Introducing… The Burden

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers (who all say they are innocent!) turned jailhouse-lawyers. In prison they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away. They set out to turn the tables on Scarcella while still in prison. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they would succeed. Thirty years later, more than 20 people Scarcella helped put away have walked free. In the media he’s the “disgraced detective,” the rogue cop who hoodwinked an entire system. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast ... where justice is done (and undone). To listen to the full episodes of The Burden please find and follow wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are about to enjoy a sneak preview of episode one of the burden.
0:04.4	To hear episode one of the burden in its entirety,
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0:21.8	Podcasts. Clubhouse on Apple Podcast. This is a a Dax, this is the first story I ever heard Louis Scarcella tell.
0:39.3	The legendary New York Detective Scarcela, tell me more. So Detective Scarcella is with his partner.
0:45.6	It's lunchtime and Detective Scarcella and his partner decide that this is the moment
0:52.1	to track down a murder suspect.
0:55.0	We park right here.
0:58.0	Right here.
1:00.0	Lo and behold, a man six foot three hundred pounds comes out of the house.
1:07.0	I said that's him.
1:09.0	I run over him I put the gun on him he He's got a Sig sour in his waistband.
1:15.1	Oh, big Sig sour. I jump on him. He's going for the gun. I put my glock to his head
1:21.9	and pull the trigger.
1:23.0	But the gun's no good, my gun's no good.
1:27.0	I grab him and I knock him to the ground.
1:30.0	Do you ever imagine that clock goes off? I mean I intended it to. I intended it to.
1:37.0	One of my supposed to kiss them? Kiss him? up to protect the people.
1:54.0	They needed me, and I loved doing it.
2:00.0	Louis's heyday was the 80s and 90s and back then all New Yorkers wanted law and order.
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