All posts tagged: True Crime Classics

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True Crime CLASSICS: Former Miami Cop and Author, Michael Berish Joins the Show

True Crime Classics airs Thursdays 1pm ET on  Here Women Talk! The REAL Miami Vice on TRUE CRIME CLASSICS! Burl Barer and Don Woldman welcome Michael Berish to Here Women Talk Michael Berish worked as a patrolman, a detective, and as a supervisor on the City of Miami Police Department for twenty-two years; thirteen of which were spent as an undercover detective in the REAL Miami Vice.  He worked everything from Narcotics & Vice, Prostitution, Gambling and Pornography, to Dignitary Protection of President Jose Napoleon Duarte (of El Salvador) and Pope John Paul II.  Mike became an expert in the field of prosecuting Obscenity, made over 1,000 cases—mostly against organized crime syndicates—and never lost one case.  He testified in front of the Meese Commission on Obscenity during the Reagan Administration and was subpoenaed by the F.B.I. to testify for them, as an expert witness, in New Orleans reference an interstate transportation case. His first novel, “Reflections from the Pit,” won the Best Novel Award from the Public Safety Writers Association. “This book reflects the very ‘soul’ of honesty as well as the constant corruption involved in working as a …

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True Crime CLASSICS: Author of “Love Lies” Amanda Lamb Guest of the Hour

  True Crime Classics airs Thursdays 1pm ET on  Here Women Talk!   Amanda Lamb is a professional television journalist, author, and mother. Amanda writes in two completely different genres: one about her life at home, and one that mirrors the life of a hard news reporter. Currently, she has FIVE books in print and another on the way. “Love Lies,” her latest true crime,  published by the Berkley Group . It features the woman of a young mother whose husband said she went jogging and never returned home. In her nearly twenty plus years as a professional journalist, Amanda has developed a reputation as the go-to reporter for networks seeking credible feedback and interviews on high-profile murder cases in the southeast. She makes regular appearances on CBS, FOX News, CNN, truTV, and on the Oxygen network Nancy Cooper is missing. Her husband says she went for a jog and never came home … Hundreds search for the vivacious mother-of-two in and around her upscale neighborhood in Cary, North Carolina. Days later, her body is discovered …

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True Crime CLASSICS: Author Sheila Johnson, Never Too Much BLOOD!

  True Crime Classics airs Thursdays 1pm ET on  Here Women Talk! T Never Too Much BLOOD! Sheila Johnson’s true crime books all have BLOOD in the title – and for good reason.   Sheila Johnson is the author of Blood Highway, Blood Lust and Blood Betrayal. Her experience as a newspaper crime reporter created a natural transition into writing true crime books about some of the cases she covered, and the killers and victims she came to know. Her close working relationship with law enforcement has given her inside access to statements, case files, and testimony that she uses to create a clear overall picture of murderers and their victims, defense attorneys and prosecutors, and the dedicated investigators who work tirelessly to bring killers to justice. She lives in Leesburg, Alabama.   Sheila Johnson joins Burl Barer and Don Woldman for a True Crime Classics interview that is every bit as fascinating as her books! Every Saturday at 2PT, 5ET you can hear Burl Barer on  True Crime Uncensored  broadcast by Outlaw Radio.   Related articles Related articles True Crime …

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True Crime CLASSICS: Burl Barer Talks Crime with Vito Colucci, Jr.!

True Crime Classics airs Thursdays 1pm ET on  Here Women Talk! T True Crime CLASSICS host, Burl Barer, welcomes former undercover cop, Vito Colucci, Jr. to  talk about mobsters, home invasion, and more! Guest co-host this week is famed Broadway play producer and screenwriter, Spencer Tandy, along with Mark Boyer and Matt Alan. Vito Colucci, Jr., owner of Colucci Investigations LLC, is a former member of the Stamford, CT Police Department where he worked as a Narcotic’s Detective and Undercover Organized Crime Investigator. One of the main investigations Vito spearheaded during that time was uncovering the organized crime ties within his own police department. Vito has been a private investigator for the past 22 years, working many high profile cases; Michael Skakel/Martha Moxley case, Jayson William’s case, and honeymooner, George Smith’s case . Vito Colucci is a regular commentator on various news programs including: Fox News MSNBC, Catherine Crier/Court TV, Star Jones, Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace, Larry King, CNN Headline News, and The Bill O’Reilly Show, as well as being a featured speaker at the first World Investigator’s Conference in …

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True Crime Classics: Deidre Marie Capone, author of Uncle Al Capone

  True Crime Classics airs Thursdays 1pm ET on  Here Women Talk! Al Capone was Public Enemy #1. He even made the cover of TIME Magazine. He was also a family man in more ways than one. Al Capone is America’s best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city. Throughout the book, Capone tries to reconcile what she knows about her family with recorded history. Early in the book she writes, “I will not pretend to be able to paint a rosy picture of my uncle Al. I cannot make him out to be a perfect man, or even a good man. But what I want people to know is that he was a complex man. He was human and he had a heart.” Capone succeeds, balancing both the public history of Al, from the Valentine’s Day Massacre to his incarceration at …