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crime world | Episode 114: How I helped crack the case of the infamous 'Golden State Killer'

Retired detective Paul Holes knows just what it is like to immerse himself in a murder mystery. It was his work on the infamous 'Golden State Killer' case which led to the 2018 arrest and conviction of Joseph James DeAngelo Jnr, the man …

crime world | Episode 113: The 'Lifers' behind bars in Irish prisons

They are the killers and rapists deemed so dangerous that they are serving life sentences behind bars.

crime world | Episode 112: The truth behind North Korea's cyber-crime gang 'The Lazarus Group'

It is a story that reads like the plot from a Hollywood movie and punches right into the heart of one of the most secretive regimes in the world.

crime world | Episode 111: Lisa Smith's journey into the dark heart of Islamic terrorism

She is the former Irish soldier who, a court heard, enveloped herself in the black flag of IS.

crime world | Episode 110: 'Mr Flashy' and Dublin's dirty gang war

When drug dealer James Whelan was gunned down in Finglas, north Dublin, two months ago gardaí braced themselves for an explosion of violence and tit-for-tat attacks.

crime world | Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 3)

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target.

crime world | Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 2)

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target.

crime world | Crime World Long Read: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - from low-level dealer to Ireland's most-feared mob boss (Part 1)

When the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up in 1996 after the brutal murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh was its first target.

crime world | Episode 109 - The brutal murder of Emer O'Loughlin in a mobile home in Galway

Emer O'Loughlin (23) had her whole life ahead of her when she was brutally murdered in a mobile home in Galway in 2005.

crime world | Episode 108 - How the Prison Services are controlling Ireland's most notorious criminals

Keeping the peace inside Ireland's prison system has never been easy - but the fall of the Kinahan cartel has made life behind bars more dangerous than ever.

crime world | Episode 107: How Spanish cops failed to take down the Kinahan's reign in Spain

In 2010, Spanish police announced that they had dismantled the Irish Mafia by shutting down the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.

crime world | Episode 106: The gangland fall-out from the EncroChat phone hack

Two gangsters have been convicted in the first murder plot trial involving EncroChat phones, a system described in court as ‘an Amazon for organised criminals’.

crime world | Episode 105: What has changed for the Kinahan Cartel since the U.S. sanctions?

One month since US sanctions were levelled against the Kinahan Cartel and as the dust settles on the dramatic announcements, what exactly has changed for those named and shamed as targets?

crime world | Episode 104: The cold case murders that have haunted Northern Ireland

FOR decades, the Troubles in Northern Ireland set the news agenda, engulfed the resources of crime fighting and left thousands of families traumatised.

crime world | Episode 103: The Lithuanian gang who flooded Ireland with heroin through their network of slave dealers

A Lithuanian gang who flew unwitting slaves into Ireland to sell heroin and then starved and beat them sounds like the plot from a TV crime drama – but that’s exactly what happened over the course of 15 years until Gardai, the PSNI and their …

crime world | Episode 102: The life and crimes of Kinahan cartel crony Johnny 'Cash' Morrissey

For years flash Johnny Morrissey has been splashing his cash on the Costa del Crime, where his luxury villa is a monument to the Roman Emperor Nero.

crime world | Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?

They are the wives and girlfriends of the first family of crime who have lived a lavish lifestyle built on the Kinahan’s billion-dollar drug business.

crime world | Episode 100: The Kinahan Cartel's partnership with Scotland's most-feared mobs

He is the Scottish politician who says football is contaminated with drug money and that the tentacles of the Kinahan organisation run deep into the heart of the Glasgow underworld.

My Country Life - Episode 11: Michael English

Irish country music star Michael English first came to national prominence as a child performing on the Late Late Toy Show.

crime world | Episode 99: The continued 'Manhunt' for double murder suspect Kevin Parle

He was Crime World’s first guest, when the former Scotland Yard detective told us about two gangland murders, a missing fugitive and his quest to find the elusive Kevin Parle.

crime world | Crime World Long Read: How Rathkeale's 'Dead Zoo Gang' stole millions in illegal rhino horns

The 'Dead Zoo' is the name the famous Dublin ‘wits’ came up with for the Natural History Museum in the capital.

crime world | Episode 98: How the Kinahan Cartel broke into the U.S. Boxing scene

THE American government has KO’d the Kinahan Cartel with a raft of sanctions that have caused chaos for the mob.

My Country Life - Episode 10: Mike Denver

Country music star Mike Denver started out in life as a plumber and worked on the buildings with his father before his career in entertainment took off.

crime world | Episode 97: Christy Kinahan Snr - The Cartel 'Godfather' who hid in plain sight

A week after U.S. sanctions were levelled at the Kinahan mafia an incredible fallout continues, as many run for cover and deny relationships with the top tier.

follow the money | David McWilliams says tackling dirty Russian money is similar to fighting drug dealing

Economist David McWilliams has said that the problems with tackling dirty Russian money is similar to the problems with tackling drug dealing.

the old man | Author describes what it’s like growing up the son of a notorious gangster

Author Jason Wilson has described what it was like growing up the son of a notorious gangster.

crime world | Episode 96: How sadistic killer Graham Dwyer is one step closer to freedom

He is an evil and sadistic killer who lured his vulnerable victim into a dark world of BDSM and then murdered her as part of his ultimate sexual fantasy.

crime world | Episode 95: My ordinary 'Old Man' - the UK super-criminal

AS a child Jason Wilson thought he had a regular dad, but by the time he was a teenager his 'Old Man' was well on the way to becoming one of the UK’s most wanted criminals.

My Country Life - Episode 9: Nathan Carter

Liverpool-born of Irish descent, Nathan Carter has become a country music superstar in Ireland – having shot to fame with a song called Wagon Wheel.

crime world | Episode 94: How the world's law enforcement plotted the downfall of the Kinahan Cartel

The antics of Daniel Kinahan and his insistence that he is an innocent boxing promoter wrongly accused of involvement in organised crime spectacularly backfired this week.

Cartel chaos | How Crime World has mapped out the downfall of the Kinahan cartel

As the Irish media gathered at Dublin City hall on Tuesday morning there were murmurs of what was to come for the Kinahan cartel as news leaked overnight that the US government was set to sanction the Dublin gang.

crime world | Episode 93: The gangland murder of James Whelan and the 'Mr Flashy' feud

crime world | Episode 92: The Russian Oligarchs who have bought up the streets of London

I’m in Knightsbridge outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the epitome of London style and wealth, but I’m not here for oysters and champagne.

My Country Life - Episode 8: Jimmy Buckley

Jimmy Buckley is one of Ireland’s biggest country music stars, both in his own right and as a member of supergroup, The Three Amigos.

crime world | Episode 91: Jim Mansfield jnr and the suitcases of Kinahan cash

He is the former businessman whose reputation lies in tatters after the High Court heard he was given €4.5 million by crime bosses Daniel Kinahan and Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh to wash through his property empire.

crime world | Episode 90: The evil child killers

It was an horrific crime that many vowed would never happen again. When Baby 'P' or 17-month-old Peter Connelly died having sustained 50 horrifying injuries at the hands of his mother, Tracey Connelly, her lover Stephen Barker and his brother …

crime world | Episode 89: The jailing of Kinahan Cartel kingpin Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh

His end was swift, delivered in the cold confines of a courtroom where Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was committed to 21 years in prison for his crimes.

My Country Life - Episode 7: Robert Mizzell, part two

American-born Robert Mizzell from Shreveport, Louisiana, is now one of Ireland’s biggest country music stars in his own right and as a member of The Three Amigos with Patrick Feeney and Jimmy Buckley.

crime world | Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 3)

crime world | Crime World Long Read: 'Predator' - Larry Murphy and Ireland's missing women (Part 2)