Introducing: Cold Blooded

The Idaho Massacre

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True Crime

3.6 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Hi, Idaho Massacre listeners! iHeartPodcasts has geared up for a riveting new podcast called Cold Blooded hosted by Scott Weinberger! With a smile and optimism that epitomizes South Florida in the 1980s, Billy Halpern is the last person anyone expects to find brutally murdered. Six months after his body is found, throat slit ear-to-ear in a professional execution-style hit, the investigation goes cold. When his best friend and girlfriend turn up dead, investigators realize Billy might have been caught up in a larger scheme involving the city's most dangerous criminals. Tune in to this top-tier true crime story, but don't just take our word for it, check out the trailer to decide for yourself!

Show Description: With a smile and optimism that epitomizes South Florida in the 1980s, Billy Halpern is the last person anyone expects to find brutally murdered. Six months after his body is found, throat slit ear-to-ear in a professional execution-style hit, the investigation goes cold. When his best friend and girlfriend turn up dead, investigators realize Billy might have been caught up in a larger scheme involving the city's most dangerous criminals, local wise guy and mob associate Bert Christie and decorated ex-cop Gil Fernandez.

Despite circumstantial evidence tying a growing list of crimes back to Christie and Fernandez, the murders go unsolved for years. Decades later, investigative journalist and former cop Scott Weinberger and Detective Danny Smith agree to work together to solve this murder mystery. Ultimately, this yearlong investigation will expose the true motive behind this killing spree and uncover new evidence including the DNA of the killer. Justice for Billy Halpern is just a listen-away.

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0:00.0	On October 21st, 1986 in Miramar, Florida, a woman returned to her town
0:07.7	home to find her boyfriend 28-year-old firefighter Billy Halpern lying dead in a pool of blood.
0:14.4	Billy had been bound, gagged and his throat cut from ear to ear.
0:19.1	There was no murder weapon, no sign of forced entry, and no immediate suspects.
0:24.0	She was shame, you know, that they took affirm us.
0:27.0	This had all the signs of a professional hit.
0:30.0	When four of Billy's friends also turned up dead, detectives couldn't help but think Billy was
0:35.2	mixed up in something big and bad. Tangled in a web way darker and deeper than anyone expected,
0:41.6	involving some of South Florida's most dangerous criminals.
0:45.1	So how did they cross paths with Billy?
0:50.3	The Apollo Gym, a no-frills prison yard-style facility dedicated to pain and gain,
0:56.0	a place where cops and crooks could share safe space to pump iron.
1:01.0	It was owned by a jacked ex-cop named Gil Fernandez.
1:05.0	That guy is a gangster.
1:07.0	I'm Scott Weinberger,
1:09.0	podcaster and investigative journalist,
1:11.0	but before that, I was a deputy sheriff in Broward County, Florida,
1:14.8	the very same county where Billy's brutal murder took place in the 1980s, a time where
1:20.1	drug traffickers flooded the state.
1:22.3	Just picture the movie Scarface.
1:25.1	I worked those streets and I saw the violence firsthand.
1:28.4	Billy's case, even 37 years later, was as cold as they come come but that was about to change.
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