TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED with BURL BARER

IT TOOK 30 YEARS AND A MILLION DOLLARS TO CATCH THE KILLER!

SATURDAY 2PM PT  LIVE ON TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED ON OUTLAWRADIOLIVE.COM . CLICK THIS LINK TO LISTEN LIVE  "A deeply moving story of powerful devotion."  —Anthony Flacco, New York Times Bestselling Author

The moment he found out his brother was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers—a teenaged-prostitute and her much older drifter boyfriend—to justice and find Gary Kergan’s body. Little did he know his quest would consume a fortune and take thirty years to reach its dramatic conclusion. Thwarted at first by the fact that his brother’s body could not be located and a new district attorney reluctant to prosecute as a result, Kergen had to keep track of the killers from New Orleans’ notorious French Quarter to Las Vegas and points in between and wait for a break in the case that seemed like it would never come.  Then nearly thirty years later, science, detective work and especially a brother's love and tenacity would combine for a resolution that would end in a dramatic trial in which one of the killers' diary would be a star witness.

INSTANT REPLAY -- AL SHABAH.AN ASSASSINS STORY!

 

 

Counter Terrorist Operative A. E. Sawan LIVE Saturday 2pm Oct. 22nd

AL SHABAH: An Assassin’s Story, is based on the true story of the author’s experiences growing up in Lebanon during that country’s bloody civil war, as well as his time as a counter-terrorist operative. The story follows “Paul” from his childhood in the Bekaa Valley to adulthood when he is recruited and trained as a killer by both Israel’s Mossad and the CIA. A tale of obsession and revenge, in this first book of the Al Shabah Assassin Series, Paul ultimately finds himself on the trail of a childhood nemesis who had become the feared charismatic leader of a violent jihadist group. This fast-paced thriller takes Paul around the world in his personal search for truth and justice, and a final showdown with a yellow-eyed terrorist who one violent day ended Paul’s childhood and set him on the road to becoming an assassin. 

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A.E. Sawan was born into a Christian family on the outskirts of Zahle in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. By the age of 12, he and his family had been forced to move five different times because of the country's shattering civil war (1975 to 1990). Detained and tortured on several occasions by both the Syrian Army and the Palestinian Liberation Army (PLO), he eventually became a counter-terrorist operative specializing in diffusing bombs. Having survived the war, he severed his connections to violence and left Lebanon for Canada.

A.W.'s first name is Allen. So, we will call him Allen because A W makes Burl think of Root Beer and Creme Soda, and that will distract our eccentric host who is distracted as it is...he was going to be the ADD poster child but he got distracted on the way to the photo shoot.

Join Burl Barer, Howard Lapides and fact-checker Mark Boyer and special guest A.W Sawan on True Crime Uncensored this Saturday 2pm Pacific time on Outlaw Radio Live, produced by Magic Matt Alan. 

Drug Smuggler found Recovery at the Movies! Leonard Buschel LIVE 2pm Saturday

 

 

  Leonard Buschel and his brother Bruce used to do a live radio show back in the 1970's -- it is famous for being the only live American  radio show busted by the cops in mid-broadcast to arrest the guy playing the hits.   We trust Leonard will tell us the entire wild story this Saturday 2pm Pacific Time on True Crime Uncensored. 

Leonard Buschel first achieved fame as a daring and irrational adventurer, international drug smuggler,  bon vivant and dashing ladies' man who romanced his way across several continents while drinking, drugging and avoiding dealing with a faulty heart valve that could, at any moment, end his love affairs -- the longest  being with motion pictures.  His true artistic passion was always cinema.

Avoiding a possible arrest for drug smuggling, Leonard checked into Betty Ford's over twenty three years ago with no real intention of stopping his drug fueled life style.  Surprise. The desire for drugs evaporated like Tequila in the desert. Following his passions for movies and recovery, Leonard and Robert Downey Sr. formed Writers in Treatment which produces the 9th Annual Reel Recovery Film Festival this October 20-26th in Los Angeles. Hear leonard's entertaining and remarkable story of what it was like "back then" and what it is like now for the producer of the Reel Recovery Film Festivals and the Experience Strength and Hope Awards.

This year Leonard is presenting a free back to back screening of Trainspotting and Trainspotting 2

Listen Saturday for complete details.

Ann Marie Ackermann LIVE Saturday 2pm PT - Death of an Assassin

Amm M arie Ackerman moved from Seattle, Washington to Germany, no doubt simply to get further away from the Legendary Burl Barer who was a radio hero in the same state where Ms Ackerman was Assistant Attorney General. No, she never prosecuted him.  There are, however,  rumours of a fleeting romance or a no-injury fender bender on the Aurora Bridge. Ackerman is on an American tour promoting her impressive debut historic true crime book, Death of an Assassin.

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 The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime.

Before fighting with the Americans, Lee’s defender had assassinated Johann Heinrich Rieber, mayor of Bönnigheim, Germany, in 1835. Rieber’s assassination became 19th-century Germany’s coldest case ever solved by a non–law enforcement professional and the only 19th-century German murder ever solved in the United States. Thirty-seven years later, another suspect in the assassination who had also fled to America found evidence in Washington, D.C., that would clear his own name, and he forwarded it to Germany. The German prosecutor Ernst von Hochstetter corroborated the story and closed the case file in 1872, naming Lee’s defender as Rieber’s murderer.

Relying primarily on German sources, Death of an Assassin tracks the never-before-told story of this German company of Pennsylvania volunteers. It follows both Lee’s and the assassin’s lives until their dramatic encounter in Veracruz and picks up again with the surprising case resolution decades later.

This case also reveals that forensic ballistics—firearm identification through comparison of the striations on a projectile with the rifling in the barrel—is much older than previously thought. History credits Alexandre Laccasagne for inventing forensic ballistics in 1888. But more than 50 years earlier, Eduard Hammer, the magistrate who investigated the Rieber assassination in 1835, used the same technique to eliminate a forester’s rifle as the murder weapon. A firearms technician with state police of Baden-Württemberg tested Hammer’s technique in 2015 and confirmed its efficacy, cementing the argument that Hammer, not Laccasagne, should be considered the father of forensic ballistics.

The roles the volunteer soldier/assassin and Robert E. Lee played at the Siege of Veracruz are part of American history, and the record-breaking, 19th-century cold case is part of German history. For the first time, Death of an Assassin brings the two stories together.