Heists, Hustles, and Homicide
Welcome to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide - the true crime podcast where brains, betrayal, and blood all share the same spotlight.I'm Steve your host, and each week, I’ll take you into the minds of the boldest criminals, the slickest con artists, and the darkest murderers…
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The Dumb Crime of The Month: The Pilot Who Faked His Death (opens the original)
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What do you do when your financial empire is collapsing, investigators are closing in, and your carefully manufactured life is about to fall apart? If you’re Marcus Schrenker, you climb into a million-dollar airplane, report a catastrophic midair emergency, switch on the autopilot, and parachute into the Alabama wilderness while the empty aircraft continues flying toward the Gulf of Mexico. The plan was supposed to convince authorities that Schrenker had died in a tragic plane crash. Instead, th
Alex Murdaugh: Murder, Millions, and the Fall of a Family Dynasty (opens the original)
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Alex Murdaugh: Murder, Millions, and the Fall of a Family Dynasty For nearly a century, the Murdaugh name carried power in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. They were prosecutors. Attorneys. Insiders. A family whose influence seemed woven into the legal system itself. Then everything began to unravel. On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 from his family’s sprawling Moselle property and reported finding his wife, Maggie, and his 22-year-old son, Paul, shot to death. What initially looked like an
The Dumb Crime of the Month: The Armored Car Heist That Almost Worked (opens the original)
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The Dumb Crime of the Month: The Armored Car Heist That Almost Worked Episode Show Notes Welcome to a brand new monthly segment on Heists, Hustles, and Homicide : The Dumb Crime of the Month - where we spotlight criminals who come dangerously close to pulling off the perfect crime…only to destroy the entire thing with one spectacularly stupid mistake. And for our first installment, we’re starting strong. In 2008, Anthony Curcio put together one of the most creative armored-car robberies you’ll e
The Wrap Sheet: The Barefoot Bandit - Abused as a Child, Then Hunted as a Criminal (opens the original)
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Colton Harris-Moore became famous for stealing cars, boats, and airplanes, escaping into the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and repeatedly embarrassing the authorities trying to catch him. But long before he was hunted as the Barefoot Bandit, he was a child asking for help. In this Wrap Sheet episode, Steve takes a deeper, sharper, and more entertaining look at the complicated story behind the legend. Colton grew up surrounded by poverty, neglect, instability, and abuse. The woods became his
The Barefoot Bandit: The Boy Who Turned Crime Into Legend (opens the original)
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He was a troubled teenager from a broken home who dreamed of becoming a pilot. Instead, Colton Harris-Moore became one of the most notorious young fugitives in America. After escaping from a juvenile halfway house, Colton disappeared into the forests and islands of the Pacific Northwest. He survived by breaking into vacation homes, stealing food, sleeping in empty houses, taking cars, boats, electronics, and eventually something almost no one believed possible: airplanes. With no formal flight t
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