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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Sarah Chayes is one courageous person. 
She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.   
She speaks  about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there and the corruption taking place in the United States. 

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You're standing over the body of a woman who's been murdered. She's been killed for loan sharking at a casino by organized crime mobsters. This is the price of blood. This is the thing that few people ever talk about when discussing money laundering, you know, the usual barking guff of expensive defense lawyers and their trained seals in the media

How financial crimes are victimless, administrative misdemeanor. Today, on crime waves, we are gonna examine how the bloody trail of cash linked to Mexican drug cartels and corrupt Chinese communist officials was laundered through Canadian casinos. It was a process that went on for over a decade. A lot of people knew about it, but no one did anything to.

And this week we have an expert on money laundering. Peter German, the former Deputy Commissioner of the Mounts, that's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. German produced two reports entitled “Dirty Money”, which revealed the depth of money laundering in the casino industry in Vancouver, Canada. Good morning, Peter.

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Robert Mazur is one of the greatest undercover agents in the history of American law enforcement.  He infiltrated, first, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar; and then, the Cali Cartel.  
The problem?
He would not give up.  Surrounded by mobsters, drug traffickers, and corrupt officials, Mazur kept going. 
On Crimewaves - the inside story of one of the biggest takedowns of drug dealers and their bankers ever. 

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It was a meeting of two American legends:  Wayne Newton, one of the greatest stars in Country music, and Dr. Henry C. Lee, the man they call the Sherlock Holmes of America.  

The subject of the meeting?  

To find the body of America’s greatest princess, missing for over four hundred years, Pocahontas. 

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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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