The Crime Beat podcast digs deep into fascinating true crime stories, exploring new twists along the way with award-winning Southern California News Group reporter Keith Sharon’s fresh interviews of criminal masterminds, some of their victims and the detectives trying to piece together what really happened. Each season explores a different crime, beginning with the biggest bank heist in American history.
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In this special episode of Crime Beat, you will meet Janine Madera, a fierce advocate for justice who works as a homicide prosecutor in the Orange County District Attorney's Office. She has tried 72 trials and won 57 convictions without hearing a word of testimony. Madera is deaf and operates in the courtroom with strategically placed sign language…
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The "Crime Beat" team offers insight into Season 2 at a Coast Conversation event, and we wrap the season with updates on what is going on with key people you met along the way.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Xavier Lopez gave a final statement that proved truth still wasn't part of his defense strategy.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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You will hear the entire interview with Sam Lopez from the day Cathy Torrez's body was found.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Detective Daron Wyatt takes us on a tour of Placentia to show where and how Cathy's murder took place.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Was Cathy Torrez pregnant? One of the witnesses makes an incredible revelation.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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After 13 years, police arrest four suspects in the murder of Cathy Torrez.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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The Cathy Torrez murder investigation is dead. No one is investigating. Mary Bennett and Daron Wyatt can't seem to find anyone who cares.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Bonus episode: True Crime discussion with Rebecca Lavoie
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Rebecca Lavoie, host of "Crime Writers On," talks with Crime Beat host Keith Sharon about podcasting, journalism and some of the best true crime podcasts of all time.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Police finally find a fingerprint and some DNA evidence, but neither belongs to Sam Lopez.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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WARNING: This episode includes details from Cathy Torrez's autopsy report that might disturb some listeners. Skip to 9:40 to avoid those details. Police believe Sam Lopez is lying about his movements on the night Cathy disappeared. But they can't arrest him because they don't have probable cause.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Cathy doesn't come home after working a shift at Sav-On. People from her family and the community send out search parties trying to find her.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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In the months before she died, Cathy was dating Albert Rangel, who wanted more from the relationship than Cathy could give him.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Sam Lopez takes Cathy on a date, and she comes home drugged with slashed tires and no panties.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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We reveal the content of 18 letters between Cathy and Sam. The letters were discovered after Cathy died.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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We meet Cathy Torrez, Mary Bennett and the people in their neighborhood. The last person we meet is Sam Lopez, who lives across the street. About Season 2: On Feb. 12, 1994, Cal State Fullerton honor student Cathy Torrez didn't come home after working the evening shift in the photo department at Sav-On. A week later, her body was discovered stabbed…
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After Cathy Torrez was murdered in 1994, Girl Scouts planted a tree to honor her. To Cathy's mother, Mary Bennett, that tree only served one purpose.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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The body of 20-year-old honor student Cathy Torrez was found in the trunk of her car. For more than 20 years, her mother fought for justice. And for most of that time, the suspected murderer lived across the street. Would justice ever be served?Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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A former getaway driver and the writer who captured his story have a big week. And find out what a master thief thinks of the movie about the biggest bank heist in U.S. history.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Master thief Amil Dinsio loses his edge late in his career ... and his freedom. One of the stars of the movie based on the heist, Rachael Taylor, chokes up about the real story. And “Crime Beat” becomes the podcast the Nixon people don’t want you to hear.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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The story appears in 2003, and producers from film companies begin to call. You’ll hear the ups and downs of writing a screenplay, and how it took more than 15 years for the movie “Finding Steve McQueen” to get made.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Getaway driver Harry Barber starts a new life and tries to live without attracting attention to himself. Everywhere he goes, he is surrounded by cops.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Bonus Episode 1: The Girl Who Wouldn't Be Forgotten
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On Feb. 19, 2019, police made an arrest in the cold-case killing of 11-year-old Linda O'Keefe, who was strangled in Orange County in 1973. Southern California News Group reporter Keith Sharon tells the true crime story of the pursuit of her killer. Our regular podcast, "Crime Beat," Season One: "Stealing Nixon's Millions" will continue as scheduled…
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With the bank breached, and the FBI scrambling to find clues, the boys from Youngstown tried to slip away … and one of them got farther than he ever dreamed.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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All that stands between Amil Dinsio’s crew and the President’s secret stash are an alarm system, reinforced concrete and 500 locked safe deposit boxes.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Meet the team of thieves that flew from Youngstown to Los Angeles. They might have pulled it off without a hitch if they had stuck to the plan. But one of them got another idea.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Bank heist master Amil Dinsio and his crew were the best around and proved it regularly. Then they were told Richard Nixon had $30 million in dirty money stashed in Southern California and they set out to rip off the President.Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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Introducing Crime Beat: Stealing Nixon’s Millions
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Find out the real story behind the biggest bank heist in American history, the burglary at the heart of the new movie “Finding Steve McQueen.”Keith Sharon, Southern California News Group による
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