Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were two of the most notorious outlaws in American history, forever linked to the public consciousness. 

They were young, daring, and dangerous, and they captured the imagination of a country struggling through the Great Depression. But behind the legend lay the harsh reality of their lives, a story of poverty, violence, and desperation.

They met in Dallas, Texas, and were immediately drawn to each other. 

Together, Bonnie and Clyde embarked on a crime spree that would capture the nation's attention and make them both into legends.

They robbed banks, gas stations, and stores across the South and Midwest, always staying one step ahead of the law. 

The outlaw lovers became folk heroes to many Americans who were struggling to survive amid the Great Depression, seen as modern-day Robin Hoods who were sticking it to the wealthy and powerful.

Today, Bonnie, pictured in a beret and flapper-style dress with a cigar stuck out the side of her mouth, would be described as a rebellious fashionista.  Clyde wore suits and ties with a fedora cocked on his head.

The glamorous image captured in photographs of the outlaw couple taken by members of their gang riveted American newspapers.

But for Bonnie and Clyde, the fame came at a cost. They were constantly on the run, never able to settle down and live a normal life.

They were always looking over their shoulders, afraid that the law would catch up with them.

As their crimes became more violent and their notoriety grew, Bonnie and Clyde began attracting the attention of law enforcement agencies nationwide.

Texas Ranger Frank Hamer hunted them for staging a deadly escape from the Eastham Prison Farm.

Their day of reckoning came on May 23, 1934, in Louisiana, where Ranger Hamer lured them into a deadly ambush.

More than fifty thousand people came to see their open caskets at two funeral homes in Dallas. 

In death, the legend of their crimes and love affair grew, immortalized in magazines, books, and movies. 

Investigative reporter Robert Riggs separates facts from fiction in this episode.

For listeners who want to learn more, he recommends Bonnie and Clyde: The Making Of A Legend by Dallas journalist and author Karen Blumenthal. 

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Texas Death Row Inmates Called Them The “Macs.”

Kenneth McDuff and Jerry McFadden.  

Two violent psychopaths hated and feared by fellow death row inmates. 

Two killers with a lust for randomly abducting, raping, and murdering young people.

Two killers whose victims would still be alive if Texas had kept them behind bars. 

In this episode, investigative reporter Robert Riggs takes listeners inside the crime scene tape of one of Texas' most brutal killers.

He called himself "The Animal."

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Pastor Wayne Whiteside says, “there are people that seem to be hell-bent on being held bound.”

Whiteside knows of what he preaches after ministering to prison inmates for thirty-nine years.

He spent the last 24 years talking with death row inmates in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

Whiteside says he has looked evil in the eye and seen nothing but empty souls.

He has come face to face with the worst of the worst of serial killers who inflicted unimaginable pain and suffering on their victims.

Whiteside holds an unusual perspective on capital punishment.

He has witnessed 30 executions and was present as a chaplain inside the Texas death chamber for one execution.

Two hours before a lethal injection started flowing, one killer confessed to Whiteside the murder of a young convenience clerk and solved a 17-year-old cold case.

Our episodes often take listeners inside the crime scene tape.  This episode is truly a journey into darkness.

At its end, Pastor Whiteside shares advice about how to keep yourself safe from men with a lust for murder.

Note:  We have shared photographs of some inmates Whiteside discusses in this episode, including Jerry “The Animal" McFadden.”

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Mexican cartels aided by China are poisoning the United States with deadly fentanyl overdoses.

The death toll is the equivalent of a jumbo jet load of passengers crashing every day.

What better way to undermine a country without firing a shot? 

In this episode, I conduct a wide-ranging discussion about the consequences of the war in Iraq on U.S. security. 

This is a timely conversation because March 20th of, 2023, marks the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq.

David Grantham, an intelligence officer for the Tarrant County Sheriff in Fort Worth, Texas, joins me for an interview. 

Grantham served as an Air Force intelligence officer in Iraq and is the author of Consequences: An Intelligence Officer’s War. 

We discuss the challenges faced by U.S. law enforcement and the communities they are charged with protecting.

And we offer some practical personal safety advice stemming from the investigation and arrest of a suspect in the murder of four Idaho college students. 

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Jerry and Dava Truett lived well beyond their means in the small central Texas town of Kosse. They owned a lake house and a speed boat. They drove a pair of expensive pickup trucks and numerous recreational vehicles.

Townfolk thought they were receiving oil and gas money from their farmland or had an inheritance.

The small community of 500 people confronted the cold-blooded truth about the couple's lifestyle when 52-year-old Michael Wells was murdered inside the First State Bank of Kosse.

Williams was the bank's president and a beloved community leader.

He arrived early one morning before the bank opened to meet with a customer.

A 68-year-old business owner wanted to find out why thirty thousand dollars was missing from his account.

Before they could meet, Williams was gunned down. The bank's vault was still locked. No money was missing from it.

But in the aftermath of this tragedy, an FBI audit discovered that $700,000 was missing from elderly customers' accounts.

What happened to all of that money?

In this episode of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast investigative reporter Robert Riggs takes you inside the crime scene tape with a case from former federal prosecutor Bill Johnston.

It will leave you wondering if you can trust anyone.

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Homicide detectives and even killers categorize the slain four University of Idaho students as “shiny” victims. 

They were young, innocent, and attractive.  

John Moriarty, the former Inspector General of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, says such cases motivate investigators to go the extra mile to solve the crime.

“It’s the ultimate good versus evil,” said Moriarty.

Investigators used sophisticated techniques detailed in an arrest warrant affidavit, including DNA, cell phone data, and ubiquitous video surveillance cameras, to charge  28-year-old Bryan Kohberger with murdering four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home on November 13, 2022. 

If Kohberer, a Ph.D. criminology student at the University of Washington, is convicted, it will prove the old adage that some criminals return to the scene of the crime.

In this episode of True Crime Reporter®, John Moriarty and investigative reporter Robert Riggs walk listeners through details contained in the arrest warrant.

Moriarty, the former Inspector General of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, used the same means to hunt down fugitives wanted for murder and violent crimes. 

Plus, he wrote countless arrest and search warrant affidavits, and Riggs relied on such affidavits as the factual basis for his crime reporting. 

You may recall that Moriarty, a transplanted Irish cop from New York City, is featured in True Crime Reporter®’s series about serial killer Kenneth McDuff and the Telly Award-winning television documentary on Fox Nation streaming titled Freed To Kill.

Kohberger made a brief court appearance on January 5th of 2023, with cuts on his face raising questions if the suspect’s alleged victim’s had fought back.

Based on the review of the arrest warrant affidavit by Moriarty and Riggs, you will hear their thoughts about a possible motive for the murders.

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This episode marks Part 2 of questions posed to investigative reporter Robert Riggs by true crime fan and Texas A&M architecture major Patricia Rocha.

Hopefully, listeners can take away advice about staying safe in the wake of an arrest of a suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students on November 13, 2022, at their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.

Two other roommates upstairs slept through the brutal slayings.

The mysterious murder struck fear in college students across the country.

This is a continuation of our new press conference at the True Crime Reporter® podcast.

This episode marks the second part of our press conference in which the fans of the True Crime Reporter® podcast ask investigative reporter Robert Riggs questions.

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In a new press conference-style episode, True Crime Reporter's Robert Riggs takes questions from fans. 

True crime fan Patricia Rocha turns the table on Riggs and asks what it is like to go inside the crime scene tape.

Riggs recently met Rocha, an architecture student, and her friends at a ceremony for Outstanding Alumni from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University.

Afterward, Rocha and her friends peppered him with questions about true crime cases.

Looking on was Bill Peel, an Outstanding Alum and Executive Director of Innovation at Texas A&M’s Mays School of Business. Peel suggested that a press conference-style interview by fans should be a regular feature here.

Riggs has covered his share of press conferences at the White House, Capitol Hill, Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and breaking news at crime scenes.

But unlike the spokespersons behind those podiums, you will not find Riggs dancing around any questions.

If you want to come on the podcast for a press conference send an email to Fan@TrueCrimeReporter.com.  

Tell Riggs what you want to talk about and why.

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What goes on inside the minds of women who commit murder and other crimes?

In my previous episode on December 13, 2022, titled A Mother’s Pursuit of Justice: The Contract Murder of Dan Markel, I reported that three women are the focus of an eight-year-long murder investigation.

Markel, a distinguished law professor at Florida State University was gunned down by hitmen at his Tallahassee home in 2014.

Katherine Maguahua (phonetic pronunciation: MAC-BANA-WAH) was the go-between for the contract killing. 

In November of 2022, evidence from an FBI sting helped convict Maguahua. 

She received a life sentence plus 60 years for hiring her ex-boyfriend, the father of her children, to execute Dan Markel. Allegedly so his ex-wife could move the couple’s two sons to South Florida. 

The ex-wife, 35- year old Wendi Adelson, a fellow law professor, and her mother, Donna Adelson, have been named as unindicted conspirators in the alleged plot. 

According to criminal trial testimony, Katherine Maguahua hired the hitmen at the request of Wendi Adelson’s brother Charlie Adelson. She was a girlfriend and dental assistant in his office. Charlie Adelson has been charged with the murder and is expected to stand trial in 2023.

But back to Katherine Maguahua, was it for love or money?

I reached out to Meghan Sacks, a criminologist with a Ph.D. who teaches classes on Women and Crime at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey to explore this true crime subject. 

Sacks is also the co-host of the Women and Crime podcast.

We discuss possible motivations in the Austin cyclist murder case that I covered on July 11, 2022, A Love Triangle Ends In An Alleged Murderous Fit Of Jealous Rage.

You will also hear me discuss interviewing female inmates at Texas prison units.

Archive News Report About Female Inmates Con Games

Links to resources about the Dan Markel murder case:

punishment-the-chilling-true-story-of-dan-markels-murder.html">Full coverage by Paul Caron, Dean of the Pepperdine University 

punishment-the-chilling-true-story-of-dan-markels-murder.html">https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2022/10/extreme-punishment-the-chilling-true-story-of-dan-markels-murder.html

Link to recent court testimony by Wendi Adelson:

https://youtu.be/KIDXVsibEJw

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Murder is a life sentence for the victim’s family and friends. Closure is a myth perpetuated by the news media. 

During three decades of investigative reporting, Robert Riggs has witnessed how the victim’s families often suffer in silence and are left out of the confusing criminal justice process.

In this episode of the True Crime Reporter® podcast, Ruth Markel shares a remarkable story of grief, resilience, and hope during an eight-year murder investigation that is not over.

Her son, Dan Markel, a Florida law professor, was ambushed in a murder-for-hire conspiracy allegedly masterminded by his ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, and members of her family, according to state prosecutors. 

Wendi Adelson has denied those accusations during a police interrogation and under oath in court testimony.

The anatomy of the murder has been highly publicized on television crime shows and true crime podcasts.

But Robert Riggs is here with the “rest of the story” from behind the crime scene tape.

In this interview, Ruth Markel reveals how the victim’s family can become advocates for their lost loved ones. She inspired the Florida State Legislature to pass a grandparent visitation bill titled the “Markel Act.”

Before the murders, Markel had published eight books about the advancement of women in the corporate workplace. She never expected to write about such a horrific and powerless situation as the murder of her son.

Now Ruth Markel shares her story to help others survive their grief from murders and violent crime in her book titled The Unveiling: A Mothers’ Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life.

Riggs and Markel discuss her fight for justice on behalf of her son and the struggle to be legally reunited with her grandchildren.

Riggs starts the episode by recounting the key events of the contact murder, which occurred in 2014.

Links to resources mentioned during the podcast:

punishment-the-chilling-true-story-of-dan-markels-murder.html">Full coverage by Paul Caron, Dean of the Pepperdine University 

punishment-the-chilling-true-story-of-dan-markels-murder.html">https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2022/10/extreme-punishment-the-chilling-true-story-of-dan-markels-murder.html

Link to recent court testimony by Wendi Adelson:

https://youtu.be/KIDXVsibEJw

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