Crimetown
A podcast by Gimlet
58 Episodes
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Crook County: The Secret Double Life of a Mafia Hitman
Published: 2/25/2025 -
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Published: 7/30/2024 -
Introducing | Beyond All Repair
Published: 4/24/2024 -
Introducing “Operation: Tradebom”
Published: 2/27/2023 -
Introducing | Not Past It
Published: 8/10/2021 -
Introducing | Firebug
Published: 7/21/2021 -
Introducing | Morally Indefensible
Published: 8/18/2020 -
Introducing Mogul
Published: 10/1/2019 -
Bonus Episode: The Streets Don't Love You Back
Published: 9/5/2019 -
S2 E19: From the Ashes
Published: 8/29/2019 -
S2 E18: United States v. Kwame Kilpatrick
Published: 8/22/2019 -
S2 E17: Operation Bombay Dreams
Published: 8/15/2019 -
S2 E16: Surrendered
Published: 8/8/2019 -
S2 E15: The Murder of Tamara Greene
Published: 8/1/2019 -
Introducing The Ballad of Billy Balls
Published: 7/31/2019 -
S2 E14: The Affair
Published: 7/25/2019 -
S2 E13: Gary Brown v. Mayor of Detroit
Published: 7/18/2019 -
Introducing Man in the Window
Published: 7/17/2019 -
S2 E12: Fake News
Published: 7/11/2019 -
S2 E11: The Hip Hop Mayor
Published: 7/4/2019
Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, and our universal desire for a savior. Detroit’s a tough town, and its residents are even tougher. They’ve weathered riots, a drug epidemic, political scandal, and innumerable other hardships, but they’re still here—and they have stories to tell.