Cocaine In My Shoes, Needles In My Veins - Steve "Mental Case" Durbano - Part 2

Crime in Sports

James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman

True Crime, Comedy

4.9 • 26.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

This week, we finish up this wild story with Steve, getting back into the NHL, only to barely play, and end up unemployed. He fills in this employment gap by going down to Bolivia, and trying to smuggle cocaine into Canada, with a wild & fun excuse. He does his prison time, only to get back into drugs, and end up in more trouble, including running an "escort service" that definitely wasn't legal. All of this, and his sad, pitiful ending!

Keep telling NHL teams that you're ready to stop getting in trouble, tell a judge that you didn't know there was a lot of cocaine, in your shoes, and destroy your body with drugs with Steve "Mental Case" Durbano - Part 2!!

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to crime and sports.
0:24.6	Yay!
0:26.3	Oh, yay indeed, Jimmy.
0:28.3	Yay indeed.
0:29.2	My name is James Petrogall.
0:30.6	I'm here with my co-host.
0:31.8	I'm Jimmy Wiseman.
0:33.3	Thank you folks so much for joining us today on another crazy edition of crime and sports.
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:38.8	This is episode 499 next week.
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0:42.6	Our 500th episode celebration where we have a guy that I'm pretty sure most people have heard of because he's been in the news a lot for the last 15 years and keeps fucking up and won't stop. And a legendary player, too, that's the sad part. You're like, oh, this guy was one of the best ever at his position. And now he's just a complete fuck up. So you guys can try to guess from there who we're talking about. I bet a few people will get it. Before we start, though, definitely head over to shut up and give me murder.com.
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2:04.6	Anybody $5 a month or above, you're going to get so much bonus stuff, including as soon as you subscribe, you're going to get hundreds of bonus episodes you've never heard before immediately upon subscription.
2:14.9	Then you get new ones every other week on crime and sports and one small town murder. This week for crime and sports, we're going to do part two of dead cyclists,
2:22.8	which was one of the most fun, crazy bonus episodes we've done. It was a lot of, uh, it's the most
2:30.3	dangerous thing there is to do. So you clip those pedals into your into your shoes, you're taking your life into your own hands.
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