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In the 1980s crime journalist Phil Stanford dove into the decadent and dangerous world of Miami just as the city was becoming the cocaine- and murder- capital of the United States. His path would place him in the crosshairs of a federal investigation focusing on a mysterious and controversial drug smuggling pilot who claimed to be an operative of the American government- all while flaunting his extensive illicit activity. Murder in Miami traces the connection between the murder of a missing Miami private investigator to the sprawling roots of an international money laundering scheme as Stanford tries to make sense of his role in a surreal story of spies, smugglers, killers and corruption. Al…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Murder in Miami connects disputed evidence, courtroom strategy, and family testimony to show the widening human cost of an uncertain conviction.
Murder in Miami builds its case through family testimony, courtroom exchanges, disputed physical evidence, and close attention to investigative decisions.
A short hair on a bloody doorknob: your inner juror has questions.
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Overlooked hair, possible blood, and denied records sharpen a case built around evidence that never got clean answers.
This true crime episode centers on physical evidence that never settles into a clean answer: pliers listed near the bathroom on a laundry basket, a short light-colored hair seen in what appeared to be Jade's blood on the inside front doorknob, and possible blood on the inside of…
A possible wrongful-conviction story about investigative failure and the family losses it keeps multiplying.
The episode turns a questionable investigation into a measured account of damage that keeps spreading. It follows the cost carried by a potentially innocent mother, Jade's family, Michael Beasley's family, and the children who lost early years with their mother.
A careful look at knives, a shower curtain, and how courtroom wording can shape a verdict.
This PlayNext review centers on the courtroom meaning of physical evidence: a knife photo with discoloration, soil, and a broken blade becomes less an object than a prompt for what jurors may have been encouraged to assume.
A family-linked true crime opener where recognition turns a routine day into panic.
This episode centers on a family-linked true crime story that turns on a routine day collapsing into panic. It moves from a social media sighting of a rural murder in Marion to the moment a familiar house is recognized by the tree in front, then follows the rush to a police…
A patient, character-led medical story about diagnosis, fear, and the cost of chronic illness.
Symptomatic follows Jose Torres through the slow grind of not knowing what is happening inside his body. Misdiagnosis, treatment, and worsening symptoms turn ordinary life into something harder to manage, and the episode keeps its focus on the embarrassment, fear, and strain…
True crime with blunt reactions and dark edges.
Scarce radio crime, case by case.
True crime with blunt moral focus.
Political scandal, history, and sharp receipts.
Murder on Songbird Road closes by reexamining Julia Beverly's 55-year sentence, the 14-month delay in Jade Beasley's autopsy, and the 2024 ring camera video from Songbird Road.
A neighbor's iPad video captured a shirtless man saying, "I come in peace," near Songbird Road.
Murder on Songbird Road Episode 9, "Judgement," centers on Julie Beverly's trial evidence, including the Hucks gas-station video and the landfill items tied to Jade Beasley.
Lauren Bright Pacheco opens the first episode of Murder on Songbird Road by introducing the December 2020 stabbing death of 11-year-old Jade Beasley in Marion, Illinois, and the subsequent conviction of Julia Beverly, Jade's father's girlfriend.
Symptomatic Season 3 opens with Jose Torres, a Brooklyn-based artist and amateur boxer who began experiencing rectal bleeding and abdominal cramping as a college freshman, initially dismissing it as a stomach bug.
A crime journalist investigates a drug smuggling pilot connected to a murder in 1980s Miami.
A crime journalist investigates a murder linked to a drug smuggling pilot in 1980s Miami.
A crime journalist investigates a murder linked to a drug smuggling pilot in 1980s Miami.
A crime journalist investigates a murder linked to a drug smuggling pilot in 1980s Miami.
A crime journalist investigates a murder and drug smuggling ring in 1980s Miami, uncovering a federal probe into a mysterious pilot.