Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

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

True Crime
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Episode 51: A "Cure" for Injustice and My Name...
Florida inmate, Leonard Cure, sentenced to life in prison is set free after the Broward prosecutor admits that eye witness evidence against him is shaky, also Florida's connection to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
27 min
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Episode 50: Doppelganger Prescribes Murder for...
Bonita Springs Dr. Teresa Siever was savagely beaten in the head with a hammer and died in her own home. Turns out the person who ordered the hit hired a look-a-like killer. Plus, when a blow to the head leads to genius.
23 min
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Episode 49: Carole Baskin, Cool Cat or Killer ...
Tampa's Carole Baskin is "Tiger King" Joe Exotic's main nemesis, but she also has skeletons in her own closet. One of them may be her missing husband, Don Lewis who disappeared in 1997.
33 min
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Episode 48: Florida Woman's Conviction by 6 An...
A Tampa woman who beat her cheating husband to death with a baseball bat was convicted of second degree murder by an all-male jury in 1957. The case would help launch the US Supreme Court career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
17 min
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Episode 47: Quadruple Murderer claims "Self De...
Adam Matos killed four people in front of his four year old autistic son near Tampa. The dead included the child's grandparents, mother and her new boyfriend. Matos told the jury he slaughtered everyone in self defense.
35 min
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Episode 46: Crazy, Stressful Job of Florida 9...
This week I talk with the West Palm Beach Fire chief Diana Matty about the stressful job of Florida 911 dispatchers and the crazy calls they handle. Also, what you need to know before you dial 911.
24 min
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Episode 45: Anna Nicole Smith Hits Hard Rock B...
Anna Nicole Smith: Stripper, Playboy bunny, trophy wife, reality TV star. Her life was a roller coaster and it dead-ended at the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood Florida where she overdosed on the same pills that killed her idol Marilyn...
37 min
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Episode 44: Boynton Beach Beauty Queen Serial ...
Karen and Jen detail the evil demise of models and beauty queens in Florida at the hands of a serial killer who posed as a photographer and race car driver. Also, everything you need to know about stalking.
31 min
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Episode 43: Ex-Husband Confesses to killing Tr...
Jen's back with Karen as the girls remember the hunt for the body of young mother and nurse Tricia Todd. Finally her ex-husband agrees to plead guilty to second degree murder for a lesser sentence but fails to lead police to Todd's...
29 min
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Episode 42: Tally Triple Murder Cold Case
More than 50 years ago, three members of the Sims family were found gagged, bound, shot and stabbed in their Tallahassee home by one of the daughters returning from babysitting. The triple murder is still unsolved to this day. By revisiting...
32 min
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Episode 41: From Stripper to Trophy Wife to Bl...
Stripper Narcisa Cira Veliz Pacheco married Miami hotel heir Ben Novack Jr whose father built the infamous Fountainebleau on South Beach. They were married for 21 years until Ben fell in love with a porn star and Narcy Novack made sure...
24 min
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Episode 40: Monster, Bloody Bucket Bridge and ...
This episode looks at the most notorious female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, who was executed on Florida's death row in 2002. Also I explore the legend of the Bloody Bucket Bridge and the infamous Devil's Chair.
22 min
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Episode 39: FHP vs FBI
The Florida Highway Patrol was accused of a racist cover-up in the investigation of a wrong-way fatal crash in Broward County involving an FBI agent. Ex-FBI Special Agent David Farrall’s white jury cleared him of felony DUI vehicular homicide...
22 min
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Episode 38: Florida Fake Doctors Love and Toxi...
On this episode we look at the people who got duped by two people who pretended to be a doctor and practiced medicine without a license. In the case of the toxic tush doctor, she injected cement and fix-a--flat into one woman's butt...
18 min
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Episode 37: Miami Murder Mystery: The Italian...
1998 murder of Dale Pike is a true South Florida murder mystery.   Italian Enrico Forti says he's an innocent man wrongly convicted and has spent the last 20 years in a South Florida prison...many say his case is like a reverse-...
25 min
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Episode 36: PBSO K-9 Deputy Shoots Knife-Weild...
A PBSO K-9 officer has been exonerated after shooting and killing a mentally ill man with a knife, but the attorney for the family says the suspect was shot in the back while running away...and there's video. Also, tennis great Monica...
34 min
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Episode 35: Griselda Blanco Vicious Female Col...
Griselda Blanco was a ruthless and powerful drug lord for the Medellín Cartel known as La Madrina, the Black Widow, the Cocaine Godmother and the Queen of Narco-Trafficking. She was a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade...
15 min
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Episode 34: Klan Khristmas Killings
In 1951, Harry T. and Harriette Moore were murdered on Christmas Day (their silver anniversary) when a bomb, set by the Klan, blew up their home in Mims, Florida. Harriette Moore was a classroom teacher and both were civil rights activists....
22 min
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Episode 33: The Trayvon Hoax, Is Diamond a Fak...
A Hollywood directors claims that the prosecution and the defense in the second degree murder trial of George Zimmerman actually put a fake witness named "Diamond" on the stand to say she was on the phone with Trayvon Martin when...
25 min
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Episode 32: Square Grouper Murders and the Mon...
This episode Karen and Jen ask the question, what do you do if you hook a brick of cocaine while fishing off the coast of Florida? Fishermen catch "square groupers" all the time and some turn it in, others try to cash in. Unfortunately...
25 min
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Episode 31: Florida Seminoles - America's onl...
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Karen and Lexi explore the history of the undefeated Seminole tribe that still thrives today. The girls also explore the possibility the Miami Dolphins are cursed for disturbing the remains of vengeful natives....
17 min
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Episode 30: Is Your Boyfriend a Serial Killer?
Find out all the red flags and indicators that your boyfriend, husband, neighbor or co-worker may be a serial killer. Karen and Lexi also delve into the disturbing warning signs your child may become a psychopath.
24 min
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Episode 29: Slaying of Sgt. Rocky Hunt and the...
PBSO Deputy Sgt. Rocky Hunt was slain in 1993 and is the last Palm Beach County officer shot in the line of duty. His killer, Nicholas Hardy, turned the officer's gun on himself and survived. He was sentenced to death, but is now serving...
29 min
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Episode 28: The Gainesville Ripper - The Death...
The Gainesville Ripper, Danny Rolling, used a knife to carve up his victims which included five young people near the University of Florida. The Louisiana drifter had a penchant for bursting into song while in court and during his...
27 min
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Episode 27: Ted Bundy's Women, Victims and Fl...
America's most notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy, ended his murder spree in Florida, but left a trail of women alive and dead  in his wake across America.   Why did he snap?  It was one flame who dumped him who sparked...
32 min