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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 39: The dark tales of murder and mayhem from...

Crime World ·

2021/08/07

He’s 30 years covering tales of murder and once began his day being briefed on the nightly body count of New York city, where he knocked on doors and fronted-up killers on the tough daily beat.But tabloid man Brad Hunter says that despite covering hundreds of stories there have always been those that stayed with him - and decades into a career in murder he says that there are many victims he can’t forget.Hunter tells Nicola Tallant about a career in the fast lane of crime journalism and about the

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Episode 38: The changing face of Northern Ireland's...

Crime World ·

2021/07/31

It was once a clearly divided underworld where paramilitary groups ruled with fear in a strictly organised way. There were rules, sides and an unwritten code where everyone knew their place and the terrorists were king.But over the past few decades things have changed and Northern Ireland’s gangland now resembles a mixing bowl of hungry-for-work former terrorists, Instagram mobsters and dangerous young street soldiers who are loyal to just one thing – Money.Here, Nicola Tallant talks to Belfast

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Crime World Extra: Killer Dave Mahon and the tragedy...

Crime World ·

2021/07/30

Killer Dave Mahon walked free from prison this week after serving five years for the manslaughter of his stepson, 23-year-old Dean Fitzpatrick, who he knifed to death in 2013.Just five years previous, Dean’s sister Amy went missing without a trace on Spain’s Costa Del Sol aged just 15 after Mahon and their mother Audrey relocated there to start a new life.But with both children gone in horrific circumstances Audrey has waited patiently for Mahon’s release. Here, Nicola Tallant chats to journalist

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Crime World Extra: When the business of crime takes...

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2021/07/28

It’s a time for celebration and a place to remember the values and morals which shape an individual’s journey through life. But sometimes funerals can be hijacked and turned into a display of wealth and power, which is totally at odds with the values of society.As the dust settles on the funeral of prolific burglar Dean Maguire, which made headlines across the world, Nicola Tallant chats to journalist Eamon Dillon about what mistakes were made by gardai and church officials who dropped the ball and

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Episode 37: The haunting case of missing Mayo woman...

Crime World ·

2021/07/24

It’s a missing-person’s case that has cast a dark shadow over a small town in County Mayo where the haunting face of Sandra Collins stares out from posters more than 20 years since she was last seen.However, Sandra has not been forgotten despite the passage of time. Her brother and sister still hope that they can one day lay her to rest and find their own peace from the nightmare of her mystery disappearance.Sandra had just found out she was pregnant on the night she was last seen buying chips from

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Crime World Extra: Notorious gangland criminal Brian...

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2021/07/23

He headed up one side of two notorious feuding gangs that claimed 15 lives in 10 years in Ireland’s first cocaine war.And even behind bars Brian Rattigan organised assassinations, drug deals and terrorised communities with his fearsome reputation.Now, as he prepares for release from jail, claims that he is a changed man who has made peace with his arch enemy are being taken with a grain of salt and Gardai have already drawn up a policing plan.Today I’m talking to Irish Independent crime

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Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'

Crime World ·

2021/07/22

A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal, which landed in Rotterdam, was seized at the port after an intelligence-led operation headed up by Irish gardai.The drugs, worth more than €30 million, were destined for the Irish market where a generation of young and educated cocaine users are directly funding violent drug cartels who are getting filthy rich and ever more powerful.So how does a half-tonne seizure affect the millionaire cocaine bosses and how can we ebb the tide of white powder

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Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'

Crime World ·

2021/07/21

A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal which landed in Rotterdam was seized at the port after an intelligence-led operation headed up by Irish gardai.The drugs worth more than €30 million were destined for the Irish market where a generation of young and educated cocaine users are directly funding violent drug cartels who are getting filthy rich and ever more powerful.So how does a half tonne seizure affect the millionaire cocaine bosses and how can we ebb the tide of white powder flooding

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Episode 36: The ex-LA cop who claims Marilyn Monroe...

Crime World ·

2021/07/17

It’s a tale made for the big screen – a Hollywood starlet threatening to expose an illicit love affair, a missing diary revealing a web of intrigue from a president to a mafia boss and secret police files that could hold the truth of one of the greatest cover-ups in modern history.Now, a former Los Angeles policeman says he knows just what happened the night Marilyn Monroe died. It’s a story that Mike Rothmiller has kept safe for years, afraid of reprisals in light of his allegations that tie former

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Crime World Extra: The murder of journalist Peter R....

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2021/07/16

Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries died in hospital yesterday, a week after he was shot on a busy Amsterdam street in an attack which has drawn outrage across Europe. As his family and friends mourn his loss, police are focusing on the advisory role he was playing to state witness Nabil B, the underworld crime figure set to give evidence against his one-time gang boss Ridouan Taghi.Taghi, an associate of Daniel Kinahan, is already suspected of being behind the murder of Nabil B’s innocent

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Crime World Extra: The warring factions behind the...

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2021/07/15

It’s just three years since a hitman attempted to murder gang boss Owen Maguire, leaving him paralysed and dividing a town’s underworld into two feuding sides intent on wiping each other out.Since then, six assassination attempts, four brutal murders - including the torture and dismemberment of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods - and a huge garda effort to protect the local community has turned Drogheda into a town under siege from organised crime.So why has such an explosion of violence happened in an

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Episode 35: Ireland's war on drugs - should we...

Crime World ·

2021/07/10

It may seem like a simple solution to the war on drugs – legalise weed and cocaine, regulate the market and then tax the profits.This week, 100 youth workers in Ireland joined forces against prohibition and are calling for just that. But is such dramatic change practical and what are the pitfalls when it comes to legalising drugs?Do our youth workers really want Ireland to radicalise that much or are they just desperate for us to start recognising the inequalities in our society that lie at the

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Crime World Extra: The Cold-Blooded Shooting Of Dutch...

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2021/07/07

Politicians, police and media colleagues in The Netherlands have been horrified by the shooting of famous crime journalist Peter R. De Vries, who was gunned down in Amsterdam on Tuesday night.The well-known journalist has been working as an advisor to Nabil B. the state witness in the infamous Marengo trial.The central character in this high-profile trial is Ridouan Taghi, the Dutch-Moroccan organised crime boss who previously partnered with Daniel Kinahan’s Irish mafia to flood Europe with

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Crime World Extra: Trouble in paradise for mob boss...

Crime World ·

2021/07/05

Mob boss Daniel Kinahan has been keeping his head down in Dubai since a BBC Panorama documentary catapulted him and his links to boxing into the spotlight last February.But now, a determined American lawyer has put his name in the headlines again and this time in the Emirates where he is desperate to sever all links to crime and to sports-wash his reputation.So why has Kinahan and the MTK boxing company he founded been summonsed to appear in a California courtroom and what could the civil case

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Episode 34: Drug mule Michaella McCollum and the case...

Crime World ·

2021/07/03

She was the teenage drug mule who became a household name and when she was jailed in Peru for attempting to smuggle 11 kilos of cocaine to Ibiza her fame was cemented.But since then, the story of Michaela McCollum and her sidekick Melissa Reid has seen many ups and downs and while Reid has faded into oblivion, Instagram sensation McCollum continues to court celebrity.Cancelled by Piers Morgan, criticised for courting the media and now laid bare in a BBC series centred on the story of the 'Peru Two',

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Crime World Extra: The search for answers in the...

Crime World ·

2021/07/02

It’s the case that has baffled Northern Ireland - and on the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the body of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohue in a drain, it is clear that there are still more questions than answers.This week, a preliminary inquest into the 14-year-old’s death has heard that a prisoner has now said his former cellmate confessed to the teenager's murder and that the PSNI are now investigating the claims.So, will the latest alleged jailhouse confession simply join a long list of

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Crime World Extra: The mobsters behind the Kinahan...

Crime World ·

2021/07/01

His guilty plea has meant little evidence of Peadar Keating's role in a plot to kill will ever be heard.But behind the headlines lies one of the Kinahan mafia’s highest-ranking Irish executives and one of its most-sought-after targets.Nicola Tallant chats with Sunday World deputy Editor Niall Donald about the significance of Keating’s guilty plea, his role at the boardroom table of Ireland’s deadliest mob and James ‘Mago’ Gately, the assassins' target with nine lives whose loyalty to the Hutch

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Episode 33: True crime junkies - what intrigues us...

Crime World ·

2021/06/26

It’s the most popular genre for book lovers, podcasters and even documentary makers, with a growing audience who love all things true crime.But what is it that intrigues us about violence, fear and gruesome death and why are women the biggest consumers of all when it comes to murder and mayhem?This week, Nicola Tallant chats with writer Rachel Monroe, whose book 'Savage Appetites' explores our fascination with true crime.She talks of internet sleuths, Columbine copy-cats and even eerie dollhouses as

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Crime World Extra: A Bumper Year For The Criminal...

Crime World ·

2021/06/25

Three residential properties, one city centre business premises and one million of stolen crypto currency isn’t bad for a day's work at the Criminal Assets Bureau.But that's just the start of the countless homes, monies, cars and designer goods that are stacking up to make this a bumper year for the Bureau.So what is the CAB at and how is it identifying the hundreds of targets across the country who are regularly handing over their loot without a fight?Nicola Tallant is joined by Sunday World

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Crime World Extra: How Turkish Mafia & 'The Family'...

Crime World ·

2021/06/23

They were part of a plot to flood Ireland with heroin, but when the Turkish mafia formed an alliance with the gang known as 'The Family' things didn’t work out as planned.Last week, 57-year-old Kuldip Singh was jailed for his part in €1m heroin stash. His boss, Ali Adnan Duran, is already serving nine years here for his role in the business venture that went wrong.So what were members of the Turkish mafia doing in a Dublin B&B and who are the group known as The Family who are now the top targets

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