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L.A. Times Studios

L.A. Times reporter Christopher Goffard of “Dirty John” is back with another riveting podcast from L.A. Times Studios. In “Crimes of the Times,” Goffard goes deep behind the scenes of a new story each week, cutting through common myths and misconceptions to uncover what really happened in the most compelling cases from L.A. and beyond.

Dirty John

Introducing: Crimes of the Times

A young actress, an obsessed stalker and a Hollywood murder that changed America.

New episodes every Tuesday. 

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com
Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube.

Rebecca Schaeffer

A maverick from Detroit, John DeLorean built the “car of the future.” Then came the briefcase full of cocaine.

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube.

John DeLorean

Wild claims of mass child molestation rocked an L.A. beach town. Truth was the first casualty.

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube.

McMartin Preschool

A childhood memory sent her father to prison for murder. Was it real?

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube.

George Franklin

The kidnapped heiress who became an “urban guerrilla” and embraced her captors.

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube.

Patty Hearst

The Black Dahlia mystery: Wild theories, enduring myths and a long-overlooked suspect.

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube.

The Black Dahlia

The last living prosecutor of Charles Manson gives an inside account of the trial and the cult leader’s deadly vision. Stephen Kay recalls the case that still haunts America.

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on 

Spotify and Youtube.

The Final Word on Manson: Part 1

Former Manson prosecutor Stephen Kay recounts the strange story of Ronald Hughes, the “hippie lawyer” who enraged the cult leader and vanished mysteriously in the middle of trial.

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube

The Final Word on Manson: Part 2

The story of Synanon, the drug rehabilitation group once known as “the miracle on the beach,” and the rattlesnake attack on the crusading Los Angeles lawyer who made an enemy of the group’s leader.

New episodes every Tuesday.

To read more about these cases, visit Crimes of the Times at latimes.com

Video episodes will be available on Spotify and Youtube.

The Cult, The Lawyer, and the Snake

Debra is in hiding, living out of hotels and disguising herself with a wig. Debra fears she will meet the fate of her sister Cindi, who was killed by her husband as she tried to escape a bad marriage. John has explanations for the accusations against him. He weeps and apologizes. Three decades earlier, that had helped Cindi’s killer walk out of prison.

Forgiveness

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