Crimetown Presents is an investigative anthology podcast series created by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier. Every season they introduce you to a new serialized story that pushes the boundaries of storytelling, sound design and music.
Season Two, The Ballad of Billy Balls*: it’s 1982, and a man bursts into an East Village storefront apartment and shoots punk musician Billy Balls. Author and activist iO Tillett Wright and Crimetown Producer Austin Mitchell unravel a mystery of love and loss, the tender binds of family, and the stories we tell ourselves just to survive.
Season One, The RFK Tapes: Zac Stuart-Pontier and Bill Klaber take a trip down a rabbit hole surrounding the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Featuring never-before heard police recordings, The RFK Tapes starts out a murder investigation and ends up revealing the power of conspiracy theories, and why it’s human nature to believe in them.
* scroll down to see the episodes of Crimetown Presents: The Ballad of Billy Balls.
40 episodes
Introducing | Firebug
00:02:297/23/2021
Introducing | Morally Indefensible
00:04:058/18/2020
S2 [BONUS] The Ballad of The Ballad | The Ballad of Billy Balls
00:39:048/15/2019
S2 [BONUS] The Lawslinger | The Ballad of Billy Balls
00:32:028/8/2019
Introducing Crimetown, Season 2
00:09:058/1/2019
S2 [BONUS] I'll Call You Back | The Ballad of Billy Balls
00:33:057/18/2019
S2 [BONUS] Leave a Message | The Ballad of Billy Balls
00:31:127/11/2019
S2 [13] Life After Death | The Ballad of Billy Balls
00:41:527/4/2019
S2 [12] The Guy in the Cowboy Hat | The Ballad of Billy Balls
00:29:216/27/2019
S2 [11] There’s Someone Under This Ground | The Ballad of Billy Balls
