The Burden
Episodes
Lives of Crime | 2. Education of an Assassin Part 2
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of Education of an Assassin, young Larry Mazza comes of age. Killers may be born, they're also made. In this episode, the G...
Lives of Crime | 1. Education of an Assassin Part 1
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of this two-part story, we meet Larry Mazza, a teenage delivery boy at the local supermarket; his customer, a beautiful older woman; and h...
Introducing - Lives of Crime
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered what it’s like to live on the edge? To not follow the rules? To live outside of the law? On Lives of Crime you'll h...
Introducing - Blood Will Tell
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sharing a special episode this week from a new podcast called Blood Will Tell. When a birthday party in suburban San Jose turns deadly, 18-year-old id...
Introducing - Robert Pickton: The Final Chapter, Part 1
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we bring you the first episode of the new miniseries - Robert Pickton: The Final Chapter, from Canadian True Crime.Everyone knows about the Cana...
Introducing - Earwitness: Chapter 1 | Behind the Crown
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is exclusive access to Earwitness: Chapter 1 | Behind the Crown Beth Shelburne dives into the shocking conviction of Toforest Johnson for the mur...
Introducing - Killer Story | 1. A Rose for Mom
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is exclusive access to The Binge Cases: Killer Story. In this episode, Seventeen-year-old Sabrina Kidd goes missing, four years later report...
Introducing - Crying Wolf
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dax-Devlon Ross returns to the Orbit fold to drop the first episode of his new true crime series, Crying Wolf. Dax, a co-founder of Orbit, co-hos...
Introducing - The Jordan Harbinger Show: Joe Loya | Confessions of a Bank Robber Part Two
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this special preview of The Jordan Harbinger Show, former bank robber Joe Loya reveals how childhood trauma transformed him into a prolific crimina...
Death & Deceit in Alliance Q&A with Maggie Freleng - Hosted by Steve Fishman
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer prize winning producer, journalist and host of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng sits down for a Q&A with Steve Fis...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 14. The Reckoning
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the season finale, Maggie gives David a chance to explain what happened when Danny and John visited and the guys make a decision on whether or not ...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 13. The Circling
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The team finally gets to speak with David Thorne himself and ask him about everything they've learned. However, the answers were not what they were lo...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 12. The Choir Boy
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After speaking with Joe Wilkes, the team reckons with the possibility that David could have been involved after all. New episodes of Death & Decei...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 11. The Best Friend
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie, John, and Danny search for Joe Wilkes' best friend who he allegedly confessed to that he killed Yvonne. Things take a turn to where no one tho...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 10. The Shakedown
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In order to understand a murder like this, you have to understand the victim. Maggie, John and Danny talk to some of the people closest to Yvonne to t...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 9. The Others
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie, John and Danny set out in Ohio to speak with some top people of interest who have been named in the case. Jim, the allegedly creepy neighbor w...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 8. The PIs
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Baldwin from the West Memphis 3 and his team of private investigators from Proclaim Justice team up with Maggie to look into David's case.  ...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 7. The Psychic
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Months into the investigation of Yvonne Layne's murder, police felt stuck, so they did something controversial: they went to a psychic. And the audio ...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 6. The Witness
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On April 1, 1999, the day Yvonne was found murdered in her home, a neighbor stopped by and told police he saw someone leaving her home, unbeknownst to...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 5. The Wife
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Thorne has spent over 20 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. Although he says his case is "Dead in the Water", he hasn't bee...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 4. The Trial
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After David Thorne and Joe Wilkes were arrested for the murder of Yvonne Layne in April 1999, they went to trial in January 2000. What evidence was us...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 3. The Murder
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of April Fools Day 1999, Tawnia Layne went to pick up her grandkids at Yvonne's home. But instead, she stumbled upon a brutal crime sce...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 2. The Lovers
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we learn about Yvonne, David and how the two came together and had their son, Brandon. But we also learn about the problems the couple...
Death & Deceit in Alliance | 1. Dead in the Water
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Ohio home while her children slept. Her ex-boyfriend, David Thorne, was instantly a suspec...
Introducing: Death and Deceit in Alliance - Trailer
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of h...
Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County: Preview
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY, Maggie Freleng takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the f...
Get the Money and Run Q&A with Joe Loya - Hosted by Steve Fishman
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Fishman sits down for a Q&A with Joe Loya, the star of the new podcast Get the Money and Run. Listen in as Joe shares with Steve the an...
Introducing: Dakota Spotlight - A Better Search for Barbara Episode 1
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
15-year-old Barbara Louise Cotton vanished from the streets of Williston, North Dakota, on April11, 1981, five blocks from her home. What happened to ...
Get the Money and Run | Fatal Peril
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once out of prison, Joe is insulted by a stranger. His rage mounts. Will he lash out and spend the rest of his days in prison? Or will he find comfort...
Get the Money and Run | Life on the Inside
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe is sent to solitary confinement. Alone he starts to hear voices in his head and to hallucinate. He struggles with a question: Can he be a go...
Get the Money and Run | Two Too Many
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe is on a spree, and even arrest won’t stop him. He hires a body double to do his bidding, but things backfire. He thinks he’s blending ...
Get the Money and Run | Life and Crimes
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bank robbery is easy, profitable and…fun! But then Joe hears from a victim. Get the Money and Run is a production of Western Sound and aC...
Get the Money and Run | The Hunter
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe’s floundering until a thought occurs to him: Murder! With that, Joe changes the arc of his life. Get the Money and Run is ...
Get the Money and Run | First Time Out
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Getting started as a bank robber isn’t easy for Joe Loya. It takes courage … and rage. But Joe does the math. Thousands of dollars gained...
Get the Money and Run | Who’s Your Daddy
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Young Joe was cute as a bug. The rising bank robber was also a protector of the weak though he couldn't always protect the weak who he loved mos...
Introducing: Get the Money and Run - Trailer
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Joe was on...
Introducing: Get the Money and Run - Teaser
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank...
Introducing: Finding Mom's Killer
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noreen Boyle goes missing, and her 11-year-old son is determined to find her. He teams up with a homicide cop to investigate his mother’s murder...
Empire on Blood - Bonus Episode | The TV Show
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We know that after you listened to Empire on Blood: The Director's Cut, you immediately thought: Why isn't this a TV show? Remember, Malcolm Gla...
Introducing: Someone Knows Something
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Harron, a book-loving teenager from Hanover, Ontario, leaves for school in the spring of 1993 and is never seen again. A suspect emerges, co...
Bonus Episode | Behind the Scenes of Avenger with Alexis Bledel and Fisher Stevens!
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For Avenger, which takes place in Argentina, we recorded all interviews in Spanish, translated them into English and had them voiced by actors. Miriam...
Avenger | 8. The Bodies
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After thirty years of government impunity, the amnesty laws that helped bury Argentina’s horrific past are overturned. The trials against the ju...
Avenger | 7. The Pilots
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1979, Miriam is free, but living in exile in New York City where she is surveilled by the junta. She’s among the few to survive impri...
Avenger | 6. Miriam in Court
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The lack of media attention on the TV story is disheartening, but Miriam has a bigger plan up her sleeve and redirects all her energy to the courts. W...
Avenger | 5. The Flight Logs
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One day, Miriam sits in her office when she gets a call from the stringer she hired to go look at one of the Skyvan planes which had been sold to a Fl...
Avenger | 4. The Planes
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam and Giancarlo team up to search for the planes. She shows up at his tiny apartment every day after work at a TV station. They share pasta, ciga...
Avenger | 3. The World Cup
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1978. The World Cup, the most popular sporting event in the world, is hosted for the first time in Argentina. The Argentines are losi...
Avenger | 2. The Investigation
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An Italian photographer with a specialty in the horror humans do named Giancarlo Ceraudo shows up in Argentina to learn about the death flights during...
Avenger | 1. The Process
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1977, Argentina. The military has seized power. Miriam Lewin is 19 years old, an activist, and a target of a brutal dictatorship. She&rsquo...
Introducing - The Burden: Avenger
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political a...
Empire on Blood - Bonus Episode | Father Frank Meets His Maker
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He was the detective who could get the confessions other cops couldn’t. Thus the nickname, Father Frank. It was Father Frank who rescued the prosecu...
Empire on Blood - Bonus Episode | Calvin Buari: Family Guy
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we last heard from Calvin Buari his murder conviction had just been overturned. But he didn't have a place to live. A lot has changed in Cal's li...
Introducing - Deep Cover: George Santos
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George Santos, the former Republican Congressman from New York, told a lot of stories about his life and his credentials. Many of which, it turns out,...
Empire on Blood | 8. I Shot Him
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emel was a jailhouse legal maestro who had been locked up for 19 years for a murder he insisted he didn’t commit. Then he was forced to plead guilty...
Introducing - The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his bed just 33 days after he was elected. The official story is that he suffered a fatal heart attack. Bu...
Empire on Blood | 7. This Too Shall Pass
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of the court’s decision, Cal must adjust to a new reality. Where can a man like Cal find peace? With a mother he hasn’t seen in...
Empire on Blood | 6. Evilina on the Stand
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cal’s last-shot hearing finally arrives: his new lawyers are in place, the new witness ready to testify. Turtle Man has called their written affidav...
Empire on Blood | 5. Joe Barry, Private Eye
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Barry,Cal’s private investigator, hired in desperation when Cal’s case seems all but dead. Joe’s a hard drinking, Bible-toting P.I. who’s ...
Empire on Blood | 4. Father Frank to the Rescue
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cal has been in prison for years as Dwight rules the Corner on Blood,which once belonged to Cal. Then Dwight “catches a body” and is sentenced to ...
Empire on Blood | 3. Dwight, Poet of Evil
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Calvin Buari’s former protégé in the Bronx crack trade, Dwight Robinson, loved and admired Cal. But then, feeling shunned and nursing his own ambi...
Empire on Blood | 2. Turtle Man Will Get His Man
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Allen Karen was one of the best homicide prosecutors in the Bronx. He devotes his life to fighting crime – and to rescuing the 20 turtles that roam ...
Empire on Blood | 1. Calvin's Last Shot
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Calvin Buari, who once drove BMWs and dealt crack from a violent corner in the Bronx, has served 22 years of a life sentence. The charge: double homic...
Introducing - The Burden: Empire on Blood
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Burden: Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blo...
Introducing - The Gist: Birds Aren’t Real (SHHH … Don’t tell the Crested Warbler!)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter McIndoe is the founder of the Birds Aren't Real movement-slash-conspiracy theory. He is also the author of the book, Birds Aren't Real: The True...
The Burden - Bonus Episode | Justin Bonus for the Defense
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Bonus talks to Steve and Dax about his journey from hiphop entrepreneur to nationally acclaimed attorney for the wrongfully convicted. The Bu...
The Burden - Bonus Episode | Admiring Louie
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did Steve and Dax get it wrong? Is Louie Scarcella as bad as his portrayal in the media? Steve and Dax speak with several of Scarcella’s colleagues ...
The Burden - Bonus Episode | Coney Island of the Mind. Louie’s Mind
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Louie Scarcella takes Steve to Coney Island where he moonlighted as a carnival barker and fixed games of chance. The Burden is a production of Orbit...
The Burden - Bonus Episode | Blame the Prosecutors
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and Dax are joined by journalist Ted Hamm who examines the conduct of the Assistant District Attorneys who worked on Louis Scarcella's wrongful ...
Introducing - American Criminal: The Menendez Brothers
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Airship, the studio behind American Scandal, American History Tellers, and History Daily, comes a new true crime history podcast that takes you i...
Introducing - My Friend the Serial Killer: Local Man
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if someone you knew turned out to be a serial killer? In the 1970s, Steve Fishman was an intern at his local newspaper. One day, he ...
Introducing - Slaycation: My Big Fat Greek Murder
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re intrigued by the darker side of vacation tales, tune into Slaycation. The show navigates through the sinister underbelly of travel, making...
The Burden - Bonus Episode | David Ranta and the Murder of the Century
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and Dax dive into the case that made Louie Scarcella famous. The Burden is a production of Orbit Media in association with Signal Co. No1See omn...
Introducing - Deep Cover: The Nameless Man
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives. Season four, The Nameless Man, tells the epic tale of two federal agents who investigate a ru...
Introducing - On Our Watch: New Folsom from KQED
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Soon after correctional officer Valentino Rodriguez starts working at New Folsom prison, he gets caught up in a bad incident. An incarcerated man ends...
The Burden - Bonus Episode | Teresa Gomez Speaks!
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve and Dax’s team unearth 30-year old audio recordings of Teresa Gomez making a statement to an assistant district attorney about a murder she cl...
Introducing - The Jordan Harbinger Show
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. Jordan Harbinger unpacks guests' wisdom into practical nuggets you can use to impact your...
The Burden | 10. A Reckoning
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 10 of 10 Louie Scarcella bursts into tears. “It sucks. It sucks.” The swaggering detective has been brought low by jailhouse lawyers. But ...
The Burden | 9. Vindication
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 9 of 10 The new D.A. personally overturns Derrick’s conviction. But is he really guilty? The question hovers over the series: Have murderers...
The Burden | 8. Judgment
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 8 of 10 Derrick and Shabaka are out of prison, but one “law partner” - the one who served as intern - is still behind bars. Derrick wins h...
The Burden | 7. Shabaka’s Last Shot
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7 of 10 Shabaka Shakur is in court and Louie Scarcella is on the witness stand. It’s Shabaka’s last shot to prove he was framed. The court...
The Burden | 6. Does a New D.A. Mean a New Day?
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 6 of 10 It’s 2013, and a fierce election for Brooklyn D.A. is in process. It’s an election that will change Brooklyn forever. The old guar...
The Burden | 5. The Derrick Dilemma
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 of 10 Derrick Hamilton, champion of the wrongfully convicted, claimed innocence since the day he was arrested by Scarcella. He claimed innoc...
The Burden | 4. The Crazy World of Murder
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 4 of 10 We meet the single eyewitness at the heart of some of Scarcella’s high profile cases. Teresa Gomez claimed to witness 11 murders, an...
The Burden | 3. The Actual Innocence Team
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 of 10 We meet Shabaka Shakur, Derrick Hamilton, and the rest of the law firm they founded in prison. They are the best jailhouse lawyers of ...
The Burden | 2. The Confessions of Louis Scarcella
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 2 of 10 Steve chases down the legendary detective. He hasn’t talked in years, but after tracking him to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, Loui...
The Burden | 1. The Scoop
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1 of 10 New York Times journalist Frances “Frenchie” Robles gets a tip about a group of wrongfully convicted men in the New York State pri...
Introducing: The Burden
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Burden - available everywhere on March 19 Detective Louis N. Scarcella was a legendary figure in New York City during the '90s. In a city overrun ...