It was a silent, criminal corporation.  It was worth tens-of-billions of dollars.They killed and tortured their opponents, without giving any signals or clues to their existence. They were the Super-Cartel.  One of the world’s largest drug traffickers and, virtually, no one knew anything about them.  This is the story of the investigation that brought them down.  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

It was the greatest case of match-fixing in international sports.  A group of criminals fixed soccer, basketball, handball, volleyball, tennis and many other sports.   They corrupted national teams, the UEFA Champions League, and games around the world.   They had top officials, referees and players on their payroll.  They threatened, extorted and murdered their way through sports.At the heart of the investigation against them was one dedicated, obsessive cop.   A man who would stop at nothing to bring down. This is his story. 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

You're in prison. The system has convicted you of murder.  You're serving a lifetime in prison. But you're innocent. You didn't kill anyone.  So who are you going to call? It's no use phoning a lawyer. They didn't work too well at your trial.It's no use phoning a politician. Those guys campaign on locking up murderers. Your family cannot help.Your friends?  Very few actually stayed with you. There is one small organization without much money or resources - the Innocence Project.  They are your last hope.**This week on Crimewaves, the true story of an extraordinary fight to free an innocent man and overturn a shocking injustice. 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

The extraordinary true story of an innocent man convicted of murder and the small group of investigators who not only prove his innocence but find the real murderer.**You're driving in your car on a Houston highway. The police stop you and the nightmare begins... They open up the trunk and discover a wig and a ski mask. You say, rightly, "they're part of a Halloween costume."   The police arrest you anyway and put you on trial for murder.The ensuing court trial is bizarre. Six complete strangers stand there and say that you killed somebody and they saw you. You don't know what they're talking about, but the court finds you guilty. Then you lose your appeal, and now you're in prison for the rest of your life for a crime that you did not commit. 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

WARNING - A very disturbing, but fascinating, episode.What kind of person tortures and kills innocent animals?The results of this investigation are shocking and they reveal a very dark side of the criminal soul: the links between criminal psychopaths and animal cruelty. 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

In the 1870s,  thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota.Some of those people are still famous today.   "Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner . Wyatt Earp -  the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals.Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed  killed only six people in gunfights.And there was another person... A man whose identity was a mystery until current-day investigators got to work... Their trail involved forensic dentistry, genealogy, and, good, old-fashioned detective work to trace the identity of an unknown man dead for over one-hundred-and-twenty years. 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

This is the story of two skulls. It's actually the mystery of two skulls and a long, extraordinary investigation to find the identity of two people.  It  is a tale that features one of France's most famous explorers, pirates, shipwrecks, kidnappings, ambushes and, of course, 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

The pirates of the 1700s  were democrats. Their ships were crammed with men, and women, of all kinds of cultures. Many were former slaves. Others were indigenous natives. Others were our fore-parents escaping a lifetime of servitude as agricultural serfs.The pay level between a common sailor and a captain on a pirate ship was only twice as much. However, that pay could be massive. Edward "Black Beard" Teach was worth $12 million. Captain John Bowen, a Creole pirate was worth $40 million.  But the greatest of them all was Black Sam Bellamy - 300 years later, Forbes magazine would estimate that "Black Sam" was the richest pirate of all time.And then "Black Sam" sailed into a dark and stormy night off the coast of Cape Cod and the legends began...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

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

How do you solve a crime when there is no evidence?How do you solve a crime in a world that doesn't even exist? How do you solve a crime involving an NBA star, a computer hacker and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud that touches on every internet transaction that you ever do?Welcome to the multi-billion dollar world of criminal Internet real estate. 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

I am the watcher on the walls. I'm the shield that guards, the realms of men. I pledged my life and honor to the night's watch for this night and all the nights to come. How do you stop a crime that has not happened yet? How do you figure out how some assassin will strike before they've actually done so? This is the essential conundrum of the American Secret Service. They are the men and women who guard the US President and other important public figures in America.  To be clear, they're not for a particular party, they're not Democrat nor Republican. They protect the representative of the people, whoever it is. They are like the Game of Thrones' Nightwatch. The guard the realm and they do so with their very lives. In today's episode, we'll talk about various assassination attempts, some successful, some failed, on US political figures.  In almost all of them the forgotten figure was a Secret Service agent, who knowing there was danger, stepped in front of bullets and knives for the person they were protecting.  Their names have been almost all forgotten, except within that small band of watchers who guard the realm... 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

Host Declan Hill is interviewed about his work investigating corruption and organized crime in sports. 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

A serial sexual predator was on the loose across four states.   Women and girls were being stalked, assaulted, and raped.  The investigators had no idea how to solve the case until one morning they get a phone call that breaks it wide open... 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

Michael Franzese was a Mafia Capo in the Colombo Crime Family of New York.   He explains the rules, code of the mob.  How it works.  How you survive and thrive in the criminal world and how he was able to get out of the Mafia - and still live. 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

It was a monumental stock fraud.The "Wolf of Wall Street" ran a pump-and-dump operation that netted him and the other criminal leaders tens of millions of dollars.They stole the money of pensioners, widows, and the poor. They bought themselves luxury yachts, expensive cars, and opulent mansions. They enjoyed a lifestyle of parties, strippers, and drugs.No one stopped them. That is until Greg Coleman of the FBI got involved.He, and his team, took down the Wolf.On Crimewaves, Coleman tells the story and also gives tips on successful interviews, how to track criminals, and other investigative techniques.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

Sarah Chayes is one courageous person. She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.   She speaks  about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there and the corruption taking place in the United States. 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

It was a slow motion Chernobyl. Here is what, the balance of probabilities tells us about the origins of this Covid epidemic that haunts us all. It was the worst industrial accident in the history of humanity.In general, Chinese laboratory technicians are so badly trained, so ill-paid and so mis-guided that some of them used to sell infected research animals to local butchers.The specific virologists in Wuhan lab played God. They created super-virulent viruses, more powerful than anything natural. Their methods like “finding a gas leak with a match”.Their science so misguided nine years ago an academic warned of an 80% chance of a global epidemic.When the near-inevitable leak came, they covered it up.The Communist Chinese jailed anyone brave enough to warn the world.The World Health Organization (WHO) helped them.More than 12 million people have died and continue to die. It could happen again.On crimewavespodcast.com - we examine, in a special five-part series, the ‘Crime of the Century’ - how it occurred and how it was covered-up. 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

These are the photos of Chinese whistleblowers and citizen journalists. All of them, and thousands more, have gone to prison camps because they wanted to bring you the truth about the appalling conditions in Wuhan during the early days of Covid. We examine the massive Communist Chinese campaign of disinformation - The Big Lie.  It stretches from the hospitals and laboratories of Wuhan, to Chinese prison-camps, to international film festivals, western social media companies and to the World Health Organization.  All to make sure there is little informed debate about why the Covid epidemic occurred and how we can stop from happening again. 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

The inside story of the most preventable, human-made disaster in history: the Covid virus that has affected countries around the world and killed somewhere between 18 and 24 million people. In our first episode - 'The Silent Chernobyl' - we showed how laboratory leaks occur frequently across the world but in China the safety standards are so low that it is common practice for some technicians to sell lab animals to local butchers for meat.   We examined the grotesque lack of professional standards in Chinese medical  labs - researching, against all common sense, dangerous viruses. In the second episode - ‘The Big Lie’ - we showed how Communist Chinese officials suppressed any investigation that may show the incompetence of their research infrastructure.Throughout these episodes -  we told the stories of what happened in China using their words of the extraordinary whistleblowers like Chen Qiushi or  Zhang Zhan - who have been imprisoned, tortured and possibly killed for their work in exposing the appalling response by the Communist officials.In this third episode, we examine how the Communist Chinese regime has been aided in their cover up by some of the largest international organizations, media companies and scientists. We call it ‘The Big Silence’...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

You're standing over the body of a woman who's been murdered. She's been killed for loan sharking at a casino by organized crime mobsters. This is the price of blood. This is the thing that few people ever talk about when discussing money laundering, you know, the usual barking guff of expensive defense lawyers and their trained seals in the mediaHow financial crimes are victimless, administrative misdemeanor. Today, on crime waves, we are gonna examine how the bloody trail of cash linked to Mexican drug cartels and corrupt Chinese communist officials was laundered through Canadian casinos. It was a process that went on for over a decade. A lot of people knew about it, but no one did anything to.And this week we have an expert on money laundering. Peter German, the former Deputy Commissioner of the Mounts, that's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. German produced two reports entitled “Dirty Money”, which revealed the depth of money laundering in the casino industry in Vancouver, Canada. Good morning, Peter.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