Interviews with the best investigators in the world. Cut through the spin and straight to the stories at the heart of major criminal cases with the people who solved the cases. Hosted by international journalist and academic Declan Hill, produced by his students at the University of New Haven - Ryan Decker, Aiden van Batenburg, and others. www.crimewavespodcast.com Follow us at @declan_hill
The Dark Side of Epstein: Payments to Prison Guards Exposed
Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guard was accepting payments in cash. The official who was a short distance away from his cell the night he died - received thousands of dollars in cash. The guard’s bank deemed them “suspicious” and notified the FBI. Again, like so many other things around the Epstein death an almost unbelievable perplexing lack of investigation - the guard was never asked to explain under oath the origin of these payments. Nor was the five page handwritten summation of the...
28 Feb 2026
Why American Sports are Going to Fail
Dear Friends of CrimeWaves, A change for this week's episode - an interview I did with the Protectors Podcast on the threat that gambling poses to US Sports. The headline is that US Sports Leagues are dancing with the devil. All the money they got from bookmakers seemed very seductive but there are more and more scandals linked to betting. Now, it is perfectly reasonable for a good-faith sports fan to doubt the integrity of the leagues and it will only get worse - much, much...
2 Feb 2026
Massive Breaking News in Jeffrey Epstein Case
In the Jeffrey Epstein document release by the US Department of Justice, there is one HUGE document that adds significantly to the case for the potential murder of Epstein. On July 29, 2019 - 3.5 weeks after Epstein had ended the hell-hole of a detention center, his lawyers reached out to the Federal Prosecutors saying that their client was willing to consider flipping. In other words, Epstein was considering naming more powerful people in some kind of criminal case, in return for a red...
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