Sin City Stories: Vegas True Crime
Jeff Walker
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Through its relatively short history, Las Vegas has gone from being a railway stop in the middle of the desert to the glittering neon-lit oasis it is today, welcoming millions of visitors from around the world every year.
Over the last century, the city has seen its fair share of mayhem - including murders, bombings, kidnappings, and more!
Presented in collaboration with Mayhem In The Desert, this is...Sin City Stories: Vegas True Crime - The Sordid Tales Behind The Stranger-Than-Fiction History of Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada
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S2E10 Betrayed: The Murder of Jared Whaley
On October 26, 2003, a 911 call led police to a dry lakebed near Boulder City, Nevada – roughly 25 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. There, they discovered the unearthed remains of a brutalized human…
S2E9 Big Top: The Circus Circus Heist - Part 2
To this day, the 1993 Circus Circus Casino heist in Las Vegas remains one of the most remarkable criminal escapades in U.S. History. Over $3 million was stolen from an armoured truck in broad…
S2E8 Big Top: The Circus Circus Heist - Part 1
In the early hours of October 1, 1993, a quiet but daring heist unfolded on the Las Vegas Strip. What began as an ordinary day at the Circus Circus Hotel & Casino turned into a high-stakes…
S2E7 From Dream To Drama: The Story of the Fabulous Flamingo
The Las Vegas Strip has its fair share of iconic hotels & resorts, perhaps none of which are more steeped in history & folklore than The Flamingo. Part of the Vegas landscape since the…
S2E5 Ransom: The Kidnapping of Kevyn Wynn
It was the summer of 1993 when Las Vegas casino mogul, Steve Wynn, was thrust into a nightmare that few people could ever imagine. In a brazen late-night plot that seemed to come straight out of a…
S2E5 An Urge To Kill: The Zane Floyd Massacre
It’s June 3, 1999…early morning, sometime around 5 am in a quiet neighborhood roughly a mile from the Las Vegas Strip. Walking through this serene scene is a young man in his early twenties, draped…
Cold War Murder: The Russians Are Coming
As the early 1980’s rolled around, the cold war between the United States and Russia was well into its third decade and tensions between these global superpowers were steadily mounting. As newly…
ICU: Death Angels and Dead Pools
In the spring of 1980, headlines across the united states screamed out, “ANGEL OF DEATH!” These sensational stories centered around 32-year-old Jani Adams, a nurse working the graveyard shift in a…
Final Act: A Jazz Man's Last Tune
On a late-spring night in 1955, the Moulin Rouge in Las Vegas was coming alive with the promise of breaking down racial barriers. But as the city revelled in the excitement, a dark mystery was…
S2 10.1.17: Terror on the Las Vegas Strip
October 1st, 2017…it’s a date burned into the memories of Las Vegas locals and people around the world.It was on that day that from his high suite in a nearby hotel, a lone gunman focused his rage on…
Bootleggers and Bandits: The Wild Side of Prohibition in Vegas
BONUS EPISODEWith the passage of the 18th Amendment and the Federal Volstead Act, liquor was, by and large, made illegal across the United States starting in 1920 – including in the tiny newly-formed…
Boom Town: Blowing Up Las Vegas
BONUS EPISODEThousands of bombs have gone off across the United States over the course of the 20th & 21st centuries for every reason…from the personal, to the political, to the financial. And…
Chasing the Darkness: The Serial Killers of Las Vegas
BONUS EPISODEThe term "serial killer" originated in the 1970s and was coined to describe individuals who commit a series of murders, typically with a cooling-off period between each crime. The FBI…
S1E10 Shattered Vows - A War Bride's Revenge
Las Vegas resident, Frank Waters survived his service with the U.S. military in Europe during World War II.But only a year after the war's end, the consequences of Frank's actions overseas followed…
S1E9 Disposable Lives - Trafficking and Murder Under The Desert Sun
In the spring of 1996, a trio of bodies were discovered in the desert just outside of Las Vegas. Initially believed to be victims of sex trafficking, the case remained unsolved for over a decade,…
S1E8 Til Death Do Us Part - Murder In The Divorce Capital Of The World
Nevada offers the same lax residency requirements to obtain divorce today as it did nearly 100 years ago; a person only has to live in the state for six weeks before being eligible to for a…
S1E7 Deadly Negotiations - The Explosive Murder of Bill Coulthard
It's one of the most high-profile murders in the history of Las Vegas.On a scorching hot 115 degree summer day, a former FBI agent & prominent attorney left his office in downtown Las Vegas and…
S1E6 Standing Up For Free Speech - McCarthy vs. Greenspun
In 1950's Las Vegas, the most powerful newspaper owner in the city went on trial for publishing an editorial that Federal Prosecutors alleged was intended to incite the assassination of an extremely…
S1E5 Restaurant Wars - The Murder of Al Bramlet
In the 1970's Las Vegas was the site of bombings & murders...but not ALL of this mayhem was linked to the mafia.In the fall of 1975, a labor dispute between the Culinary Union and several…
S1E4 Kidnapping A Gangster's Son - The Attempted Abduction of Ted Binion
The trial surrounding the 1998 alleged murder of a casino heir was one of the most sensational cases in Las Vegas history, garnering national attention.But decades before tales of jilted lovers,…
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