In the 1870s,  thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Some of those people are still famous today.   
"Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner . 
Wyatt Earp -  the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals.
Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed  killed only six people in gunfights.
And there was another person... 
A man whose identity was a mystery until current-day investigators got to work... 
Their trail involved forensic dentistry, genealogy, and, good, old-fashioned detective work to trace the identity of an unknown man dead for over one-hundred-and-twenty years. 

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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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The pirates of the 1700s  were democrats. 
Their ships were crammed with men, and women, of all kinds of cultures. 
Many were former slaves. 
Others were indigenous natives. 
Others were our fore-parents escaping a lifetime of servitude as agricultural serfs.

The pay level between a common sailor and a captain on a pirate ship was only twice as much. However, that pay could be massive. Edward "Black Beard" Teach was worth $12 million. Captain John Bowen, a Creole pirate was worth $40 million.  But the greatest of them all was Black Sam Bellamy - 300 years later, Forbes magazine would estimate that "Black Sam" was the richest pirate of all time.

And then "Black Sam" sailed into a dark and stormy night off the coast of Cape Cod and the legends began...

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It's the world's oldest profession.  

Sex workers, prostitutes, and the pimps who live off them have been around since the dawn of time. There are mentions of them in the Code of Hammurabi. The dusty case files of medieval Europe talk about them constantly.  There are references to them in Victorian literature from Charles Dickens' Nancy and Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist to the drunken orgies of the Russian military officers and gypsy girls in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.

However, in the 21st century there is, of course, a high tech spin to a very old issue.

OnlyFans is spoken of as the 'Uber of sex work'. A disruptive social media platform that purportedly allows sex workers to communicate and make money from their customers without the dangerous control of their pimps.

Unlikely female allies have hailed the site as 'self-esteem conferring'.  An Australian model raised $1 million to help fight forest fires by posting nude photos of herself. And then the Disney star Bella Thorne made over $1 million in one day by promising to do the same thing. 

However, there's a dark side to this new phenomenon.  Critics are claiming that far from saving people from exploitation, human trafficking and underage harm sites  like OnlyFans are doing the exact opposite.

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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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I am the watcher on the walls. I'm the shield that guards, the realms of men. I pledged my life and honor to the night's watch for this night and all the nights to come. 

How do you stop a crime that has not happened yet? 
How do you figure out how some assassin will strike before they've actually done so? 

This is the essential conundrum of the American Secret Service. They are the men and women who guard the US President and other important public figures in America.  To be clear, they're not for a particular party, they're not Democrat nor Republican. They protect the representative of the people, whoever it is. They are like the Game of Thrones' Nightwatch. The guard the realm and they do so with their very lives. 

In today's episode, we'll talk about various assassination attempts, some successful, some failed, on US political figures.  In almost all of them the forgotten figure was a Secret Service agent, who knowing there was danger, stepped in front of bullets and knives for the person they were protecting.  Their names have been almost all forgotten, except within that small band of watchers who guard the realm... 

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Host Declan Hill is interviewed about his work investigating corruption and organized crime in sports. 

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A serial sexual predator was on the loose across four states.   
Women and girls were being stalked, assaulted, and raped.  
The investigators had no idea how to solve the case until one morning they get a phone call that breaks it wide open... 

#TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #CrimeWaves #CrimeWavesPodcast

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Michael Franzese was a Mafia Capo in the Colombo Crime Family of New York.   In this episode of CrimeWaves, he explains how the Mob actually operates.  He speaks about the rules and "Code of the Mafia".  

How a mobster can survive and thrive in the criminal world and the greatest story of all -  how Franzese was able to get out of the Mafia - and still live. 

#Mafia, #themob #Lacosanostra #LCN #MichaelFranzese 

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It was a monumental stock fraud.

The "Wolf of Wall Street" ran a pump-and-dump operation that netted him and the other criminal leaders tens of millions of dollars.

They stole the money of pensioners, widows, and the poor. They bought themselves luxury yachts, expensive cars, and opulent mansions. They enjoyed a lifestyle of parties, strippers, and drugs.

No one stopped them. That is until Greg Coleman of the FBI got involved.

He, and his team, took down the Wolf.

On Crimewaves, Coleman tells the story and also gives tips on successful interviews, how to track criminals, and other investigative techniques.

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