Hosted by Steve W · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 61 episodes
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Welcome to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide - the true crime podcast where brains, betrayal, and blood all share the same spotlight.I'm Steve your host, and each week, I’ll take you into the minds of the boldest criminals, the slickest con artists, and the darkest murderers history has to offer...in story format.Some of these stories you’ve heard whispers of.Some have been buried.And some? They were never supposed to be uncovered at all.We’ll crack open legendary heists that rewrote the rules…We’ll follow the hustlers who schemed their way into the high life…And we’ll revisit chilling homicides that still haunt investigators - and victims’ families - decades later.But this isn’t just about crime.It’s about people.What drives someone to pull off the perfect con - or the perfect murder?Is it desperation? Greed? Ego? Revenge?Each episode, we’ll unravel one real-life case - beginning to end.Some episodes will play out like thrillers.Others will feel like puzzles missing a single
Steve W hosts Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, a history show with 61 episodes published.
This week on Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we’re walking into a quiet credit union on the Xerox campus in Webster, New York...where what looked like an official FBI security audit turned into a deadly robbery, a murder
Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Crime Crew. In this Wrap Sheet episode, Steve dives back into one of the most ridiculous, brilliant, and legally bizarre corporate showdowns of the 1990s: Leonard vs. Pepsi
Leonard vs. PepsiCo: Where’s My Harrier Jet? Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Crime Crew. In this episode, we dive into one of the strangest legal battles in advertising history: Leonard v. PepsiCo , bette
In Part 2 of our Pan Am Flight 103 story, we move beyond the explosion and into the decades-long search for answers. This episode digs into the investigation, the forensic evidence, the trial of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, an
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London bound for New York and never made it across the Atlantic. Less than an hour after takeoff, a bomb hidden inside the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, ki
In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Steve breaks down one of the most unbelievable heists in modern history - the Brinks Truck Jewelry Heist , where tens of millions of dollars in diamonds and l
In July of 2022, a Brinks armored truck left a high-profile international jewelry exhibition in San Mateo, California carrying 73 bags filled with diamonds, luxury watches, gold, emeralds, and rare gemstones . By sunrise
For months, the world focused on the wrong man. In Part 1 and Part 2 of our series on the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, we followed the rise and collapse of suspicion around Richard
Three days after the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the man once praised as a hero became the focus of a national investigation. His name was Richard Jewell. In Part 1, we followed th
In the summer of 1996, the world gathered in Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Olympics...a celebration of unity, competition, and global pride. And then a bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park. In the first installment of
Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, my little crime crew. This is The Wrap Sheet! In this solo deep dive, Steve unpacks Operation Oxy Alley - the wildly absurd, deeply disturbing Florida pill-mill scandal wher
In the late 2000s, South Florida became ground zero for a quiet catastrophe hiding in plain sight. Strip malls turned into distribution hubs. Doctors became volume machines. And thousands of people across the country die
Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , my little crime crew...it’s your favorite host, Steve , and this week’s Wrap Sheet is going fully unhinged. We’re breaking down the FIFA scandal , and not the polite, press
For decades, FIFA presented itself as the guardian of the world’s game - the final authority on fairness, competition, and global unity through soccer. But behind closed doors, that image quietly collapsed. In this episo
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On August 28, 2003, a pizza delivery driver walked into a Pennsylvania bank with a bomb locked around his neck and a note demanding money. Minutes later, he was dead - killed by an explosive that detonated live on televi
In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we peel back the layers of the Kendra Licari catfishing case - a story that shocked a small town and left lasting damage far beyond the original investigation
For nearly two years, a Michigan teenager was psychologically tormented by an anonymous texter who seemed to know everything about her - what she wore to school, her insecurities, her relationship, and exactly how to hur
In this Wrap Sheet deep dive , we’re reopening one of the most infamous mysteries in American crime history - D.B. Cooper - and putting the legend under a microscope. This isn’t a retelling of the hijacking. This is the
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