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Crimes of the Times

Crimes of the Times

By: L.A. Times Studios
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 L.A. Times reporter Christopher Goffard of “Dirty John” is back with another riveting podcast from L.A. Times Studios. In “Crimes of the Times,” Goffard goes deep behind the scenes of a new story each week, cutting through common myths and misconceptions to uncover what really happened in the most compelling cases from L.A. and beyond.© 2017 All Rights Reserved. Politics & Government Social Sciences True Crime
Episodes
  • Death on the Set of the Twilight Zone Movie

    Death on the Set of the Twilight Zone Movie
    Nov 11 2025

    When a helicopter crash killed actor Vic Morrow and two children on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, the filmmakers called it an unforeseeable accident. An LA County Sheriff’s detective saw something else: broken laws, reckless risks, and an A-list director who ignored warnings.
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    28 mins
  • Satanic Panic: The Death of Ronald Baker

    Satanic Panic: The Death of Ronald Baker
    Nov 4 2025

    On the summer solstice in 1990, a UCLA student with an interest in the occult was stabbed to death in a railway tunnel in the San Fernando Valley. Rumors of ritual violence swirled in the era of the so-called Satanic Panic. Police investigating the murder of Ronald Baker found his killers knew him well. One of them had even carried his casket.
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    26 mins
  • Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy

    Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy
    Oct 28 2025

    When 21-year old college dropout Christopher Boyce got a job as a clerk at the TRW Defense and Space Systems complex in Redondo Beach, he was given access to some of the country’s biggest government secrets. And under a Robin Hood-like ethos, he and his childhood pal Andrew Daulton Lee began sharing those secrets with the Soviet Union. Their story lived on in the 1985 film “The Falcon and the Snowman,” but their friendship had a much shorter shelf life.
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    28 mins
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