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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 · August 2026
Murder in Miami gives True Crime listeners a careful, records-minded look at contested evidence, family impact, and a possible wrongful conviction.
Murder in Miami is serialized true crime built around the courtroom record. The sampled episodes stay close to trial evidence, police decisions, autopsy records, public record requests, and the grief around Jade Beasley's killing and Beverly's arrest.
Bring your inner evidence nerd; the doorknob hair and landfill knives both get their day.
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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.
A former juror says the Songbird Road video and alternate suspect evidence would have changed deliberations.
A neighbor's iPad video captured a shirtless man saying, "I come in peace," near Songbird Road.
The Hucks video shows Julie Beverly dropping a small bag, not tossing a heavy murder kit.
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.