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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 1127: Inside Broadmoor - Up Close and...

Crime World ·

2025/08/06

For over 150 years, Broadmoor has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic.Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863, it’s housed sinister individuals like Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe (aka the Yorkshire Ripper), and cannibal Peter Bryan.TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French share the full story of the high-security hospital in Inside Broadmoor, including accounts from staff, patients, and

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Episode 1126: Double Cross - Conspiracy

Crime World ·

2025/08/06

Police in Northern Ireland assemble a list of twenty people under investigation for the murder of Robbie Lawlor. While some of the names are very familiar, others are not.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in January 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1125: Cocaine Cowboys - The Deadly Rise of...

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2025/08/05

How did the cocaine trade infiltrate Ireland and evolve into a billion-euro empire after the drug first washed ashore on Cork's rugged coast?From the country's first cocaine lord and his attempts to establish a direct route from Miami to Dublin to the modern-day violence that led to the brutal dismemberment of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods, this is an extract from my book, Cocaine Cowboys.Listen to the full story wherever you get your audiobooks or get your hands on a copy in all good bookstores

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Episode 1124: Double Cross - Old Friends

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2025/08/05

Robbie Lawlor's time in Belfast is short. In the aftermath of his death, who is in the frame for his murder?This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in January 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1123: Manhunt - The Night Stalker (extract)

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2025/08/04

Delroy Grant was one of Britain’s most wanted men – a shocking sex predator known as the Night Stalker.He had been at large for a seventeen-year reign of terror, visiting his victims after dark before committing despicable sexual assaults in their homes.In Manhunt: The Night Stalker, detective Colin Sutton reveals how the Metropolitan Police brought one one of London’s most feared monsters to justice.The following is an audio extract from the book, published by Bonnier. Hosted on Acast. See

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Episode 1122: Double Cross - North of the Border

Crime World ·

2025/08/04

After the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods, Robbie Lawlor heads to Belfast and a whole new world of trouble.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in January 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1121: The Yank - My Life as a Former US...

Crime World ·

2025/08/01

In April 1975, a young Irish-American from Long Island headed on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive and rigorous military training possible, and then move to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end British occupation of the north.John Crawley has lived an extraordinary life – working with notorious American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger before working with the IRA in an attempt to knock out England’s power supply in a bomb plot gone

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Episode 1120: Double Cross - Just A Kid

Crime World ·

2025/08/01

Robbie Lawlor's response to the taunting of the teenagers who stole his gym bag could not have been predicted — the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods shocked the world.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in December 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1119: Stakeknife's Dirty War (extract)

Crime World ·

2025/07/31

The Troubles’ most notorious and sinister figure Freddie Scappaticci was the ‘jewel in the crown’ of a British infiltration system designed to cause mayhem and chaos in the IRA’s military operations from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003.Codenamed Stakeknife, he headed the IRA’s secretive Internal Security Unit – also known as the ‘Nutting Squad’.His former comrades reveal extraordinary details about Scappaticci, state-sanctioned murder, and the political scandal that brought

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Episode 1118: Double Cross - Chopper

Crime World ·

2025/07/31

Robbie Lawlor's involvement in the burgeoning Drogheda feud sparks fear amongst the gardaí, while his erratic and violent behaviour terrifies those close to him.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in December 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1117: Kincora - Britain's Shame (extract)

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2025/07/30

Journalist Chris Moore spent his career digging into the details of a story he first came across as a young BBC journalist in the 1980s.This is an extract from his new book Kincora: Britain’s Shame – a culmination of a decades-long investigation which weaves a tangled web of sexual abuse in a boys' home in Belfast with the murky workings of MI5 and the secret activities of Lord Henry Mountbatten.If you liked this, why not check out my chat with Chris in the Crime World studio earlier this year,

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Episode 1116: Double Cross - Loose Cannon

Crime World ·

2025/07/30

How did Robbie Lawlor earn his fearsome reputation as a cold-blooded killer? Nicola looks at his early crimes and the ruthless murders that made his name.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in November 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1115: Justice For My Father (extract)

Crime World ·

2025/07/29

Austin Stack was just 14 when his dad was shot and left with horrific life altering injuries at the hands of an IRA assassin. He survived for 18 months before dying from complications.Now 42 years on, Austin says he would like to look his father’s killers in the eye and tell them how his death has affected him.Here is an extract from his book Justice for My Father, which is published by Bonnier and available bookshops and audio streaming now.If you liked this, why not check out my chat with Austin

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Episode 1114: Double Cross - Etna Drive

Crime World ·

2025/07/29

When Robbie Lawlor was murdered outside a house in the Ardoyne area of Belfast in April 2020, reporters were left with more questions than answers. What was one of Ireland's most feared criminals doing in the north? Why had he crossed the border? Who had the audacity to arrange for him to be shot while up there?Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in November 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1113: The Ice House Murder - The Killing of...

Crime World ·

2025/07/28

The murder of a young mum during a bloody stabbing at her home in Co Louth. A mystery deepens as the months become years and nobody is caught for Irene White’s murder.Finally, two confessions lead gardaí to the door of another person of interest, but still her husband Alan denies anything to do with the death of his former wife.This is an extract from The Ice House Murder: The Killing of Irene White by Mediahuis journalist Robin Schiller and former garda detective Pat Marry, published by Atlantic.If

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Episode 1112: The secret life of Larry Murphy

Crime World ·

2025/07/28

A forensic scientist and an investigative journalist today call for a search of an underground cave near suspected serial killer Larry Murphy’s old hunting ground in rural Wicklow.David Kenny and Geraldine Niland have spent years seeking answers to Murphy's secret life and to where Ireland’s missing women may be.They tell Nicola about a discovery of an ancient storage souterrain which has raised the heckles of cadaver dogs, scientists, and geo experts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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Episode 1111: Jonathan Dowdall's life after prison...

Crime World ·

2025/07/25

DJ Carey’s absence at Croke Park, Jonathan Dowdall’s imminent release, and the gangster who has opened a mafia-themed restaurant.Join Nicola, Niall, and Eimear for another Crime Week roundup. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1110: Ex-soldier gets 15 years in Spanish...

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2025/07/25

Former soldier Keith Byrne has been jailed in Spain for 15 years for the murder of his girlfriend Kirsty Ward at a resort in Salou two years ago.Byrne tried to claim Kirsty had taken her own life and even accused her of irrational behaviour, but a court ruled that he was the violent bully who had strangled her in a fit of jealousy after she tried to split from him.Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1109: Father of alleged gang boss earns...

Crime World ·

2025/07/24

The father of the alleged gang boss Jonathan Gill has been earning thousands housing Ukrainian refugees.Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about John Gill Snr, Government funds, and the companies he runs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 1108: Money laundering and mega mansions: How...

Crime World ·

2025/07/24

A Limerick gang member has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges at the Special Criminal Court, which heard he had spent €100k doing up his Limerick home with no income.Nicola speaks with Eamon Dillon about the gangs of Limerick and how they have been spending their funds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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