Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff
Hosted by Chris Goffard · LAT Studios, Los Angeles Times
4.8from 11 ratings
- 8
- Episodes
- 2
- Transcribed
- 11
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Pandora's Box: The Fall of L.A.'s Sheriff
Pandora’s Box: The Fall of L.A.’s Sheriff is a six-part podcast exploring the crisis that toppled one of the country’s most prominent lawmen, Lee Baca. Rising from humble beginnings, he presented himself as a reformer when he took over the scandal-plagued agency in 1998. He vowed that he would be sheriff as long as he lived, and voters seemed to approve. But inside the massive jail system he ran, claims of inmate abuse kept surfacing. When a young FBI agent found an inmate willing to talk, it triggered an unprecedented clash between two massive law agencies…and a cover-up that went to the top.
- Publisher
- LAT Studios, Los Angeles Times
- Category
- government · news · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Dec 2025
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
2 of 8 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine
7 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: Season 4 of Crimes of the Times
12 Dec 2025
The Other Side of the Door: The Case Against Lee Baca
12 Dec 2025
The Generals: Power, Deception and a Cover-Up that Goes to the Top
12 Dec 2025
Inside Man: A Jailer Turns Informant
12 Dec 2025
Gunning Up: L.A. County’s Top Cop Versus the Feds
12 Dec 2025
The Ghost: An Inmate Disappears in L.A. County Jail
12 Dec 2025
The Dungeon: Inside Men’s Central Jail
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Introducing: Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's a nice view of the city, Krivirich, from here. the city where Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky was born. I asked Kondor if he's not afraid of living so high up on one of the top floors. I learned during a security training that it's better to stay on a lower floor when you're in a war zone because of the drones. He shrugs. Nowhere is safe, he says. It can happen anywhere at any time. Something you hear all the time in Ukraine. Condor is this soldier's call sign. For security reasons, we're not using his real name. Today, he's turning 33. I ask him what he wants to do on his birthday. […]
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- Christopher Goffard
- James Sexton
- Leah Marx
- Anthony Brown
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Chris Goffard host the show. Published by LAT Studios, Los Angeles Times.
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