FBI Files

In 1980, a bomb exploded inside the museum at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Five groups claimed responsibility. The FBI traced it to a Croatian nationalist network called Otpor — and spent years building a racketeering case that would dismantle its leadership. This is the story of the bombing, the extortion letters, and the RICO trial that followed. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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A 25-year-old mother wins $5,000 at a Mississippi casino and is abducted from a Memphis driveway hours later. The FBI finds a single wool fiber in a maroon Beretta, a casino surveillance tape, and a killer’s confession to his wife. This is the case that ended with a death sentence and a decades-long fight over marital privilege. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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A nationwide manhunt for two killers ends in a concrete culvert near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September 1994. Lewis Gilbert and Eric Elliott had left a trail of stolen cars and bodies across Ohio, Missouri and Oklahoma. This is the story of how the road ran out, and what happened in the courtrooms that followed. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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Four men having lunch at a historic Manhattan tavern in 1975 are killed by a bomb planted by the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group. The FBI identifies the chief bomb-maker, William Morales, but he loses his hands in an explosion, escapes from a hospital prison ward, and flees to Cuba. This is the story of the Fraunces Tavern bombing and the manhunt that never ended. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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For three days in February 2000, more than 100 officers, airplanes, and military helicopters searched the frozen plains of western Nebraska. Schools closed. A farmer was dead, and two officers had been shot.

The man they were looking for, Charles Lannis Moses Jr., a Texas survivalist wanted on warrants for probation violation and explosives, had vanished across the state line into Wyoming. It wasn't a SWAT team that ended the hunt. It was a rancher named Jim Kremers, his son, a standoff in a muddy yard, and a deal made at gunpoint.

This episode traces the shootout, the killing of farmer Robert Sedlacek, the manhunt across two states, and the surrender that ended it.

Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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In July 1985, three men drowned in the Miami River during what looked like a drug deal gone wrong. Then a night watchman said the men who stormed the boat yard were police officers.

The Miami River Cops, a group of officers nicknamed the Enterprise, shook down motorists, then went after boatloads of cocaine. In one night at Jones Boat Yard, they took between 350 and 400 kilos worth about $10 million, and three smugglers drowned trying to escape.

This episode traces how the FBI and local investigators caught them: a covert sting, a first trial that ended in a mistrial, an officer who turned witness, and the fugitive who ended up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Nearly 100 officers were arrested, fired, suspended, or reprimanded.

Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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He taught police officers how to catch money launderers. A federal jury concluded he was laundering drug money himself, and that when his wife threatened to expose him, he arranged her murder.

Fred Tokars was a respected Atlanta lawyer and former assistant district attorney. His wife, Sara, found documents about his offshore accounts and tax evasion, copied them, and left instructions to give them to the police if anything happened to her. In November of 1992, she was killed while driving home with their two young sons.

This episode traces the money-laundering network, the hired gunman, the documents that reached investigators within days, and the federal and state trials that ended in life sentences. Tokars always denied the crime.

Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes.

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A nationwide manhunt for two killers ends in a concrete culvert near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September 1994. Lewis Gilbert and Eric Elliott had left a trail of stolen cars and bodies across Ohio, Missouri and Oklahoma. This is the story of how the road ran out, and what happened in the courtrooms that followed. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes.

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In 1988, a 28-year-old record store manager was shot to death in his van outside an Ohio bank. The cash was still in the vehicle. Robbery was not the motive. The FBI would discover that three Hell’s Angels had mistaken his yellow van for a rival gang member’s — and that the killing was an initiation ritual. This is the case that helped establish DNA evidence in federal court. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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In 1990s Philadelphia, two factions of the mob went to war over control of the city’s underworld. The FBI’s weapon was not a wiretap on a phone—it was a microphone hidden in a doctor’s office and a lawyer’s conference room, where the boss himself was recorded planning murder. This is the story of the surveillance that dismantled the Stanfa organization and ended a civil war. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes.

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