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It is one of the most famous locked room deaths in American history.On July 6, 2019 Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and put into a cell of a downtown Manhattan detention center. He was the most famous prison inmate in America. He had hung out with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, bankers and billionaires. He was also a serial sexual abuser.Within thirty-five days - he was dead.Almost all of the world wondered how such a famous prisoner could die in jail.My students and I have spend the last three-and-a-half months reading thousands of pages of legal documents, government reports, released internal emails, news media stories, books, and, conducting a series of astonishing interviews.This is the story of what actually happened to Jeffrey Epstein.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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It is one of the most famous mysteries of our times.In the summer of 2019, one of the richest men in America, Jeffrey Epstein, walked into a jail. He has been arrested for a widespread sexual trafficking network. He was connected with Presidents, politicians, billionaires and businessmen.Thirty-five days later Epstein was dead in his cell.Immediately, the government declares that he committed suicide.Hundreds-of-millions of people around the world did not believe them.There have been conspiracy theories, books, movies, Internet memes and rumours. What there has not been is any proper, thorough official investigation of how Jeffrey Epstein died.Nor has anyone taken the time to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s closest relatives to find out their perspective on this important case.Until now…Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, was never involved in his lifestyle but after his death he was dragged into the inquiry. He speaks publicly and at length for the first time.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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Jeffrey Epstein’s death is one of the mysteries of our time.Since his death in a New York City Prison cell there have been countless conspiracy theories, speculation, and conjecture.However, only two medical examiners looked at Jeffrey Epstein’s body to discover the cause of his death.In this episode, on CrimeWaves, we speak to one of those people.Dr. Michael Baden is a legend in American law enforcement.He has decades of experience, specifically, on prison deaths, and has been involved in a host of high-profile legal cases including working for the family of George Floyd.After examining Jeffrey Epstein’s body, Dr. Baden says that the wounds indicate that Epstein was most likely killed by a person or persons unknown.It was murder.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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It is a mystery that obsesses our time.Jeffrey Epstein, one of the richest and most well-connected men in America, walked into prison. He was friends and a business associate of some of the most powerful people in the world - Presidents, Prime Ministers, Princes, politicians, business tycoons - the very top of the 1%er class.He also ran a sexual trafficking network of young girls and women.Just over a month later, he was found dead in his cell.The official response? Immediately declare it suicide.Many people around the world, did not believe it. So in the last four-and-a-half years, while there has been a great deal of rumour, speculation, theorizing and fantasy - there has been a distinct lack of proper investigation.I an Investigation Program students of one of the finest academic institutions for the study of crime - the University of New Haven - have been examining the case. We have read thousands of pages of documents and interviewed people with real, first-hand knowledge about the case.This is the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s death. This episode is an interview with one of the lawyers who met him just days before he died. And like most people close to Jeffrey Epstein - he does not think he committed suicide.He thinks it was murder.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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It was a silent, criminal corporation.It was worth tens-of-billions of dollars.They killed and tortured their opponents, without giving any signals or clues to their existence.They were the Super-Cartel. One of the world’s largest drug traffickers and, virtually, no one knew anything about them.This is the story of the investigation that brought them down.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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It was the greatest case of match-fixing in international sports.A group of criminals fixed soccer, basketball, handball, volleyball, tennis and many other sports. They corrupted national teams, the UEFA Champions League, and games around the world. They had top officials, referees and players on their payroll. They threatened, extorted and murdered their way through sports.At the heart of the investigation against them was one dedicated, obsessive cop. A man who would stop at nothing to bring down.This is his story.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

Duration:00:46:35

You're in prison.The system has convicted you of murder.You're serving a lifetime in prison.But you're innocent. You didn't kill anyone.So who are you going to call?It's no use phoning a lawyer. They didn't work too well at your trial.It's no use phoning a politician. Those guys campaign on locking up murderers.Your family cannot help.Your friends? Very few actually stayed with you.There is one small organization without much money or resources - the Innocence Project. They are your last hope.**This week on Crimewaves, the true story of an extraordinary fight to free an innocent man and overturn a shocking injustice.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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The extraordinary true story of an innocent man convicted of murder and the small group of investigators who not only prove his innocence but find the real murderer.**You're driving in your car on a Houston highway. The police stop you and the nightmare begins...They open up the trunk and discover a wig and a ski mask. You say, rightly, "they're part of a Halloween costume." The police arrest you anyway and put you on trial for murder.The ensuing court trial is bizarre. Six complete strangers stand there and say that you killed somebody and they saw you. You don't know what they're talking about, but the court finds you guilty. Then you lose your appeal, and now you're in prison for the rest of your life for a crime that you did not commit.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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WARNING - A very disturbing, but fascinating, episode.What kind of person tortures and kills innocent animals?The results of this investigation are shocking and they reveal a very dark side of the criminal soul: the links between criminal psychopaths and animal cruelty.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

Duration:00:23:48

In the 1870s, thousands of people poured into the mining town of Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills of South Dakota.Some of those people are still famous today."Calamity Jane" - known throughout the world as the gun-slinging, bar and brothel owner .Wyatt Earp - the most dangerous of all the gun-slinging US Marshals.Wild Bill Hickok, a man whose biographers claimed killed only six people in gunfights.And there was another person...A man whose identity was a mystery until current-day investigators got to work...Their trail involved forensic dentistry, genealogy, and, good, old-fashioned detective work to trace the identity of an unknown man dead for over one-hundred-and-twenty years.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

Duration:00:45:41

This is the story of two skulls.It's actually the mystery of two skulls and a long, extraordinary investigation to find the identity of two people.It is a tale that features one of France's most famous explorers, pirates, shipwrecks, kidnappings, ambushes and, of course, murder...Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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The pirates of the 1700s were democrats.Their ships were crammed with men, and women, of all kinds of cultures.Many were former slaves.Others were indigenous natives.Others were our fore-parents escaping a lifetime of servitude as agricultural serfs.The pay level between a common sailor and a captain on a pirate ship was only twice as much. However, that pay could be massive. Edward "Black Beard" Teach was worth $12 million. Captain John Bowen, a Creole pirate was worth $40 million. But the greatest of them all was Black Sam Bellamy - 300 years later, Forbes magazine would estimate that "Black Sam" was the richest pirate of all time.And then "Black Sam" sailed into a dark and stormy night off the coast of Cape Cod and the legends began...Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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It's the world's oldest profession.Sex workers, prostitutes, and the pimps who live off them have been around since the dawn of time. There are mentions of them in the Code of Hammurabi. The dusty case files of medieval Europe talk about them constantly. There are references to them in Victorian literature from Charles Dickens' Nancy and Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist to the drunken orgies of the Russian military officers and gypsy girls in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.However, in the 21st century there is, of course, a high tech spin to a very old issue.OnlyFans is spoken of as the 'Uber of sex work'. A disruptive social media platform that purportedly allows sex workers to communicate and make money from their customers without the dangerous control of their pimps.Unlikely female allies have hailed the site as 'self-esteem conferring'. An Australian model raised $1 million to help fight forest fires by posting nude photos of herself. And then the Disney star Bella Thorne made over $1 million in one day by promising to do the same thing.However, there's a dark side to this new phenomenon. Critics are claiming that far from saving people from exploitation, human trafficking and underage harm sites like OnlyFans are doing the exact opposite.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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How do you solve a crime when there is no evidence?How do you solve a crime in a world that doesn't even exist?How do you solve a crime involving an NBA star, a computer hacker and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud that touches on every internet transaction that you ever do?Welcome to the multi-billion dollar world of criminal Internet real estate.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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I am the watcher on the walls. I'm the shield that guards, the realms of men. I pledged my life and honor to the night's watch for this night and all the nights to come.How do you stop a crime that has not happened yet?How do you figure out how some assassin will strike before they've actually done so?This is the essential conundrum of the American Secret Service. They are the men and women who guard the US President and other important public figures in America. To be clear, they're not for a particular party, they're not Democrat nor Republican. They protect the representative of the people, whoever it is. They are like the Game of Thrones' Nightwatch. The guard the realm and they do so with their very lives.In today's episode, we'll talk about various assassination attempts, some successful, some failed, on US political figures. In almost all of them the forgotten figure was a Secret Service agent, who knowing there was danger, stepped in front of bullets and knives for the person they were protecting. Their names have been almost all forgotten, except within that small band of watchers who guard the realm...Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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Host Declan Hill is interviewed about his work investigating corruption and organized crime in sports.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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A serial sexual predator was on the loose across four states.Women and girls were being stalked, assaulted, and raped.The investigators had no idea how to solve the case until one morning they get a phone call that breaks it wide open...Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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Michael Franzese was a Mafia Capo in the Colombo Crime Family of New York. He explains the rules, code of the mob. How it works. How you survive and thrive in the criminal world and how he was able to get out of the Mafia - and still live.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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It was a monumental stock fraud.The "Wolf of Wall Street" ran a pump-and-dump operation that netted him and the other criminal leaders tens of millions of dollars.They stole the money of pensioners, widows, and the poor. They bought themselves luxury yachts, expensive cars, and opulent mansions. They enjoyed a lifestyle of parties, strippers, and drugs.No one stopped them. That is until Greg Coleman of the FBI got involved.He, and his team, took down the Wolf.On Crimewaves, Coleman tells the story and also gives tips on successful interviews, how to track criminals, and other investigative techniques.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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Sarah Chayes is one courageous person.She spent nine years running a small community business in the heart of Kandahar, Afghanistan: the center of Taliban resistance, drug lords and deep-rooted criminal corruption.She speaks about the parallels between the corruption she witnessed there and the corruption taking place in the United States.Please rate, review or like this episode: would be hugely appreciated by Declan and the whole team of students.www.crimewavespodcast.comwww.declanhill.comTwitter: declan_hill

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