Arrest Warrant was issued for Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch, a former…
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Crimeworld Extra - The Europe-wide hunt For Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch
Following the news that a European Arrest Warrant has been issued for Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch in relation to the Regency Hotel attack in 2016, Nicola Tallant…
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Episode 23: The child street soldiers of Ireland's crime gangs
They are the kids who become the soldiers of the criminal gangs. Plucked from the streets and troubled homes, they are groomed to become drug dealers…
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Crimeworld Extra - The Ridouan Taghi Trial
THE trial of violent Dutch-Moroccan gangster Ridouan Taghi, whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, the Italian mafia and Eastern European gangs formed a…
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Episode 22: The organised crime gangs behind Ireland's seedy vice trade
This week Crime World looks at Ireland's multi-million euro vice trade and the ruthless organised crime gangs and pimps who control the women selling sex…
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Crimeworld Extra - The Molly Martens Retrial
This week, Tom and Molly Martens were freed from prison in the US after they were granted bail pending a retrial in the case of the murder of Limerick dad of…
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Episode 21: The Wilsons - Ireland's most feared clan of killers for hire
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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Episode 20: 'I married a psychopathic bigamist, con man and sex offender'
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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Episode 19: The Black Widow
She is the self-professed gangsters' moll who married a mobster and then wound up in prison for life for the murder of her hard-man lover. But Linda Calvey has…
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Episode 18: The man who brought down Whitey Bulger and exposed the feared mobster as an FBI informer
BOSTON gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s role as an FBI informant is a lesson for police forces across the world in how NOT to handle their touts. Brian Kelly…
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Episode 17: The Moroccan drug lord, the Kinahan mob and the rise of the European super-cartel
He’s the violent gangster whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, Italian mafiosa and Eastern European gangs formed a European super cartel. But Dutch Moroccan…
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Episode 16: The American guns fuelling the deadly Mexican Cartels and drug wars
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 15: The low-level criminals and hit squads behind the Hutch-Kinhahan feud
The drug addicts, drop-outs and drifters behind the Hutch-Kinahan murder cells. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 14: New Zealand's drug war and the rise of the biker gangs
New Zealand is the envy of the world but it’s also the most expensive place on earth to buy cocaine and meth, which has fuelled the rise of a dangerous…
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Episode 13: How the Rathkeale Rovers became the scourge of Europe
Fake covid tests, antique treasures and the theft of precious rhino horns. How the Rathkeale Rovers left their spiritual home in Limerick to become a…
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Episode 12: Ireland's five-year war on organised crime
She started her career as a rookie cop on one of Ireland’s first drug units, chasing down heroin dealers like Tony ‘King Scum’ Felloni. Now she is the Chief in…