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Crime Beat
Hosted by Southern California News Group: Keith Sharon, reporter for the Orange Count · EN
The Crime Beat podcast digs deep into fascinating true crime stories, exploring new twists along the way with award-winning Southern California News Group reporter Keith Sharon's fresh interviews of criminal masterminds, some of their victims and the detectives trying to piece together what really happened. Each season explores a different crime, beginning with the biggest bank heist in American history.
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Bonus Episode: Loud in the Silence
Sep 6, 202000:47:15Tap to summarizeIn this special episode of Crime Beat, you will meet Janine Madera, a fierce advocate for justice who works as a homicide prosecutor in the Orange County District Attorney's Office. She has tried 72 trials and won 57 convictions without hearing a word of testimony. Madera is deaf and operates in the courtroom with strategically placed sign language interpreters. But her deafness isn't the most important part of her story. Janine Madera was raped as a child, and she decided as a pre-teen that she was going to someday work to put criminals behind bars.
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S2, Ep. 14: Questions and Answers
Jan 16, 202001:01:48Tap to summarizeThe "Crime Beat" team offers insight into Season 2 at a Coast Conversation event, and we wrap the season with updates on what is going on with key people you met along the way.
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S2, Ep. 13: Xavier's Final Guilty Plea
Jan 9, 202001:06:05Tap to summarizeXavier Lopez gave a final statement that proved truth still wasn't part of his defense strategy.
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S2, Ep. 12: Sam's Interview
Jan 2, 202001:10:02Tap to summarizeYou will hear the entire interview with Sam Lopez from the day Cathy Torrez's body was found.
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S2, Ep. 11: The Murder Tour
Dec 26, 201900:34:25Tap to summarizeDetective Daron Wyatt takes us on a tour of Placentia to show where and how Cathy's murder took place.
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S2, Ep. 10: Bombshells
Dec 19, 201900:35:28Tap to summarizeWas Cathy Torrez pregnant? One of the witnesses makes an incredible revelation.
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S2, Ep. 9: Surprise: Four Arrests
Dec 12, 201900:31:33Tap to summarizeAfter 13 years, police arrest four suspects in the murder of Cathy Torrez.
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S2, Ep.8: Cold as Ice
Dec 5, 201900:32:31Tap to summarizeThe Cathy Torrez murder investigation is dead. No one is investigating. Mary Bennett and Daron Wyatt can't seem to find anyone who cares.
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Bonus episode: True Crime discussion with Rebecca Lavoie
Nov 27, 201900:32:38Tap to summarizeRebecca Lavoie, host of "Crime Writers On," talks with Crime Beat host Keith Sharon about podcasting, journalism and some of the best true crime podcasts of all time.
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S2, Ep. 7: Keeping the Case Alive
Nov 21, 201900:36:27Tap to summarizePolice finally find a fingerprint and some DNA evidence, but neither belongs to Sam Lopez.
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