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Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish.

In Fool Me Once, renowned expert Kelly Richmond Pope shows fraud in action, uncovering what makes perps tick, victims so gullible, and whistleblowers so morally righteous, while also encouraging us to look at our own behaviors and motivations in the hopes of protecting ourselves and our companies.

By the time you finish this book, you'll have a better understanding of—and perhaps more compassion for—perpetrators; a renewed connection to victims; and an appreciation for those who blow the whistle.

"The owls are not what they seem." Welcome to The Bluerose Files. We are a dispatch from the edge of the known, exploring the intersection of true crime, internet culture, and the paranormal. We take a methodical, serious approach to the world's weirdest stories. If you are looking for deep dives into internet enigmas, occult history, or unsolved crimes, pull up a chair. New investigations every other Tuesday.

Lunedì 8 gennaio 2001, verso le sette di sera, nel giardino di Villa Altachiara a Portofino, scompariva la contessa Francesca Vacca Agusta, per anni protagonista del jet set italiano e internazionale. Prendeva il via quella sera un'indagine che avrebbe riempito le cronache di giornali e tv per settimane, mesi e anni, senza soluzione né requie neppure quando, una ventina di giorni più tardi, il cadavere venne ritrovato in mare, a pochi metri da una baia in Costa Azzurra.

The True Crime Catch Up is the weekly podcast from UK True Crime Podcast’s Adam Lloyd and British Murders’ Stuart Blues where they discuss the true crime stories that deserve your attention. Watch or listen every Wednesday as they unpick the stories that are gripping the nation, expose the details of untold misdemeanours and revisit the infamous crimes that made the headlines in years gone by. This is your one stop shop to get caught up on everything you need to know about the true crime stories that need your attention. Don't forget to follow the podcast and turn on notifications so you ...

MAYA BLUE: A Memoir of Survival is Working Girl meets Taken, a true story of love, cocaine, abduction, and survival, and in the end, Brenda Coffee is the last one standing. Recipient of the coveted Kirkus starred review and nominated for the prestigious 2025 Kirkus Prize, MAYA BLUE is a memoir that reads like a thriller, a compelling, fast-paced story that underscores the power of our voice. "It was a fairy tale until it wasn't... " For a long time, that's what successful businesswoman Brenda Coffee told herself whenever she dared to look back on her twenties and thirties.

We are a Law Enforcement Family and plan on sharing with our listeners some true crime mixed with family life stories.

Nestled in the warm embrace of his immigrant grandmother, Mike Moy was raised hearing bloodcurdling tales of the brutal life she escaped in China. But growing up on the mean streets of Manhattan’s Chinatown, Mike has also faced shocking violence coupled with destructive racism. In a tight-knit community besieged with fear and alienation, teenage Mike takes refuge in one of Chinatown’s notorious gangs, tattooing his membership in Fuk Ching on his body.

The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance. Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst...

Compelling true crime stories from the Appalachian Mountains and beyond. This podcast explores crimes and stories, from the notorious to the obscure, spanning frontier times to modern-day mysteries. Crimes, history, mysteries, and more. Keeping history alive, one crime at a time.

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history.

Welcome to the Blue Light Investigations Podcast. Get your True Crime from the source, not just those who read about it.

When his Los Angeles neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars, the Crips' influence—and Tookie's reputation—began to spread across Los Angeles. Soon he was regularly under police surveillance, and, as a result, was arrested often, though always released because the charges did not stick.

A documentary look at the St. Clair River and Blue Water Bridge, where legitimate trade and organized smuggling intersect. Host Rayvn Rowe builds each episode from public records, FOIA files, and confirmed cases. Boats, trucks, sensors, drones, courtrooms. No reenactments. Just the facts and the human stakes.

In January 1923, 20-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beautiful and bewitching dancer washed up on lonely Torrey Pines beach, her party dress and possessions strewn about on the sand.

During the peak of the Somali piracy crisis, three ships - from Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan - were hijacked and then abandoned to their fate by their employers, who lacked the money to pay ransoms. All would still be there, were it not for Colonel John Steed, a retired British military attaché, who launched his own private mission to free them. Author Colin Freeman, who has himself spent time held hostage by Somali pirates, takes listeners on an inside track into the world of hostage negotiation and one man’s heroic rescue mission.

Told from the viewpoint of an impressionable young entrepreneur named Jay Carter Brown, this memoir quickly dives into the gritty underbelly of the international drug trade. The story begins with minor-league smuggling scams between Canada and the Caribbean that soon escalate to multi-ton shipments of grass and hash from the Caribbean and the Middle East. All goes well for a time, but as the stakes grow higher, inevitable setbacks occur. Drug-runners, police, jealous friends, and rival gangs all contribute to this extraordinary story of a young man who became involved at the highest levels of the drug trade and lived to tell about it.

Discussing modern day policing and the everyday job of a cop. While reviewing good beer!

The Blue Code: Defined as the supposed code of informal silence amongst Police Officers in the United States to not report a colleagues errors, misconducts or crimes.I’m David Robinson Jr. and this is The Blue Code: Confidential Podcast.  David Robinson Sr., that’s my Pops. He was an exemplary Detroit Police officer for 13 years. He made a decision to cross the thin blue line and dedicate his life to representing citizens against Police Brutality, Misconduct and Wrongful Death as a Civil Rights Attorney. Holding Officers and Departments accountable.40 years and counting; My father...

A 5-part mini-series based on the Amazon best-seller, “Blue Lies: The War on Justice and the Conspiracy to Weaken America’s Cops,” by Jeff Wolf. blueliesbook.online.