TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED with BURL BARER

Hart D. Fisher Rescheduled for July 18th

Listen live 2pm Pacific Time Saturday by clicking THIS LINK.

Celebrate FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF THE PRESS with our good pal and so-called "Scariest Man in America" Hart D. Fisher.  Okay, he knows how to market himself. In real life, Hart is about as scary as a box of Pop Tarts, and every bit a gentleman.  Boris Karloff (Frankenstein's Monster) proved you can be scary professionally and safe as milk personally.  Hart D. Fisher is a master of both. This time, Hart is also bringing his lovely wife with him to the Lighten Up Lounge. We will all be on our best behavior.

A true American, Hart D. Fisher champions truth, justice, freedom, and personal responsibility.  Since his previous appearance on TRUE CRIMES, Hart has conquered Europe with a hit TV series, rave reviews for his film THE GARBAGE MAN, and has become the latest controversial voice on the #1 True Crime site in America, IN COLD BLOG.

Burl Barer and Hart Fisher

In Cold Blog (ICB), founded by Los Angeles Times and Borders International best selling author Corey Mitchell, is the Internet’s leading true crime blog. With several contributing writers that cover the gamut from Pulitzer Prize nominees, award winning journalists and authors, criminal justice and medical professionals, victim’s rights advocates and even family members of the victim of a serial killer, In Cold Blog has been providing a unique voice to issues involving crime and justice since June 2007.

When In Cold Blog’’s editor, Michelle McKee, went looking for someone to represent the voice of America’s freedom of speech, censorship, morality gone wrong, exploitation, and the removal of one’s Constitutional guarantee of freedom, she looked no further than the notorious publisher of Boneyard Press, Hart D. Fisher.

Fisher’s opinions on serial killers and serial killer culture have been sought by numerous television producers for programs such as ABC's DayOne, CNN's Murder By Numbers, Entertainment Tonight, Larry King Live, The Jerry Springer Show, CNN Headline News, A&E's Biography, and in magazines such as Time, Tattoo Savage, Hero Illustrated, People, The Comics Journal, and the non-fiction best seller The A-Z Guide to Serial Killers, to name only a few.

THE PARIS HILTON OF THE MAFIA-- Johnny Fratto LIVE Saturday

Listen LIVE as Johnny Fratto reaches the zenith of his career by appearing on True Crimes with Burl Barer and Don Woldman Saturday 2pm Pacific Time.

A regular on Howard Stern's show, Fratto has (probably) yearned to appear on Outlaw Radio for ages. This Saturday his dream comes true.  Notice the big cigar? Yep. He is one of us, plus he has really cool hair and a wonderful sense of humor. He also makes incredible choppers for the rich, famous, infamous and anyone who can afford one.  This will be one wild show, SATURDAY 2pm Pacific time!

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Johhny Fratto says:  I am the Paris Hilton of the mafia, I haven’t done anything, yet somehow I seem to be the guy that’s always in the light.The Mafia is part of my heritage and part of my pedigree. It’s something that existed before I existed. I been around all of that and read about it before the time I was a little kid. I know guys that are “real guys”, I know guys that pretend to be real guys… it’s all the same: there’s good people and there’s bad people. I don’t believe it exists the way people believe it exists anymore. Maybe 25 years ago it was like that, but I think it’s still pretty much over. On a mob networking level, that doesn’t exist anymore.

FLORIDA SHERIFF BUSTED IN VEGAS!!!

Thanks to "Corruption Central" for this tidbit!

Charlie Morris

In February Charlie Morris, Okaloosa County Sheriff and President of the Florida Sheriffs Association, was arrested on a Las Vegas gambling trip with $5,000 in his pocket and $30,000 in a hotel safe He was subsequently suspended from office by Governor Charlie Crist. He was indicted on April 23 along with his Director of Administration and Finance, Theresa Adams.
Prosecutors say the pair deposited bonuses in employees accounts and asked the employees to return a portion of the money to them in cash. They used some of it to finance several first-class Las Vegas gambling trips for themselves and an inner circle of sheriff’s office associates.
Morris and Adams were arrested in Las Vegas in February.
Collier said Tuesday that Morris’ plea agreement included a provision for him cooperate with federal prosecutors and State Attorney Bill Eddins’ office in their ongoing investigations of others in the department.
Among other things, an investigative audit of the department’s finances found Morris bought himself 41 new cars during his 12 years in office. Morris frequently traded vehicles and spent more than $170,000 in public money buying GMC Envoys, Chevrolet Impalas and other cars.
On May 19, Morris plead guilty to the charges and faces a maximum federal prison term of 85 years and up to $1.75 million in fines. He will appear for his sentencing hearing on July 28.

If you can't trust law enforcement, who can you trust?

RING OF HELL & BREAKSHOT -- Instant Replay!

Our mind-bending June 13th show with RING OF HELL author Matthew Randazzo V, and Kenny Gallo, former mobster and subject of the forthcoming book, BREAKSHOT, is available now for your listening and downloading pleasure!  Listen to it in the Crime Space player on your left, on go directly to it for download by clicking THIS!

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RING OF HELL & BREAKSHOT -- live June 13th!!

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LISTEN LIVE 2pm Pacific time Saturday June 13th! Just click here!

Joining Don Woldman and Burl Barer live in the Lighten Up Lounge is Mathew Randazzo V, author of RING OF HELL!

"Ring of Hell" is the true story of Chris Benoit's journey through the destructive, dysfunctional, and bizarre pro wrestling industry, and the catastrophic physical and mental breakdown that led to his grisly end.

In June of 2007, the professional wrestling community was rocked by the suicide of wrestler Chris Benoit, after murdering his wife and seven-year-old son. In this wide-ranging expose, crime reporter Randazzo demonstrates that, among professionals driven to incredible levels of steroid, drug and alcohol abuse, Benoit was not unique. Benoit spent years in Canada and Japan enduring training that bordered on the medieval, eagerly employing steroids to achieve the industry's standard physique. As his star rose, so did the injuries and the chemicals; Benoit's signature move, a flying headbutt, was responsible for countless concussions. Culminating in a 2001 spinal injury that left him at risk of permanent paralysis, Benoit, like many other wrestlers, treated himself with copious doses of painkillers before returning to work for more punishment. Combined with a crumbling marriage, Benoit's life became a perfect storm of mental and physical anguish; unfortunately, Randazzo's broad biographical strokes (he saves details for pivotal matches) and wide focus on the industry's evolution make Benoit little more than a minor character in his own story. Wrestling fans will savor the industry gossip, but those interested in the how and why of Benoit's tragic murder-suicide will be disappointed.

WOW! This show will put you in a headlock!  WAIT! There's more!  Also with us LIVE in the Lounge is Kenny "Kenji" Gallo!

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Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia is the memoir of Kenny "Kenji" Gallo, one of the most unlikely and controversial gangsters in the history of the American underworld. Born to a Japanese-American family in ritzy Orange County, California, Kenny was a bookish, hyperactive suburban kid who lived a double life as a car-bombing, gun-toting international drug trafficker. "One of the top cocaine smugglers on the West Coast" in the words of journalist Luke Ford, Gallo led his own crime family, which was aligned with Pablo Escobar's Medellín drug cartel, owned his own nightclub, produced porn movies, and was arrested for the murder of his own best friend—all before he could legally drink.

  
When the police cracked down on his drug-trafficking empire, Gallo abandoned the cocaine trade for life in the American Mafia as a jet-setting playboy gangster, marrying porn star Tabitha Stevens, and making millions in prostitution, credit fraud, "pump-and-dump" stock fraud, gambling, extortion, and the porn business. As the protégé of Mafia legends like John "Sonny" Franzese, Jerry Zimmerman, and Vincent "Jimmy" Caci, Gallo quickly earned the reputation as one the smartest and most capable young mobsters in America. 

 

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After over two daredevil decades as a violent gangster, Gallo voluntarily made a deal with the F.B.I. to act as a wired-up, undercover informant against New York's Colombo and Lucchese Mafia Families in exchange for a fresh start in life. Given the codename "Breakshot" by the FBI, Gallo risked his life to send some of the most dangerous criminals in America to jail—in the process participating in one botched Mafia hit, narrowly escaping a Mafia attempt on his own life, and earning two contracts on his head. Breakshot includes Gallo's redemption as a legitimate businessman and an enthusiastic crime fighter who works to put Mafia bosses, capos, and soldiers in jail and to solve the decades-old, cold- case murders of his friends and enemies.