Episode 70: Dennis McFadden - The MI5 Chameleon who infiltrated the New IRA
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He was the New IRA 'fixer' with an unclear past, but despite some red flags, Dennis McFadden managed...
Episode 69: The night the Loyalist Glenanne Gang murdered my daddy
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Garfield Beattie is a triple murderer who was part of the infamous Glennane Gang, a brutal mob made ...
Episode 68: How the Kinahan Cartel crushed Peter 'Fatso' Mitchell's cocaine empire
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He was the Irish king of the Costa until the Kinahan mob turned on him and forced the one-time drug ...
Episode 67: The rise and fall of Ireland's first heroin dealer, Larry Dunne
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He was the first godfather of Irish crime, the man who unleashed heroin on Dublin’s impoverished h...
Episode 66: The cannabis epidemic threatening Ireland's teens
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, cannabis is being de-criminalised and in some countries legalised but with a highe...
Episode 65: The threats, witness murders and prison escape plot in the Ridouan Taghi trial
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of another witness in the Marengo Trial, the shocking revelations that suspect Ridouan Ta...
Crime World Long Read: 'Fat' Freddie - The violent story of Ireland's most feared mobster(Part 2)
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Tallant tells the story of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, one of Ireland's most-feared mobsters.From...
Crime World Long Read: 'Fat' Freddie - The violent story of Ireland's most feared mobster(Part 1)
22 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Tallant tells the story of 'Fat' Freddie Thompson, one of Ireland's most-feared mobsters.From...
Episode 64: The brutal and bloody reign of 'Border Fox' Dessie O'Hare
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former businessman Jimmy Mansfield Jnr went to jail this week, convicted of attempting to pervert th...
Episode 63: The spectacular downfall of Celtic Tiger playboy Jim Mansfield jnr
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He was the playboy prince of the Celtic Tiger era and lived it up in a luxury mansion frequented by ...
Episode 62: The two faces of Kinahan hitman-for-hire Alan Wilson
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He’s the hitman for hire who claims to have turned his life around - and nowadays Alan Wilson says...
Episode 61: Why the fallout from the murder of Keane Mulready Woods still threatens a community
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a brutal gangland murder that made headlines across the world. Now, two years on from the mur...
Episode 60: CAB target Jonathan Gill and his new 'dispute-solving' business
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He is a well known Criminal Assets Bureau target who was once put on trial for a tiger kidnapping, b...
Episode 59: The most brutal 24-hour period in the North's troubled past
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Northern Ireland’s troubled past there have been hundreds of atrocities and thousands of lives ...
Crime World Extra: 'I married a psychopathic bigamist, con man and sex offender' (re-post)
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man...
Crime World Extra: The Ghislaine Maxwell guilty verdict and what next for Prince Andrew?
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been an unhappy New Year for former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell as she faces up to 65 years b...
Crime World Extra: A stolen masterpiece and an unlikely thief (re-post)
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Detective Anthony Amore tracks down stolen art and follows clues all over the world hunting priceles...
Crime World Extra: The Wilsons - Ireland's most feared clan of killers for hire (re-post)
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John, Keith, Alan, Eric and Luke Wilson were once Ireland’s most feared gangland family who terror...
Crime World Extra: The haunting case of missing Mayo woman Sandra Collins (repost)
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a missing person’s case that has cast a dark shadow over a small town in County Mayo where ...
Crime World Extra: The Ghislaine Maxwell trial update
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The jury in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has adjourned for the Christmas holidays with the fate of...
Crime World Extra: My life banged up next to IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in the H-Block (re-post)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Forty years ago this month, 21-year-old Jake Mac Siacais cried in his H-Block cell as his friend Bob...
Crime World Extra: The American guns fuelling the deadly Mexican Cartels and drug wars (re-post)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold wea...
Episode 58: 2021 - The Crime Year In Review
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a year of takedowns and the end of the line for many. And while 2021 closes on a high note...
Crime World Extra: The Encrochat phone hack and why no one has been busted in Ireland (re-post)
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was the phone hack that rocked the underworld and led to thousands of arrests and record breaking...
Crime World Extra: An award-winning year of true crime coverage
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So we did it – we got through our first year on Crime World and managed to bag the 'Podcast of the...
Episode 57: The Mr Moonlight murder and Patrick Quirke's failed bid for freedom
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was the trial that lifted a lid on sex and lust in rural Ireland and revealed the secrets of a sm...
Crime World Extra: The shameless lifestyle of €2m fraudster Julie McBrien
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
She was a fraudster who almost bankrupted the tight-knit company she worked for, and with the £1.9m...
Crime World Extra: The sordid tales behind the Ghislaine Maxwell trial
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in New York is finally underway after years of allegations about her ...
Episode 56: Is prison the holiday camp many people believe it to be?
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They spent years in the prison system for a string of offences linked to their chronic addiction pro...
Crime World Extra: The sex offenders stalking our streets
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New legislation which introduces the tagging of sex offenders will now deal with the complex issues ...
Crime World Extra: Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch and his battle with the Special Criminal Court
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran criminal Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has been given permission to take a High Court challenge...
Episode 55: Face to face with wife killer Joe O'Reilly
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When killer Joe O’Reilly bludgeoned his wife Rachel to death at their home in the Naul, Co Dublin,...
Crime World Extra: The failed gangland hit that brought down the Kinahan cartel
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was planned as the Kinahan Mafia’s trophy kill, with only Daniel Kinahan and Thomas ‘Bomber’...
Crime World Extra: Is Graham Dwyer's murder conviction about to be overturned?
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland’s mobile phone data retention systems are under the spotlight and European legal experts h...
Episode 54: The rise and spectacular fall of the Sean Quinn empire
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was the one-time billionaire and the pride of his native Cavan, where a generation of workers sha...
Crime World Extra: 20 Years Of The PSNI in Northern Ireland
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A vision for a new police force in Northern Ireland 20 years after Chris Patten’s ground-breaking ...
Crime World Extra: Davy Tweed - the evil monster behind the legend
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was a towering Ulster rugby star who won four caps for Ireland in the mid 1990s and went on to fo...
Episode 53: The Downfall of Queen of Con - Marianne 'Mair' Smyth
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Irish heiress Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth walked in the door of Jonathan Walton’s LA apartment ...
Crime World Extra - The Kevin Lunney Kidnapping Case
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was the violent enforcer of Slieve Rusheen who operated with impunity for more than eight years t...
Crime World Extra: Prison Contraband and a Kinahan cartel party behind bars
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A Kinahan mob prison party to celebrate the birthday of a dangerous criminal is held behind bars in ...
Episode 52: The final days of the once-notorious Ballymun Towers
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was the greatest social housing disaster in Ireland’s history - one which promised new beginnin...
Crime World Extra: The sorry end of once-powerful gangland 'fixer' John Traynor
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was the gangland fixer known as 'The Coach' and for decades he tried to play the criminal underwo...
Crime World Extra: How Australia's biggest drug cartel was brought to its knees
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was a sensational blow to organised crime - and when Australia’s Federal Police joined forces w...
Episode 51: Philip Cairns - The boy who never came home
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was the boy who never came home – the teenager whose innocent face has haunted generations of I...
Crime World Extra: The dramatic takedown of Colombia's most notorious drug lord
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been described as the biggest blow against the Colombian drug cartels since the famous takedo...
Crime World Extra: The life and extraordinary death of Northern Ireland drugs baron Noel Johnston
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was the notorious drug dealer who introduced heroin to his hometown of Ballymena, County Antrim.A...
Episode 50: The rise of Narco terrorism in The Netherlands
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A journalist shot dead on the street. A criminal lawyer assassinated on the doorstep of his Amsterda...
Crime World Extra: The bloody past of critically ill gang boss Cornelius Price
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He is due to face kidnap charges later this year in the UK and has been a central and violent figure...
Crime World Extra: The hunt for on-the-run prisoner and gangland heavyweight Johnny Mangan
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He is a gangland heavyweight serving time for drugs and weapon offences and was once named in court ...
Episode 49: The murder of Sunday World journalist Marty O'Hagan - 20 years on
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been 20 years since Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan was murdered on a Lurgan pavemen...
Crime World Extra: The life and crimes of Kinahan Cartel mobster Graham 'The Wig' Whelan
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Convicted drug dealer Graham ‘The Wig’ Whelan is facing jail after pleading guilty to a number o...
Crime World Extra: The horror of Ireland's sex slave trade
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They are the first people in Ireland to be convicted of human trafficking for a prostitution ring an...
Episode 48: The former FBI agent on the trail of missing Annie McCarrick
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A FORMER FBI agent working with the family of missing Annie McCarrick has said that a Spanish serial...
Crime World Extra: Why new DNA evidence could finally solve the 'Kerry Baby' murder case
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 37-year murder mystery that has haunted Ireland and remains the biggest policing scandal ...
Crime World Extra: Anthony Flynn and the sexual assault accusations that rocked a homeless charity
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was a charity set up to respond to Dublin’s homeless crises and to provide food and shelter to ...
Episode 47: The Horror Of Life Under The Brutal Taliban System of Justice
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The news reports from Afghanistan are becoming more concerning by the day as Taliban militants retur...
Crime World Extra: The moment Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch touched down to face Regency murder charge
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch is back in an Irish prison for the first time in nearly 40 years after he was...
Crime World Extra: The Murder Of Gabby Petito - the case that has rocked America
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a murder mystery that has divided America, pitted armchair sleuths against seasoned detective...
Crime World Extra - Criminal Godfather Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He has lost in his bid to halt extradition attempts in a Spanish court and now Gerry ‘The Monk’ ...
Episode 46: The crime gangs and smugglers on the Irish Border
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The tag ‘Bandit Country’ was long used for what was once described as lawless ‘South Armagh’...
Crime World Extra: The Rathkeale Rovers And The Rhino Horn Traffickers
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A French court has convicted a gang of eight men including four members of the Rathkeale Rovers Orga...
Crime World Extra: The Burglary Gang That Terrorised The Nation
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In life they formed a prolific burglary gang that terrorised the country and made use of the motorwa...
Episode 45: The Molly Martens Murder Files
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He suffered a brutal death at the hands of his wife and her former FBI agent dad, but the path to ju...
Crime World Extra: Terror on the streets as two of Ireland's most-feared inmates walk free from jail
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They are two of Ireland’s most-dangerous offenders but both have just walked free from jail and ar...
Crime World Extra: The Gangs Of Limerick
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was once a city under siege where ruthless gangs and one notorious family ruled with fear and int...
Episode 44: The Art Detective And James Bond’s Aston Martin
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He’s the art detective who hunts stolen masterpieces and who re-unites works of art with their rig...
Crime World Extra: The Lone Wolf ISIS Attacker Radicalised In An Armchair
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A UN report released earlier this summer estimates that thousands of ISIS fighters have poured into ...
Crime World Extra: The Ship Nabbed With 20 Tonnes Of Cocaine
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The seizure of 20 tonnes of cocaine on board the MSC Gayane at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philade...
Episode 43: The Witness - The Story Of Joey 'The Lips' O'Callaghan
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
State witness Joseph O’Callaghan gave up his name and his old life when he gave evidence against g...
Crime World Extra: Last Days Of Freedom For Daniel Kinahan
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He once enjoyed a lifestyle fit for a Sultan in Dubai but now Daniel Kinahan is running scared in hi...
Episode 42: The Two Norries - The extraordinary tale of two reformed Cork drug addicts
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For countless young men and women living with addiction each day is a chaotic tapestry of crime, dru...
Crime World Extra: The Arrest Of Kinahan-Linked Mafia Boss Raffaele Imperiale
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives, suspected of being a boss of the Camorra mafia...
Episode 41: The criminal gangs behind the illegal puppy farming market
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Puppy farming has become a multi-million euro business, and thanks to the huge demand in the UK, Ire...
Crime World Extra: The dramatic capture of Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
His arrest is the latest chapter in the extraordinary saga of Gerry 'the Monk' Hutch, regarded as on...
Episode 40: The reformed dope dealer who lifted the lid on the international drugs trade
14 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
HE was the ‘geek’ who ended up in prison after becoming a college drug dealer - but now Niko Vor...
Episode 39: The dark tales of murder and mayhem from a tabloid crime journalist
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He’s 30 years covering tales of murder and once began his day being briefed on the nightly body co...
Episode 38: The changing face of Northern Ireland's underworld
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was once a clearly divided underworld where paramilitary groups ruled with fear in a strictly org...
Crime World Extra: Killer Dave Mahon and the tragedy of the Fitzpatrick family
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Killer Dave Mahon walked free from prison this week after serving five years for the manslaughter of...
Crime World Extra: When the business of crime takes centre stage on the church altar
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a time for celebration and a place to remember the values and morals which shape an individua...
Episode 37: The haunting case of missing Mayo woman Sandra Collins
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a missing-person’s case that has cast a dark shadow over a small town in County Mayo where ...
Crime World Extra: Notorious gangland criminal Brian Rattigan to be released
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He headed up one side of two notorious feuding gangs that claimed 15 lives in 10 years in Ireland’...
Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal, which landed in Rotterdam, was seized at the port aft...
Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A half tonne of cocaine disguised as charcoal which landed in Rotterdam was seized at the port after...
Episode 36: The ex-LA cop who claims Marilyn Monroe was poisoned by Bobby Kennedy
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a tale made for the big screen – a Hollywood starlet threatening to expose an illicit love ...
Crime World Extra: The murder of journalist Peter R. De Vries and the case against Ridouan Taghi
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries died in hospital yesterday, a week after he was shot on a bus...
Crime World Extra: The warring factions behind the Drogheda gangland feud
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s just three years since a hitman attempted to murder gang boss Owen Maguire, leaving him paral...
Episode 35: Ireland's war on drugs - should we legalise cannabis and cocaine?
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It may seem like a simple solution to the war on drugs – legalise weed and cocaine, regulate the m...
Crime World Extra: The Cold-Blooded Shooting Of Dutch Crime Journalist Peter R. De Vries
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Politicians, police and media colleagues in The Netherlands have been horrified by the shooting of f...
Crime World Extra: Trouble in paradise for mob boss Daniel Kinahan
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mob boss Daniel Kinahan has been keeping his head down in Dubai since a BBC Panorama documentary cat...
Episode 34: Drug mule Michaella McCollum and the case of the 'Peru Two'
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
She was the teenage drug mule who became a household name and when she was jailed in Peru for attemp...
Crime World Extra: The search for answers in the death of tragic schoolboy Noah Donohoe
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the case that has baffled Northern Ireland - and on the one-year anniversary of the discovery...
Crime World Extra: The mobsters behind the Kinahan murder plot of James 'Mago' Gately
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
His guilty plea has meant little evidence of Peadar Keating's role in a plot to kill will ever be he...
Episode 33: True crime junkies - what intrigues us about violence, fear and gruesome death?
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the most popular genre for book lovers, podcasters and even documentary makers, with a growin...
Crime World Extra: A Bumper Year For The Criminal Assets Bureau
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Three residential properties, one city centre business premises and one million of stolen crypto cur...
Crime World Extra: How Turkish Mafia & 'The Family' Crime Gang Plotted To Flood Ireland With Heroin
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They were part of a plot to flood Ireland with heroin, but when the Turkish mafia formed an alliance...
Episode 32: The horrifying crimes of Maddie McCann suspect Christian Brueckner
19 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He’s the oddball German drifter suspected of abducting and murdering Madeleine McCann in 2007 who ...
Crime World Extra: The Unsolved Murder Of Michaela McAreavey
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of newly-married Michaela McAreavey on the honeymoon island of Mauritius is one of the mo...
Crime World Extra: Declan Brady - the gangland 'Mr Nobody' who laundered the Kinahan cartel cash
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was the unknown face in the crowd spotted by Garda officers as they poured over footage and image...
Episode 31: Hakan Ayik - the criminal who accidentally helped the FBI smash a global crime network
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just 24 hours before news broke of the ANOM phone hack, the newsroom of the New Zealand Herald got a...
Crimeworld Extra: How The FBI hacked the ANOM phone network in the world's greatest crime sting
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hot on the heels of the Encrochat and Sky ECC takedowns, criminals are again counting the costs of t...