CrimeWaves

Declan Hill

Interviews with the best investigators in the world. Cut through the spin and straight to the stories at the heart of major criminal cases with the people who solved the cases. Hosted by international journalist and academic Declan Hill, produced by his students at the University of New Haven - Ryan Decker, Aiden van Batenburg, and others. www.crimewavespodcast.com Follow us at @declan_hill

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The Jeffrey Epstein Files 3: David Schoen Interview
05-01-2024
The Jeffrey Epstein Files 3: David Schoen Interview
It is a mystery that obsesses our time.Jeffrey Epstein, one of the richest and most well-connected men in America, walked into prison. He was friends and a business associate of some of the most powerful people in the world - Presidents, Prime Ministers, Princes, politicians, business tycoons - the very top of the 1%er class.  He also ran a sexual trafficking network of young girls and women.Just over a month later, he was found dead in his cell.The official response?  Immediately declare it suicide.Many people around the world, did not believe it.  So in the last four-and-a-half years, while there has been a great deal of rumour, speculation, theorizing and fantasy - there has been a distinct lack of proper investigation.  I an Investigation Program students of one of the finest academic institutions for the study of crime - the University of New Haven - have been examining the case.  We have read thousands of pages of documents and interviewed people with real, first-hand knowledge about the case.This is the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s death.  This episode is an interview with one of the lawyers who met him just days before he died.   And like most people close to Jeffrey Epstein - he does not think he committed suicide. He thinks it was murder. Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill
Tim Palmbach: The World's Oldest Profession and Only Fans
13-06-2023
Tim Palmbach: The World's Oldest Profession and Only Fans
It's the world's oldest profession.  Sex workers, prostitutes, and the pimps who live off them have been around since the dawn of time. There are mentions of them in the Code of Hammurabi. The dusty case files of medieval Europe talk about them constantly.  There are references to them in Victorian literature from Charles Dickens' Nancy and Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist to the drunken orgies of the Russian military officers and gypsy girls in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.However, in the 21st century there is, of course, a high tech spin to a very old issue.OnlyFans is spoken of as the 'Uber of sex work'. A disruptive social media platform that purportedly allows sex workers to communicate and make money from their customers without the dangerous control of their pimps.Unlikely female allies have hailed the site as 'self-esteem conferring'.  An Australian model raised $1 million to help fight forest fires by posting nude photos of herself. And then the Disney star Bella Thorne made over $1 million in one day by promising to do the same thing. However, there's a dark side to this new phenomenon.  Critics are claiming that far from saving people from exploitation, human trafficking and underage harm sites  like OnlyFans are doing the exact opposite.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students. www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill