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Follow Investigative Reporter Robert Riggs into the darkest corners of the criminal mind.
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Signup to Generate a PitchTrue Crime Reporter is hosted by Robert Riggs. The show has published 131 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The AI Chatbot That Made Her Question Reality" (27 October 2026, 39 minutes), "Stranger Danger in Your Child’s Online Game" (22 September 2026, 18 minutes), and "The Sadistic 764 Online Blood Cult Blackmails Girls Into Self-Mutilation" (1 September 2026, 14 minutes).
True Crime Reporter publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 131 episodes.
Booking probability for True Crime Reporter is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. True Crime Reporter requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. True Crime Reporter's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for True Crime Reporter are Courts, Police & Public Safety. True Crime Reporter has a history audience.
Robert Riggs hosts True Crime Reporter, a history podcast with 131 episodes published.
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After a nine-hour conversation, an AI Chatbot convinced a 17-year-old girl that she was living in a simulated world. A world like the one depicted in the 1999 Sci-fi film The Matrix, where a computer programmer...
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A predator succeeds by convincing a child that secrecy is the only safe choice. The child may fear losing a phone, a game, a group of friends, or a parent’s trust. That fear is not a side effect of exploitation. It is...
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An online terror group called 764 seeks a badge of honor by getting teenage girls to live-stream mutilation of their bodies and, worse, killing themselves as its members watched with glee. FBI investigations report...
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by Robert Riggs This episode is about the standoff with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and the threat of its drone attack to the global economy. And I know what some of you may be wondering. What does Iran have to do with...
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By Robert Riggs Armed Forces Radio Spc John Bagwell Evades Capture During The 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam – Recreation As I watched the daring rescue of the two airmen shot down over Iran in early April of 2026...
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By Robert Riggs Burned with lit cigarettes. Impaled with a fishhook. Staples fired into his hip. Deadly drugs forced up his nose.  It sounds like a brutal regime’s methods from a torture chamber. But these are the...
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By Robert Riggs LAPD Homicide Detective John St. John aka “JigSaw John” Badge #1 Legendary LAPD Homicide Detective John St. John walked among the dead for nearly a half-century. Known as “JigSaw John,” he...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Unsolved Murder of Jim Grimes Haunts Quiet Tennessee Town By Robert Riggs A bold reward offers ONE MILLION DOLLARS to solve a cold case murder mystery. Since the $25 million bounty on Osama bin Laden, few rewards have...
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Alcatraz shut its cell doors more than 60 years ago, but its grip on the American imagination hasn’t loosened. Each year, nearly a million and a half tourists ride the ferry across San Francisco Bay, through cold...
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You Just Thought Your Home Was Safe By Robert Riggs You lock your doors at night. You check on your kids.  But what if the real threat is already inside —hiding in your phone, your smart TV, or your child’s...
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A Former 48 Hours Producer Reveals the Psychology and Power Behind the Genre By Robert Riggs When the curtain drops on everyday life, true crime shows like this podcast and especially those on television expose the...
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By Robert Riggs The Godfather. Goodfellas. The Sopranos. Hollywood entertained us with polished fiction—honor among thieves, loyalty bound by blood, men of principle wrapped in tailored suits. But the real mob? It was...
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Mobsters Hit Tony Soprano Style Before They Can Testify By Robert Riggs The JFK assassination files recently released by President Trump shed more light on the secret plot by the CIA to use Mafia gangsters to kill Cuban...
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The story sounds like something straight out of a spy thriller.  A plot by America’s most feared criminal syndicate and its most secretive intelligence agency to assassinate a foreign leader using poison cigars and...
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In this episode, we continue our deep dive with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke —a man whose job wasn’t just catching spies but recruiting them. Dreeke led the FBI’s elite Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis...
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Whether walking through a dimly lit parking lot, meeting someone new, or even evaluating the behavior of people close to you, the ability to read people and size them up could mean the difference between safety and...
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Beware of the Fraudster Knocking At Your Door Scammers don’t just lurk online—they may be coming straight to your front door. For centuries, con artists have refined their craft, using deception and misdirection to...
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