Florida crime, law, and consequence.
Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes is a case-driven show led by Karen Curtis, moving between legal questions and older Florida stories with new relevance. Episodes pair direct narration with interviews from people who can explain the technology, policing, legal risk, or local history around a case.
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Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes is built around the strange pressure points where Florida crime stories meet law, media, politics, and public fear. Karen Curtis frames the cases in a direct, conversational style, often starting from a current headline and then pulling the thread back through older reporting, earlier episodes, or a wider legal question. The show can be immediate. A Marion County AI-generated exploitation case becomes a broader conversation with Alan Krowitz about technology, loopholes, and systems that struggle to keep up. A change in Florida open carry law becomes a practical warning from George Kalina about armed citizens, police calls, crowded public spaces, and the difference between legal conduct and dangerous display. It can also be historical. The episode on Harry T. and Harriet V. Moore connects voting rights legislation to the lives and deaths of two civil rights workers, the NAACP in Florida, voter registration, and the terror surrounding the Groveland case. Other episodes lean into Florida's celebrity-crime overlap, including Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker and the media fallout around a private video. Curtis also returns to unresolved disappearances and cold cases, such as Tammy Lynn Leppert in Cocoa Beach, where Paul Novak discusses years of organized-crime investigation and links between old cases. The show is not limited to murder recaps. It spends time on procedure, evidence, risk, and public consequences. Stuart Kaplan's discussion of an assassination investigation, CCTV review, trajectory analysis, and security concerns gives one episode the shape of a live investigative briefing. A Jacksonville Beach ambush case is presented through charges, family connections, and the mechanics of a targeted killing. Across episodes, the show favors named places, court details, law-enforcement judgment calls, and the unresolved questions that remain after an arrest or a verdict. It is blunt but not theatrical. Its strongest appeal is the mix of Florida specificity and practical explanation: crimes are treated not only as stories, but as events that expose how institutions respond under pressure.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who want Florida cases with local texture, legal context, and interview-driven explanation. It especially suits people interested in policing, cold cases, public safety, and the way crime stories move through courts and media.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by tying Florida crime stories to working questions: what the law covers, how police respond, what evidence matters, and why older cases return to public attention. Its interviews give recent headlines and archived cases a grounded, explanatory frame.
A true-crime podcast highlighting stories that sent a shiver through the sunbelt.
Florida case files meet Karen Curtis's running commentary, so you get the evidence and the raised eyebrow.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A celebrity privacy fight that ends in a Florida verdict and Gawker's collapse.
Full Rigger keeps Hulk Hogan's fight with Gawker pointed and brisk, following the case from West 29th Street on Miami Beach to the Florida jury that awarded $115 million.
A lively recap of a missing-person case that still refuses to settle.
This episode returns to the Don Lewis disappearance through the Tiger King shadow, treating it as a Florida mystery that only gets stranger as the money, the van, and the airplane theories pile up.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
This episode investigates the disappearance of Don Lewis, husband of Carole Baskin from Tiger King fame.
Former FBI agent Stuart Kaplan discusses the investigation into the assassination attempt on Charlie Kirk.
Host Karen Curtis interviews cold case volunteer Paul Novak about updates on the Tammy Lynn Leppert case and introduces a new cold case.
This episode covers the arraignment of Henry Tennant for the planned murder of Jared Breidegen, who was shot in front of his toddler.
Hulk Hogan says Gawker published a secretly recorded sex tape without his knowledge or consent.
Charlie Adelson said Catherine Magbanua demanded cash after telling him her friend killed Dan Markell.
Karen Curtis revisits the 1951 bombing that killed civil rights organizers Harry T.
Full Rigor: Florida True Crimes reviews Donald Trump’s New York conviction on 34 felony counts tied to a $130,000 payment involving Stormy Daniels.
Jorge Torres repeatedly says, "I can't breathe," while Sarah Boone tells him to wriggle inside the suitcase.
Interview with a former custom car builder who was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.
Host Karen Curtis interviews attorney Paul Novak about the unsolved 1983 disappearance of model Tammy Lynn Leppert in Cocoa Beach, Florida.