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Criminal

Call Russ Ewing

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

For decades, TV news reporter Russ Ewing stood beside more than 100 people—at their request—as they surrendered to the police. Thanks to CBC Licensing. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. This episode contains descriptions of violence.

0:35.0

Please use discretion.

0:37.0

I can't begin to tell you how violent it was.

0:41.0

This is former Chicago television reporter Charles Thomas.

0:45.7

There was a detective commander named John Burge and John Burge he was he and his group of rogue detectives were investigating crimes, homicides in particular,

1:00.7

they would find a suspect, and they would

1:05.0

do find a suspect and torture the suspect into confessing to the crime.

1:07.0

They would do everything from attaching electrodes to genitals.

1:11.0

I'm not making this up. These are some of the things that have been

1:15.2

documented that John Burge was doing and his detectives were doing to people.

1:20.6

In 1970 a doing to people.

1:23.0

In 1970, a 22-year-old named John Burge joined the police force in Chicago.

1:30.2

By the time he was dismissed in 1993, he and some detectives under him had allegedly

1:36.3

tortured more than a hundred people in the 1970s, 80s, and early 90s. A friend of mine and I were doing a death penalty case and as part of the motion we produced a picture of the holding cell bench which was wooden at the time and

1:59.0

the client had scratched out on a wooden oak bench, they're torturing me.

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