• TCP Ep. 21 Bestselling Crime Writer Frank Zafiro

    REMINDER: FREE EBOOK! As a way of saying thank you for helping me get the TCP off the ground, anyone who likes subscribes, and rates the TCP gets a free e-book. Hit me up by DM on IG @thatscriminalpodcast or email, john@johnstampwriter.com, and I’ll send you one of my titles either Brother’s Keeper, Shattered Circle,…

  • TCP Ep. 8 True Crime Author Rod Sadler

    Retired Police Officer and true crime author Rod Sadler joined me to talk about his three books, To Hell I Must Go, which follows an 1897 murder which was investigated by his own Great Grandfather, Killing Women, the story of Michigan serial killer Don Miller, and A Slayer Awaits which follows the double murder of…

  • TCP Ep. 6 Robyn Maharaj, author of “Grilling Dahmer, The Interrogation of the Milwaukee Cannibal.”

    Had a great conversation with Robyn Maharaj. Before his death, Detective Pat Kennedy and Robyn collaborated to bring us, “Grilling Dahmer,” a first-hand account of Kennedy’s time interrogating Dahmer beginning on the night of his arrest. We talk about how Kennedy fostered a relationship with Dahmer which ultimately lead to the identification of all seventeen…

  • That’s Criminal Episode 1 Notes

    Show Link: https://anchor.fm/thatscriminaljs References:  https://www.kktv.com/2022/03/06/box-human-heads-medical-research-stolen-denver/  https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Game-warden-notes-Man-gives-fake-name-to-get-out-14860561.php#photo-17828479  Music: https://crushlimbo.bandcamp.com Books:    

  • Rent-A-Hitman

    I wonder what I could do to make my wife want to have me killed. I could ask her I guess but I’d hate to find out I had already driven her to murder, and she just hadn’t wound up the courage to pull the trigger yet. She had a Snapped obsession for a little…

  • You’ll Never Take Me Alive! Yeah, We Will.

    I know I’ve written about car thieves before, but I really liked watching this guy somersault fifty feet off a bridge. These are old sayings and kind of played out but: “Go big or go home.” or “If your gonna do it wrong, do it right.” or “You’ll never catch me, copper!” All seem to…

  • Don’t Tweak and Post

    I found a couple of pretty funny stories out of Florida this week but, man. Florida crime stories are getting to be like the slow kids on the playground. They’re just too easy to pick on. Instead, I found a tweaker in Missouri to write about. And in all honestly, Missouri meth heads are just…

  • Here Kitty Kitty

    I think it’s important to start off by saying this didn’t happen in Florida. Wisconsin either has really cool cat toys or is in serious need of some gun safety training. A 19-year-old named Jashanti (common spelling) in Kenosha, Wisconsin decided to use the laser sight fixed to the frame of a 9mm handgun as…

  • Naked on a Golf Cart

    A naked woman drove a golf cart into the middle of a standoff between police and an armed teenager. The teenager was apparently holding himself hostage on the roof of his home around midnight on September 6th (Happy Labor Day!) when Jessica Smith, 28, refused orders to leave the area and found her bare ass…

  • Heavy Sleeper

    A guy in New York City passed out drunk on the street outside his apartment building and got robbed not once, but twice. And he slept through both incidents. According to the article the victim, we’ll call him Tanner for no other reason than this sounds like something a Tanner would do. Tanner went out…

  • Triathlon of Crime

    What do you get when you steal a truck, a tractor, and a kayak all in the same day? Aside from, I’m guessing, a possible meth intervention, you have possibly your first criminal triathlete. Tina Duncan. I’m impressed with your willingness to do whatever it takes to do whatever the hell it was you thought…

  • “Twenty Bucks Says…”

    I’ve never done meth but the look on this guy’s face is exactly what I would expect once he realized what he had tweaked himself into. According to the Smoking Gun referenced below, Mr. Kelly, Doug to his friends, called the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, Florida (of course) because he thought his methamphetamine dealer, lets…

  • Work Smarter Not Harder, Right?

    “Sly smuggler uses Border Patrol for free trips home,” Time is money. I’m not a businessman but I’ve seen Shark Tank enough to understand the phrase. In law enforcement we have another phrase, “You don’t catch the smart ones,” That’s usually because the would-be criminal mastermind failed to see a weakness in their particular scheme…

  • “It Wasn’t My Idea,”

    https://www.nola.com/crime/2018/10/man-convicted-in-fatal-attempted-robbery-of-loomis-guard-said-crime-was-co-defendants-idea.html New Orleans, LA If you do ever happen to find yourself charged with a crime there are a variety of ways to try and get out of it. A good lawyer is probably the best, maybe a close second to keeping your freaking mouth shut. Blaming somebody else is also a good choice depending…

  • Texas man arrested for plan to murder, cannibalize girl

    https://www.ktre.com/2018/10/22/affidavit-texas-man-arrested-plan-murder-cannibalize-girl/ Since it’s Halloween I thought I do my best to make sure you can’t sleep tonight. In Shelby County, Texas Alexander Barter sits in jail after being charged with Conspiracy to Sexually Assault and Murder a Minor. If you haven’t heard of the dark web I would suggest not trying to find it. In…