
CrimeWaves
Declan Hill
Interviews with the best investigators in the world. Cut through the spin and straight to the stories at the heart of major criminal cases with the people who solved the cases. Hosted by international journalist and academic Declan Hill, produced by his students at the University of New Haven - Ryan Decker, Aiden van Batenburg, and others. www.crimewavespodcast.com Follow us at @declan_hill
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11/29/21 • 53 min
It was a killing that involved a Hollywood actress, one of the greatest musicians that America has ever produced, and a mystery that took almost 12 years two court trials and three legal appeals to resolve.
On February 2, 2003. Phil Spector, the man behind the Beatles album 'Let it Be’, John Lennon's 'Imagine', George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord', and countless other top music hits, left his Los Angeles mansion. He came back at midnight with a gorgeous blonde actress, Lana Clarkson. They got drunk. He played the piano, they sang. But at two o'clock in the morning, there was a single gunshot that echoed over the neighborhood. And then Phil Spector stepped out of the door and said, "I think I just shot her".
Or did he?
Because when the man known as America's modern-day Sherlock Holmes began to investigate, it was not so clear.
On CrimeWaves podcast - a master class with Dr. Henry C. Lee.
Dr Lee was the first pioneer of the linkage between DNA analysis and detective work. He is an expert in crime scene analysis and a superb investigator. He trains police forces around the world but, in this episode, he talks about this high-profile Hollywood crime case, the tragedy surrounding it and the attack on his professional reputation.
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John Gorman: The Crime With No Name
CrimeWaves
05/30/23 • 37 min
How do you solve a crime when there is no evidence?
How do you solve a crime in a world that doesn't even exist?
How do you solve a crime involving an NBA star, a computer hacker and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud that touches on every internet transaction that you ever do?
Welcome to the multi-billion dollar world of criminal Internet real estate.
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09/06/20 • 57 min
For the pilot episode of Crime Waves, we are joined by Karim Zidan (@ZidanSports), an investigative journalist who covers the dangerous world of sports, human rights and the mob.
Crime Waves is hosted by Declan Hill (@declan_hill), international best-selling author of THE FIX and THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO MATCH-FIXING IN FOOTBALL, journalist, and world expert on match-fixing and corruption in sport.
SHOW NOTES:
The guest:
Karim's website: karimzidan.com
Karim's articles:
https://muckrack.com/zidansports/articles
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/karim-zidan
The show: Learn more at www.crimewaves.com, you can follow the team on twitter at @declan_hill and @ericjohnkrebs
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01/27/25 • 45 min
The Head of the CIA has just announced - finally! - that Covid originated from the Wuhan Laboratory Complex.
Finally - because this is what we at CrimeWaves said three years ago. At that point, we were shadow banned and censored on both Twitter and LinkedIn at the time of broadcast.
This is the re-release of our series 'The Slow-Motion Chernobyl'. It tells the story of the origin of the disease in a ridiculously stupid playing-at-God scientific experiment, the shockingly bad conditions inside Chinese research labs and the world censorship that took in Hollywood, academic articles and book publishing.
This episode is particularly painful. It tells the story of the Chinese citizens who risked their lives to tell the truth about Covid.
The world has, largely, forgotten their sacrifices.
Listen and be shocked and moved by their courage.
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These are the photos of Chinese whistleblowers and citizen journalists.
All of them, and thousands more, have gone to prison camps because they wanted to bring you the truth about the appalling conditions in Wuhan during the early days of Covid.
We examine the massive Communist Chinese campaign of disinformation - The Big Lie. It stretches from the hospitals and laboratories of Wuhan, to Chinese prison-camps, to international film festivals, western social media companies and to the World Health Organization.
All to make sure there is little informed debate about why the Covid epidemic occurred and how we can stop from happening again.
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Michael Franzese: American Mobster
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05/18/21 • 74 min
Michael Franzese was a high-ranking mobster in the Colombo Crime Family, one of the big five families of the New York Mafia. His father was a hit man with dozens of kills.
Michael was making millions of dollars a week for the mob in a complicated gas tax fraud scheme across four different states.
At 26, the family made him a Capo with dozens of mobsters underneath him and an illegal sports gambling network worth tens-of-millions of dollars that had players, coaches and league officials all betting with the mob.
Michael Franzese joined us on CrimeWaves Podcast for the University of New Haven 2nd Annual Sports Integrity Presentation.
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Rampant and Regular Fixing
CrimeWaves
12/11/20 • 61 min
After listening to this podcast, you will never look at sport in the same way again.
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The Highway of Death
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02/06/25 • 37 min
They call it a serial killer's graveyard.
A lonely stretch of rural highway in Connecticut, where half a dozen women and a man were murdered and their bodies dumped.
It was a yesteryear story. A nightmare hanging over from the 1990s: unsolved, unresolved, and the killer still uncaught.
Until three years ago, when the same thing happened, a young woman's body was discovered in exactly the same place...
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08/15/23 • 39 min
This is the story of two skulls.
It's actually the mystery of two skulls and a long, extraordinary investigation to find the identity of two people.
It is a tale that features one of France's most famous explorers, pirates, shipwrecks, kidnappings, ambushes and, of course, murder...
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01/27/25 • 44 min
This week (January 2025) the CIA announced that they believe the origin of Covid came from a laboratory leak.
"Our intelligence, our science and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of Covid was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
Finally.
Three years after CrimeWaves released our series - The Slow-Motion Chernobyl.
These are episodes that we, at CrimeWaves Podcast are both very proud of - the research is in-depth, shocking and has been proven absolutely correct - and still traumatized. For this series and CrimeWaves was deliberately censored and shadowbanned by both Twitter/X and LinkedIn at the time of broadcast.
Please listen, you will hear nothing partisan, no personal or political attacks but it is the story of the greatest man-made plague in human history.
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It was a slow motion Chernobyl.
Here is what, the balance of probabilities tells us about the origins of this Covid epidemic that haunts us all.
It was the worst industrial accident in the history of humanity.
In general, Chinese laboratory technicians are so badly trained, so ill-paid and so mis-guided that some of them used to sell infected research animals to local butchers.
The specific virologists in Wuhan lab played God. They created super-virulent viruses, more powerful than anything natural.
Their methods like “finding a gas leak with a match”.
Their science so misguided nine years ago an academic warned of an 80% chance of a global epidemic.
When the near-inevitable leak came, they covered it up.
The Communist Chinese jailed anyone brave enough to warn the world.
The World Health Organization (WHO) helped them.
More than 12 million people have died and continue to die.
It could happen again.
On crimewavespodcast.com - we examine, in a special five-part series, the ‘Crime of the Century’ - how it occurred and how it was covered-up.
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04/01/25 • 42 min
With the announcement of US Attorney-General Pam Bondi releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents and the extraordinary trial of the ex-Senior JP Morgan & Barclay's Bank executive - Jes Staley - who exchanged "Snow White" e-mails with Epstein, we are releasing the much awaited final episodes of CrimeWaves investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein’s final days in prison.
We begin with the re-release our first five episodes investigating his death AND in the next two weeks, we will bring you three extraordinary new episodes.
Highlights:
-Cell doors were left unlocked in the Tier where Epstein was staying. Possible Murder.
-There was a “Ghost Count” on the night on his death: someone, somewhere among the correctional officers at the jail claimed that there was an extra person on the Wing with Epstein that night. Possible Murder.
-Two long-term drug dealers turned high-level cooperators who were on the Tier where Epstein was staying are convinced that the authorities got it right. Epstein did commit suicide.
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It is one of the most famous mysteries of our times.
In the summer of 2019, one of the richest men in America, Jeffrey Epstein, walked into a jail. He has been arrested for a widespread sexual trafficking network. He was connected with Presidents, politicians, billionaires and businessmen.
Thirty-five days later Epstein was dead in his cell.
Immediately, the government declares that he committed suicide.
Hundreds-of-millions of people around the world did not believe them.
There have been conspiracy theories, books, movies, Internet memes and rumours. What there has not been is any proper, thorough official investigation of how Jeffrey Epstein died.
Nor has anyone taken the time to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s closest relatives to find out their perspective on this important case.
Until now...
Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, was never involved in his lifestyle but after his death he was dragged into the inquiry. He speaks publicly and at length for the first time.
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FAQ
How many episodes does CrimeWaves have?
CrimeWaves currently has 58 episodes available.
What topics does CrimeWaves cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Mafia, True Crime, Murder, Organized Crime, Documentary and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on CrimeWaves?
The episode title 'The Jeffrey Epstein Files 3: David Schoen Interview' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on CrimeWaves?
The average episode length on CrimeWaves is 44 minutes.
How often are episodes of CrimeWaves released?
Episodes of CrimeWaves are typically released every 11 days, 16 hours.
When was the first episode of CrimeWaves?
The first episode of CrimeWaves was released on Sep 6, 2020.
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