Episode 156: The drug den murder of tragic Tony Dempsey
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Murder victim Tony Dempsey’s end is as grim as a society could ever imagine. For 10 days his body ...
Episode 155: How cocaine is changing the face of rural Ireland
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Ploughing Championships are an annual highlight in the calendar for those living in rural Irelan...
Episode 154: Fear on the streets as Ireland's most notorious rapist Simon McGinley is freed from jail
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is Ireland’s most notorious rapist whose first attack sparked the controversial 'C Case' which ...
Episode 153: The life and crimes of Belfast's most notorious gangster 'Maxi' McAlorum
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
BANK robber and drug dealer Kevin 'Maxi' McAlorum had to dodge plenty of enemies during his long cri...
Episode 152: The last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HE is New York’s most notorious Russian mobster, who made and lost a fortune from heroin trafficki...
Episode 151: The dramatic arrest of Kinahan Cartel enforcer Johnny 'Cash' Morrissey
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FLASH Johnny Morrissey became the first of the Kinahan 'SEVEN' to be arrested this week when Spanish...
Episode 150: The 'GPO girl' and how her days posing as a teenager could be numbered
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a story that read like the start of a true crime bestseller – a teenage girl is found wande...
Episode 149: The American weapons fuelling the blood-thirsty Mexican Cartels and drug wars
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Automatic weapons sold legally in the US are flowing over the border into Mexico to arm narco terror...
Episode 148: Mass murder on a Canadian reserve - who was the killer on the run?
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The last suspect in a horrific stabbing spree that killed 10 and wounded 18 in western Canada is dea...
Episode 147: How the close proximity of prison staff and inmates can sometimes lead to trouble
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a life alien to many but for prisoners the daily grind of jail time is a heady mix of boredom...
Episode 146: Film maker Toby Muse on how cocaine makes its way from Colombia to Ireland
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the white gold that has turned street dealers into billionaires and corrupted politicians, po...
Episode 145: The rise and fall of cocaine cowboy Patrick Irwin
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cocaine cowboy Patrick Irwin is being hunted after he assaulted a lawyer in a midlands town and stol...
Episode 144: Criminologist John Deane O’Keeffe on how psychopaths form their instincts to kill.
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is it that fascinates us about murder and that makes us want to know how the minds of killers w...
Episode 143: The sadistic crimes of serial killer John Wayne Gacy
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He's one of the most-notorious serial killers in American history and the inspiration for numerous s...
Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 3)
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onl...
Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 2)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onl...
Crime World Long Read: The driller killer dentist, his mistress and their grisly double murder (Part 1)
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COLIN Howell and Hazel Stewart’s forbidden love drove them to commit the near-perfect crime.To onl...
Episode 142: The monster who murdered his family and plotted to pin the blame on his dead wife
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AN Indian woman and her two children strangled with ligatures in their Dublin home. An abusive husba...
Episode 141: The mystery of Sharon Marshall and the horror of her tragic life
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
IT'S a mystery that spanned decades, full of fake identities, murders, and kidnappings.In April 1990...
Episode 140: The unsolved mystery of the Northern Irish newborn found dumped in a plastic bag
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HIS career has seen him head up investigations into terrorism, corruption, human trafficking, drugs ...
Episode 139: The dark secrets of Paul Moody - the disgraced ex-garda convicted of coercive control
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Disgraced former garda Paul Moody lost his badge and his image as a womanising charmer when he plead...
Episode 138: The horror crimes of twisted child killer Robert Black
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Convicted child killer Robert Black was caught when a curious postman turned his head to look at the...
Episode 137: The brutal murder of Mountjoy prisoner Robert O'Connor
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of Robbie O’Connor behind the walls of Mountjoy Jail has been a shocking and rare killi...
Episode 136: The life and crimes of sex trafficker 'Mucky' Marty Heaney
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When journalist Hugh Jordan first exposed a Belfast taxi driver who’d offered his friend a job as ...
Episode 135: The former rising star of Dublin GAA nabbed in €2.7m drugs bust
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HE might appear to be just another drug dealer passing through the courts after he was nabbed with a...
Episode 134: The targets of the Criminal Assets Bureau
30 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From a notorious robber who splurged his loot on properties and a six-week Florida holiday, to a gan...
Episode 133: What next for Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch after his failed bid for freedom
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THROUGHOUT his life he was known as the greatest gangland player of all – a criminal who worked th...
Episode 132: The death of feared loyalist terrorist Sam 'Skelly' McCrory
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THEY remain Ireland’s most notorious loyalist terrorists, but 'Mad Dog' Johnny Adair and his right...
Episode 131: The life and crimes of Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hit...
Episode 130: The Mammy who helped cover-up for her killer son
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some mothers would do anything for their sons - and Sophie Kokkinos proved her loyalty when she took...
Episode 129: The Coolock gangland war that claimed five lives
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was an explosion of violence that claimed five lives in a few months yet it is indicative of the ...
Episode 128: The international police forces on the trail of the Kinahan cartel
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE US Sanctions on the Kinahan organised crime group and the $5million rewards for the capture of t...
Episode 127: The mystery Irishman suspected of running New Zealand's biggest drug racket
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He has been described as one of New Zealand’s most wanted fugitives, accused of masterminding one ...
Episode 126: Ghislaine Maxwell - Epstein's innocent servant or the master manipulator?
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ghislaine Maxwell was the queen of the London social scene and would later mix with New York’s eli...
Episode 125: The unsolved mystery of the Shenandoah Park murders
09 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a backpacking adventure that would become an unsolved cold case murder that has haunted Shena...
Episode 124: Two years after the Encrochat hack - how many of gangland's big players have been brought to justice?
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Encrochat phonehack was described as a game changer for law enforcement in its fight against org...
Episode 123: The young guns striking fear on the streets of Dublin
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A third assassination attempt on the life of convicted drug dealer Gary ‘The Canary’ Carey along...
Episode 122: The body in the barrel and the secrets of the Las Vegas lake
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE water level at Lake Mead outside Las Vegas has been concerning environmentalists for years as th...
Episode 121: The New York murderer who wants to move to Ireland (Part 2)
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
MEET the man convicted of murdering his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend — who now wants to move to Irela...
Episode 120: The New York murderer who wants to move to Ireland
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
MEET the man convicted of murdering his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend — who now wants to move to Irela...
Episode 119: The story of Joe Joyce jnr - bare-knuckle boxer to slash-hook killer
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is the bareknuckle boxer from a long line of champions - but it will a lifetime before he gets ba...
Episode 118: The rise of 'The Gypsy King' Tyson Fury and his ties to Daniel Kinahan
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He's the world heavyweight boxing champ who has just been refused entry to the US as a result of san...
Crime World Long Read: The twisted secrets of sadistic killer Graham Dwyer (Part 2)
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He’s one of Ireland’s most sinister and twisted killers who groomed his vulnerable victim and ga...
Crime World Long Read: The twisted secrets of sadistic killer Graham Dwyer (Part 1)
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He’s one of Ireland’s most sinister and twisted killers who groomed his vulnerable victim and ga...
Episode 117: Crime Con - where murder meets entertainment
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
IT'S a Mecca for true crime super fans, where detectives, lawyers and even podcasters become celebri...
Episode 116: Michael Stone - a true Loyalist paramilitary or simply a violent psychopath?
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is one of the most notorious killers in the history of the North's Troubles, and when he staged a...
Episode 115: Mob boss Ridouan Taghi and the murder trial of journalist Peter R. De Vries
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The trial for two men charged with the murder of celebrity Dutch journalist Peter R. De Vries has he...
Episode 114: How I helped crack the case of the infamous 'Golden State Killer'
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Retired detective Paul Holes knows just what it is like to immerse himself in a murder mystery. It w...
Episode 113: The 'Lifers' behind bars in Irish prisons
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They are the killers and rapists deemed so dangerous that they are serving life sentences behind bar...
Episode 112: The truth behind North Korea's cyber-crime gang 'The Lazarus Group'
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is a story that reads like the plot from a Hollywood movie and punches right into the heart of on...
Episode 111: Lisa Smith's journey into the dark heart of Islamic terrorism
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
She is the former Irish soldier who, a court heard, enveloped herself in the black flag of IS.Now, L...
Episode 110: 'Mr Flashy' and Dublin's dirty gang war
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When drug dealer James Whelan was gunned down in Finglas, north Dublin, two months ago gardai braced...
Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 3)
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Gu...
Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 2)
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Gu...
Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 1)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Gu...
Episode 109 - The brutal murder of Emer O'Loughlin in a mobile home in Galway
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emer O'Loughlin (23) had her whole life ahead of her when she was brutally murdered in a mobile home...
Episode 108 - How the Prison Services are controlling Ireland's most notorious criminals
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Keeping the peace inside Ireland's prison system has never been easy - but the fall of the Kinahan c...
Episode 98: How the Kinahan Cartel broke into the U.S. Boxing scene
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE American government has KO’d the Kinahan Cartel with a raft of sanctions that have caused chao...
Crime World Long Read: How Rathkeale's 'Dead Zoo Gang' stole millions in illegal rhino horns
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 'Dead Zoo' is the name the famous Dublin ‘wits’ came up with for the Natural History Museum ...
Episode 99: The continued 'Manhunt' for double murder suspect Kevin Parle
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He was Crime World’s first guest, when the former Scotland Yard detective told us about two gangla...
Episode 100: The Kinahan Cartel's partnership with Scotland's most-feared mobs
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is the Scottish politician who says football is contaminated with drug money and that the tentacl...
Episode 107: How Spanish cops failed to take down the Kinahan's reign in Spain
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, Spanish police announced that they had dismantled the Irish Mafia by shutting down the Kina...
Episode 106: The gangland fall-out from the EncroChat phone hack
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two gangsters have been convicted in the first murder plot trial involving EncroChat phones, a syste...
Episode 105: What has changed for the Kinahan Cartel since the U.S. sanctions?
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One month since US sanctions were levelled against the Kinahan Cartel and as the dust settles on the...
Episode 104: The cold case murders that have haunted Northern Ireland
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FOR decades, the Troubles in Northern Ireland set the news agenda, engulfed the resources of crime f...
Episode 103: The Lithuanian gang who flooded Ireland with heroin through their network of slave dealers
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Lithuanian gang who flew unwitting slaves into Ireland to sell heroin and then starved and beat th...
Episode 102: The life and crimes of Kinahan cartel crony Johnny 'Cash' Morrissey
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For years flash Johnny Morrissey has been splashing his cash on the Costa del Crime, where his luxur...
Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They are the wives and girlfriends of the first family of crime who have lived a lavish lifestyle bu...
Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They are the wives and girlfriends of the first family of crime who have lived a lavish lifestyle bu...
Episode 100: The Kinahan Cartel's partnership with Scotland's most-feared mobs
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is the Scottish politician who says football is contaminated with drug money and that the tentacl...
Episode 99: The continued 'Manhunt' for double murder suspect Kevin Parle
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He was Crime World’s first guest, when the former Scotland Yard detective told us about two gangla...
Crime World Long Read: How Rathkeale's 'Dead Zoo Gang' stole millions in illegal rhino horns
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 'Dead Zoo' is the name the famous Dublin ‘wits’ came up with for the Natural History Museum ...
Episode 98: How the Kinahan Cartel broke into the U.S. Boxing scene
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE American government has KO’d the Kinahan Cartel with a raft of sanctions that have caused chao...
Episode 97: Christy Kinahan Snr - The Cartel 'Godfather' who hid in plain sight
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A week after U.S. sanctions were levelled at the Kinahan mafia an incredible fallout continues, as m...
Episode 96: How sadistic killer Graham Dwyer is one step closer to freedom
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is an evil and sadistic killer who lured his vulnerable victim into a dark world of BDSM and then...
Episode 95: My ordinary 'Old Man' - the UK super-criminal
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AS a child Jason Wilson thought he had a regular dad, but by the time he was a teenager his 'Old Man...
Episode 94: How the world's law enforcement plotted the downfall of the Kinahan Cartel
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The antics of Daniel Kinahan and his insistence that he is an innocent boxing promoter wrongly accus...
Episode 93: The gangland murder of James Whelan and the 'Mr Flashy' feud
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of drug dealer James Whelan in Dublin marks the start of what gardai fear will be a long-...
Episode 92: The Russian Oligarchs who have bought up the streets of London
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m in Knightsbridge outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the epitome of London style and wealth, ...
Episode 91: Jim Mansfield jnr and the suitcases of Kinahan cash
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is the former businessman whose reputation lies in tatters after the High Court heard he was give...
Episode 90: The evil child killers
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was an horrific crime that many vowed would never happen again. When Baby 'P' or 17-month-old Pet...
Episode 89: The jailing of Kinahan Cartel kingpin Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
His end was swift, delivered in the cold confines of a courtroom where Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh ...
Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 3)
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area ...
Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 2)
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area ...
Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 1)
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
His name still strikes fear across Ireland - a hunter who stalked his prey in the heart of the area ...
Episode 88: The day the 'plastic bag killer' confessed to Sunday World
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Marie Pezzillo was a regular visitor to the Sunday World offices during her days living homeles...
Episode 87: Behind the scenes at the Criminal Assets Bureau
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s one of the great success stories in Ireland’s fight against crime -and now a new documentar...
Episode 86 - The Mysterious Death Of Sinn Fein 'spy' Denis Donaldson
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was an extraordinary series of events. A high-ranking Sinn Fein official is outed as an informer ...
Episode 85 - Fionnan Sheahan's Front - Line Views Of Devastation In Ukraine
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A haunting border crossing from Ukraine. People just like us leaving behind everything they know and...
Episode 84: Daniel Kinahan, hotel tycoon Jim Mansfield and the house CAB want
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mob boss Daniel Kinahan’s much anticipated interview due out this week has been shelved due to leg...
Episode 83: The 'cleaner' jailed for his role in the gruesome Keane Mulready Woods murder
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is the first person to be jailed in relation to the brutal murder of teenager Keane Mulready Wood...
Episode 82: The horror behind Ireland's recreational drug habit
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a stark message to young people who believe that they are just having fun.But community worke...
Episode 81: The two faces of Daniel Kinahan
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cartel chief Daniel Kinahan is posturing again, with press statements, pictures and propaganda from ...
Episode 80: The secret service spooks and the White House love affair with Ireland
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They are the black-suited operatives whose role is to protect the President of the United States - a...
Episode 79: The record producer, the Swedish hit-man and Europe's most-feared crime gangs
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A high-flying young record producer is gunned down outside his pricey London home after returning fr...
Crime World Long Read: Davy Tweed - The monster behind the mask
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A rugby legend capped for Ireland. A politician steeped in the beliefs of loyalism. A giant who clai...
Episode 78: Decapitated and burned - the shocking murder of Philip Finnegan
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was still bright on the evening of September 2, 2016 when a man walking his dogs made a gruesome ...
Episode 77: The misfit serial killer who almost got away with murder
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He was a loner and a misfit who lived with his parents until his early 30s but went on to become a s...
Episode 76: The homeless epidemic on Hollywood's hallowed streets
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s known as the city of dreams - where models, actors and artists seek fame and fortune in the s...
Episode 75: The trial of Irish 'ISIS bride' Lisa Smith
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An 'ISIS bride' lured to the Caliphate in fear of the fires of hell, a glamorous former radical who ...