92: Part 1: Pierre ‘Pete’ Charette and the Real Story of The French Connection

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Pete Charette started life in Quebec, Canada but decided early on he wanted to be a cop. After coming to the United States and joining the U.S. Army, Pete got a break and started his law enforcement career in Fort Lauderdale. His knack for making cases and undercover work led him to what became DEA. His first assignment was in Paris working on the real French Connection. His exploits are legendary, and his stories are amazing.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Ola, Ola, Ola, Ola, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, do-do-dats,
0:16.0	everybody in between.
0:17.0	We're back for another exciting episode of the most fascinating podcast on earth.
0:21.8	The original, unadulterated, always fresh and sometimes sleepy, game of crimes.
0:29.0	One of those weeks, folks, hey, welcome back, I'm Morgan, here literally with my partner in crime.
0:33.0	It's Murph.
0:34.0	Welcome back, everybody.
0:35.0	But you can call him Murph.
0:37.0	Yeah, here you go.
0:38.0	By the way, have you seen that thing on Netflix is called Murph the Surf?
0:43.0	There used to be, was it a gambler?
0:46.0	He was a con man and stuff, yeah, so they're doing this whole thing.
0:49.0	You talk about somebody that, how did he score all the women that he's supposed to have?
0:54.0	He's just a Murphy thing, what can I say?
0:57.0	Yeah, well, of course we have.
1:00.0	Well, he's got, he's got an overbite.
1:02.0	Would you say you could eat an apple through a picket fence?
1:04.0	Oh, geez, I haven't seen it.
1:06.0	I have to watch it.
1:07.0	Yeah, you got to take a look at that.
1:08.0	It's an interesting kind of in the 50s, you know, the black and white, but they did a big jewel heist.
1:14.0	Anyway, we digress.
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