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Hosted by Pandora · government · EN · 7 episodes
Pandora’s Box: The Fall of L.A.’s Sheriff is a six-part podcast exploring the crisis that toppled one of the country’s most prominent lawmen, Lee Baca. Rising from humble beginnings, he presented himself as a reformer when he took over the scandal-plagued agency in 1998. He vowed that he would be sheriff as long as he lived, and voters seemed to approve. But inside the massive jail system he ran, claims of inmate abuse kept surfacing. When a young FBI agent found an inmate willing to talk, it triggered an unprecedented clash between two massive law agencies…and a cover-up that went to the top.
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Booking probability
28%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchPandora’s Box: The Fall of L.A.’s Sheriff is a six-part podcast exploring the crisis that toppled one of the country’s most prominent lawmen, Lee Baca. Rising from humble beginnings, he presented himself as a reformer when he took over the scandal-plagued agency in 1998.
Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff is hosted by Pandora. The show has published 7 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Introducing: Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine" (1 October 2026, 4 minutes), "Introducing: Season 4 of Crimes of the Times" (7 April 2026, 7 minutes), and "The Other Side of the Door: The Case Against Lee Baca" (12 December 2025, 32 minutes).
Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 24 minutes across 7 episodes.
Booking probability for Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff are Courts, Police & Public Safety. Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff has a government audience.
Pandora hosts Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff, a government show with 7 episodes published.
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Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff
Why would someone decide to risk their life for a country that is not their own? What might they be searching for? Call Sign Condor is a podcast about the thousands of Latin American soldiers who are fighting in Ukraine...
Episode #7
<p>Here is a sneak peak at the new season of another Los Angeles Times Studios podcast called "Crimes of the Times." In the show, L.A. Times staff writer Christopher Goffard revisits old crimes in Los Angeles and...
Episode #6
<p>James Sexton endures weeks of solitary confinement in federal prison, as prosecutors finally gear up to take Lee Baca to trial. Baca’s lawyers claim he has Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s late 2016, and the recent...
Episode #5
<p>The feds interview Baca’s flinty #2 man and heir apparent, Paul Tanaka, who professes ignorance about who gave the order to hide Anthony Brown. In 2013, as the FBI probe enters its fifth year, feds finally get a...
Episode #4
<p>James Sexton thinks Operation Pandora’s Box is behind him. When he reports a superior officer for misconduct, he is branded a snitch and treated as a pariah. Ostracized and scared, he does what he once thought...
Episode #3
<p>When Lee Baca took over the LA County Sheriff’s Department in 1998, he inherited a scandal-plagued agency. He built a reputation as a progressive reformer, and his jail-education programs were celebrated. But the...
Episode #2
<p>After an inmate sucker-punches James Sexton, he defies the jail’s unwritten rules by failing to exact violent retribution, and finds himself ostracized by his peers. But he becomes an expert in the antiquated jail...
Episode #1
<p>A young FBI agent named Leah Marx arrives in Los Angeles and receives a tip in 2010 about brutal conditions at Men’s Central Jail downtown. Such complaints have gone nowhere for years, since they pit the allegations...
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