Red Collar

Oct 24 2024 62 ep. 29 mins 550
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A weekly series about con artists who kill, money and murder hosted by Catherine Townsend.

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The Mormon Surfer Assassin: Jason Brown

Oct 24 2024 38 mins  
Jason Derek Brown, the Mormon surfer con artist who made the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List after murdering armored car driver Keith Palomares in cold blood, is still on the run. Where is he today, and can we find him?

The Body in the Trash Chute

Oct 17 2024 34 mins  
Was Lara Prychodko's horrifying fall to her death down the 27th floor garbage chute of her luxury New York City apartment building an accident, a suicide...or was she strangled by a hitman?

The "Likeable Con Artist" and The Torture Kit

Oct 10 2024 32 mins  
After financial advisor Lynda Spence was kidnapped, tortured and murdered, Glasgow police unraveled a web of fraud and deceit.

Supercop Psychopath: John Addis

Oct 03 2024 46 mins  
After a mother and her children are discovered dead in Mexico, authorities went on a manhunt for John Addis - a police officer turned personal training con artist, serial abuser, kidnapper....and killer.

Father, Sexual Predator, Killer: David Brown

Apr 13 2023 41 mins  
David Brown convinced his 14-year-old daughter Cinnamon Brown to kill her stepmother, Linda Brown. Then he seduced Linda's younger teenage sister and sent his daughter Cinnamon to prison while he collected million-dollar life insurance policies. This is a case study of David Brown, a six time husband, truly sociopathic criminal mastermind, remorseless sex predator and red collar cr

Death at the Dentist's Office

Apr 06 2023 32 mins  
Colorado dentist James Craig allegedly murdered his wife, Angela, by slipping arsenic and cyanide into her pre-workout smoothies. Police say Dr. Craig was sexting his mistress, shopping for poison on Amazon...and hiding a lot of other dark secrets.

The Stranger Beside Her: Nick Firkus

Mar 16 2023 37 mins  
After Heidi Firkus was shot in the back killed during an early morning home invasion, the town of St. Paul, Minnesota was terrified that there could be a crazed killer on the loose. But her husband, Nick Firkus, was hiding secrets about financial fraud, and a foreclosure, in a case that took 13 years to get justice.

The Cipriani Five: Suicide or Murder?

Mar 09 2023 40 mins  
Property tycoon Scot Young had a £700 million fortune, partied with supermodels...and plunged from his fourth-floor flat onto iron spikes. Did a messy divorce and bad business decisions cause him to take his own life, or was he murdered by the Russian mafia? Follow the money trail that leads around the world and links to a mysterious UK suicide cluster, political assassinations, a

In Cold Blood: Murder on the Farm

Mar 02 2023 49 mins  
Housewife Shirley Carter is brutally murdered in her rural Iowa farmhouse in a case involving a secret affair, a civil AND a criminal trial, millions of dollars and an epic battle between Shirley's husband Bill Carter and her son Jason Carter...with each accusing the other of murder.

The Floribama Ninja Murders

Feb 16 2023 44 mins  
A team of masked men kicked down the door of Byrd "Bud" Billings and his wife Melanie in Beulah, Florida - which ended with their execution-style murders. Police chase down leads including a mysterious red van, rumors of Mexican mafia involvement, and the financial dealings of a local businessman with some controversial secrets.