The Murder Police Podcast

Send us Fan Mail A “white van” isn’t the center of most human trafficking stories. Vulnerability is. We sit down with Detective Ricky Lynn for one of the darkest conversations we’ve produced, and we ask the question people avoid because it’s uncomfortable: how does exploitation actually work when the victim is hungry, homeless, scared, or trying to survive another night? We unpack a clear, real-world definition of human trafficking, including child sex trafficking and CSAM, and why “somethin...

Send us Fan Mail The hardest episodes are usually the ones we most need to hear, and this conversation goes straight into the reality behind the phrase “human trafficking.” We sit down with Detective Ricky Lynn to talk about what he saw on Lexington, Kentucky’s 7th Street and why the old approach of arresting women for prostitution often made the harm worse: withdrawal in a cell, more debt, and more pressure to return to the street just to survive. Ricky walks us through his path from ...

Send us Fan Mail Justice is easy to talk about until you have to define what it looks like outside a courtroom. David sits down with author Daniel Mark Grace to wrestle with the questions true crime always circles: what do we mean when we call something evil, who carries the burden of judgment, and how does a society decide it has the right to take a human life? We dig into the uncomfortable overlap of law and religion, especially in capital punishment cases where moral belief, legal precede...

Send us Fan Mail A crucifixion is a historical event, a religious symbol, and also a legal sentence carried out by real people. That’s the doorway we walk through with author Daniel Grace, a Chianti Classico winemaker who wrote a dark, modern literary thriller rooted in an ancient act of capital punishment. We talk about his debut novel, In The Wake Of Golgotha, and why he chose to reimagine Judas Iscariot and Pontius Pilate not as flat villains, but as human beings trapped in the aftermath ...

Send us Fan Mail A capital case turns on a quiet skill most courtroom dramas skip: building the right jury. We walk you through how careful voir dire, local insight, and patient strategy led to a strong panel—and why, eight days into testimony, the defense abruptly pled guilty and waived appeals. From there, the story jumps years ahead to a tense parole window, where two hours of focused testimony convinced the Kentucky Parole Board to impose life. What emerges is a real look at how justice i...