Crime Waves

Send us a textThe season you have been waiting for:  Investigations and exclusive interviews on  the killings of Tupac Shakur, Monica Reece, Jennifer Dulos, Suzanne Jovin and Meredith Kercher.We will do a special episode on the greatest unsolved murder in the world today. Another on the Highway of Death - a lonely dumping ground of bodies for an uncaught serial killer in rural Connecticut. Another episode is on the whistleblowers at Boeing and the conditions that led them to risk their lives to expose.  Another episode is on the mysterious billionaire who could have stopped Adolf Hitler.   Then he went into a Paris hotel room and he never came out: suicide or murder? Another episode is an examination of the life and death of the founding mother of America - Matoaka Pocahontas - and was she poisoned?  And, finally, the conclusion of our investigation into what exactly happened to Jeffrey Epstein in his New York prison cell. CrimeWaves - Season Four - Cold Cases... Please rate, review or like this episode at: www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

Send us a textTupac Shakur was one of the biggest biggest names in music history.He was murdered on the streets of Las Vegas.  The police had suspects. They had witnesses. But for 27 years, they never arrested anyone.   An exclusive interview with the journalist who discovered Tupac's killer, decades before the police - finally - arrested someone... Please rate, review or like this episode at: www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

For the fifth anniversary of Jeffrey Epstein's death.We tracked down two high-level criminals who were in the prison, on the Special Housing Unit where Jeffrey Epstein was found dead.  In this episode, one of them discusses the conditions inside the jail and for the first time, anywhere, their views on what happened that night to America's most famous prisoner....Please rate, review or like this episode at: www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

It is one of the most famous locked room deaths in American history.   On July 6, 2019 Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and put into a cell of a downtown Manhattan detention center.   He was the most famous prison inmate in America.  He had hung out with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, bankers and billionaires.  He was also a serial sexual abuser. Within thirty-five days - he was dead.  Almost all of the world wondered how such a famous prisoner could die in jail.  My students and I have spend the last three-and-a-half months reading thousands of pages of legal documents, government reports, released internal emails, news media stories, books, and, conducting a series of astonishing interviews.This is the story of what actually happened to Jeffrey Epstein.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

Jeffrey Epstein's death is one of the mysteries of our time.  Since his death in a New York City Prison cell there have been countless conspiracy theories, speculation,  and conjecture.   However,  only two medical examiners looked at Jeffrey Epstein's body to discover the cause of his death. In this episode, on CrimeWaves, we speak to one of those people.  Dr.  Michael Baden is a legend in American law enforcement.  He has decades of experience, specifically, on prison deaths, and has been involved in a host of high-profile legal cases including working for the family of George Floyd. After examining Jeffrey Epstein's body, Dr. Baden says that the wounds indicate that  Epstein was most likely killed by a person or persons unknown.  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

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

It is one of the most famous mysteries of our times.In the summer of 2019, one of the richest men in America, Jeffrey Epstein, walked into a jail. He has been arrested for a widespread sexual trafficking network. He was connected with Presidents, politicians, billionaires and businessmen.   Thirty-five days later Epstein was dead in his cell.Immediately, the government declares that he committed suicide.  Hundreds-of-millions of people around the world did not believe them. There have been conspiracy theories, books, movies, Internet memes and rumours. What there has not been is any proper, thorough official investigation of how Jeffrey Epstein died.  Nor has anyone taken the time to interview Jeffrey Epstein's closest relatives to find out their perspective on this important case. Until now… Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, was never involved in his lifestyle but after his death he was dragged into the inquiry. He speaks publicly and at length for the first time. 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 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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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...

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.

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. 

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... 

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

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... 

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. 

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.

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. 

Robert Mazur is one of the greatest undercover agents in the history of American law enforcement.  He infiltrated, first, the Medellin drug cartel of Pablo Escobar; and then, the Cali Cartel.  The problem?He would not give up.  Surrounded by mobsters, drug traffickers, and corrupt officials, Mazur kept going. On Crimewaves - the inside story of one of the biggest takedowns of drug dealers and their bankers ever. 

It was a meeting of two American legends:  Wayne Newton, one of the greatest stars in Country music, and Dr. Henry C. Lee, the man they call the Sherlock Holmes of America.  The subject of the meeting?  To find the body of America's greatest princess, missing for over four hundred years, Pocahontas. 

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'...

They were the Democrats have a very undemocratic age in our time when we speak about pirates, we usually think about swaggering Buccaneers, you know, those pirates of the Caribbean movies where sexy Johnny Depp, stagger walks along the key like Keith, Richard, John, after a bender. Now it always, when you're making these comparisons, it says more about us than it does about the actual historical era.For pirates in their golden age of the 17 hundreds were extraordinarily democratic. Their ships would crammed with men and women of all kinds of different cultures. Many were former slaves who were given the choice of slavery on shore or freedom and C gladly chose to become pirates. Others were indigenous natives.Others were common. People escaping a time when many of our four parents were debt slaves and agricultural service. And in our era, when a CEO like Jeff Bezos can bank roll and entire ego-driven private space program, while his workers struggle to pay their medical bills, it's worth noting that 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. And 300 years later, Forbes magazine would estimate that this one coup made black Sam the richest of all the pirates of all time.And then he sailed into a dark and stormy night off the coast of Cape Cod. And the legends began.

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. 

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. 

It was a killing that involved a Hollywood actress, one of the greatest musicians that America has ever produced, and a mystery that took almost 12 years two court trials and three legal appeals to resolve. On February 2, 2003. Phil Spector, the man behind the Beatles album 'Let it Be', John Lennon's 'Imagine', George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord', and countless other top music hits, left his Los Angeles mansion. He came back at midnight with a gorgeous blonde actress, Lana Clarkson. They got drunk. He played the piano, they sang. But at two o'clock in the morning, there was a single gunshot that echoed over the neighborhood. And then Phil Spector stepped out of the door and said, "I think I just shot her". Or did he? Because when the man known as America's modern-day Sherlock Holmes began to investigate, it was not so clear. On CrimeWaves podcast - a master class with Dr. Henry C. Lee.  Dr Lee was the first pioneer of the linkage between DNA analysis and detective work. He is an expert in crime scene analysis and a superb investigator.  He trains police forces around the world but, in this episode, he talks about this high-profile Hollywood crime case, the tragedy surrounding it and the attack on his professional reputation. 

Whitey Bulger was one of America's most notorious mob bosses. He was a violent, sociopath but he accomplished the almost-unimaginable: he got FBI agents to let him kill whomever he wanted. This week, the incredible, mind-blowing story of Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang and how they basically ran the organized crime squad of the FBI and key officers of the Boston Police Force for over a decade.Our guest is the award-winning author and professor of journalism at Boston University—Dick Lehr. A former member of the Spotlight team for the Boston Globe and Pulitzer Prize Finalist in investigative reporting.  Lehr spent over two-decades researching this story with his colleague Gerard O'Neil.   Their  books - 'Whitey: the Life of America's Most Notorious Mob Boss' and 'Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal' - were made into a major Hollywood movie staring Johnny Depp. And Lehr explains just how Whitey Bulger got -  a license to kill. 

They are most powerful organized crime group in Western Europe. They have kidnapping thousands of businessmen, politicians, journalists and their families. They command a sophisticated drug trafficking network that is underpinned by corruption, racketeering and murder to make tens-of-billions of dollars every year. They laundered their criminal money through the Vatican Bank with the help of a compromised Cardinal.They are the 'Ndrangheta. This week, we are joined by Antonio Nicaso a world-leading expert on organized crime. He talks about his book that exposed this unseemly world. 

$2 Trillion is stolen, there is a well-covered-up network of sexual abuse and tens-of-thousands of people are killed - if those are not crimes, what are? Welcome to NATO's mission in Afghanistan. It was an appalling, cluster-problem.  For those of you who don't know what happened in Afghanistan and why millions of Afghans choose scumbags like the Taliban over our lot - listen to this podcast.  It is deeply shocking.   Our troops were, at times, little better than bodyguards for drug lords. Our officials, at times, helped cover up monumental corruption and the sexual exploitation of hundreds of children.Worst, our politicians and generals knew about it - but received so many political contributions and jobs from defense contractors that nothing was done.Few people have wanted to speak about this issue.   As Westerners, this is our Berlin Wall moment.  Either we reflect and figure out what went wrong or our societies are in real danger. Note - I am neither a Donald Trump or Joe Biden supporter - but an independent journalist and professor.  The scandal in Afghanistan was far bigger than any political party in any country.  It was a monument to deep-rooted corruption and criminal incompetency in America and all of NATO. The presentation was at conference of the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators (IAFCI) in Chicago, September 2021.  I was to speak about sports corruption and gambling but chose to speak about Afghanistan.    It seemed to touch a nerve among the audience.

Michael Franzese was a high-ranking mobster in the Colombo Crime Family, one of the big five families of the New York Mafia. His father was a hit man with dozens of kills.Michael was making millions of dollars a week for the mob in a complicated gas tax fraud scheme across four different states. At 26, the family made him a Capo with dozens of mobsters underneath him and an illegal sports gambling network worth tens-of-millions of dollars that had players, coaches and league officials all betting with the mob. Michael Franzese joined us on CrimeWaves Podcast for the University of New Haven 2nd Annual Sports Integrity Presentation. 

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.

Donnie Brasco is the most successful undercover agent in U.S. law enforcement.   For years, he infiltrated the Colombo and Bonanno Mafia families, resulting in hundreds of arrests, convictions and murders.   In this episode - a special international lecture for the University of New Haven Sports Integrity Center - Brasco explains the rules of the Mob.  How to dress, speak and comport yourself so you don't get killed.  

On a Tuesday morning in September of 2009, Annie Le walked into a building on Yale University Campus and she disappeared. Her mobile phone and her wallet were still in the office, yet there was no trace of Annie anywhere.  Three days later,  police Lieutenant Lisa Dadio was given the job of discovering what had happened.  It was a literal 'closed room mystery'.  There was intense international media attention, three different police agencies  and no clues... 

It’s 2:00 in the morning and you get a call from your partner telling you a body has been found, what do you do? Our guest, the brilliant policeman turned professor, Peter Valentin, joins us this week to discuss crime scene analysis. From surveying the land, collecting evidence to dealing with non-homicide police departments, not everything is chalked up to be what it seems. What does it really take to investigate these often brutal cases? Find out this week on Crime Waves…

For over a decade a killer stalked the women of Northern California. He raped and murdered dozens of people. And no one was able to catch him. Until a new technology of investigative forensics was invented and - finally - the police had him in their sights….

TO CATCH A KILLER.  ITS THE SUBJECT OF COUNTLESS MOVIES, TV SERIES AND BOOKS… BUT HOW DO INVESTIGATORS ACTUALLY DO IT? WHAT ARE THEIR TECHNIQUES, THEIR TOOLS, THEIR TRICKS?ON THE NEXT MINI-SEASON OF CRIMEWAVES PODCAST WE HAVE A FASCINATING SERIES  OF INTERVIEWS WITH RANGE OF INVESTIGATORS.  MOST OF THEM ARE MY COLLEAGUES FROM THE CRIMINAL FORENSICS DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN.  BUT THEY ARE NOT YOUR STANDARD ACADEMICS RATHER THEY ALMOST ALL HAVE A BACKGROUND AS POLICE DETECTIVES… LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WHO HAVE ACTUALLY STOOD IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRIME SCENE AND STARTED TO PUT TOGETHER A CASE.YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT THE NEW, INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES OF DETECTION THAT ENDED A REIGN OF TERROR FOR MILLIONS OF WOMEN ACROSS CALIFORNIA.   THE CHILLING MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT SHOOTING OF POLICE OFFICER’S HOME.  THE REAL LIFE TECHNIQUES OF ONE OF AMERICA’S TOP CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS. THE DIFFICULTIES OF PUTTING TOGETHER A HIGH-PROFILE MURDER INVESTIGATION WITH MULTIPLE DIFFERENT AGENCIES AND JURISDICTIONS.  AND WHAT HAPPENS TO A MURDER CASE WHEN RAIN WIPES THE CRIME SCENE COMPLETELY CLEAN OF ALL THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. JOIN US CRIME WAVES PODCAST AS WE INVESTIGATE - HOW TO CATCH A KILLER… 

A dead man is found on a beach.   The detectives arrive.  They begin their investigation - when suddenly a massive storm cloud pours down rain.  It destroys all the evidence. The story of the painstaking two-year investigation and how the police solved the case...

After listening to this podcast, you will never look at sport in the same way again.

Tim Donaghy was an NBA referee who gambled on his games with mob-linked bookmakers. We asked the question that everyone wants to hear — did he fix?  His answer will shock you.

Enes Kanter is an international sports star. The center for the Boston Celtics in the NBA, he is known wherever basketball is discussed. He is also in 24-hour protection from the FBI. The reason? His frequent criticism of the human rights situation in his native Turkey, where tens-of-thousands of people have been arbitrarily arrested, detained, and tortured. Kanter joins Crime Waves to discuss his journey to becoming an athlete with a conscience — and the price he and his family have paid as a result.

Nancy Hogshead-Makar is a triple Olympic gold-medalist and a crusader for athletes. She has fought the rampant sexual, physical, and mental abuse that many sports people have endured. She talked with Declan about her life's work. The week we broadcast her episode - the U.S. Congress passed the law ’S 2330 Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athletes Act 2020’ that Nancy had been instrumental in drafting. Listen to the episode if you are an athlete, know an athlete, or are the parent of an athlete. It's a shocking story.WARNING: This episode contains references to sexual abuse.https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/athlete/nancy-hogshead-makar/http://championwomen.org/

An EXCLUSIVE interview with the chief investigator of USADA, Travis Tygart who exposed the truth behind the biggest doping scandal in US history.The show: Learn more at www.crimewaves.com, you can follow the team on twitter at @declan_hill and @ericjohnkrebs

Exclusive interview with one of the investigators who exposed the criminal extortion scheme at the heart of international athletics.The show: Learn more at www.crimewaves.com, you can follow the team on twitter at @declan_hill and @ericjohnkrebs

From a secret location, where he and his wife live hidden from any possible revenge, Vitaly Stepanov talks about the widespread doping and criminal extortion at the heart of the Russian Olympic team -- what it took to expose it, and the lengths officials went to keep it quiet.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/sports/olympics/yuliya-stepanova-russia-doping.htmlThe show: Learn more at www.crimewaves.com, you can follow the team on twitter at @declan_hill and @ericjohnkrebs

For the pilot episode of Crime Waves, we are joined by Karim Zidan (@ZidanSports), an investigative journalist who covers the dangerous world of sports, human rights and the mob. Crime Waves is hosted by Declan Hill (@declan_hill), international best-selling author of THE FIX and THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO MATCH-FIXING IN FOOTBALL, journalist, and world expert on match-fixing and corruption in sport.SHOW NOTES:The guest:Karim's website: karimzidan.comKarim's articles: https://muckrack.com/zidansports/articles https://www.theguardian.com/profile/karim-zidan The show: Learn more at www.crimewaves.com, you can follow the team on twitter at @declan_hill and @ericjohnkrebs All rights reserved.