In the concluding installment of our three-part investigation into the life and death of Roberto Calvi, we consider the forensic evidence from the scene of what at first appeared to be a suicide. Police eventually came to believe that he had been murdered. We go on a hunt for possible motives - a search that leads us from London, to Italy, to Poland, to Latin American … and back to London again. This episode is brought to you by Podgo.co To find out more about the people and music featured in to...
Apr 13, 2021•46 min•Season 7Ep. 15
The financial scandal centered on the dodgy activities of Roberto Calvi brought with it assassination, Mafia threats, and the exposure of corruption at the highest levels in Rome. This is the second installment of a three-part series. This episode is brought to you by Podgo.co To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com While there, you can check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great e...
Mar 30, 2021•30 min•Season 7Ep. 14
This is Part 1 of our three-part investigation into the life, time, crimes, and suspicious demise of Roberto Calvi - a man dubbed “God’s banker” because of his association with the Vatican. We begin by imagining (based on first hand accounts) an initiation ceremony that Calvi might have gone through in order to join a secret society called Propaganda Due . To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast....
Mar 19, 2021•30 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Soleimani was killed in an American drone missile strike at Bagdad International Airport. Many feared that the assassination would incite a major military response from Iran; however, the whole affair appeared to have been quite carefully stage-managed by both sides. This episode is brought to you by Away Travel. To get the best deal on premium luggage go to: PODGO.CO/AWAY To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.Assas...
Mar 02, 2021•47 min•Season 7Ep. 12
A soldier, a diplomat, the grandson of a king, and a man who helped to save thousands of people from the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, Folke Bernadotte was selected to help resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict in Palestine in 1948. It was a mission that cost him his life. This episode is brought to you by Clarks. Clarks and PODGO are bringing you up to 30% off select footwear. Just go to PODGO.CO/CLARKS To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assass...
Feb 09, 2021•28 min•Season 7Ep. 11
For decades a leading figure in the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, al-Mabhouh was remarkably negligent in his security arrangements leading up to his assassination in 2010. An Israeli death squad was sent to Dubai to eliminate him; but they ended up making their own set of strange decisions, causing an international diplomatic incident in the process. Today’s episode is brought to you by KIND Bar. For up to 15% off delicious and healthy KIND products, just go to PODGO.CO/KIND. ...
Jan 27, 2021•55 min•Season 7Ep. 10
We take a lighthearted narrative approach to finding out about the great Pan-American Exposition in New York, before turning to the somber matter of the assassination of President McKinley, who was shot there on September 6th, 1901. This episode is brought to you by Purple Carrot - the plant-based subscription meal kit that makes it easy to cook irresistible meals to fuel your body. Get $30 off your first box by going to purplecarrot.com and entering code PODGO30 at checkout today. Purple Carrot...
Jan 12, 2021•37 min•Season 7Ep. 8
In the third and concluding installment of this investigation, we consider the case against Barry George, the sole person charged and convicted for the crime - only to be acquitted after six years in prison. Finally, we consider one other highly controversial potential motive for the murder of Jill Dando. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com While there, you can also check out our Bookstor...
Dec 23, 2020•59 min•Season 7Ep. 7
As outlandish as it might seem, British police and the media considered whether Jill Dando might have been murdered on the orders of the Serbian government, possibly in an act of revenge for the NATO bombing of a TV station in Belgrade. We also consider some other more conventional motives in this, the second installment of our three-part look at this case. This episode is brought to you by the YubiKey from Yubico. Yubico is offering listeners $10 off a purchase of $100 or more. Just use the cod...
Dec 14, 2020•27 min•Season 7Ep. 6
The murder of journalist and television personality Jill Dando, slain outside her home in London in April 1999, sparked one of largest manhunts in British history. Many theories were considered as to who was responsible, but the case remains unsolved 20 years later. In the first episode in our three part investigation, we recreate events on the day of the killing and look in depth at one of the theories as to what might have happened. This episode is brought to you by the YubiKey from Yubico. Yu...
Dec 07, 2020•47 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England had a rollercoaster relationship. Once a trusted ally who was awarded the highest offices of the land and even care of the monarch’s own son, Archbishop Becket became an intractable obstacle to Henry’s ambitions. This lead to one of the most notorious chapters in the long struggle between Church and Crown in the realm. This episode is brought to you by PODGO, the easiest way for you to monetize your podcast. Podcasters can apply to become a member and i...
Nov 23, 2020•31 min•Season 7Ep. 4
In the corridors of power in Washington, DC and the plantation houses of Louisiana, there were many who sighed with relief when news broke that an assassin’s bullet had put paid to the relentless ambition of Senator Huey Long, a man described by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of the most dangerous in America. This episode is brought to you by PODGO, the easiest way for you to monetize your podcast. Podcasters can apply to become a member and immediately be connected with advertisers that fit y...
Nov 10, 2020•54 min•Season 7Ep. 3
In honor of both Halloween and the current US presidential election campaign, we take an offbeat look at one of history’s most notorious assassinations. After leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy, in 1865 President Lincoln was struck down by John Wilkes Booth. Just as “Honest Abe” loomed like a colossus over the nation during the Civil War, so in death it seems that he continues to cast a long shadow over the White House, where rumors of his ghostly presence have echoed through the ...
Oct 27, 2020•31 min•Season 7Ep. 2
The seventh season of Assassinations Podcast will be a “potpourri” of subjects - some cases that host Niall has wanted to cover for a while, as well as cases suggested by listeners. The first episode of the new season, which comes out next week, will be Halloween/US election special on the legend of Abraham Lincoln’s ghost, which is said to stalk the corridors of the White House.
Oct 20, 2020•4 min•Season 7Ep. 1
The closer Don Bolles got to the truth of criminal activities in Arizona, the deeper he entered into a world of danger. On the verge of exposing a massive money laundering operation by the Mafia, with links to the political and business elite of the state, he was seriously wounded in a car bombing, dying eleven days later. The following year, another Arizonan was found dead - with links to the very same criminal activities that Bolles had been investigating. To find out more about the people and...
Sep 08, 2020•32 min•Season 6Ep. 17
Author Andy Thomas joins the show once again this season, helping us to consider what might really have happened to David Kelly. The conclusion of the Hutton Inquiry was that the British weapons inspector had committed suicide, but there are many indicators that this was an unsound verdict. This is the last installment of our look at the case. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While th...
Aug 25, 2020•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 16
Kelly’s death was looked into not by a coroner’s inquest but by a judge, Lord Hutton, who was specially appointed by the government. This meant evidence could be given in secret and witnesses protected from cross examination. The verdict raised more questions than answers, leading several doctors to question the plausibility of the claim that Kelly had committed suicide. Part 2 of 3. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website...
Aug 18, 2020•41 min•Season 6Ep. 15
We begin our deep dive into the case of Dr David Kelly by considering the finding of the inquiry into his death in the summer of 2003: suicide. But were there any signs that the British biological weapons inspector, who found himself at the center of an almighty political and media storm, was suicidal? Were there aspects of his death, and the official investigation into it, that pointed to something rather more sinister? We start to consider the evidence in the first episode of a three part seri...
Aug 11, 2020•44 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Willie McRae’s campaigning work made him enemies, no doubt. But did he posses information so explosive that people would be willing to kill him? In the conclusion to our investigation, we consider just what McRae might have known. And we find out about an extraordinary revelation made in 2018, which, if true, would turn upside down the official investigation into his death. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.Assa...
Jul 28, 2020•30 min•Season 6Ep. 13
Willie McRae led a remarkable life: a scholar, a naval officer, a lawyer, a politician, and an activist. Yet it is the strange circumstances of his death - and the dodgy investigation that followed - for which he is best known in his native Scotland. This is the first episode of a two-part investigation. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstor...
Jul 21, 2020•42 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Fred Hampton was a leading member of the Black Panther Party, a self-proclaimed revolutionary socialist organization, which was founded in 1966 in order to fight back against police brutality. Hampton’s death during a raid on his apartment by the Chicago police and the FBI was initially ruled a justifiable homicide; however, subsequent revelations posed the question - was he the victim of an assassination? To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassi...
Jul 07, 2020•35 min•Season 6Ep. 11
A high-level Republican political consultant and media strategist, Michael Connell was killed in a plane crash in 2008. Officially an accident, many have claimed that Connell was killed to prevent him testifying in a lawsuit over alleged election fraud in the 2004 US presidential election. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we rec...
Jun 15, 2020•37 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Hour of the Assassin , the latest book by best-selling novelist Matthew Quirk, is a romp through a dangerous world of dark money, dirty secrets, political manipulation, and murder. Matthew speaks with Niall about his work, and his own experiences of life inside the Beltway. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some grea...
Jun 02, 2020•37 min•Season 6Ep. 9
When the Prime Minister of Sweden was murdered on a freezing cold sidewalk in Stockholm in 1986, a nation unused to political violence was thrown into a state of shock. But could it be that the truth of who lay behind the assassination is even more disturbing than anyone had imagined? To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommen...
May 19, 2020•54 min•Season 6Ep. 8
This week’s episode is an interview with Andy Thomas, the author of a new book called Conspiracies: The Facts. The Theories. The Evidence . His book focuses on some of the most popular conspiracies of our times, including high-profile assassinations, and he asks why it is that people so often look for explanations that go beyond the official narrative. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com....
May 05, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 6Ep. 7
From the moment news of his death broke, theories abounded as to what happened to the controversial media magnate: heart attack, accident, suicide, or murder? Part 2 of 2. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, where we recommend some great episode-related books and reading material, and shop our Merch Store to nab a log tee or tote bag. If...
Apr 29, 2020•33 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Soldier, businessman, politician … spy? Robert Maxwell went by many names and wore many hats in the course of his flamboyant life. But did he meet his end at the hands of one of the intelligence agencies that he might have been working with? This is the first installment of a two-part investigation. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also check out our Bookstore, wh...
Apr 21, 2020•34 min•Season 6Ep. 5
A militant activist during the Great Depression and a ruthless fixer inside the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa rose from humble origins to became one of the most powerful men in America. After serving time in prison, Hoffa fought to regain control of the union - even though it brought him into conflict with forces that seemingly “disappeared” him in 1975. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com...
Apr 07, 2020•34 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Though one man, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was convicted of the murder of Senator Robert F Kennedy, there were clear signs that others might have been involved. Yet the LAPD, prosecutors, and perhaps federal authorities as well, all focused on the lone shooter theory - even if that meant discounting other evidence. Part 2 of 2. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.AssassinationsPodcast.com. While there, you can also ch...
Mar 24, 2020•48 min•Season 6Ep. 3
In the first of a two-part investigation, we look at the death of Robert F. Kennedy, who was killed in the summer of 1968 while campaigning to become the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. The man convicted of his murder was Sirhan Bishara Sirhan; however, there are some who believe that he was a brainwashed patsy playing a role within a larger plot. To find out more about the people and music featured in today’s episode, visit the Assassinations Podcast website, www.As...
Mar 18, 2020•41 min•Season 6Ep. 2
