True Crime: DECODED with Scott Rolle

True Crime: DECODED revisits infamous criminal cases and breaks them down through evidence, testimony, and courtroom strategy. Hosted by Scott Rolle, co-star of the History Channel’s Brad Meltzer’s DECODED and former prosecutor and defense attorney, the show explores motive theories, investigative missteps, and the legal decisions that shaped each outcome. With rotating guests and analysis, this podcast challenges what you think you know about the most talked about crimes in history.

True Crime: DECODED with Scott Rolle is a true crime podcast hosted by Scott Rolle, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Scott Rolle hosts True Crime: DECODED with Scott Rolle, a true crime show with 10 episodes published.

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  The Kennedy Assassination, Part 2: Chappaquiddick and the Kennedy Curse

  Aug 17, 202632 min

  In this episode, Scott Rolle and Jersey Joe shift from Dallas to Martha's Vineyard to tackle the scandal that may have ended the last Kennedy's shot at the presidency. On the night of July 18th, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy's car went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne never made it out. Kennedy didn't report it until the next morning. Jersey Joe makes the case that Kennedy wasn't even in the car when it went over, and that the story the nation was told was constructed at the Kennedy compound to save a Senate career. Scott and Joe also trace the full arc of Kennedy family tragedy, from Joe Junior's death in World War Two to JFK and RFK's assassinations, and ask whether the so-called Kennedy curse was really just a dynasty undone by its own ambitions.

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  The Kennedy Assassination, Part 1: Lone Gunman or Conspiracy?

  Aug 3, 202631 min

  In this episode, Scott Rolle is joined in the studio by attorney, writer, and conspiracy theorist Joe Racioppi, aka Jersey Joe, for the first installment of a deep dive into the Kennedy family's darkest chapters. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains the most investigated crime in American history, and six decades later, the central question still has no definitive answer. Scott and Jersey Joe, who visited Dealey Plaza together to see the scene firsthand, debate the Zapruder film, the magic bullet theory, Oswald's suspicious background, Jack Ruby's even more suspicious timing, and whether the CIA had both the motive and the means to orchestrate it all. The prosecutor and the conspiracy theorist go head to head, and neither one fully convinces the other.

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  Jack the Ripper: The Case That Was Never Solved

  Jun 15, 202644 min

  In this episode, Scott Rolle is joined once again by attorney, writer, and self-described conspiracy theorist Joe Racioppi, aka Jersey Joe, to take on the Mount Everest of cold cases. In the autumn of 1888, five women were slaughtered in the fog-soaked streets of Whitechapel, London, with a savagery that paralyzed an entire city and launched the world's most infamous unsolved murder investigation. Scott and Jersey Joe break down the canonical five victims, the taunting letters that gave the killer his name, and the parade of suspects that researchers have been arguing over ever since. From Aaron Kosminski to the Duke of Clarence to a possible Freemason cover-up, they dig into what little evidence survives, and why 137 years later, no one can say with certainty who Jack the Ripper really was.

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  Charles Manson, Part 2: The Trial, The Motive, and The Verdict

  May 11, 202629 minS0

  <p>In this episode, Scott Rolle and Jersey Joe go deeper into the prosecution's strategy, the courtroom chaos, and whether Charles Manson would survive a trial today. They break down the credibility of witnesses who were themselves killers, the Helter Skelter theory that convicted him, and the death sentences that somehow never got carried out. Over fifty years later, the debate over guilt, motive, and justice is still very much alive.</p>

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  Charles Manson, Part 1: The Murders That Terrified a City

  May 4, 202633 minS0

  <p>In this episode, Scott Rolle is joined by attorney, writer, and conspiracy theorist Joe Racioppi, aka Jersey Joe, to decode one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history. Seven people were slaughtered across two nights in Los Angeles in August 1969, and the man who became synonymous with the killings never laid a hand on any of them. Scott and Jersey Joe dig into the competing motive theories, the unlikely connections that tied Manson to the victims, and the question that still haunts the case: would a jury today, armed with modern forensic standards, ever convict a man...

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