Crimeworld Extra - The Molly Martens Retrial
This week, Tom and Molly Martens were freed from prison in the US after they were granted bail pending a retrial in the case of the murder of Limerick dad of two Jason Corbett.Jason was beaten to death on August 2, 2015 and the father and daughter served 44 months in jail before their murder convictions were overturned.Today, in a special Crime World Extra, Irish Independent journalist Ralph Riegel describes the devastation for Jason’s Irish family as they face another harrowing journey on their road to justice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
8 Apr 202114min
Episode 21: The Wilsons - Ireland's most feared clan of killers for hire
John, Keith, Alan, Eric and Luke Wilson were once Ireland’s most feared gangland family who terrorised the underworld and threatened the pillars of the State.Bonded by blood, the five Wilsons operated as guns for hire as they honed their skills as killing machines in the brutal world of feuding drug gangs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3 Apr 202154min
Episode 20: 'I married a psychopathic bigamist, con man and sex offender'
Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns — and putting a stop to his endless deception. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
27 Mars 202149min
Episode 19: The Black Widow
She is the self-professed gangsters' moll who married a mobster and then wound up in prison for life for the murder of her hard-man lover.But Linda Calvey has turned her own experiences in the underworld into the basis for her new career and as she launches her debut novel she insists that is thrilled to be finally making an honest living out of crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
20 Mars 202154min
Episode 18: The man who brought down Whitey Bulger and exposed the feared mobster as an FBI informer
BOSTON gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s role as an FBI informant is a lesson for police forces across the world in how NOT to handle their touts.Brian Kelly, the former US state prosecutor who was the lead counsel against Bulger, tells this week’s Crime World podcast that the mobster murdered at will, often using information leaked to him by his handlers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
13 Mars 202141min
Episode 17: The Moroccan drug lord, the Kinahan mob and the rise of the European super-cartel
He’s the violent gangster whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, Italian mafiosa and Eastern European gangs formed a European super cartel.But Dutch Moroccan Ridouan Taghi is now facing the biggest showdown of his life as authorities in the Netherlands gear up for the high profile ‘Marengo’ trial expected to get to the heart of the powerful merger of Europe’s top mobs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
6 Mars 202136min
Episode 16: The American guns fuelling the deadly Mexican Cartels and drug wars
Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold weapons in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
27 Feb 202150min
Episode 15: The low-level criminals and hit squads behind the Hutch-Kinhahan feud
The drug addicts, drop-outs and drifters behind the Hutch-Kinahan murder cells. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
20 Feb 202149min
