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True Crime: DECODED with Scott Rolle

True Crime: DECODED with Scott Rolle

Written by: Scott Rolle
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True Crime: DECODED revisits infamous criminal cases and breaks them down through evidence, testimony, and courtroom strategy. Hosted by Scott Rolle, co-star of the History Channel’s Brad Meltzer’s DECODED and former prosecutor and defense attorney, the show explores motive theories, investigative missteps, and the legal decisions that shaped each outcome. With rotating guests and analysis, this podcast challenges what you think you know about the most talked about crimes in history.Scott Rolle True Crime
Episodes
  • Charles Manson, Part 2: The Trial, The Motive, and The Verdict
    May 11 2026

    In this episode, Scott Rolle and Jersey Joe go deeper into the prosecution's strategy, the courtroom chaos, and whether Charles Manson would survive a trial today. They break down the credibility of witnesses who were themselves killers, the Helter Skelter theory that convicted him, and the death sentences that somehow never got carried out. Over fifty years later, the debate over guilt, motive, and justice is still very much alive.

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    29 mins
  • Charles Manson, Part 1: The Murders That Terrified a City
    May 4 2026

    In this episode, Scott Rolle is joined by attorney, writer, and conspiracy theorist Joe Racioppi, aka Jersey Joe, to decode one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history. Seven people were slaughtered across two nights in Los Angeles in August 1969, and the man who became synonymous with the killings never laid a hand on any of them. Scott and Jersey Joe dig into the competing motive theories, the unlikely connections that tied Manson to the victims, and the question that still haunts the case: would a jury today, armed with modern forensic standards, ever convict a man who never pulled a trigger?

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    33 mins
  • D.B. Cooper, Part 2: The Suspect Who Got Away
    Apr 22 2026

    In this episode, Scott Rolle and Buddy Levy pick up where they left off, digging deeper into the case for Kenny Christiansen as D.B. Cooper. They examine the potential accomplice hiding in plain sight, the missing cigarette evidence that could have cracked the case wide open, and why the FBI's reasons for ruling Christiansen out may not hold up to scrutiny. With the case now officially inactive, did law enforcement ever truly give their strongest suspect a serious look? And does the perfect crime only work if someone was waiting on the ground?

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    23 mins
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