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Women Who Kill: This Bank Robber Viciously Shot Her Victim In The Back
Jerry and Dava Truett lived well beyond their means in the small central Texas town of Kosse. They owned a lake house and a speed boat. They drove a pair of expensive pickup trucks and numerous recreational vehicles. Townfolk thought they were receiving oil and gas money from their farmland or had…
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Idaho Arrest Affidavit Traces Path Of Suspected Killer of 4 Students
Homicide detectives and even killers categorize the slain four University of Idaho students as “shiny” victims. They were young, innocent, and attractive. John Moriarty, the former Inspector General of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, says such cases motivate investigators to go the e…
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True Crime Reporter® Answers Questions About Murder Mysteries
This episode marks Part 2 of questions posed to investigative reporter Robert Riggs by true crime fan and Texas A&M architecture major Patricia Rocha. Hopefully, listeners can take away advice about staying safe in the wake of an arrest of a suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Ida…
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Reporter Robert Riggs Answers Questions About Serial Killers
In a new press conference-style episode, True Crime Reporter's Robert Riggs takes questions from fans. True crime fan Patricia Rocha turns the table on Riggs and asks what it is like to go inside the crime scene tape. Riggs recently met Rocha, an architecture student, and her friends at a cere…
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Why & How Women Murder - Love Triangles and Hiring Hitmen
What goes on inside the minds of women who commit murder and other crimes? In my previous episode on December 13, 2022, titled A Mother’s Pursuit of Justice: The Contract Murder of Dan Markel, I reported that three women are the focus of an eight-year-long murder investigation. Markel, a distingu…
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A Mother’s Pursuit of Justice: The Contract Murder of Dan Markel
Murder is a life sentence for the victim’s family and friends. Closure is a myth perpetuated by the news media. During three decades of investigative reporting, Robert Riggs has witnessed how the victim’s families often suffer in silence and are left out of the confusing criminal justice proces…
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"To Catch A Predator" -- Reporter Chris Hansen Launches True Crime Nation
Chris Hansen, the journalist who created the televised series To Catch A Predator, warns that the problem of adults preying on children for sex is growing at an alarming rate. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has reported that during the peak of the pandemic, inappropriate…
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Deep Fried Theft Rings Cash In On Blackmarket Cooking Oil
Cooking oil left over from french fries and fried chicken has become liquid gold. Organized criminal gangs are emptying storage tanks at restaurants and convenience stores across the United States. Hello. I’m investigative reporter Robert Riggs with an unusual story from inside the crime scene t…
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Whoever Comes In This Room Is Going To Die With Us
Sitting in the maternity ward of Dallas Methodist hospital, 30-year-old Nester Oswaldo Hernandez told his girlfriend that “we are both going to die today, and whoever comes in this room is going to die with us.” Hernandez, a violent offender out on early parole in Texas, executed a social worker a…
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How A Single Hair Caught A Killer
In the previous episode, we showed how homicide detectives solved 50-year-old cold cases. They analyzed old evidence by using new DNA extraction technology pioneered by Othram, a forensic genealogy lab in Texas. Othram provided new leads by finding relatives of suspects on genealogy databases. A…
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