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Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers

Charlie Outback

Dive deep into the dark underworld of crime with "Criminal Empire", the ultimate true crime show that brings you chilling documentaries and exclusive interviews with notorious mafia gangsters and infamous serial killers. Hear firsthand accounts from those who lived the life of organized crime, uncovering the secrets, power struggles, and brutal realities of the mafia"s rise and fall. Paired with harrowing tales of history"s most dangerous serial killers, this show will take you inside the minds of

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45:28

“Melvin Rees: The Sex Beast Who Hunted in the Shadows”

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/21

🎧 Episode Description: He was called The Sex Beast — a charming musician by day and a sexual sadist by night. 🎷🩸 In this horrifying true crime breakdown, we expose Melvin Rees, one of the most disturbing serial killers you've never heard of. His crimes were savage, calculated, and sexual in the most twisted ways imaginable. Through FBI files, courtroom testimonies, and the disturbing confessions of a killer, this episode uncovers the dark impulses that drove Rees to murder entire families and

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91:56

“Inside the Mind: The Making of a Serial Killer”

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2025/06/21

🎧 Episode Description: What creates a killer? In this bone-chilling deep-dive documentary, we unravel the psychological blueprint behind some of the most violent predators in history. 🧠🔪 This isn’t just about body counts — it’s about childhood trauma, sociopathic wiring, and the perfect storm of opportunity and obsession. You’ll journey through interviews with criminal profilers, haunting case studies, and archived crime scene reports as we trace how seemingly average people transform into

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48:37

MURDER CASTLE 2.0: How America’s First Serial Killer...

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2025/06/19

H.H. Holmes didn’t just build a "Murder Castle"—he wrote a blueprint for medical serial killers. This episode connects his gas chamber disguised as an operating room to contemporary cases like "Death Nurse" Charles Cullen, who killed 400+ patients using Holmes’ methods. With blueprints from Holmes’ never-published journal and audio of a surviving victim who escaped his "human dissection table," we reveal how hospitals still ignore his legacy. Download now: 10% of proceeds go to medical whistleblower

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39:12

BILLY THE KID’S LAST LIE: Ballistic Proof He Faked...

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2025/06/19

Billy the Kid’s "grave" is empty. Using 21st-century forensics, this episode debunks the myth of Pat Garrett’s famous kill shot. Instead, we trace the Kid’s escape to Arizona—where he lived as "John Miller," a wealthy cattle baron with 5 children—through DNA-matched hair from his mother’s Bible and a .44 caliber bullet lodged in a ranch wall matching his pistol. Historian Jerry Skinner admits: "The West’s greatest outlaw conned us all." Skip to 44:00 for the exhumation evidence.

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24:30

PRISON NATION: How Nuestra Familia Built a Cartel...

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/19

From Pelican Bay’s SHU unit, the deadliest prison gang in America runs drug rings in 32 states—using coded messages tapped through toilets, smuggled iPhones disguised as law books, and female guards paid with plastic surgery. This episode reveals how Nuestra Familia leaders ordered the assassination of a DA using a Morse code-like system of basketball bounces in the yard. Features an ex-member’s confession: "We turned solitary into HQ." Listen with headphones: We embedded coded taps at 17:32.

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48:47

BLOOD WHEELS: The Outlaws’ Vow to "Kill Every Angel...

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2025/06/19

"ADIOS, ANGELS." That graffitied message sparked the deadliest biker war in history. With exclusive access to the Outlaws’ "Death Book"—a ledger tracking 217 Hells Angels executions—this episode follows their "Smile Now, Die Later" campaign: from planting IEDs under Angel clubhouses to bribing coroners to hide victims. Former Outlaws enforcer "Diablo" confesses: "We’d sew GPS trackers into dead rats and throw ’em in Angel vans." Includes autopsy photos the FBI tried to suppress. Not for gym

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44:23

HELL’S CIPHER: How the Angels’ 81 Code Hid a...

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/19

"81" isn’t just a patch—it’s the key to a criminal empire. This episode decodes the Hells Angels’ secret symbols (☠️⚡️👺) used to coordinate $1B+ in meth trafficking across 28 states. With undercover footage from a FBI informant who wore cameras in his cut, you’ll hear how the Angels used biker funerals to move product, why "Filthy Few" members tattooed teardrops for police kills, and how they infiltrated Amazon warehouses to ship drugs. Former Angel "Big Pete" warns: "Listeners think it’s folklore

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42:07

PATCH OVER BLOOD: Inside the Hells Angels’ Secret War...

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2025/06/19

When the Hells Angels declared "no more Mongols on this continent," a 10-year biker war began—featuring grenade attacks at Toys "R" Us, firebombed orphanages, and a plot to assassinate the President of Mexico. This episode features intercepted "war council" recordings from Angel leaders, ballistic proof linking 132 murders to patch disputes, and the terrifying moment an Angel sniper had the Mongols’ national president in his crosshairs. Download before 48 hours—we’re legally required to mute 3

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45:25

BLOOD AND SAINTS: The Colombo War That Turned...

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/19

When Carmine Persico ordered a hit on his own cousin during Sunday mass, the third Colombo war began—a 3-year bloodbath that saw 12 bodies dumped on church altars, FBI agents bribed with gold-plated crucifixes, and a mob wife using her son’s confirmation party to poison 3 rivals. With never-broadcast NYPD surveillance footage and interviews with the turncoat who wore a wire under his priest’s cassock, this episode uncovers how the Colombos pioneered the "sanctuary hit."

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43:57

BEHIND BARS, BEYOND EVIL: How the Kray Twins Ran...

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2025/06/19

Armed hitmen smuggled in birthday cakes. Corrupt guards delivered heroin in law books. While locked in Britain’s toughest prisons, Ronnie and Reggie Kray orchestrated 47 gangland murders, blackmailed MPs, and even planned a coup against the Prime Minister—using prison payphones and coded letters soaked in nicotine. This episode reveals MI5’s suppressed files showing how the twins recruited neo-Nazi gangs to control inmate armies, and why Scotland Yard’s top investigator took his own life after

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93:37

THE BUS STOP BUTCHER: Chilling Confessions of the Cop...

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2025/06/19

He hunted schoolgirls at rainy bus stops with a hammer. He taunted police by dumping victims near his ex-wife’s home. And when detectives finally cornered him, Levi Bellfield smirked: "You’ll never prove I killed Milly." This episode features exclusive interviews with Detective Colin Sutton, the forensic mind who cracked the case by linking Bellfield’s parking tickets to 13 attacks—including the murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler. Hear Sutton’s battle against police bureaucracy, Bellfield’s

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42:55

RATTLING THE GODFATHER: The FBI Agent Who Turned John...

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2025/06/19

In 1992, undercover agent "Donnie Brasco" made history by infiltrating the Bonanno crime family—but this is the story you’ve never heard. For 3 years, FBI operative Jack Garcia lived as "Jack Falcone," a jewel thief who climbed the Gambino ranks until he was weeks from becoming a "made man." With wiretap recordings of Gotti’s inner circle planning hits, and shocking details of how the FBI let 8 murders happen to protect his cover, this episode exposes the blood price of justice. Hear Garcia’s first

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87:25

🗡️ GODFATHERS OF CHAOS: The Hit That Created the...

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2025/06/18

Charles "Lucky" Luciano’s secret deal with the U.S. Navy. Vito Genovese’s heroin-fueled plot to assassinate FDR. Joseph Valachi’s Senate testimony that outed 500 mobsters—after he strangled his cellmate with toilet chain. This is the definitive trilogy of how prison wars, government deals, and backstabbing built organized crime.

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81:20

10 Outrageous Hollywood-Mafia Connections

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2025/06/18

Studio contracts signed at gunpoint. Oscar winners laundering cartel cash. Discover how Chicago mobsters controlled 70% of Hollywood in the 1960s—from Frank Sinatra’s casino debts to Walt Disney’s secret union busting. Featuring the "Mafia Starlet Database" linking Marilyn Monroe’s death to a Sam Giancana heroin deal. To the Gambinos showing Stephen Seagul who has the real black belt , or black hand!!

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50:40

👯 BLOOD TWINS: How London’s Gay Gangsters Terrorized...

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/18

They partied with Judy Garland, tortured rivals with nail-studded bats, and blackmailed a British cabinet minister. With MI5 files and secret police tapes, we expose how the Kray twins ruled London with "homosexual charm"—and why Scotland Yard covered up their crimes for a decade.

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22:21

🧠 BTK UNMASKED: The Profiler Who Cracked America’s...

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2025/06/18

Never-before-heard tapes from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit reveal how a "linguistic fingerprint" trapped Dennis Rader—not DNA. Learn how his church deacon persona fooled pastors, and why he taunted police with "Cryptic Kill Codes" in cereal boxes. Featuring an interview with the agent who noticed one grammatical error that doomed him. Why did the silettoes turn on Brudos , but the doll mask that BTK Dennis Rader wore is extremely freaky, can you explain it?

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13:01

☠️ MAFIA’S PRESIDENTIAL HIT: The Names Behind the JFK...

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2025/06/18

New evidence reveals the shooters, drivers, and Corsican paymaster who executed America’s president—and the Nixon-era mobsters who ordered it. From Carlos Marcello’s courtroom confession to Jack Ruby’s deathbed letter, we connect the CIA’s heroin pipeline, Cuban exiles, and the Chicago Outfit in a conspiracy the Warren Commission dared not touch. Nothing has been the same since the deep state and their coup de tat took out our commander and chief and if we don't learn from history and fix this soon

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18:37

👨‍👦 GOTTI’S HEIRS: Inside the Mafia Dynasty That...

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/18

Exclusive 2025 update: The "Teflon Don’s" granddaughter now runs his gambling ring from a TikTok-famous boutique. His son works with Mexican cartels to smuggle fentanyl through Brooklyn docks. Using prison letters and IRS leaks, we expose how the Gottis evolved from dapper dons to digital kingpins—and why the FBI calls them "more dangerous than ever."

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50:21

LA SANGRIENTA 🔪 BLOOD OATH: The Sicilian Massacre...

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/18

They sailed from Palermo with knives in their shoes and vengeance in their veins. This is the untold origin story of how Sicilian assassins infiltrated 1920s New York—starting with the "Night of the Sicilian Vespers," where 40 rivals were butchered in one night. Featuring FBI wiretaps of a pentito (informant) detailing the "5 Families" blood pact, and why the cartels still mimic their rituals today. Sicily to the Black Hand and the Commission goes corporate.

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41:31

🎲 MAFIA’S DESERT KINGDOM: How a Mobster Stole Vegas...

Criminal Empire: Mafia Mysteries & Serial Killers ·

2025/06/18

Before casinos lit the Strip, murder funded its foundations. Uncover how Chicago mob enforcer Tony Accardo laundered CIA cash to build Sin City—and why the Nixon White House protected his empire. From Teamsters union payoffs to Elvis Presley’s FBI surveillance tapes, this episode exposes the real "Ocean’s 11"—a heist that stole $2 billion from American taxpayers. You wouldn't dare call him Bugsy to his face!!

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