Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

A true-crime podcast highlighting stories that sent a shiver through the sunbelt.

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Episode 101: Devious Dalia Dippolito
This is a story about Dalia Dippolito, a Boynton Beach housewife convicted of a murder for hire plot against her husband in 2017...even though the whole thing was recorded for the television show COPs, the case was not a slam dunk.
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Episode 100: Another South Florida Ponzi Schem...
Well-connected Fort Lauderdale attorney, Scott Rothstein, ran a side investment company/Ponzi scheme through his law firm. The now disbarred South Florida lawyer was convicted of operating a $1.2 billion fraud scheme is currently serving...
39 min
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Episode 99: Ponzi Schemer Preys on Palm Beach Jews
Convicted Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff, "worked the so-called 'Jewish circuit' of well-heeled Jews he met at country clubs on Long Island and on Palm Beach." He hit the ritzy enclave of Palm Beach, where he had a home,...
19 min
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Episode 98: Mysterious Disappearance of David C...
A crafty Pembroke Pines cold case detective tracks down some bones that were identified as a Broward man 15 years after he went missing. As a result, the disappearance of David Churchill Jackson became a homicide investigation. But, who...
28 min
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Episode 97: Florida jury convicts cop who shot...
A Palm Beach County jury was able to convict a police officer of killing a black motorist and sentence him to 25 years in prison. Former officer Nouman Raja shot church drummer Corey Jones as he stood outside of his broken down SUV on...
41 min
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Episode 96: Machete Murder in St. Augustine
On January 23rd 1974, Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was hacked to death with a machete by an unknown assailant. Her body was found crumpled on the front steps of her home St. Augustine home in a pool of blood.   Athalia was no ordinary...
41 min
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Episode 95: The Cinder Woman and Tiger's Tale
A St. Petersburg woman mysteriously bursts into flames back in the 1950's. One leg with a black slipper and her skull survived the inferno, but the skull was shrunken. Plus, golf legend Tiger Woods, lucky to survive a recent car...
21 min
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Episode 94: Losing Streak Lois and spontaneous...
Lois Riess, aka Losing Streak Lois, is a chameleon and convicted killer grandmother with a gambling problem.  Also, a former Miami lawyer whose pants caught on fire during an arson trial several years ago, has now been arrested for...
19 min
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Episode 93: JFK Jr. Kobe and Me update from NTSB
The NTSB issued its report into the cause of the helicopter crash that killed basketball great Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others. Just as I suspected it was the same problem that nearly killed me and led to the death of JFK...
41 min
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Episode 92: Life Without Parole and How to Ser...
Florida holds the highest rate of juveniles in adult prison and many are serving life without parole, LWOP. Hear from an inmate two decades after he murdered the neighbor girl when he was 14. Also, two FBI agents are gunned down in Broward...
23 min
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Episode 91: HOA Hell and the Black Alien
A Florida woman shoots her husband multiple times, including in the head, during an HOA argument and a French guy has taken body modification to an extreme...he's become the "Black Alien"
21 min
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Episode 90: Ghostly Unsolved Murder and the Ch...
A Florida man is gunned down in cold blood and his murder is never solved. But the victims continues to haunt the murder scene, an old Victorian house in Central Florida. Plus, we can't imagine eating a dog, but they do in China....
20 min
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Episode 89:  Mount Dora Cemetery Skull Theft Up...
Two central Florida men have been arrested for allegedly stealing human skulls from the Edgewood Cemetery last December. Did they take the heads for their religious practices?
16 min
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Episode 88: Bye Bye Baby and Wellington Killer...
Three men are finally arrested in a 15-year old cold case in Manatee County.  A 16-year old girl was allegedly murdered because her older boyfriend thought she was pregnant.  Plus, the accused Wellington killer clown wants out...
15 min
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Episode 87: A "Little Love" for a fake doctor ...
The most prolific serial killer, Samuel Little, who began his spree in Miami has finally died and the fake teen doctor, Dr. Love, is arrested again for fraud. Plus updates on several podcasts to start off the new year.
39 min
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Episode 86: Instant Chaos Just Add Water
A young single mother disappears off a boat into the Halifax River in Florida and her boyfriend tells police, she jumped overboard with the keys. When a fisherman finds her body, her injuries tell a gruesome tale of a brutal beating and...
15 min
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Episode 85: Look a head in the road
Police are looking for suspects who desecrated at least four graves in the Mount Dora cemetery and removed the heads from the corpses. Plus five curious, religious and macabre things to do with a human skull and Wrinkles the Clown from...
16 min
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Episode 84: Hulk Hogan's Big Gawker Takedown
Wrestling super star Hulk Hogan stepped into the legal ring filing a $100 million lawsuit against website Gawker. Hogan sued the gossip website for posting a secretly recorded tape of the Hulkster having sex with his then best friend, Tampa...
18 min
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Episode 83: "Enquiring Minds Want to Know"
"Enquiring minds want to know" was an advertising slogan used in the '80s by the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid based in Lantana, Florida. In this episode, Karen looks into founder Generoso Pope Jr.'s possible...
21 min
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Episode 82: Another Florida Mass Murder
21-year-old Zephen Xaver walked into a SunTrust branch in Sebring, Florida last year and unloaded his weapon execution-style into the heads of the five innocent women in the bank, according to police. This tragedy was at least the fourth...
16 min
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Episode 81: Florida School for Buried Boys
The former Dozier School for Boys in the city of Marianna, Fla is the site of unthinkable abuse with dozens of bodies found buried in makeshift graves on the property. Spanning the school's 111 year history, there were reports of abuse,...
19 min
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Episode 80: The Ocoee Massacre, Election Blood...
100 years ago, the Ocoee Massacre was sparked by a black man who attempted to vote in the 1920 presidential election in rural Orlando. As a result, an untold number of black Ocoee residents were killed and their homes burned to the ground....
17 min
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Episode 79: Snitch's Kiss of Death and Swamp W...
Karen examines the possibility that there is a man on Florida's death row who is about to be executed, who may be innocent. The only evidence against 74 year old James Dailey is testimony from a jailhouse snitch who sort of recanted...
24 min
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Episode 78: JFK Jr, Kobe and Karen, Lost in th...
Small aircraft and fog don't mix. Poor visibility played a role in the fatal crashes of John F. Kennedy Jr, Kobe Bryant. And Karen has lived to tell about her near death experience in the fog as a helicopter reporter in Sky 6. She also...
38 min
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Episode 77: The Ghost of Chuck and Mrs. Muir
There are many deadly boating accidents in South Florida involving very famous people. Some of them involve wrecks, or people falling overboard. But one deadly boating mystery on the high seas claimed the life of four people during a...
25 min