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Game of Crimes
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Host Steve "Murph" Murphy (retired DEA Agent, featured in NARCOS on Netflix) takes you inside the most intense and fascinating true crime stories in the world. Real life tales from the most notorious cases everyone knows and some you've probably never heard of (until now) from those who broke the law and those who were sworn to enforce it. Murph asks the questions and gets into the true stories from the real life players in the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all -- the Game of Crimes.
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242: Part 2: He Defused Bombs for 31 Years — Then Found One That Terrified the Nation
Apr 800:53:05Tap to summarizeIn Part 2 of Game of Crimes, retired FBI Special Agent Barry Black — bomb technician, sniper, and 31-year veteran — reveals the cases that defined American counterterrorism, including a 2005 incident that changed everything the Bureau thought it knew about domestic terror threats.
Transcribe →242: Part 1: FBI Accountant Spent 31 Years Hunting America's Deadliest Criminals
Apr 701:03:33Tap to summarizeRetired FBI Special Agent Barry Black reveals how a baseball coach in Alabama changed his life — and how diverse skills make the most lethal agents in the Bureau. From fraud investigations to becoming a SWAT member, sniper, and ultimately a FBI bomb technician who participated in some of the most high-profile cases around the world.
Transcribe →241: Part 2: He Fooled Drug Cartels in Panama AND Colombia — Here's How
Apr 101:12:40Tap to summarizeIn Part 2 of this exclusive Game of Crimes interview, 26-year DEA veteran Jeff Sweetin goes deeper — into the fake identities, the legendary pranks, the family sacrifices, and the parts of undercover work that no training manual ever prepares you for. From covert operations in Panama and Colombia to the quiet toll the job takes long after the mission ends, this is the conversation that happens when the debrief is over and the cameras finally get the truth.
Transcribe →241: Part 1: He Survived Many Years Undercover — Now He's Telling Everything
Mar 3101:11:17Tap to summarizeRetired DEA Special Agent Jeff Sweetin pulls back the curtain on almost three decades of undercover operations, international cartel takedowns, and the razor's edge between life and death. Jeff worked alongside legendary agents in some of the most dangerous corners of the drug war — Panama, the Dominican Republic, South America — and lived to tell the tale.
Transcribe →240: Part 2: EXCLUSIVE! The media went after her - Here's what they got wrong
Mar 2501:15:48Tap to summarizeFormer LAPD Officer Toni McBride survived a life-altering officer-involved shooting on April 22, 2020. She was cleared. She did everything right. But being right didn't protect her from what came next — the media firestorms, the public hatred, the departmental politics, the lawsuits, and the battle against an autoimmune disease that attacked her body just as the world was attacking her name.
Transcribe →240: Part 1: EXCLUSIVE! Best shot in her LAPD class – then she had to prove it, without her partner
Mar 2401:06:59Tap to summarizeShe was born to wear the badge. Raised by an undercover LAPD officer in Southern California, Toni McBride didn't just dream about law enforcement — she dominated it. She became the youngest female in LAPD history to complete the Level 2 Reserve Academy, earned the title of Top Shot, and served as class leader. Then came April 22, 2020 — and the officer-involved shooting that changed everything. Where was her partner?
Transcribe →239: Part 2: Drug Trafficker to Informant to Training Cops about Human Intelligence
Mar 1800:49:16Tap to summarizeAfter dismantling his own drug trafficking network and agreeing to cooperate with federal agents, Ben entered a world few ever talk about from the inside. The deals, the dangers, the mental toll, the paranoia — and the unexpected truth about the people supposed to protect him.Ben is now a law enforcement consultant and informant expert — training handlers on what they're getting wrong. His insights are changing how agencies across the country approach informant management.
Transcribe →239: Part 1: He Ran Drugs Across America — Then Flipped on Everyone | True Crime Interview
Mar 1700:57:08Tap to summarizeWhat started as small marijuana runs across state lines grew into a sophisticated, multi-state criminal operation. Ben Freedland stayed ahead of law enforcement by constantly reinventing his methods: "I always changed my methods of transport to stay ahead of law enforcement." He was connected, calculated, and relentless — until the day everything changed.
Transcribe →238: Part 2: 8 Years Firing From the Sky — Now She Saves Newborns
Mar 1100:51:22Tap to summarizeIn Part 2 of this exclusive interview, Mary reveals what happened when the resilience that kept her alive in combat collided with the emotional toll of saving premature babies — and how COVID-19 pushed her to a breaking point she never saw coming. She opens up about nurse burnout, the invisible wounds veterans carry into civilian careers, and the self-care journey that saved her.This is the story the military didn't prepare her for.
Transcribe →238: Part 1: Inside the Most LEGENDARY Military Family in U.S. History 🇺🇲
Mar 1000:56:00Tap to summarizeIn this powerful episode of Game of Crimes, host and retired DEA Special Agent Steve Murphy sits down with Mary Howe — an eight-year U.S. Air Force veteran who nearly lost herself before the military gave her the structure that saved her life. From growing up in the shadow of America's most elite special operations unit to becoming a military veteran herself, to transitioning to a family nurse practitioner and mental health advocate, Mary's story is one of resilience, service, and legacy.This isn't just a military story — it's a story about what happens when service runs in your blood.
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