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We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis

We Saw the Devil

We Saw the Devil is the podcast that refuses to separate murder from power, violence from policy, and crime from the systems that create it. Hosted by Robin, a veteran true crime researcher and political commentator, We Saw the Devil digs into the cases that expose the rot at the heart of American institutions.This isn"t your typical true crime podcast. We don"t just ask "who did it" — we ask who allowed it, who covered it up, who profited, and whose bodies are always the ones that end up in the

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All Episodes

92:44

The Lost Girls of Ocean Parkway: The Gilgo Beach Killer

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/04/13

**This episode is uneditedOn April 8th, 2026, Rex Heuermann, a 62-year-old Manhattan architect, husband, and father from Massapequa Park, pleaded guilty to murdering eight women on Long Island over a 17-year span. The Gilgo Beach case, one of the longest-running unsolved serial murder investigations in American history, is finally closed.This episode is about how it stayed open for 30 years.It's about Sandra Costilla, killed in 1993 and uncharged for three decades. About Karen Vergata, cataloged as

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3:01

Promo: The Lost Girls of Ocean Parkway (Gilgo Beach...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/04/09

One 911 call. Four bodies in the brush. Thirteen years. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to killing eight women. New episode coming tomorrow. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

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48:08

Trump on Iran: "A Whole Civilization Will Die...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/04/08

At 8:03 a.m. Eastern on April 7, 2026, the President of the United States threatened to wipe out an 85-million-person civilization on Truth Social. By 6:32 p.m., he'd called the whole thing off because Pakistan asked him nicely. In between, a synagogue, a university, and 18 Iranian civilians were destroyed by US-Israeli airstrikes. The Pope called it "truly unacceptable." Eighty-five-plus House Democrats filed for impeachment or the 25th Amendment. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for Trump's removal

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30:04

What Would Jesus Tweet? Probably Not What Trump Did...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/04/06

The President of the United States woke up on Easter morning, skipped church, dropped an F-bomb, threatened to bomb civilian power plants on something he's calling "Power Plant Day" like it's a Hallmark holiday, said "Praise be to Allah" on the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and then went golfing. His spiritual advisor compared him to Jesus 48 hours earlier. Bonus episode just dropped because I physically could not keep my mouth shut today. Make sure to tag your church

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60:44

The Apprentice - The Patriarchy & War Crimes Edition...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/04/04

Oh good, you're here. Buckle up, buttercup.Trump fired two women from his Cabinet in a month while the men who leaked classified intel and arrested the wrong guy in an assassination case are still gainfully employed and failing upward like it's an Olympic sport. Coincidence? Sure. And I have naturally black hair. This week: Pam Bondi got dumped in four words in the back of a limousine. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff for refusing to block promotions of Black officers and women,

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5:59

Hotflash: Balloon Tits, Bimbo Dreams, and the...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/04/01

family values in the front, balloon tits in the back. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

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59:24

War Crimes and Tee Times: It's Only Monday

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/03/31

This week, the line between reality and absurdity didn’t just blur, it packed a bag, told us it was going to the store for milk, and then left town. We are in a war that we are very carefully not calling a war, which feels like when you eat an entire cake and say, “I didn’t eat it, I just emotionally processed it.” Meanwhile, the president is on the golf course, just out there living his best retired billionaire life, while the rest of the world is like, “Should we be panicking? Because it feels

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76:26

Just Do It: The Complete Unraveling of Shia LaBeouf

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/03/28

***Apologies for the lack of voice. Robin is sick and has lost itThis week we're taking a detour from the usual political hellscape to cover something that is, underneath the celebrity packaging, the exact same story: who gets protected, who gets discarded, and how the machine that hands powerful men unlimited second acts is the same machine running everything else we cover on this show.Shia LaBeouf is thirty-nine years old and currently facing three counts of simple battery in New Orleans,

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67:29

This Week's War News, Trump's Apocalypse, and the...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/03/25

**This episode is raw and uneditedRobert Mueller is dead at 81. Trump spent the weekend celebrating on Truth Social. Iran is on Day 24 of a hot war the IEA says is worse than both 1970s oil shocks combined. The 82nd Airborne is on standby. Someone placed half a billion dollars in oil futures bets 15 minutes before Trump posted his Iran peace claim. And Donald Trump voted by mail in a Florida special election the same week he called mail-in voting "cheating" and demanded senators pass voter

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61:07

From Diplomacy to War: How the Iran Nuclear Deal...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/03/04

Note: This episode was recorded the evening of Monday, March 2, 2026. The situation is changing quickly, so some details may have developed further since recording. A new episode is dropping this evening 3/4 with an update. How did the United States and Iran go from nuclear diplomacy to open war? In this episode of We Saw the Devil, Robin walks through the timeline that led to the 2026 US–Iran conflict. From the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) to Operation Epic Fury, she breaks down the decisions,

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49:18

With Liberty and Justice For Some: The Epstein Files...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/02/19

So, the President thinks he’s in a Liam Neeson movie, the DOJ thinks "transparency" means hiding 98% of the Epstein files, and Ghislaine Maxwell got a puppy. Happy Wednesday. The masks are officially off, and what’s underneath is even uglier than we thought.In this episode, I’m breaking down the absolute fever dream that is February 2026:The Hunter Arc: Why the White House is rebranding the presidency as a revenge thriller and what "voter ID whether Congress likes it or not" actually means for the

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55:27

Welcome to the Gutter: Pam Bondi, Trump, the Epstein...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/02/12

They raised their hands. Every. Single. One of them.The survivors sat three feet behind the Attorney General of the United States...a phalanx of white and blacked-out redaction shirts. When asked if the Department of Justice failed them, the hands went up. When asked if they’d been ignored by the very people sworn to protect them, the hands stayed up.But when asked if they actually trusted the DOJ? Dead silence.While they stood, Pam Bondi stared at her notes like eye contact was a biohazard. No

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38:33

The Week America Told On Itself: Bad Bunny Super Bowl...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/02/11

While the country argued about a Super Bowl halftime show, the U.S. government quietly revealed how power actually works. In this episode of Red, White & Bruised, Robin breaks down the week America exposed itself in real time. From the culture war meltdown over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance to the resurfacing of the Epstein files, the dismissal of Steve Bannon’s criminal case, and a Justice Department increasingly aligned with political loyalty over accountability. This episode examines how

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49:19

Where the Hell Is Nancy Guthrie? | Trump Posted...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/02/07

An 84 year old woman is missing in Tucson. The President posted a racist video and won't apologize. The DNI is seizing voting machines. And Kamala Harris just relaunched her social media. It's been a week. Let's get into it.In This Episode:The Disappearance of Nancy GuthrieDay six of the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother, taken from her Arizona home in the middle of the night. We break down the full timeline, the ransom notes sent to media outlets, the FBI's warning about AI deepfakes

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36:17

Tulsi Gabbard, What Have You Done?!

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/02/03

The Director of National Intelligence showed up to an FBI raid on a Georgia elections office. Then she put the President on speakerphone with the agents. Then we found out she's been sitting on a whistleblower complaint about herself for eight months. This week, we're talking about Tulsi Gabbard, the woman who went from Bernie Sanders endorser to Democratic presidential candidate to Fox News guest host to Trump's spy chief in one of the most cynical political transformations in modern American

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46:04

Epstein's Dead. Trump's President. Nobody's in...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/02/01

The DOJ just dumped 3 million pages of Epstein files. Trump's name shows up over 1,000 times. Elon Musk wanted to know which night had the "wildest party" on Pedophile Island. The Commerce Secretary's wife RSVP'd to bring the kids to Little St. James. Steve Bannon was texting a child rapist about borrowing his plane. And the guy announcing all this? Trump's former defense attorney. You can't make this shit up. But here's the kicker: survivors got doxxed while their rapists hide behind black

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54:52

Trump Threatens Iran While ICE Builds a Protest...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/01/29

"They say history repeats itself, but usually it has the courtesy to let you catch your breath between atrocities."This week, the world watched as American foreign and domestic policy went from "unstable" to "active crime scene." From the decks of an "enthusiastic" aircraft carrier to the steps of a violated consulate in Minneapolis, the rules of the game have been set on fire. Robin breaks down the illegal incursions, the paramilitary tactics being used on American soil, and the administrative lies

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53:06

The Murder of Alex Pretti and the Road to Dictatorship

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/01/25

Two American citizens have been killed by federal agents in Minneapolis in less than three weeks. On January 24, 2026, ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot ten times..mostly in the back...after trying to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground by ICE agents. Video shows he was disarmed before he was killed. Within hours, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called him a "domestic terrorist." Hours after his death, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with a chilling demand:

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42:40

Why Republicans Fall in Line and Democrats Fall Apart

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/01/20

For this episode, Robin examines the fundamental differences between liberalism and progressivism and why understanding this divide is critical for 2028.Key topics include: Why Republicans fall in line while Democrats fracture over purity tests, the data showing disruptive protest tactics reduce public support by 15%, and how protest votes intended to help Gaza enabled Trump's return and Gaza's devastation. With 31 Nobel laureates warning about fascism, Yale historians fleeing to Canada, and a

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22:42

The United States: Where We Can Buy Greenland But...

We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis ·

2026/01/18

This week: NATO threats, depression-era meals, and a timeline of authoritarianism that reads like dystopian fiction...except it's all real.Robin breaks down Trump's Greenland obsession and the threat of military action against our own NATO allies. Eight European countries are getting tariffs because they won't help us invade Denmark. When Emmanuel Macron is comparing you to Putin, maybe it's time to reassess.Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins (net worth: $15 million) wants you to know

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