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Crimetown

Crimetown

55 Episodes • By Gimlet • www.gimletmedia.com/show/crimeto...
Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its ...more
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Introducing “Operation: Tradebom”
Everybody remembers the morning of September 11, 200... more
Feb 27 2023 1m
Chapter 1 1 min
Operation Tradebaum
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Introducing | Not Past It
From the co-creator of Crimetown and The Ballad of B... more
Aug 10 2021 32m
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Chapter 1 11 mins
Not Past It
Chapter 2 9 mins
How FBI Created Legend of Ma Barker
Chapter 3 11 mins
The Good Guys Versus Bad Guys
Chapter 4 57 sec
DJ Screw and Hip Hop's Slow, Psychedelic Sound
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Introducing | Firebug
From the creator of Crimetown and Morally Indefensib... more
Jul 21 2021 2m
Home Improvement Store Firebombing
Chapter 1 2 mins
Man Who Spent Years Lighting Up Los Angeles
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Introducing | Morally Indefensible
1979 is the year that Ex-Green Beret Doctor Jeffrey ... more
Aug 18 2020 4m
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Introducing Mogul
Introducing Mogul, a show about hip-hop's most iconi... more
Oct 1 2019 39m
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Bonus Episode: The Streets Don't Love You Back
Growing up, Rob Boyd is ignored by his absent, woman... more
Sep 5 2019 41m
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From the Ashes
In the Crimetown Season 2 finale, Kwame Kilpatrick b... more
Aug 29 2019 37m
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United States v. Kwame Kilpatrick
After a decade of scandals and a sprawling corruptio... more
Aug 22 2019 39m
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Operation Bombay Dreams
For years, the FBI has been running a wide-ranging c... more
Aug 15 2019 42m
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Surrendered
After serving 99 days in jail, former mayor Kwame Ki... more
Aug 8 2019 30m
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The Murder of Tamara Greene
With the mayor behind bars, a crusading lawyer takes... more
Aug 1 2019 39m
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Introducing The Ballad of Billy Balls
From the same team that brought you Crimetown comes ... more
Jul 31 2019 9m
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The Affair
The revelation that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had an af... more
Jul 25 2019 44m
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Gary Brown v. Mayor of Detroit
Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown files a whistleblower... more
Jul 18 2019 30m
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Introducing Man in the Window
From the partnership that brought you Dirty John, co... more
Jul 17 2019 14m
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Fake News
As rumors about a wild party at the mayor’s mansion ... more
Jul 11 2019 39m
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The Hip Hop Mayor
To his supporters, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is a new b... more
Jul 4 2019 37m
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Right Here, Right Now
When Mayor Coleman Young dies after twenty years in ... more
Jun 27 2019 33m
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Dimitri
Dimitri Mugianis is a rarity in Detroit: a white kid... more
Jun 20 2019 42m
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Operation Backbone
Still hung up on the unsolved murder of Damion Lucas... more
Jun 13 2019 42m
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Who Killed Damion Lucas?
A thirteen-year-old boy is murdered in a drive-by sh... more
Jun 6 2019 37m
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The Mayor, the Barber, and the Babysitter
Coleman Young has more underworld connections than y... more
May 30 2019 32m
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YBI to the Day I Die
It’s the early eighties, and a new organization is r... more
May 23 2019 40m
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The Kingpins' Kids
When a hungry young DEA agent arrives in Detroit, he... more
May 16 2019 32m
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The Fat Man and the Field Marshall
Eddie Jackson and Courtney Brown are childhood frien... more
May 9 2019 35m
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