Crime World

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: 'Mr Flashy' and Dublin's dirty gang war

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When drug dealer James Whelan was gunned down in Finglas, north Dublin, two months ago gardai braced themselves for an explosion of violence and tit-f...

Episode 217: The MI6 spy and the 'man in the bag' mystery

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

His was a bizarre and macabre death which led to more questions than answers.Since the body of British spy Gareth Williams was found padlocked inside ...

Episode 216: The amateur super sleuths solving real-life crimes

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WHO says you can’t solve crime in your spare time? Elderly armchair detectives with a penchant for puzzles are the inspiration for Richard Osman’s...

Episode 215: The hunt for 'The Silver Killer' - the UK's mysterious serial murderer

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

CHESHIRE, England 1996, Howard Ainsworth violently bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer before taking his own life. Three years later in the sam...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 3)

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first targe...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 2)

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first targe...

BEST OF CRIME WORLD 2022: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 1)

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first targe...

Episode 214: Jonathan Dowdall: I didn't suggest getting IRA to carry out hits on Kinahan mob (Day 7)

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DAY seven of the cross examination of Jonathan Dowdall came to its conclusion, as it was put to him that he had a role in a botched gun attack on the ...

Episode 213: Jonathan Dowdall denies planning 'mass murder' and 'planting bombs' (Day 6)

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall’s evidence to the Special Criminal Court is now centred on his own 10-hours of bugged conversation in a car with Gerry Hutch.Dowdal...

Episode 212: Why the takedown of 'Bomber' Kavanagh marked a major milestone in the war on crime

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE takedown of Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh can be directly linked to a decrease in the gangland murder rate in Ireland, the country's most-senior office...

Episode 211: The two faces of State witness Jonathan Dowdall (Day 5)

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE Special Criminal Court watched two faces of State witness Jonathan Dowdall during his fifth day under cross examination, as tapes of his arrest we...

Episode 210: Jonathan Dowdall: I lied to gardai to save my family (Day 4)

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall watched from the witness box at the Special Criminal Court at videos of his arrest from 2016 on firearms offences, where he told gard...

Episode 209: 'Tall tales and bravado' as Jonathan Dowdall claims he tried to impress 'The Monk' (Day 3)

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall said he wanted to make stories more "beefy" for Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and was only trying to impress him with tales of bomb making, ...

Episode 208: 'Patsy's sons started Hutch-Kinahan feud', Jonathan Dowdall tells Regency trial (Day 2)

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall told the Special Criminal Court that Patsy Hutch’s sons, Gary and Patrick Junior, started the Kinahan-Hutch feud when they attempte...

Episode 207: The extraordinary testimony of Jonathan Dowdall in the Regency murder trial (Day 1)

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall finally stepped into the witness box on day 30 of the Regency Hotel trial, where Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch stands accused of murdering D...

Episode 206: D-Day for Dowdall in the Regency Hotel murder trial

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

STATE Witness Jonathan Dowdall will appear in the Special Criminal Court on Monday, but before he gives evidence a senior Garda officer from the Crime...

Episode 205: Jonathan Dowdall and the witness protection programme - what's the deal?

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

FORMER Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall has agreed to give evidence against Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch at the Special Criminal Court - but a Judge ha...

Episode 204: The battle to hear the testimony of Jonathan Dowdall in the Regency Hotel murder trial

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

STATE witness Jonathan Dowdall could be delayed in giving his evidence at the Regency Hotel murder trial as defence lawyers continue to argue his perm...

Episode 203: Three gangland shootings in one night on Ireland's streets of fear

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THREE gangland shootings in one night. One dead drug dealer, a hitman on the run and a feuding mob baying for revenge.Nicola Tallant talks with Irish ...

Episode 202: The jailing of Robert 'Roo' Redmond and Bernard Fogarty - Ireland's most-feared assassins

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE conviction of gangland hit-men Robert ‘Roo’ Redmond and his sidekick Bernard Fogarty marks the end of the short and dangerous careers of Dubli...

Episode 201: Crime World Live - The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club final verdict

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crime World 'boss' Nicola Tallant hosts this special, live edition of The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club from a packed Sugar Club in Dublin.Over the past f...

Episode 200: The suspected three-man hit team behind the murder of mobster Robbie Lawlor

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A three-man assassination squad scouted out Irish crime boss Robbie Lawlor’s movements before carrying out his contract killing, a Belfast court has...

Episode 199: The bugging dilemma - Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch's murder trial at a crossroads

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE judges at the Special Criminal Court are set to rule on the admissibility of evidence relating to 10 hours of conversation between murder accused ...

Episode 198: The dramatic Dubai arrest of Balkan mob boss and Kinahan ally Edin Gacanin

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE arrest of a Balkan mob boss in a massive Europol co-ordinated operation against the so called 'Super Cartel' leaves just one man standing from the...

Episode 197: Court sketch artist reveals the secrets behind the mask of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

FOR Gerry Hutch the stakes couldn't be higher at the Special Criminal Court, where he stands accused of murder - a crime that goes with a mandatory li...

Episode 196: 'The Disappeared' of Northern Ireland's Troubles

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It was an unforgiveable crime - to murder someone and refuse to give up their body. And it became the ultimate terror threat of the IRA: “We will d...

Episode 195: The Hutch tapes - the paramilitaries and the Kinahan peace summit

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The final hour of bugged conversations between Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall were played to the Special Criminal Court as the prosec...

Episode 194: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Goodfellas and The Usual Suspects

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 193: The Hutch tapes - 'Monk' on a mission to stop a tide of murder

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GERRY 'The Monk' Hutch hated what organised crime had become by the time, the State say, he was headed North in a jeep with Jonathan Dowdall to facili...

Episode 192: The extraordinary surveillance tape of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and State witness Jonathan Dowdall

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

CONVERSATIONS between Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and State Witness Jonathan Dowdall were played to the Special Criminal Court today in extraordinary evide...

Episode 191: Jeffrey Mitchell - heroin kingpin to tragic homeless addict

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

NOTORIOUS mobster Jeffrey Mitchell was found dead in a Dublin hostel after a suspected heroin overdose.The 49-year-old from Crumlin was the most proli...

Episode 190: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Donnie Brasco and Scarface

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 189: Why did secretive Garda unit destroy data relating to the tracking of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch?

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A SENIOR officer from the Garda National Surveillance Unit ordered the destruction of records from a tracker device used on a jeep which, the State cl...

Episode 188: 'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan's complex love life and his plans to escape and set up in Zimbabwe

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan was planning an African escape with his partner Nessy Yildirim to Harare in Zimbabwe where he hoped to settle with his fa...

Episode 187: The north inner city neighbourhood which the State say was used by the Regency Hit team

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the north inner city neighbourhood which the State say was used by the Regency Hit team to gather before they headed to the north Dublin hotel....

Episode 186: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Casino and The City of God

12 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite gangster films with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 185: Why Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch is continuing to fight for his reputation in the court of public opinion

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gerry The Monk Hutch has vigorously defended his 'innocence and reputation' at the Special Criminal Court where he is on trial for the murder of David...

The life and crimes of Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas (Repost)

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character d...

Episode 184: The extradition of Imre Arakas and his doomed trip to Dublin to kill James 'Mago' Gately

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

He looks a far cry from the international legend first arrested in Ireland in April 2017 on a trip to murder Kinahan cartel target James ‘Mago’ Ga...

Episode 183: The evidence about the threats issued by the Kinahan Cartel in the wake of Regency Hotel shooting

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The fear that surrounded the aftermath of the Regency Hotel attack for those who had been linked to the murder of David Byrne has been laid bare at th...

Episode 182: The latest from the murder trial of Detective Garda Colm Horkan

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of Stephen Silver for the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan is continuing at the Central Criminal Court where the motorbike mechanic has...

Episode 181: How Dubai became the new Costa del Crime for the world's gangsters

05 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a place of refuge for countless mega-rich European drug traffickers who have beaten a golden path to the luxury Gulf state of Dubai over t...

Episode 180: The murder trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch – Suspects under surveillance

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of Kinahan Cartel lieutenant David Byrne has focused on events that took place in the weeks followi...

Episode 179: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - The Godfather I & II

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 178: The story of Darkey Kelly - Witch, devil worshipper or Ireland's first female serial killer?

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Witch, devil worshipper and Ireland’s first serial killer are just some of the titles that have been bestowed on Darkey Kelly over the years. Born i...

Episode 177: The Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - Pulp Fiction and The Departed

29 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WELCOME to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite mobster movies with special guests.Each wee...

Episode 176: The murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch - the undercover sting to recover the Regency weapons

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty-seven members of the Garda’s National Surveillance Unit had an operation in place on the day the State say Shane Rowan drove to Dublin to col...

Episode 175: The murder trial of Detective Garda Colm Horkan

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A trial at the Central Criminal Court has been hearing evidence of events surrounding the death of a Detective Garda who was shot dead with his own we...

Episode 174: How the Troubles hid a history of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and security forces

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Suggestions of collusion between security forces and loyalist paramilitaries has long been denied when it comes to Northern Ireland’s Troubles, but ...

Episode 173: The murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch - The 'kill team' caught on camera

22 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A few seconds of CCTV footage showing six men running towards what the State says was a getaway car sparked gasps from the gallery at the Special Crim...

Episode 172: The murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch - the movements of the gangland hit team

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne has seen footage of Regency Hotel gunman Kevin 'Flat Cap' Murray enjoying a relaxed ...

Episode 171: George 'The Penguin' Mitchell, the underworld bagman and the mystery godfather of crime

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Underworld banker Patrick Lawlor is beginning a jail term after a court heard he was caught with drug money belonging to a 'trans-global organisation'...

Episode 170: The dramatic opening to the murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

GERRY 'The Monk' Hutch defiantly pleaded not guilty today as he stood accused of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016 - the...

Episode 169: The sentencing of Jonathan Dowdall for his role in the Regency Hotel murder

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick were given two weeks to prepare for custodial sentences yesterday after a court heard they were to be handed o...

Episode 168: The undercover customs officer who infiltrated the world's most-feared drug cartels

15 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The life of an undercover operative embedded deep in the world of drugs gangs and money launderers is far from ordinary. And it's rare we get an insig...

Episode 167: The secrets behind Ireland’s witness protection programme

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THE secretive Witness Protection Programme has been thrust into the spotlight with the decision of Jonathan Dowdall to turn State witness against his...

Episode 166: Just what evidence will Jonathan Dowdall reveal in the trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch?

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch looks set to go ahead next week despite new witness statements and the dramatic turn around of his former co- ...

Episode 165: The daylight murder of Belfast drug lord Sean Fox

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It took two gunmen just 21 seconds to murder drug dealer Sean Fox in a packed Belfast bar in an assassination which was meticulously planned, calm and...

Episode 164: The Spanish trial of veteran mobster John Gilligan

08 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

IRISH gangster John Gilligan managed a smile for the cameras this week after appearing in a Spanish Court on drug charges.The trial of the 70-year-old...

Episode 163: The Liverpool gang wars and the killing of tragic 9-year-old school girl Olivia Pratt-Korbel

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool on August 22 has left Merseyside's underworld reeling from a major crackdown on organise...

Episode 162: The jailing of ex-garda John 'Spud' Murphy and his suspected links to the Hutch gang

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A former Garda Superintendent has been jailed for six-and-a-half years after he was caught with more than €250,000 worth of cannabis.But the investi...

Episode 161: The dramatic new evidence that halted the murder trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel has been put back for a few weeks after dramatic developments i...

Episode 160: The day I came face to face with a killer

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Trainee journalists often have to find their feet in a dog-eat-dog world, where you are only as good as your last byline.And many of those who have be...

Episode 159: The arrest of Gerard Mackin and the secret Kinahan Cartel ledgers

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Kinahan organisation has been financially pulverised after a raid on properties connected to money launderer Johnny Morrissey uncovered what polic...

Episode 158: The arrest of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch inside Wheatfield Prison

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A wider investigation into how the State believe Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch directed a criminal gang and corrupted a retired police officer is on-goin...

Episode 157: How Jonathan Dowdall ended up in the dock for one of the most notorious crimes in gangland history

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Former Sinn Fein Councillor Jonathan Dowdall and his father Patrick have pleaded guilty today to their roles in the Regency Hotel shooting of David By...

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 lay decomposing in a Dublin flat while drug users ...

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 Ireland who work the land and who don their wellies for ...

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 saw the State pitched against the parents of his 1...

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 criminal career as Belfast’s most-notorious gangste...

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 trafficking, tax fraud and diamond smuggling.A gulag surviv...

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 police swooped on him for laundering a phenomenal...

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 wandering on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, a team of e...

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 terrorists who control the drug supply that floods back....

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 dead following his capture, and police hope the stunn...

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, survival and opportunism.Smuggled contraband bri...

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, police and even the judiciary with its promises of w...

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 stole his Porsche car from outside a bar. The convicte...

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 work. Are we trying to protect ourselves in a seemi...

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 slasher movies.'Pogo the clown' by day and mass mur...

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 onlookers they were the epitome of respectability –...

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 onlookers they were the epitome of respectability –...

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 onlookers they were the epitome of respectability –...

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 husband who ended his own life before he could face tri...

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, when Tonya Hughes was killed after a hit-and-run...

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 and homicide.The one-time head of Organised Crime ...

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 pleaded guilty to coercive control against his ex-partn...

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 unfamiliar van as it passed on his street and in ...

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 killing of an inmate in the Irish Prison System.Lured t...

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 a naked clearer he named him ‘Mucky Marty’.And...

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 consignment of cocaine.But the story of Patrick C...

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 gangland criminal whose mammy tried to help get back ...

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 the system and always appeared to win.But now, Gerry...

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-hand man Sam ‘Skelly’ McCrory had been enjoyi...

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 hitman who washed up on our shores like a character d...

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 part in the killing of a man found burning in a L...

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 new gangland where bullets do the talking.From 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 the 'Dapper Don', Christy Kinahan Snr and his crimi...

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 of the country’s largest shipments of methamphet...

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 elite, courting billionaires, presidents and celebrit...