True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

He fell into crime like a clean kid into a coal chute - but he got out by CHOICE and changed his life and his future.

https://www.amazon.com/HIGH-Confessions-Leonard-Lee-Buschel/dp/1737926601/

If National Lampoon published a hysterically funny and mildly offensive parody of recovery memoirs, it couldn’t be as funny and mildly offensive as this autobiography of Leonard Lee Buschel, co-founder of Writers in Treatment, producers of the internationally acclaimed Reel Recovery Film Festivals, the Experience Strength and Hope Awards, and publishers of the Addiction/Recovery e-Bulletin.

HIGH is far more than a vastly entertaining recovery memoir. It is an open emotional summons, a sincere invitation to a life lived awake and alert, a life vibrating at a higher frequency of increased creativity and joy, and if you so desire, social inclusion, fun, fellowship, and plenty of free coffee.

It is a thrill and honor to have John Ferak return to the show with this amazing update!

In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK's Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case against Steven Avery, who had already beaten one wrongful conviction only to be charged again with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. This case captured global attention through the Netflix documentary "Making A Murderer."

In this anniversary edition of WRECKING CREW: Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery, Ferak not only lays out in meticulous detail the post-conviction strategy of Kathleen Zellner, the high-profile, high-octane lawyer fighting to free Avery but also includes a new "Five Years Later" section. This update provides fresh insights and developments in Avery's ongoing legal battle.

Additionally, this special edition features an exclusive epilogue: a November 2023 interview with Steven Avery. For this book, Zellner, arguably America's most successful wrongful conviction attorney, granted Ferak unprecedented access to the exhaustive pro bono efforts she and her small suburban Chicago law firm have invested in a man she believes to be wrongfully ensnared by Manitowoc County's unscrupulous justice system. This anniversary edition offers new revelations and a comprehensive look at a case that continues to stir public debate and demand justice.

"John Ferak is an investigative journalist who is trying to figure out who committed the murder. He takes all of my evidence, expert opinions and theories and really examines them in detail. [Making a Murderer] touched on some of my investigation and expert experiments but not in as much detail as the book. The series explores many collateral matters, while the book zeroes-in on suspects and motives for the murder, which was not a focal point in the series.” —Attorney Kathleen Zellner, interview with Newsweek Magazine

"Whatever you thought you believed about this infamous case, get ready to change your mind or be more convinced than ever. … Fascinating." —New York Times bestselling author Steve Jackson

"If you're planning to binge-watch Making a Murderer 2 over the holidays, order John Ferak's new book Wrecking Crew, too. Definitive chronicle of criminal justice corruption in Manitowoc County." —Michelle Malkin, host of Michelle Malkin Investigates on CRTV.

CRIME JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR CATHY SCOTT GIVES US THE LATEST UPDATE ON THE KILLING OF TUPAK SHAKUR

Gem heist mastermind Punch from STEALING MANHATTAN tells of his crew, the connection to the Pink Panthers, and how his friends became international crime figures.

Burl's daughter Anea celebrates her birthday by sharing her most recent true crime case obsessions with her father's true crime audience.

We will save you tons of money and perhaps your sanity in this episode! We will tell you about the most scams that people fall for every single day -- that's why they are so common!

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Rescue me scams....and more

He had never written a book before, tbut he decided to write a true crime book about a case he found compelling. Here is how he did it, step by step. He had more resources than sea]soned author Burl Barer, but the process is the same. Here is a master class in writing true crime!

Born in 1949, Carlo Lehder rose from a struggling, small time pot dealer to become a major godfather in the Medellin cartel, the crime syndicate largely responsible for initiating the cocaine epidemic plaguing American society since the late 1970s. Federal U.S. prosecutor Robert Merkle, who successfully prosecuted Lehder in 1988, said that the drug lord "was to cocaine transportation what Henry Ford was to automobiles" because he was the mastermind behind the transportation network that revolutionized the international drug trade. Lehder's genius was to devise a sophisticated transportation system that allowed the Medellin cartel to transport huge quantities of cocaine from Colombia, the source country, to the U.S., the world's major illegal drug market.

By 1987, the DEA and the Colombian government had put Lehder's net wealth at more than $3 billion. A great admirer of both Nazi icon Adolph Hitler and Marxist Che Guevara, Lehder hated the U.S. and viewed cocaine as a kind of atomic bomb that could destroy Uncle Sam from within. Lehder got the nickname, "Crazy Charlie," because of his bizarre and often unpredictable behavior.

A SPECTACULAR SHOW! The story is compelling, the guest is brilliant and fascinating, we cover so many aspects of not only his excellent book, but also the challenges and obstacles faced in researching this controversial story of an innocent man framed by not just by some local cops, but by an entire government -- obviously that government was not eager to cooperate with the author who simply wanted to tell the true story honestly and factually.

link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/ABOVE-GROUND-Troubles-Northern-Ireland/dp/1960332260