Episode 147: How the close proximity of prison staff and inmates can sometimes lead to trouble
It’s a life alien to many but for prisoners the daily grind of jail time is a heady mix of boredom, survival and opportunism.Smuggled contraband brings power, drugs and alcohol are a way to escape the...
6 Sep 202237min
Episode 146: Film maker Toby Muse on how cocaine makes its way from Colombia to Ireland
It’s the white gold that has turned street dealers into billionaires and corrupted politicians, police and even the judiciary with its promises of wealth beyond dreams.Cocaine starts out life as a lea...
3 Sep 202250min
Episode 145: The rise and fall of cocaine cowboy Patrick Irwin
Cocaine cowboy Patrick Irwin is being hunted after he assaulted a lawyer in a midlands town and stole his Porsche car from outside a bar. The convicted criminal has already served time for assaulting ...
1 Sep 202236min
Episode 144: Criminologist John Deane O’Keeffe on how psychopaths form their instincts to kill.
What is it that fascinates us about murder and that makes us want to know how the minds of killers work. Are we trying to protect ourselves in a seemingly dark and dangerous world or do we have a morb...
31 Aug 202254min
Episode 143: The sadistic crimes of serial killer John Wayne Gacy
He's one of the most-notorious serial killers in American history and the inspiration for numerous slasher movies.'Pogo the clown' by day and mass murderer by night, when John Wayne Gacy first killed ...
27 Aug 202245min
Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 3)
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the successful dentist with a flourishing practice...
25 Aug 202230min
Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 2)
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the successful dentist with a flourishing practice...
23 Aug 202227min
Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 1)
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onlookers they were the epitome of respectability – he the successful dentist with a flourishing practice...
20 Aug 202229min
