Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

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

True Crime
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The Docket: It's the Wild West on Florida Road...
It's a jungle on Florida roadways this week with a shootout between two vehicles in Polk county and another driver in Miami Dade county emptying his clip inside his own vehicle in a road rage incident during morning rush hour in Miami...
5 min
152
Episode 144: Don't Look in the Bag
A young Black man is accused of being a serial killer, terrorizing the Seminole Heights community in 2017 for 51 days, allegedly shooting and killing four people during that time. And how did Tampa police identify him as the suspect? ...
17 min
153
The Docket: Accused Spree Killer Fights Death
This week on the docket, Florida's crazy criminals include an accused serial killer who doesn't want to die, a royal prince and an angry momma bear. Also, an undercover gun buy goes terribly wrong when shots are fired in a restaurant...
5 min
154
Episode 143: Florida's Brush with World War
With a potential war in Ukraine looming, Floridians know all too well what it's like to have Russians breathing down their neck. South Florida also faced Nazi wrath when German U-boats surfaced off the east coast and sunk American supply...
21 min
155
The Docket: Gabby Petito should have been arre...
A new police report alleges that Moab police had probable cause to arrest Gaby Petito for domestic violence before she was murdered during a cross-country trip last Fall. And more on Ghislaine Maxwell and Sheriff Grady Judd.
4 min
156
Episode 142: The Deadly Dance of the Keys
In the first arrest of its kind in Polk County, 45 year-old Michelle English has been charged with culpable negligent manslaughter after deputies said she handed car keys over to a friend she knew was drunk.
17 min
157
The Docket: Body Cams Bust Officers
Three officers from Miami Dade county are charged with using excessive force, as seen on their own body camera videos. Will Prince Andrew travel to the United States to testify in a civil trial brought by a former Palm Beach County woman...
4 min
158
Episode 141: Florida's BTK Killers
Florida has its own BTK killers, but in this case, the victims were drugged, bound, tortured and killed. It's BTK with a twist. The victims were hunted because they were gay. Now, one of the two accused double-murderers wants to plead...
14 min
159
The Docket: Florida Shoelace Strangler
This week on The Docket, a crazy Florida man attempts to randomly kill a woman waiting at a bus stop. Video surfaces of a missing Florida woman. And, officials work to make Florida schools safer.
5 min
160
Episode 140: Serial Homeless Hunter
A dapper Florida real estate agent has just been arrested for being an alleged serial killer who targeted homeless victims.
14 min
161
Episode 139: Invasive Species Killers
Some of the most bothersome nuisance creatures in Florida are the Burmese pythons that litter the Florida Everglades and green iguanas. And in Florida it is legal to kill these invasive species, but you must kill these environmental enemies...
19 min
162
The Docket: Ghislaine Maxwell's defense
This week on The Docket: A high-powered attorney represents a Florida teen accused of planning a school shooting, a Florida man gets hard prison time for assaulting an iguana, and will Ghislaine Maxwell take the stand in her own...
4 min
163
Episode 138: Fingerprints solve cold case
A man who had long been considered a person of interest in the killing of a 21-year-old South Florida woman has been arrested after 38 years using...no...not DNA, but new fingerprint technology.
19 min
164
The Docket: Death for Cop Killer
A Florida jury recommends death for a convicted cop killer, an older woman in spandex leads police on a car chase through a Vero Beach golf course and a police-involved shooting.
5 min
165
The Docket: A Working Stiff
This week on The Docket, a police shooting in Polk County, but Lakeland officers may have gunned down a "humble guy just doing his job." Plus a suspect is arrested in the murder of a 14 year-old Palm Beach Gardens boy.
5 min
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Episode 137: What happened to Ryan Rogers?
A missing persons case turns into a murder investigation after a 14-year-old soccer player is found dead next to his bicycle near I-95. First police thought Ryan Rogers was a victim of a hit-and-run accident. Then, his death was ruled a...
9 min
167
Episode 135: Where is Jennifer Kesse?
I need your help with an unsolved missing persons case in Florida of a tall, beautiful, green-eyed blond girl named Jennifer Kesse. Jennifer Joyce Kesse went missing 15 years ago from her newly purchased condo in Orlando and has been...
23 min
168
The Docket: The Leg
This week on The Docket, Tampa police find a human leg in a local body of water. There is a distinctive tattoo that may possibly help identify the victim. Also, a shootout on South Florida surface streets.
5 min
169
Episode 134: Gabby Dances with the Devil
This week, Karen Curtis, wraps up the Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito saga. Both are dead, but why?
20 min
170
The Docket: Death Row Jail Bird
This week on The Docket, a death row inmate convicted of raping and murdering a nine year old girl is asking the Florida Supreme Court for a new sentencing hearing and a very special bird was ripped off from a pet shop called the Animal...
4 min
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Episode 133: Prostitutes vs Sex Slaves
Not all sex workers are prostitutes, many are sex slaves. In addition to helping women trafficked for sex, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd metes out justice to Florida scumbags who befriend children on line in an attempt to have sex with...
20 min
172
The Docket with Pikachu
This week on The Docket, our favorite Sheriff, Grady Judd, along with a stuffed Pikachu announces a huge child sex trafficking bust. Also, the Tiger King has the big ā€œCā€ and an innocent Florida man is freed from prison after serving five...
5 min
173
Episode 132: Mr. Winkles goes to Death Row
A Florida killer and rapist, James Winkles aka Jimmy Delano Hawk, was responsible for a series of murders including that of a Florida realtor whose headless body was found in a river in the early 80's. Not to be confused with the adorable...
23 min
174
The Halloween Docket: How to Stop the Bleed
A crazy Florida criminal opened fire on Florida cops this week and one South Florida school district is preparing for another possible school shooting or stabbing by setting up kiosks to help "stop the bleed."
4 min
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Episode 131: Hiccup Girl, Media Darling or Mur...
A Florida teen, who became a media sensation for her non-stop hiccupping, is now serving life for first degree murder.
16 min