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Unfinished Justice is an inside look at the NYPD's Cold Case Squad. Each episode of this 10 part series follows the cold case detectives as they investigate – and hopefully solve – some of the most gripping cases to ever go cold at the NYPD. Unfinished Justice: Inside the NYPD Cold Case Squad is narrated by Vito Spano, the former commander of the NYPD Cold Case Squad from 2001 to 2004 and features other key contributors. The podcast shows the obsessive determination of Vito and his former colleagues as they work cases that are years, and sometimes decades, old, tracking evidence throughout the five boroughs and be...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Insider recollections and procedural detail make the NYPD's cold-case work clear, including the uneasy distance between identifying a killer and securing justice.
Vito Spano guides case histories through the practical work of reopening investigations: rereading old evidence, pursuing reluctant witnesses, testing overlooked leads, and deciding what resolution can honestly mean.
A computer diary lands on the detectives' desk; your appetite for investigative legwork has found its match.
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A stolen-car case opens into a patient, hard-edged Mafia prosecution.
A routine stolen-car case in New York City opens into something much wider, pulling in chop shops, Mafia ties, and murder. The episode works best when it stays close to the investigation, letting the prosecutor, detectives, and retired law-enforcement voices show how a local…
A cold case turns on records, interviews, and a diary that shifts the investigation.
The episode centers on a cold, methodical case: the NYPD cold case team reopens Juliette Alexander's killing, spends months talking with people linked to Juliette, Martin, and Nigel, and then sharpens its focus when Juliette's computer diary surfaces.
A measured cold-case account that keeps hip-hop history and police work in the same frame.
A retired NYPD detective known as the hip-hop cop guides the story through Jam Master Jay's killing with a plainspoken, procedural eye. It starts with the Halloween-eve calls and a studio video that leads nowhere, then moves into witness hesitation, thin physical evidence, and…
A procedural finale that treats closure as a legal question, not a neat emotional ending.
The season finale turns an exceptional clearance into a plainspoken argument about what closure can and cannot be. Crystal Genesis brings Wendell Stratford and Vito Spano into the same frame, and the best passages sit in the strain between Spano's frustration and Stratford's…
A courtroom chapter where cooperation, surveillance, and RICO pressure the Mafia from inside the case.
Walter Mack's effort to bring down the Gambino crime family gives the episode its spine. The 1985 prosecution ties together the Westies, the DeMeo-Cruz auto crime case, and federal RICO strategy, while keeping the courtroom pressure front and center.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
UFO disclosure with teeth.
Bleak news, deadpan jokes, no broadcast polish.
Australian investigations, followed from the ground up.
Derek Parker, a retired NYPD detective from Hollis, Queens, revisits the night Jam Master Jay was shot outside his 24-hour music recording studio.
Walter Mack is getting ready for a trial that could shake New York.
Crystal Genesis opens the season finale with Wendell Stratford and Vito Spano at the table.
NYPD cold case detectives Bobby Santiago, Wendell Stratford, and Denise reopen the 2001 murder of Juliet Alexander, whose ex-partner and father of her children, NYPD Sergeant Martin Peters, was the prime suspect from the start.
Walter Mack thinks he is taking a routine stolen-car case.