Murder in Miami is a production of My Heart Radio. Miami had become the murder capital of the United States. Every day somebody was getting shot, murdered, robbed. I would categorize it as the wild West because any Vaddy crossed the cartails and any white that gets killed everybody it was home in. Phil Stanford dove into Miami's shadowy, sinister side, just as cocaine was captivating and corrupting the city. Down at the end of the bar, there's this guy. Hands
me his card, says Clay Williams. Intercept Detective Agency, setting Stanford on an unbelievably surreal path, and I called the number on it. Secretary answers, She says, I'm sorry, we don't have a Clay Williams here. Did he ever turn up? Oh yeah, about two weeks later they found his body in the Everglades. That's how you got rid of But you dumped him in the Everglades with the alligators. A path filled with temptation. As we say in the staff,
money talks and bullshit walks. They were making millions of millions of dollars. Yeah, no matter what I did, I got paid very well. I thought it was a great job and riddled with violence. She was found beaten and stopped in the trunk of her Mercedes. I thought I cut. I knew that I had to get out of there as fast as I could. I was scared for my life. A world orbiting around a mysterious and controversial Manda drug pilot by the name of Lamar Chester. And Lamar Chester,
did you ever run anything with Grass? Until I turned over that load of coat to him on the island? You offered Lamar a million dollars to land at his island. Chester would claim he did it all for the CIA, many into a sprawling federal investigation linked to the highest levels of corruption and betrayal. And did he tell you who he was running the guns for? It was obvious the CIA was running that show. So Clay wasn't the only person who was murdered. Oh no, not by a
long shot. I'm Lauren Bright Pacheco. Join me for Murder in Miami. I talked about walking into the Devil's den, my God. Listen to Murder in Miami, launching this January nineteenth, on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get the stories that matter to you. Turn off your tape, reporter,