58 Episodes

  1. Crook County: The Secret Double Life of a Mafia Hitman

    Published: 2/25/2025
  2. You Might Also Like: The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

    Published: 7/30/2024
  3. Introducing | Beyond All Repair

    Published: 4/24/2024
  4. Introducing “Operation: Tradebom”

    Published: 2/27/2023
  5. Introducing | Not Past It

    Published: 8/10/2021
  6. Introducing | Firebug

    Published: 7/21/2021
  7. Introducing | Morally Indefensible

    Published: 8/18/2020
  8. Introducing Mogul

    Published: 10/1/2019
  9. Bonus Episode: The Streets Don't Love You Back

    Published: 9/5/2019
  10. S2 E19: From the Ashes

    Published: 8/29/2019
  11. S2 E18: United States v. Kwame Kilpatrick

    Published: 8/22/2019
  12. S2 E17: Operation Bombay Dreams

    Published: 8/15/2019
  13. S2 E16: Surrendered

    Published: 8/8/2019
  14. S2 E15: The Murder of Tamara Greene

    Published: 8/1/2019
  15. Introducing The Ballad of Billy Balls

    Published: 7/31/2019
  16. S2 E14: The Affair

    Published: 7/25/2019
  17. S2 E13: Gary Brown v. Mayor of Detroit

    Published: 7/18/2019
  18. Introducing Man in the Window

    Published: 7/17/2019
  19. S2 E12: Fake News

    Published: 7/11/2019
  20. S2 E11: The Hip Hop Mayor

    Published: 7/4/2019

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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.