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Crime World

Hit podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld - now with further in-depth investigations and exclusive insights at our new website crimeworld.com.Blood Brothers: Terror, torture and treachery inside the Hennessy Mob OUT NOW - https://www.crimeworld.com/podcast-series/blood-brothers/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 157: How Jonathan Dowdall ended up in the...

Crime World ·

2022/09/28

Former Sinn Fein Councillor Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick have pleaded guilty today to their roles in the Regency Hotel shooting of David Byrne.The pleas come days before Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch goes on trial for murder in the Special Criminal Court in a trial expected to last a number of months.So who is Jonathan Dowdall and how did he end up in the dock for one of the most notorious crimes in gangland history?Today, in the first of our Crime World specials about the Regency Hotel trials,

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Episode 156: The drug den murder of tragic Tony Dempsey

Crime World ·

2022/09/27

Murder victim Tony Dempsey’s end is as grim as a society could ever imagine. For 10 days his body lay decomposing in a Dublin flat while drug users came and went and neighbours complained about the smell.Gardai believe the 28-year-old was killed by someone he knew and was left to rot in a city centre drug den where addicts came for their fix and to shoot up.So who was Tony Dempsey and how did he come to such a tragic end, discarded like a bag of rubbish and covered by blankets as drug users partied

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Episode 155: How cocaine is changing the face of...

Crime World ·

2022/09/24

The Ploughing Championships are an annual highlight in the calendar for those living in rural Ireland who work the land and who don their wellies for the biggest outdoor get-together in Europe.This week, Crime World travelled to the event to discuss one of the biggest issues for communities all over the country – how cocaine use is changing the face of rural Ireland.Nicola Tallant and Sunday World Deputy Editor, Niall Donald, took to the stage at the Irish Independent tent to chat about the threat

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Episode 154: Fear on the streets as Ireland's most...

Crime World ·

2022/09/22

He is Ireland’s most notorious rapist whose first attack sparked the controversial 'C Case' which saw the State pitched against the parents of his 13-year-old victim, who the courts ruled could travel to the UK for an abortion such was the suicide risk.Brute Simon McGinley went on to carry out another horrendous sexual assault on an elderly woman in her own home and has spent the past two decades in prison.But this month he was freed from jail and journalist Eamon Dillon was there to witness his

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Episode 153: The life and crimes of Belfast's most...

Crime World ·

2022/09/20

BANK robber and drug dealer Kevin 'Maxi' McAlorum had to dodge plenty of enemies during his long criminal career as Belfast’s most-notorious gangster.But in the end it was illness that got him, and he was laid to rest in true gangland style in a horse-drawn hearse pulled by plumed Friesian stallions.So what secrets did the notorious 'Maxi' take to his grave and what did he gain from his long and violent underworld life?Nicola Tallant chats with Sunday World journalist Hugh Jordan about the life and

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Episode 152: The last living boss of the old-school...

Crime World ·

2022/09/17

HE is New York’s most notorious Russian mobster, who made and lost a fortune from heroin trafficking, tax fraud and diamond smuggling.A gulag survivor hardened by the harsh punishments of the Soviet Union, Boris Biba Nayfeld became a gang enforcer and later a mob boss suspected of murder, torture and doing business with the Mafia’s infamous 'Five Families'.A larger-than-life, vodka swilling, chess playing pensioner, he has finally opened up to author Douglas Century, whose book 'The Last Boss of

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Episode 151: The dramatic arrest of Kinahan Cartel...

Crime World ·

2022/09/15

FLASH Johnny Morrissey became the first of the Kinahan 'SEVEN' to be arrested this week when Spanish police swooped on him for laundering a phenomenal €350,000 a day for the mob.The feared enforcer, sanctioned by U.S. authorities along with the top command Christy Kinahan Snr and his sons Daniel and Christopher Jnr, is now behind bars and sources say he has reached the end of the road in a criminal career which has spanned decades.For years, he believed he was untouchable and lived first in Kinsale

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Episode 150: The 'GPO girl' and how her days posing...

Crime World ·

2022/09/13

It was a story that read like the start of a true crime bestseller – a teenage girl is found wandering on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, a team of experts are brought together to discover who she is and pencil drawings depict a cruel sex trafficking ring.Dubbed 'GPO girl', Samantha Azzopardi sparked a major Garda investigation in 2013 when she posed as a vulnerable young teen who’d lost the power of speech.Instead she was a troubled 25 year old Australian con artist who had a history of posing as a

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Episode 149: The American weapons fuelling the...

Crime World ·

2022/09/10

Automatic weapons sold legally in the US are flowing over the border into Mexico to arm narco terrorists who control the drug supply that floods back.Deadly drug cartels are using 50-calibre rifles - used to rip through armoured vehicles - against police and the military along with AK-47s and AR-15s in gang wars that are claiming tens of thousands of lives.Journalist Ioan Grillo, who has reported for more than 20 years from Mexico on cartels and narco wars, says an iron river flowing from the US is

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Episode 148: Mass murder on a Canadian reserve - who...

Crime World ·

2022/09/08

The last suspect in a horrific stabbing spree that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dead following his capture, and police hope the stunning end to a gripping hunt that stretched into a fourth day will bring some peace to victims' families.In an incredible scenario the famed Royal Canadian Mountain Police have been criticised for their slow response times at the tiny indigenous reserve where the killings began and now they are under an international spotlight as suspected crazed killer

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Episode 147: How the close proximity of prison staff...

Crime World ·

2022/09/06

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 four walls and, for many staff and workers, are seen as a means to an end.Today I’m talking with Sunday World journalist, Eamon Dillon about the strange world of prison and how the close proximity of staff and inmates can sometimes lead to trouble. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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Episode 146: Film maker Toby Muse on how cocaine...

Crime World ·

2022/09/03

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 leaf on a tree in the jungles of south and central America but how does it get to the streets of Ireland and how many people die along the way?Today I’m talking with film maker Toby Muse as he traces a kilo of coke from its source in the makeshift laboratories of Colombia to the Pacific Coast where it sets

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Episode 145: The rise and fall of cocaine cowboy...

Crime World ·

2022/09/01

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 a Garda who he viciously punched during a search of his car while on bail for serious drug offences.Once a powerful gang boss who controlled Ireland’s north west drug turf from his hometown of Sligo, Irwin is now on borrowed time running scared from gardai and his enemies.Today I’m talking with Sunday

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Episode 144: Criminologist John Deane O’Keeffe on...

Crime World ·

2022/08/31

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 morbid fascination with death.Today I’m talking to Criminologist John Deane O’Keeffe about the psychopaths amongst us and whether nature or nurture forms the primal instincts to kill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 143: The sadistic crimes of serial killer...

Crime World ·

2022/08/27

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 a man at his Chicago ranch house after sex, he soon realised how easy it would be to hunt, lure and kill his prey.Thirty-three murders later, police finally moved in on the sadistic sexual predator and uncovered his sickening series of crimes. But what turned a seemingly ordinary man into a prolific

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Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist,...

Crime World ·

2022/08/25

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 that afforded him a life of luxury, she the glamourous wife of a retired high ranking police officer, regular church goer, pillar of society.To all intents and purposes they were the most unlikely of killers but they went about their daily lives for 19 years hiding the terrible truth oftheir former

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Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist,...

Crime World ·

2022/08/23

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 that afforded him a life of luxury, she the glamourous wife of a retired high ranking police officer, regular church goer, pillar of society.To all intents and purposes they were the most unlikely of killers but they went about their daily lives for 19 years hiding the terrible truth oftheir former

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Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist,...

Crime World ·

2022/08/20

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 that afforded him a life of luxury, she the glamourous wife of a retired high ranking police officer, regular church goer, pillar of society.To all intents and purposes they were the most unlikely of killers but they went about their daily lives for 19 years hiding the terrible truth oftheir former

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Episode 142: The monster who murdered his family and...

Crime World ·

2022/08/18

AN Indian woman and her two children strangled with ligatures in their Dublin home. An abusive husband who ended his own life before he could face trial. And a web of lies that attempted to blacken the name of a loving mother.Nicola Tallant chats with with Sunday Independent journalist Ali Bracken about the story of killer Sameer Syed and his tragic wife Seema Banu, who was murdered along with her children - 11-year-old Asfira Riza, six-year-old Faisan Syed - behind the doors of a seemingly ordinary

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Episode 141: The mystery of Sharon Marshall and the...

Crime World ·

2022/08/16

IT'S a mystery that spanned decades, full of fake identities, murders, and kidnappings.In April 1990, when Tonya Hughes was killed after a hit-and-run incident in Oklahoma City, the FBI revealed that her so-called husband, Clarence Hughes, was actually her father.Coming forward to tell authorities what she knew, Tonya’s former best friend, Jennifer Fisher, revealed that her pal's real name was Sharon Marshall, her father Warren Marshall.She detailed the heart-breaking life of Tonya and how her

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