Ocean's Ten: The Baker Street Robbery

In this round-up of recent tales of fakers, fraudsters, and phonies, Zaron shares with Elizabeth a smorgasbord of stories of fake bears, phony medical emergencies on Mount Everest, and a fraudulent influencer abduction to get at the truth of why we can't trust anything any more. ...  Show more

Randy Lanier started as a construction site weed dealer and over the years graduated to major drug smuggler, bringing hundreds of tons of grass into the USA. To add to the risk factor, he also became a Formula One driver and team owner. So much fun! Until it wasn't. See omnystudi ...  Show more

(Apologies for sound issues on this one) Before he was Public Enemy Number One—shipping tons of cocaine from Sonoran tunnels into the US—El Chapo was just a poor kid from Sinaloa, trying to make a quick buck like the bandits who'd gone before him. Reporter Noah Hurowitz has been ...  Show more

Nicola Tallant tells the story of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, one of Ireland's most-feared mobsters.

From his rise as a street fighter in Dublin to becoming the head of a gangland murder machine, we retrace the violent steps he took on his rise to power and how gardai finall ...  Show more

Two gangland murders. A missing fugitive. And a former Scotland Yard Detective intent on hunting him down.
This week on Crime World Nicola Tallant talks to Peter Bleksley about suspect Kevin Parle who has remained on the run for more than 15 years. We hear about the shocking ...  Show more

From a street hoodlum to the Prime Minister of the Underworld. Frank Costello joins the Blood Stories as the dexterous criminal that See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.