Notice of Episode UPDATE (#1)

Season 2 Episode 10 has been updated as described here.

Season 2 Episode 10: Long Live the King

After two and a half years of investigation, our podcast team is finishing this episode when something unexpected arrives: the 196-page St. Louis County police investigation report into Darren Seals’ murder. Buckle up. If you want to know what the cops knew, here it is. And the questions raised wil…

Season 2 Episode 09: Mosi's Secret Box

We think we know what happened to Darren Seals. From the beginning, word spread about another investigator from the New York Times who had spent years looking into the case. When a box of Mosi Secret’s materials makes it into our hands, it leads to a deep dive into a series of federal indictments, …

Season 2 Episode 08: A Dangerous Game

Our investigators seek out the surviving members of the rap group Darren Seals managed during his final year, the Bottom Boyz. Was the motive for his homicide really a matter of a music dispute, or have “the streets” had that wrong the whole time? Los the Main Event speaks from behind prison walls.…

Season 2 Episode 07: Satan's Seed

One of the lead suspects for the murder of Darren Seals was himself murdered in 2020. When our investigators obtain the police report into that killing – and audio from the police interrogations – many of the pieces begin to fall into place. But many new mysteries emerge. Why was Darren’s murder su…

Season 2 Episode 06: Confidential Human Source

Darren Seals’ mother was certain the answer to his murder lay with the FBI. Dismissed as “conspiracy theory,” her assertion seems suddenly bolstered when a redacted document is released that reveals the existence of a U.S. government surveillance operation on Darren over his final six months. What …

Season 2 Episode 05: The Bonnie Situation

Before her sudden passing in 2023, Darren Seals’ mother Bonnie Otis sat down over several months for roughly 30 hours of conversations with this podcast. It becomes apparent that she was a central hub of sorts to whom tipsters turned. Using these varied and often conflicting accounts, our investiga…

Season 2 Episode 04: Crime Scene

Amir Brandy, co-founder of Real STL News, and his videographer friend Darnell Singleton, undertook their own on-the-ground investigation into Darren Seals’ murder beginning the day he was found. Meeting them at the Ridgeview Apartments where his Jeep was driven and set ablaze, they reveal a lead as…

Season 2 Episode 03: Roc Nation

The streets talk, and they say Darren Seals was killed during an argument about music. But is this a red herring? The investigators work to pin down the details of a meeting Darren had in New York City with JayZ’s Roc Nation only one month before his death. Members of his rap group D.O.A. talk and …

Season 2 Episode 02: Serial Killer

The strange torched vehicle M.O. of Darren Seals’ murder bears a striking similarity to another that took place two years prior, DeAndre Joshua. And his brother names a suspect, their friend Perez Reed. When Reed is suddenly arrested for a murder spree across Missouri and Kansas, it sends our inves…