Felonious Florida

By Wondery | Sun Sentinel

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What's Felonious Florida about?

Beyond the beaches, the theme parks, the palm trees and the warm breezes lies the dark side of the Sunshine State. Wondery and the South Florida Sun Sentinel present a true-crime podcast that bring you stories of some of Florida’s most notorious and stunning crimes. Early access to season 3, hosted by David Schutz, is now available ad-free.

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Special Episode: The Killer...

05.12.2023

The Killer Clown of Wellington is unmasked, but the case comes to a stunning conclusion.

Felonious Florida episodes:

05.12.2023 Special Episode: The Killer Clown of Wellington unmasked \| 8 The Killer Clown of Wellington is unmasked, but the case comes to a stunning conclusion.
03.27.2023 Where All the Sad Girls Go \| 6 William Foster goes from pimping his high school sweetheart to building one of Florida’s largest trafficking empires — until a hurricane threatens to bring it all down.
03.20.2023 ‘A Human Trafficking Pipeline’ \| 5 A staff mentor at a group foster home lures away two teenage residents to be sold for sex in hotel rooms from the Florida Keys to Tampa — until a car crash in the middle of the night offers what ...
03.13.2023 The Crime of Surviving \| 4 A 13-year-old girl disappears from her mother’s apartment, only to return a week later beaten, raped, and with a rose tattoo on her neck — but she finds herself under arrest for crimes her captors forced her to commit.
03.06.2023 ‘The Perfect Victim’ \| 3 Shanika Ampah was just 11 years old when she became somebody's property and for seven years endured horrors no girl ever should — until one day when she catches a break.
02.27.2023 Horror in Hotel Rooms \| 2 Nobody knows when 16-year-old Marina Ralph entered room 334 of an Extended Stay hotel in Florida, but she never came out alive.
01.31.2023 Special episode: Case updates and more \| 7 In this special episode of Felonious Florida: Innocence Sold, the team is joined by two special guests to update some of the cases and talk about sex trafficking issues raised in their investigation.
01.25.2023 Disappearance of Sophie Reeder \| 1 When 15-year-old Sophie Reeder disappears from her Florida home, it appears at first that she has run away. But clues begin to emerge that something terrible has happened to Sophie. Then more cases surface that expose a violent world that ...
01.23.2023 Wondery Presents: Frozen Head Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid. When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because ...
11.21.2022 Introducing Season 3: Innocence Sold A new 6-part season of Felonious Florida brings you back into the Dark Side of the Sunshine State with an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, and a series of other cases with alarming similarities.
01.23.2019 UPDATE: Verdict in the Casey's Nickelodeon Murder trial \| 8 There's been a verdict in the trial of Pablo Ibar, accused in the 1994 Casey's Nickelodeon Murders.
11.06.2018 The Killer Clown of Wellington, Part 2 \| 7 The 30-year investigation into the murder of an innocent woman by a killer dressed as a clown takes police into the darkest sides of the Sunshine State. They make an arrest, but the case isn't closed.
10.30.2018 The Killer Clown of Wellington, Part 1 \| 6 An affluent Florida community is shocked by the murder of a housewife by a person dressed as a clown. And the investigation takes police into the darkest corners of the Sunshine State.
10.23.2018 The Disappearance of Lisa Spence, Part 2 \| 5 A text from the grave turns the 2009 disappearance of Lisa Spence into a murder investigation.
10.16.2018 The Disappearance of Lisa Spence, Part 1 \| 4 A woman who disappeared in 2009 starts sending text messages to friends and family, leading police to wonder if something terrible happened to her.
10.09.2018 The Encino Murders, Part 3 \| 3 In the conclusion of The Encino Murders, Camile Hamilton confronts Kevin Pratt after an in-person lineup — and the encounter is explosive. Kevin insists he didn’t kill anybody, but when the DNA evidence gets stronger he faces the death penalty. ...
10.02.2018 The Encino Murders, Part 2 \| 2 Camile Hamilton is starting to remember what happened to her that brutal night in August 2009. A tiny piece of evidence and a series of breaks leads the Encino Street triple murder investigation to a homeless man with a criminal ...
10.02.2018 The Encino Murders, Part 1 \| 1 On a warm summer night in August 2009, an intruder shot Camile Hamilton in the face inside a suburban Florida home. A staggering 14 hours after the attacker fled, Camile wakes up — barely alive and with a bullet still ...
09.18.2018 Introducing Felonious Florida, Season 2 Coming October 2, Felonious Florida is back with new episodes that take you into an even darker side of the Sunshine State. Listen to the Season 2 trailer now and subscribe so you get new episodes as they're released. See ...
05.01.2018 RANDI \| 6 The mom who survived the terrifying kidnapping at the Boca Raton mall is frustrated when police doubt her wild story. They think she may have made it up to make her boyfriend angry. Then, just two months later, Nancy Bochicchio ...
04.24.2018 THE KIDNAP KIT \| 5 A mother and her 7-year-old daughter are kidnapped from a mall in Boca Raton, Florida, after an afternoon of Christmas shopping in December 2007. They’re found executed in the back seat of their SUV, still parked in the mall lot. ...
04.17.2018 PABLO \| 4 Seth Penalver is a free man, acquitted by a jury in the brutal 1994 Casey's Nickelodeon Murders after spending six years on Death Row. Pablo Ibar spent 16 years on Death Row before his conviction was thrown out. Soon, he'll ...
04.10.2018 THE FACES OF THE KILLERS \| 3 Was Pablo Ibar the man who showed his face to a security camera during the murders of Butch, Sharon and Marie? Police think so and begin to gather a case against him. Meanwhile, their search for the second killer surfaces ...
04.03.2018 O.J. AND THE MOB \| 2 Theories around the killing of Butch Casey and his female guests begin to spin around. The public is consumed by talk of a connection to the murders days earlier of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman — and the arrest ...
04.03.2018 THE EXECUTIONS \| 1 Casimir Sucharsky Jr. — or Butch Casey, as he's known — is the flashy, well-known owner of the popular South Florida nightclub Casey’s Nickelodeon. After a night out at his bar in June 1994, he invites two young, attractive women ...
03.19.2018 Introducing Felonious Florida A true-crime podcast series that explores some of Florida’s most notorious and chilling crimes. Reported and hosted by Lisa Arthur and Juan Ortega, veteran reporters for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Premieres April 3 with a look at the Casey's ...