The journalist and the best friend go at it.

Pulitzer Prize winner and host of Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie Freleng set out to investigate what she believed to be the  wrongful conviction of David Thorne for murder. The investigation took a twist. Maggie, David’s onetime champion, felt betrayed by David. Josh McComb doesn’t feel betrayed. He’s David's best childhood friend. David would never have been involved in murder. In this bonus the two face off. Think of them as a prosecutor and a defense attorney meeting at the local bar. Not surprisingly, things get personal, and heated. 

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Wayne Jenkins, now serving 25 years in prison, tells his side of the story. What do the crimes of the Gun Trace Task Force reveal about the city of Baltimore?

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A shocking tragedy occurs. Conspiracy theories spread. The trial of the Task Force officers begins, but who will speak out?

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Is the FBI's cover about to be blown? Agent Jensen suspects the Task Force is onto her.

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He earned a formidable reputation. But Sgt. Wayne Jenkins is leading a double life. Not all the drugs he's seized are making it to the evidence room.

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How many red flags were missed? Years of complaints come to light. Victims of Task Force members share their stories.

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One name stands out as the FBI gets to work. Why does a member of the Gun Trace Task Force have links to a major heroin ring? A whole new level of criminality is revealed.

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Civil unrest spreads across Baltimore after 25-year-old Freddie Gray dies in police custody. Meanwhile, a detective makes a troubling discovery when he arrests a major heroin dealer. It’s time to call in the FBI.

Presenter: Jessica Lussenhop
Producer: Ben Crighton

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Baltimore, Maryland likes to call itself Charm City. But you have to wonder: Is the nickname ironic?  Consider one of the city's star cops, a sergeant so accomplished that he earned his own nickname, the Golden Boy.  But Golden Boy led a double life. Said one of those who encountered him in the street.  "I was robbed by the Baltimore City Police….with a gun … armed robbery."  No one believed the allegation. Then a GPS tracker was discovered where it shouldn't have been; next, a wiretap went up on a cop's phone. An FBI agent couldn't believe what she was hearing. Are these guys  gangsters? And then … an insider turned witness. "Like Rambo said, burn it down. And that's what I did."  Welcome to Charm City, where it was sometimes difficult to tell the protectors from the predators.

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Today we hear from Bernie Madoff, mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme ever. Bernie made $65 billion disappear. Billion with a B. Madoff had been a Wall Street star, innovative, rich, honored. He was chairman of the NASDAQ. Also, he was quietly managing other people's money, or said he was. But in fact, he never invested. He paid returns to his clients with the money coming in from new investors. In 2008, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison. That's when Steve Fishman launched a campaign to get him to talk. It took a year, but he finally spoke.

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