191: Part 1, Matthew Klein – US Army Combat Vet, NYPD Detective Forensic Sketch Artist

Game of Crimes

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Murph welcomes retired NYPD officer Matthew Klein. They dive into Klein's extraordinary journey, from growing up on Long Island to joining the US Army post-9/11. Klein shares his gripping story of military service during the Iraq War, where he earned a Purple Heart for his bravery and recounts the emotional challenges of combat. With a blend of humor and sincerity, Klein also opens up about his transition to the NYPD, the camaraderie of law enforcement, and the tough realities of life in uniform.

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0:00.0	They're hiding weapons in the cemeteries.
0:02.4	My CEO is, I want you guys to go in there and search this.
0:05.3	In the middle of the day, go search the cemetery.
0:08.1	So we go to the Bradley's roll.
0:09.4	It's actually a rough part of town.
0:11.4	Bradley's drop us off.
0:12.7	I walk in and the cemetery is an L-shaped.
0:15.2	We're going in there, tense.
0:16.7	One guy's got a metal detector, beep, walking through, looking, trying to find where the weapons are buried.
0:22.6	We go through, we don't find anything.
0:24.6	I remember looking at my lieutenant.
0:26.6	We're going to mount up.
0:27.6	He's like, hey, let's mount up.
0:28.6	We start walking back.
0:29.6	I'm at the high ready on the way out.
0:32.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:33.6	I come up, there's a gate, there's a red gate, and then on the other side of the walls, the Bradley.
0:38.7	As I'm walking, the ground explodes, and Giant IED blows up.
0:44.3	I go flying in the air, land on my back.
1:05.1	Yeah. Hey everybody. Welcome back to the next episode, A Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning. This is episode, I think we're at episode 191. Is that right? Yeah, 191 episodes now. And if you look
1:12.9	online, it shows that we got almost 500. I don't know how that works out, but I'm a product
1:16.7	of the West Virginia school system and I can't count that high. And I'm not going to argue because
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