Crime Wire Weekly 5/30/25 | Murderer Grant Hardin Escapes Arkansas Prison, Louisiana Woman Set’s Ex’s Boat on Fire, Kevin Costner Lawsuit

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Jim Chapman

True Crime

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this episode of CrimeWire Weekly, hosts Jim Chapman and Kelly Jennings discuss a series of trending crime stories, including a dangerous manhunt for an escaped Arkansas police chief, a shooting incident during a party in South Carolina, a lawsuit against Kevin Costner, a bizarre police shooting in Florida, a complex murder case in Ohio, a shocking attack by hitmen in Tijuana, an arson case in Louisiana, and a prison murder involving a rapist.

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Chapters
02:53 The Escape of Murderer Grant Hardin From Arkansas Prison
06:09 The South Carolina Party Barge Shooting
09:11 Kevin Costner's Controversial Lawsuit
11:52 Florida Man Killed by Police After Being Bitten By Gator
14:59 Ohio Woman Kills Man and then Gets a Tattoo
44:51 Tijuana Men Dress as Nurse’s to Kill Woman In Hospital (International Indiscretions Segment) 50:39 Arson and Revenge: A Boat's Tragic Fate In Louisiana
55:14 Man Turns Murderer after Killing Cellmate in California

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0:00.0	In South Carolina, 11 people are hurt during a fight aboard a party barge Memorial Day weekend, and we got all of the details.
0:20.4	In Arkansas, a former police chief serving a 30-year prison sentence for rape and murder
0:27.2	strolled right out the front gates and is still on the run.
0:32.5	In California, Kevin Costner is facing a serious lawsuit after a stunt woman claimed she was forced into a violent rape scene while filming his upcoming blockbuster movie.
0:47.0	We are discussing these trending crime stories today on CrimeWire Weekly, and I'm Jim Chapman.
0:54.0	And I'm Kelly Jennings.
0:55.9	Kelly Jennings, you ain't in the studio with me today.
0:58.7	I am not.
0:59.6	I am in a filthy hotel room that my children have destroyed, and we are having the time of our lives on vacation.
1:08.2	But as you know, people want to hear their crime news.
1:11.2	And so I had to bring my laptop and my trusty headset and microphone. And, and I'm making it happen.
1:17.4	Yes, yes. You are working while on vacation. Yeah. We got to do what we got to do. But it's
1:23.2	woman. It's fun. You know, we got to, I appreciate this work. I think it's fun, but we got to let the kids have some fun. So they're sliding down water slides right now with with the husband. And I'm in the hotel room. There you go, talking about crime. That's right. Look, quickly, before we get into it today, I want to say I have a, I guess we're going to call this our educational tip of the week.
1:46.6	So I've had some comments on comments that you put like on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and
1:53.8	things like that.
1:54.6	And a couple of the comments have been in relation to commercials cutting you off, meaning Kelly, in mid-sentence on unspeakable.
2:06.6	And so I wanted to explain just quickly, we don't have any control over that.
2:12.0	So what happens is Kelly's cadence is awesome, but sometimes Kelly will pause in the middle of a sentence when she's making a point.
2:21.9	This AI that is used to insert these commercials, they think that when she's pausing sometimes,
2:29.2	that means the sentence is over when actually it's not.
2:33.4	It's Kelly does a great way of storytelling for
2:37.0	a fact and sometimes it'll just assume that that is commercial time and we have no control over
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