True Crime Reporter

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September 04, 2023 The Reporter Behind the Crime Stories: Robert Riggs Tells All
In this week’s episode of True Crime Reporter®, Michael Jackson, the host of the A Funny Way of Looking Podcast, interviews me about the age-old appeal of crime stories.
Michael’s podcast aims to educate in a fun environment, enlighten, entertain, and inspire listeners and viewers.
We talk serial killers, journalism ethics, the scariest criminal I ever met, and more.
Plus, Michael hits me with a two-option answer quiz called "This Or That?" to reveal more about the real Robert Riggs.
Here’s Michael Jackson’s interview with me on the A Funny Way of Looking Podcast.
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42 min
August 29, 2023 Defusing Tension in 90 Seconds: A Game Changer for Inmates and the Public
Doug Noll says murderers are not born, they're bred. Today kids revert to what they see around them...violence.
Doug Noll founded the Prison of Peace Project. Noll teaches hardcore inmates how to de-escalate an angry, emotional person in 90 seconds or less.
It’s a skill that we can all benefit from learning in this era of violence.
Hello, this is Robert Riggs taking you inside the crime scene tape in this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast.
Besides telling interesting crime stories, it is also my mission to educate.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know we live in an epidemic of violence. school shootings, mass shootings at malls and public places, road rage murders, senseless violent acts, and, as I have reported, outlaw motorcycle gangs shooting each other in broad daylight on Interstate Highways.
Some days I think the world has gone crazy.
Mediator Doug Noll with Chowchilla inmates in "peace circle"
photo by Susan McRae 10/2/2010
Doug Noll is here to explain the causes and offer a solution that’s working in prisons.
The California lawyer felt a calling in 2010 to create the Prison of Peace project at the Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California, the largest women’s prison in the world.
Link to Noll's Book De-Escalate
42 min
August 08, 2023 Mexican Cartels Use The Occult To Indoctrinate Child Soldiers
Free from Mexican narco's occult witchcraft, Ed Calderon savors the American experience.
Calderon fled Mexico with this three-year-old daughter when he had to choose between working for a cartel in his police uniform or getting assassinated.
Ed Calderon - Former Mexican Counter Narcotics Officer
I’m back with my third and final episode interviewing Ed Calderon.
Calderon found refuge in America with help from a Navy Seal.
Today he works as a security consultant.
We go back to a time in his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico, before the cartels turned it into a killing ground.
Here’s Ed Calderon remembering the long past good old days and the Cartel's dark arts of recruiting child soldiers.
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30 min
August 08, 2023 Cartels Offered a Choice Between Two Evils. Take The Silver or Take the Lead.
Ed Calderon says the incomplete wall on the U.S. Southern border with Mexico is like Swiss cheese.
"It won't stop any of the growing threats posed by the Mexican drug cartels," he says.
Ed Calderon spent a dozen years working in counter-narcotics and organized crime investigations in the northern border region of Mexico.
Ed Calderon - Former Mexican Counter Narcotics Officer Fled For His Daughter's Life To The U.S.
The former state police officer knew he had to leave when the leadership of his drug squad under a new presidential administration told him, “You can take the silver, or you can take the lead.”
Which meant they were on the payroll of a cartel. That night, Calderon fled Mexico with his three-year-old daughter for the safety of the United States.
In part two of my three-part series, Calderon gives a unique look inside the crime scene tape where Mexican cartel members and their puppets in police uniforms get away with murder.
Calderon says it’s getting deadlier with a war brewing between an old-line cartel and a new violent upstart.
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29 min
August 01, 2023 Cartels Offered a Choice Between Two Evils: Take The Silver or Take the Lead.
Ed Calderon says the incomplete wall on the U.S. Southern border with Mexico is like Swiss cheese.
"It won't stop any of the growing threats posed by the Mexican drug cartels," he says.
Ed Calderon spent a dozen years working in counter-narcotics and organized crime investigations in the northern border region of Mexico.
The former state police officer knew he had to leave when the leadership of his drug squad under a new presidential administration told him, “You can take the silver, or you can take the lead.”
Which meant they were on the payroll of a cartel. That night, Calderon fled Mexico with his three-year-old daughter for the safety of the United States.
In part two of my three-part series, Calderon gives a unique look inside the crime scene tape where Mexican cartel members and their puppets in police uniforms get away with murder.
Calderon says it’s getting deadlier with a war brewing between an old-line cartel and a new violent upstart.
In my 3rd and final episode with Ed Calderon, we will discuss how the drug cartels transformed his quiet town of Tijuana into one of Mexico’s worst killing zones.
Plus, how the Cartels are inducting child soldiers into their ranks by using occult practices of sacrifice.
And finally, Calderon's journey to America, where he now works as a security consultant.
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29 min
July 25, 2023 China, Mexico, and Fentanyl: A Recipe for U.S. Security Threats
Former Mexican counter-narcotics officer Ed Calderon predicts a day of reckoning.
If you were a fan of Narcos or Sicario, brace yourself to hear the real story about what’s happening south of the U.S. border.
Ed Calderon is a man who should not be alive. He fled death threats and now lives in the United States, where he is a security consultant.
Over the next three episodes, Calderon will take us inside the crime scene tape in Mexico, where cartels, dirty police officers, and serial killers from the U.S. get away with murder.
In part one. we discuss Mexico’s unholy alliance with China to make deadly Fentanyl, the modern-day black plague in America.
In closing, here’s my Reporter’s recap and reflections.
I believe you can take what Ed Calderon says to the bank.
I say this based on my experience as an investigator for a Congressional defense committee and a television reporter covering national security issues, including three wars.
If you want to learn more about the growing threat of the cartels, I recommend reading The Accident Superpower by geo-political analyst Peter Zeihan. The chapter that Zeihan considers the darkest is titled “The North American Drug War.”
You’ve been listening to the True Crime Reporter® Podcast: Stay True. Stay Safe. And Stay Tuned for more stories from inside the crime scene tape.
We want to become your favorite true crime podcast. Please leave a review wherever you listen.
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The True Crime Reporter® podcast features stories about serial killers, mass murderers, murder mysteries, homicides, cold cases, prisons, violent criminals, serial rapists, child abductors, child molesters, kidnappers, bank robbers, cyber criminals, and assorted violent criminals.
True Crime Reporter® is a @2023 copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter®, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.
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15 min
July 24, 2023 China, Mexico, and Fentanyl: A Recipe for U.S. Military Intervention
Former Mexican counter-narcotics officer Ed Calderon predicts a day of reckoning.
If you were a fan of Narcos or Sicario, brace yourself to hear the real story about what’s happening south of the U.S. border.
Ed Calderon is a man who should not be alive. He fled death threats and now lives in the United States, where he is a security consultant.
Ed Calderon - Former Mexican Counter Narcotics Officer
Over the next three episodes, Calderon will take us inside the crime scene tape in Mexico, where cartels, dirty police officers, and serial killers from the U.S. get away with murder.
In part one, we discuss Mexico’s unholy alliance with China to make deadly Fentanyl, the modern-day black plague in America.
In closing, here’s my Reporter’s recap and reflections.
I believe you can take what Ed Calderon says to the bank.
I say this based on my experience as an investigator for a Congressional defense committee and a television reporter covering national security issues, including three wars.
If you want to learn more about the growing threat of the cartels, I recommend reading The Accident Superpower by geo-political analyst Peter Zeihan. The chapter that Zeihan considers the darkest is titled “The North American Drug War.”
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15 min
July 18, 2023 Death On Two Wheels: Everyone Wants A Piece Of The Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
A violent war for control of illicit drugs and weapons leaves a deadly trail of bullets and blood across highways in the U.S. Southwest.
It started eight years ago in a hail of gunfire between the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang and the Cossacks at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas.
The violence escalated starting in May of 2023 leaving dead bodies on an interstate highway in Texas, at a biker bar in Oklahoma City, and at a once peaceful bike rally in New Mexico.
There's no sign of tempers and the rivalry cooling off anytime soon.
The Bandidos stand to lose a lot and they are fighting to hold on to their turf.
They are not Hollywood's romanticized version of the Sons of Anarchy.
The Justice Department considers the Bandidos one of the eight most dangerous motorcycle gangs in the U.S.
A gang threat assessment by the Texas Department of Public Safety ranked the Bandidos as a "Tier 2" gang — or the second-most dangerous classification — alongside the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
It appears that local law enforcement is not prepared to intervene and in some quarters may even fear the Bandidos.
According to the Bandidos legend, a 36-year-old Vietnam War veteran and Houston dockworker started the club in the 1960s.
It adopted the red and gold colors of the U.S. Marine Corps.
They proudly wear the "patch" on their jackets and other apparel.
Mess with one Bandido and you are in effect messing with all of them.
The Bandidos maintain an international presence from Australia to Russia.
Detective Steve Cook, an expert on outlaw motorcycle gangs joins me in this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast titled Death On Two Wheels: Everyone Wants A Piece Of The Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.
It's a war that has spilled into threatening innocent bystanders.
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The True Crime Reporter® podcast features stories about serial killers, mass murderers, murder mysteries, homicides, cold cases, prisons, violent criminals, serial rapists, child abductors, child molesters, kidnappers, bank robbers, cyber criminals, and assorted violent criminals.
True Crime Reporter® is a @2023 copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter®, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.
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31 min
July 17, 2023 Death On Two Wheels: Everyone Wants A Piece Of The Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
A violent war for control of illicit drugs and weapons leaves a deadly trail of bullets and blood across highways in the U.S. Southwest.
It started eight years ago in a hail of gunfire between the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang and the Cossacks at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in Waco, Texas.
The violence escalated starting in May of 2023, leaving dead bodies on an interstate highway in Texas, at a biker bar in Oklahoma City, and at a once peaceful bike rally in New Mexico.
There's no sign of tempers and the rivalry cooling off anytime soon.
The Bandidos stand to lose a lot and are fighting to hold on to their turf.
They are not Hollywood's romanticized version of the Sons of Anarchy.
The Justice Department considers the Bandidos one of the eight most dangerous motorcycle gangs in the U.S.
A gang threat assessment by the Texas Department of Public Safety ranked the Bandidos as a "Tier 2" gang — or the second-most dangerous classification — alongside the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
It appears that local law enforcement is not prepared to intervene and, in some quarters, may even fear the Bandidos.
According to the Bandidos legend, a 36-year-old Vietnam War veteran and Houston dockworker started the club in the 1960s.
It adopted the red and gold colors of the U.S. Marine Corps.
They proudly wear the "patch" on their jackets and other apparel.
Mess with one Bandido and you are messing with all of them.
The Bandidos maintain an international presence from Australia to Russia.
Detective Steve Cook, an expert on outlaw motorcycle gangs, joins me in this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast titled Death On Two Wheels: Everyone Wants A Piece Of The Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.
It's a war that has spilled into threatening innocent bystanders.
36 min
July 11, 2023 Flipping Off Angry Drivers Can Get You Killed On US Highways
Road rage violence shatters records on US Highways. Experts say a perfect storm of post-pandemic anger and violent criminals out of jail due to liberal bail practices has set off a wave of deadly road rage shootings.
Retired Houston Police Captain Greg Fremin tracks the growing carnage at Sam Houston State’s College of Criminal Justice.
The numbers have run off the highway as stressed-out, violent drivers turn their rage into the wild wild west on American highways.
On average, 44 people are killed or wounded on U.S. roadways every month. That's twice the average for 2019.
In this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast, investigative reporter Robert Riggs talks to Fremin about the causes and what to do if you are a target of road rage.
In closing, here’s my reporter’s recap and reflections.
In these stressful times, I practice Stoicism.
It’s a philosophy from the book Meditations by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The core principle for me: When you don’t control what happens, the only thing you can control is how you react.
You’ve been listening to the True Crime Reporter Podcast: Stay True. Stay Safe. And Stay Tuned for more stories from inside the crime scene tape.
BREAKING NEWS:
Shortly after I published this episode the very thing I warned about tragically came true in a Dallas suburb.

A recently wed couple driving to work the night shift together at a paint company became the target of a raging driver.

The husband thought the driver was flipping him off and replied in kind. But it was not the one-finger gesture, it was a gun.

37-year-old Nunez Linares was fatally shot in the back of the head.

Here's a link to the story.
We want to become your favorite true crime podcast. Please leave a review wherever you listen.
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The True Crime Reporter® podcast features stories about serial killers, mass murderers, murder mysteries, homicides, cold cases, prisons, violent criminals, serial rapists, child abductors, child molesters, kidnappers, bank robbers, cyber criminals, and assorted violent criminals.
True Crime Reporter® is a @2023 copyrighted and trade-marked production by True Crime Reporter®, LLC, in Dallas, Texas.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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