In an era where sensationalism often trumps substance, the True Crime Reporter® podcast offers a bracing alternative—a meticulously crafted, investigative lens focused on the intricacies and nuances of criminal cases that grip public consciousness. Created and hosted by Robert Riggs, a Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter based in Dallas, Texas, the podcast peels back the layers of high-profile criminal investigations, offering an unprecedented level of detail and insight. True Crime Reporter® is not merely a recitation of facts and timelines. Drawing upon exclusive interviews with experts, from law enforcement agents to forensic psychologists, Riggs dives into the complexity and gravity of each case. He explores not just the "what" and the "who" but the often elusive "why" behind criminal acts, meticulously unraveling the sociopolitical threads that often inform them. The narrative richness of the podcast is underscored by its ethical rigor. Riggs goes beyond the superficial to offer a humanized portrait of both victims and perpetrators, challenging listeners to confront their preconceptions and biases...
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episode 71: Inside the Dark World of a Prison Hitman: Inmate Bomb Assassin
The reputed prison gang hitman held a hoe while weeding the warden's vegetable garden at a maximum security unit in East Texas.
Although he claimed to be out of the gang -- there's no such thing, it's blood in, blood out -- I asked how you could make a bomb behind bars.
He grinned and slowly tilted his head down. He tapped his foot on a bag of fertilizer and said, "I knew about the explosive properties of ammonium nitrate long before those boys in Oklahoma City...
episode 72: Rise And Fall Of A Pro Pitcher: From the Bull Pen To The Texas Pen
The high school baseball player hung a homemade motivational sign on the wall of his bedroom. It read Brandon Puffer will be a Major League Baseball player.
Indeed, Puffer made it to what ballplayers call “The Show.”
Only to fall from the Bullpen to the State Penitentiary in Texas.
Brandon Puffer was a pitcher on the Boston Red Sox baseball team when they broke a century-old curse and won the World Series in 2004...
episode 73: NCIS From Evidence to Arrest: Analyzing Murder Cases Step by Step
If you are a fan of the NCIS television drama, you are in for a treat.
My guest is homicide investigator Joe Kennedy, a former Special Agent for the real-life NCIS.
In this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast, I lift the crime scene tape for Joe Kennedy to take you inside the anatomy of murder cases.
He's written a book titled Solving Cold Cases: Investigation Techniques and Protocol.
This is the first of a two-part series featuring Kennedy...
episode 74: NCIS Confidential: Solving Real-Life Cold Cases To Catch Killers
Former NCIS Special Agent Joe Kennedy established the first federal cold case homicide unit.
Starting in 1986 with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), Kennedy investigated crimes involving sailors and marines around the world.
In this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast, I take you inside the crime scene tape to hear about cold cases from a legendary member of the agency popularized by Hollywood...
episode 75: Flipping Off Angry Drivers Can Get You Killed On US Highways
Road rage violence shatters records on US Highways. Experts say a perfect storm of post-pandemic anger and violent criminals out of jail due to liberal bail practices has set off a wave of deadly road rage shootings.
Retired Houston Police Captain Greg Fremin tracks the growing carnage at Sam Houston State’s College of Criminal Justice.
The numbers have run off the highway as stressed-out, violent drivers turn their rage into the wild wild west on American highways...
episode 76: Death On Two Wheels: Everyone Wants A Piece Of The Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
A violent war for control of illicit drugs and weapons leaves a deadly trail of bullets and blood across highways in the U.S. Southwest.
It started eight years ago in a hail of gunfire between the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang and the Cossacks at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas.
The violence escalated starting in May of 2023 leaving dead bodies on an interstate highway in Texas, at a biker bar in Oklahoma City, and at a once peaceful bike rally in New Mexico...
episode 77: China, Mexico, and Fentanyl: A Recipe for U.S. Security Threats
Former Mexican counter-narcotics officer Ed Calderon predicts a day of reckoning.
If you were a fan of Narcos or Sicario, brace yourself to hear the real story about what’s happening south of the U.S. border.
Ed Calderon is a man who should not be alive. He fled death threats and now lives in the United States, where he is a security consultant...
episode 78: Cartels Offered a Choice Between Two Evils: Take The Silver or Take the Lead.
Ed Calderon says the incomplete wall on the U.S. Southern border with Mexico is like Swiss cheese.
"It won't stop any of the growing threats posed by the Mexican drug cartels," he says.
Ed Calderon spent a dozen years working in counter-narcotics and organized crime investigations in the northern border region of Mexico...
episode 79: Mexican Cartels Use The Occult To Indoctrinate Child Soldiers
Free from Mexican narco's occult witchcraft, Ed Calderon savors the American experience.
Calderon fled Mexico with this three-year-old daughter when he had to choose between working for a cartel in his police uniform or getting assassinated.
I’m back with my third and final episode interviewing Ed Calderon.
Calderon found refuge in America with help from a Navy Seal.
Today he works as a security consultant...
episode 80: Defusing Tension in 90 Seconds: A Game Changer for Inmates and the Public
Doug Noll says murderers are not born, they're bred. Today kids revert to what they see around them...violence.
Doug Noll founded the Prison of Peace Project. Noll teaches hardcore inmates how to de-escalate an angry, emotional person in 90 seconds or less.
It’s a skill that we can all benefit from learning in this era of violence.
Hello, this is Robert Riggs taking you inside the crime scene tape in this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast...