Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes

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

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The Docket Week of August 6, 2021
This week on The Docket a Florida inmate escapes from prison in record time, a sting operation nabs a suspect with HIV trying to have sex with a child and and the body of a dead Florida teen emits a strange odor sickening first...
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Episode 118: Jameis Winston's True Crimes
So what is Jameis Winston's true crime? Two rape allegations while he was a student on the FSU campus in 2012 and a star quarterback on the Florida State football team? Well, Winston was never charged with rape. He was accused of...
20 min
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The Docket Week of July 30, 2021
This week on The Docket, dash cam video of a hit and run crash, racy sex-related arrests including one guy abusing a pickle. And finally, our favorite Florida sheriff puts on a stolen gold chain and raps about a drug bust.
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Episode 117 Short Form
A quick sample at the long form version of Episode 117 Poor Baby Lollipops.
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Episode 117: Poor Baby Lollipops
It took three juries to convict a Miami Beach mother of the torture and murder of her little boy, dubbed Baby Lollipops, after the design on the T-shirt he was wearing when his disfigured body was found under a bush. Jen joins Karen again...
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The Docket Week of July 23, 2021
This week on The Docket, Karen holds court with the worst of the worst...someone stealing the identities of those who died in the Surfside condo collapse, a voyeur looking up women's skirts at TJ Maxx and drunk men spewing anti-Asian...
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Episode 116: Where is Lynne Friend?
August 1994, just days before she was set to leave Hallandale Beach for her new home with a new man, Lynne Friend vanished without a trace. Clifford Friend, Lynne's estranged husband, vowed she'd never leave the state with their...
18 min
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The Docket Week of July 16, 2021
Just a few of the crazy stories on The Docket: Haitian authorities arrest the alleged ringleader of their President's assassination, a Haitian-American doctor from Miami. A South Florida mother has been charged in the deaths of her...
5 min
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Episode 115: Rush to Judgement
The Sackler family just agreed to pay the largest personal settlement in history for creating OxyContin and the opioid epidemic. The crisis hit South Florida the hardest with pill mills popping up all over Broward County. Plus, several...
18 min
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The Docket Week of July 9, 2021
There's always a South Florida connection to international crime. Two South Florida men are charged in the assassination of Haiti's president. Also this week, a couple of police-involved take downs of crazy Florida suspects.
6 min
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Episode 114: Nancy Grace vs Tot Moms from Hell
On this episode our friend Nancy Grace and her war on tot moms from hell. We all know how she railed against tot mom Casey Anthony, but she also allegedly drove another mother of a missing Florida boy to kill herself.
19 min
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The Docket Week of July 2, 2021
This week on The Docket find out about all the new laws that went into effect in the state of Florida as of July 1st. Florida's crazy criminals now have 162 new laws on the books to break.
4 min
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Episode 113: Biggest Jewelry Heist in American...
It is a jewelry heist right out of a Hollywood movie script. In 2011 Provident Jewelers in Jupiter, Florida was hit by a team of brazen jewel thieves who defeated all security systems and breached the level two vault. They had the luxury...
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The Docket: Week of June 25, 2021
Welcome to "The Docket," a quick summary of the crazy, crimes criminals were busted for in Florida over the past week
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Episode 112: Murder Suspect Escapes Broward Co...
A home invasion murder suspect somehow unlocks his shackles and bolts out of the Broward County Courthouse where prosecutors were asking the judge to impose the death penalty. Find out how the slippery suspect escaped and if he's...
21 min
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Episode 111: Family Tree DNA Guilt by Association
Some states like Florida are requiring law enforcement to get a judge to sign off on a warrant in order to access DNA stored in a genealogical website.  In the recent past, the Golden State Killer and a suspected Florida serial killer,...
18 min
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Episode 110: Cryptocurrency Crime
The advent of cryptocurrency is fueling recent ransomware hacks, according to Dr. James Stroud, inventor of the “Stealth coin” cryptocurrency. This week a new task force of American cybercops clawed back nearly half of the ransom paid to...
22 min
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Episode 109: Serial Killers vs Spree Killers
Are mass murderers supplanting serial killers? Improved forensic science such as DNA has allowed law enforcement to arrest budding serial killers before they can rack up three or more murders. But, with the explosion of gun sales, spree...
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Episode 108: Little Red Truck leads to "Redrum"
A classic, fully restored, one-of-a-kind cherry red 1971 Chevrolet Cheyenne truck leads to a double murder of a couple near St. Petersburg.  The real killer planted evidence to steer police toward another suspect, and the twists and...
21 min
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Episode 107: The mysterious disappearance of S...
This week on Full Rigor, the creepy and unbelievable story about a young co-ed from Miami who went missing in Georgia after a softball game in the early 1990's. It took a decade to finally nail her abductor and now the family is fighting...
20 min
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Episode 106: Florida man with two dead wives a...
An incredibly stupid Florida man tries to outsmart law enforcement by staging a missing person's case in the Keys when he really shot his second wife in the back of the head in Jacksonville. Oh, and his first wife was found dead too....
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Episode 105: Death Without Parole
At the age of 14, Palmetto Bay middle school student, Michael Hernandez, fatally stabbed and slit the throat of a his best friend and classmate in a bathroom stall. Hernandez, a wannabe serial killer was sentenced to life in prison without...
19 min
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Episode 104: Policing the Police "Hands up don...
Florida leads the country with the most law enforcement officer deaths in the line-of-duty in 2021.  But, cops are under fire now for how they police, especially people of color.  Karen talks with Sgt. Jeff McGreevy, former Marine...
40 min
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Episode 103: Rosie Ruiz Runs Amok
As a marathon runner herself, Karen explores the bizarre story of Cuban-American fraudster Rosie Ruiz who was the Boston Marathon's women's division winner in 1980, until she wasn't. After she ran amok at the Boston, she moved...
20 min
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Episode 102:  What to do if your child is missi...
John Walsh's son, Callahan Walsh, reflects on late brother Adam Walsh's murder, capturing fugitives while filming Investigation Discovery's (ID) 'In Pursuit with John Walsh. ' He tells Karen,...
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