TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED with BURL BARER

STEVE JACKSON RETURNS -- SAVING ANNIE THIS SATURDAY

In March 2009, pretty, vivacious Rhonda Casto plunged to her death from a 300-foot cliff in the Oregon woods. The only witness, Stephen Nichols, the father of her nine-month-old baby, Annie, told police investigators she slipped and fell.

Yet, Nichols’ story didn’t mesh with the facts. And some of his other actions raised suspicions as well, including just days after her death trying to collect on a million-dollar life insurance policy he’d taken out on his unemployed, 23-year-old girlfriend. What had begun with a 911 call to report an accident, quickly turned into a homicide investigation.

Author Steve Jackson joins us this Saturday to tell the tale.

 

PAUL GUZZO RETURNS -- TAMPA JOURNALIST SHARES TRUE CRIME!

Paul Guzzo is the brilliant Tampa journalist who connected Burl with Ken Eurell, leading to the best seller, BETRAYAL IN BLUE.  Paul brings his historical insights and journalistic professionalism to reporting and understanding true crime in Florida.

Murder, mayhem, militias, marijuana, mafia and The Mons. A criminal history of Tampa focusing on its most infamous people and events of the past century. Historians seem to love painting a picture of Tampa's past as one of immigrants happily working side-by-side to create a utopian society that became the cigar capital of the world and later a destination hailed as one of "the nation's next best cities." While this is true to some extent, Tampa also has a dark side. Tampa's history can be divided into three dark eras - the early years of danger, where the greatest fear was the nightmarish individuals who were allowed to roam the nights in a city without a proper law enforcement organization in place; the mid-1900s when one of the most power criminal syndicates in the nation made its home in Tampa and when a another nation's revolutionary war affected the city's residents; and the late 1900s to early 2000s when Tampa became a sexual playground. Each flows effortlessly into the next, one always passing the torch to the next. Some of the names associated with these eras are well known in all corners of Tampa -Santo Trafficante, Fidel Castro and Joe Redner. While others are either less known or completely unknown - Charlie Wall, Tampa's first godfather; Robert Anderson, one of the nation's first serial killers; and Bobby Rodriguez, owner of Tampa's first GoGo bar. Whether known or unknown, good or bad, each of the individuals explored in this book had an impact on Tampa's history. These are their stories.

KATHERINE RAMSLAND RETURNS --- BTK and UK. Full details Saturday 2pm PT/ 5pm ET

Dr. Ramsland was one of our earliest guests a decade ago, and her fame and bibliography continue to grow as she waters her legend on both sides of the pond.  She recently returned from a conference in the UK, and she is known to record dead people.  BTK and other killers fascinate her, as does the supernatural.  This will be another fun show. 

listen live via outlawradiolive.com by clicking this link Saturday 2pm PT/ 5pm ET

RETURN OF THE DRUG SMUGGLER (RETIRED) -- LEONARD BUSCHEL

listen live Saturday 2 pm Pacific time, 5 pm Eastern time, 10 pm UK time. by clicking this link! 

Drug smuggler (retired) Leonard Buschel returns to the show with more true stories of international crime, personal absurdity and the ever -popular individual search for a life lived wide awake.

Leonard left  behind the intoxicating adjuncts of his lifestyle and celebrates the joys of celluloid stimulated endorphin release,  experiencing the shared dream created by the illusion of "motion pictures."

Leonard loves recovery and he loves the movies...hence, he founded.....

The Reel Recovery Film Festivals!

Now an international success, a decade of diversity and creativity on the topic of recovery (of all kinds), it's time to start planning to attend the Festival nearest you!

R Barri Flowers — Jealous Rage

From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory, Murder Chronicles, Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, Serial Killer Couples, and The Sex Slave Murders, comes the gripping historical true crime anthology, Jealous Rage: Stunning True Tales of Intimates, Passion, and Murder (Volume 1).

Each chapter will chronicle a riveting, real life, age-old murder case involving jealousy, betrayal, and homicidal fury between spouses, lovers, and others caught in the fatal crossfire, and justice being served or not.

 

CRIME HOTTIE CAMILLE KIMBALL -- "THE TROPHY WIFE" live Saturday 2pm PT

Join Hosts Burl Barer and Howard Lapides for this thrilling show! See the look on Camille's face?  She is amazed amused aghast agog and thunderstruck at the prospect of sharing another heart-pounding experience of being grilled like a swordfish on True Crime Uncensored.  LISTEN LIVE BY CLICKING THIS LINKL  2pm pt /5pm et

 

Crowned one of Burl Barer’s “True Crime Hotties” along with Erin Moriarty, Kerrie Droban, Susan Murphy-Milano and others, Camille Kimball is the special guest for the hour (or in the hot seat) on True Crime Uncensored.

"Camille and Burl are together between the covers of MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME,  a brilliant compilation of true crime stories by, yes, Masters of True Crime.   Camille gives us the astonishing  TROPHY WIFE, but it isn't at all what you expect." -- Luther "the Butcher" Burbank

Camille Kimball is an Emmy winning Investigative Reporter, author of several non-fiction true crime books, and has appeared in several national television shows and one international documentary on crime.

 

For details about Camille Kimball, refer to her website CamilleKimball.Com or follMastersow her on Facebook and Twitter

Gary Grossman Returns with a new thriller Saturday 2pm PT.5pm ET

Gary Grossman  sent the following message to True Crime Uncensored:  

 EXECUTIVE FORCE, the latest thriller in my Executive series is now out and available in print and Kindle editions (Audible to follow).  (Still time for a late summer read through Amazon, B&N, and more)  The plot has me more excited than ever.  And thanks to expert help from historians, US legal experts, and Navy advisors, this could be the best yet.  Timely, newsworthy, and culled from news just below the surface.

 

Here’s the scoop: 

As local and national political figures are systematically assassinated, President Morgan Taylor assigns Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke to work with America’s intelligence services to unravel the plot.   At the same time, a growing secessionist movement is stirring up anti-government fervor across the nation.   The combination creates instability and an expanding lack of confidence in the political system. Scott Roarke’s fiancée, Supreme Court assistant attorney Katie Kessler researches the movement in advance of an impending constitutional crisis.  She discovers that the separatist leadership may have foreign ties. Roarke’s own international investigation links those ties to Pyongyang, North Korea.                                             As Roarke tracks the assassin, American intelligence determines that the plot has decade-old roots going back to a private school in Switzerland where the future Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea befriended a young American student.  With evidence that Roarke and Kessler piece together, President Taylor authorizes the U.S. Navy to activate its own long-incubating, clandestine mission. In order to prevent an all-out war, it’s an operation that must remain secret—forever.    EXECUTIVE FORCE brings a political reality to the page that feels like breaking news.

 

THE REGENCY HOTEL HEIST - BIGGER THAN THE PIERE HOTEL HEIST

“Dapper Thieves Startle a Posh Hotel” was the headline of the feature story in the New York Times by Steven Lee Myers telling of the daring robbery of the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue by “well-mannered and well dressed” gentlemen wearing professional facial prosthetics to hide their true identities,

Capt. Michael Gardner of the Third Detective Division told reporters that the hotel's front door is usually locked at 3:45 a.m., “so it was not clear how the robbers got in, but once they did they worked quickly and efficiently. only breaking into the [safe deposit boxes] ones they knew from a list of registered guests were full. It was a very smooth operation," he said. "I would classify it as a professional job. The sophisticated thieves worked with concentrated precision for ninety minutes to confiscate a fortune in spectacular jewelry from the hotel’s safe deposit boxes.”

This robbery, eclipsing that of the Pierre Hotel, didn’t receive the same widespread publicity because the Regency put a lid on it immediately.  Debra Kelman, a spokeswoman for the Loews Corporation, which owns the Regency, declined to discuss the incident, refusing to release the names of the guests held hostage or the names of the guests who were robbed.

To this day, this case has never been solved.   Not any more.  Saturday we will know every detail of the crime as told by the man who opened those safe deposit boxes, who planned it and what happened to the jewelry after the robbery -- then we solve the armored car warehouse robbery of over Eight Million Dollars! 

LISTEN LIVE SATURDAY 2pm Pacific Time/5pm  lISTEN LIVE 

LIVE FROM NEW YORK -- Anthony M. DeStefano -- Mob Expert Deluxe

Listen live Saturday August 18th 2018  by clicking this link at 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm UK

The press nicknamed him “The Prime Minister of the Underworld.” The U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of Narcotics described him as “one of the most powerful and influential Mafia leaders in the U.S.” But to friends and associates, he was simply “Uncle Frank.” Who was Frank Costello really? That’s the question Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony M. DeStefano sets out to answer—in this definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures in the annals of American crime . . .  
 
Using newly released FBI files, eyewitness accounts, and family mementos, Top Hoodlum takes you inside the Mafia that Frank Costello helped build from the ground up, from small-time bootlegging and gambling to a nationwide racketeering empire. The book’s stunning revelations include:
 
* Costello’s secret interviews with federal investigators—now released for the first time
* His private meetings with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
* His partnership with Charlie “Lucky” Luciano and how they brutally displaced the old guard of the Mafia
*Surviving an assassination attempt by Genovese Family hitman Vincent “Chin” Gigante
*His crime family’s role in the now legendary suicide of Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, a Murder, Inc. member who was about to rat out the mob
* His personal involvement in the notorious 1947 “mob summit” in Havana, Cuba
* His secret interests, both real and suspected, in Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Manhattan night clus like the Copacabana
* His power over politicians, rapport with reporters, and amazing ability to evade the feds
* His refusal to admit his crimes long after he retired—until his death in 1973
 
Sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing, and always riveting, these are the stories that have inspired American crime classics like The Godfather, Casino, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos. This is the man who made the Mafia such a powerful force in our nation’s history. This is Top Hoodlum.

Dog Foils Evil Plot — PETER BOWMASTER LIVE 2pm pt/5pm et

On our Facebook fan page, I saw an ad for a new “mini” true crime book about a dog witnessing a murder... or at least the dog saw something worthy of being published in True Crime. 

 

WHAT THE LITTLE DOG WITNESSED. (Not a kids book)  A conniving couple devises a cruel plan to steal a farmer’s wealth, but the little dog Jim isn’t going to let them get away with murdering his master. Career convict and con artist Ed Hubbard and his accomplice Willie Roberts, a young and attractive prostitute, set out to play a long game against the farmer Pleas Burns, who owned a spread on the Spring River in Arkansas. But Willie grows tired of waiting and pressures Hubbard to “fix the old man.” Even with a backstory of multiple marriages, extramarital affairs, an incompetent judge, an extremely messy divorce, a death sentence, two jail breaks, incest, a connection to one of the most infamous criminal gangs of the 1930s, three murders, a terrible miscarriage of justice, and two sensational murder trials, the most fascinating part of the story is an amazing and heroic canine.

A true Crime story for sure —-= PATRICK BOWMASTER joins us Saturday 2pm PT/ 5 pm ET

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THE CRATE --- A Story of True Horror and True Crime. LIVE Saturday 2pm PT

After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust – in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps – a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a refuge from haunted memories.

Then, one day, while exploring the crawl space beneath their cottage, they discover a wooden crate, nailed tightly shut and almost hidden from view. Nothing could have prepared them for the horror of the crate’s contents – or how the peace and tranquility of their lives would be shattered. 

Now, their daughter, Deborah Vadas Levison, an award-winning journalist, tells the extraordinary account of her parents' ordeals, both in one of the darkest times in world history and their present-day lives. Written in searing, lyrical prose, THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice examines man’s seemingly limitless capacity for evil... but also, his capacity for good.

 

Deborah Levison joins Burl Barer, Howard Lapides and fact=checker Mark Boyer for almost an hour of fascinating conversation about the book, her life, and the horrors of her family's past. 

LISTEN LIVE SATURDAY 2PM PACIFIC TIME BY CLICKING THIS LINK, OR LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ON ITUNES OR YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLAYER -- EPISODE AVAILABLE BY MONDAY.