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True Crime Reporter

True Crime Reporter

By: Robert Riggs
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 Follow Investigative Reporter Robert Riggs into the darkest corners of the criminal mind.©2025 True Crime Reporter, LLC Politics & Government Social Sciences True Crime
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  • Carbon Monoxide Poisoned Two Children’s Brains After Their Landlord Ignored the Danger

    Carbon Monoxide Poisoned Two Children’s Brains After Their Landlord Ignored the Danger
    Oct 28 2025
    by Robert Riggs This isn’t the kind of story I usually tell. The police didn’t converge on the scene with sirens blaring and guns drawn. But what happened inside a Dallas apartment complex was just as devastating and just as unforgivable as a cold-blooded murder. In 2015, a silent killer slipped into the home of two young children. Not through malice, but through neglect, greed, and a rusted furnace exhaust pipe no one wanted to fix. The carbon monoxide gas that leaked out of it took their minds, leaving them permanently brain-damaged, trapped in silence. For nine years, their mother fought a legal battle against apartment owners and their insurance company, which denied everything. What followed was a story of delay, deception, and courtroom drama that will outrage even the most hardened true crime listener. This episode is a departure from my usual reporting, but it’s one I had to tell. Because sometimes, the deadliest crimes aren’t committed with a weapon. They’re committed with indifference. Legal Resources Mentioned In This Story: Ted B. Lyon Personal Injury Lawyer Science Resources for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Dr. Lindell Weaver Science.org
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Don’t Make It Easy for a Violent Predator to Choose You

    Don’t Make It Easy for a Violent Predator to Choose You
    Oct 7 2025
    Most predators don’t pounce—they pick. They observe. They wait. And they choose the person who looks the easiest to catch. In this episode, you’ll learn how to make sure you’re not the one they choose. From FBI profilers to a former producer for CBS 48 Hours, I’ll walk you through the red flags predators look for and how to shut them down before they ever get a chance. This isn't about paranoia. It's about awareness. And once you know what to look for, you’ll make it very difficult to be chosen. Because survival starts before the crime ever happens. Links: Robin Dreeke -- Stop Pause Observe Katherine Schweit Tase Bailey Claire St Amant
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    20 mins
  • Women Who Talk To The Dead

    Women Who Talk To The Dead
    Aug 5 2025
    The Story of 200 Forgotten Murder Victims By Robert Riggs They were daughters. Mothers. Sisters. Strangers. Their lives ended violently—and their names were lost to time. For more than half a century, Detroit’s forgotten dead lay buried beneath weeds and silence—unidentified murder victims dumped into paupers' graves, sometimes stacked in vaults three-deep, known only by numbers in crumbling cemetery logs. No names. No justice. No answers. This is the remarkable five-year journey of a team of relentless female investigators who pledged to identify more than 200 victims of Detroit’s outstanding murder cases. Led by Detroit Police Detective Shannon Jones and FBI Special Agent Leslie Larsen, this group of dedicated women—detectives, agents, forensic anthropologists, and scientists—literally dug through the past to bring closure to families and justice to the murdered. Their quest became known as Operation UNITED, the largest coordinated exhumation of cold case murder victims in FBI history. Katherine Schweit tells the story of this unprecedented, five-year mission in her book, Women Who Talk to the Dead. Schweit is a former FBI Special Agent Executive, Chicago prosecutor, and journalist. She wrote the FBI’s seminal report on mass shooters and is a recognized expert in crisis response and workplace violence. If you or someone you know is searching for a missing loved one, there’s a tool that can help. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs.
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    44 mins
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