Crime World

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 be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns — and putting a stop to his endless deception.

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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 turned her own experiences in the underworld into the basis for her new career and as she launches her debut novel she insists that is thrilled to be finally making an honest living out of crime.

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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, the former US state prosecutor who was the lead counsel against Bulger, tells this week’s Crime World podcast that the mobster murdered at will, often using information leaked to him by his handlers.

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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 Ridouan Taghi is now facing the biggest showdown of his life as authorities in the Netherlands gear up for the high profile ‘Marengo’ trial expected to get to the heart of the powerful merger of Europe’s top mobs.

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Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold weapons in the US.

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The drug addicts, drop-outs and drifters behind the Hutch-Kinahan murder cells.

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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 underworld of biker gangs.
Journalist Jared Savage tells Crime World about the arrival of meth, the real-life Walter White and how Asian and Mexican cartels are now moving in for a slice of the action.

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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 multi-million mobile organised crime gang.

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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 charge of the Garda’s Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau – the unit responsible for bringing down the Kinahan mafia.

Detective Chief Superintendent Angela Willis talks about catching criminals, seizing drugs and reeling in the mobs.

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They are the a-listers of gangland – murderous twins whose faces are iconic images of the underworld. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were immortalised in movies, theatre, television and books but did their crimes match their celebratory? Or did they just get lucky.

Criminal lawyer and author James Morton untangles the real story of the Krays and separates fact from fiction.

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