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Introducing: Cold Blooded

America's Crime Lab

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Hi, Silenced: The Radio Murders 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.

Listen to Cold Blooded on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Scott Weinberger journalist and former deputy sheriff. In my new podcast series

0:05.1

Cold Blooded, I'm embedded in the cold case investigation into the death of

0:09.3

firefighter Billy Halper. Experience this investigation in a truly unique way, untangling secrets that may reveal

0:16.5

the answers to not only one case, but almost a dozen.

0:20.9

Listen to cold-blooded the Apollo Jim Murders on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:29.0

Imagine you're a fly on the wall at a dinner between the mafia, the CIA, and the KGB.

0:35.5

That's where my new podcast begins. This is Neil Strauss,

0:39.2

host of To Live and Die in LA, and I wanted to quickly tell you about an intense new series about a dangerous spy taught to

0:45.8

suit us men for their secrets and sometimes their lives.

0:49.9

From Tenderfoot TV, this is To Die Four. To Die Four is available now.

0:55.0

Listen for free on the I-HeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your

1:00.2

podcasts. I'm Hannah Storm and my new podcast, NBA DNA with Hannah Storm chronicles my six decades

1:08.2

in professional basketball.

1:10.1

From growing up in the sport to becoming one of sports TV's first female broadcasters.

1:15.8

Join me as I dig deep into the game's history, unearth some wild stories, and talk to my friends

1:21.8

from the world of basketball from Dr. J to Charles

1:25.1

Sparkly. It's been a wild ride and now I get to take you with me. Listen to

1:30.9

NBA DNA with Hannah Storm on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

1:37.9

podcast.

1:38.9

On October 21st, 1986 in Miramar, Florida, a woman returned to her town home to find her

1:48.7

boyfriend 28-year-old firefighter Billy Halpern, lying dead in a pool of blood.

1:54.4

Billy had been bound, gagged and his throat cut from ear to ear.

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