Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

This is a STS special, surviving my biggest case.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, SCS Nation?

Welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor.

It is the podcast that promises to bring you the very best guests in all of true crime.

And even though the man at the top, Buzz Bradley said it's live.

This is not a live episode, but rather an episode that we do on tape called Surviving My Biggest Case.

And we have former law enforcement officers, criminal profilers, high profile criminal defense

attorneys, you name it. They come on. They tell us about a case in their career that really stands out.

And I am pleased and honored to welcome to, again, he's been helping us out a lot with

the Luigi Mangione case.

Richard Caprowski, 30 years with the NYPD, Best Department, Police Department in the nation.

He started off in the 2-5 precinct on patrol for four years and then went to the anti-crime

unit for three years, eventually becoming a detective, doing everything from aggravated

assaults, all the way up to homicides and then like all good

police officers who are lucky enough to make it through in one piece he retired in May of

23 rich thanks so much for being a best guest being here the last bunch of weeks on Luigi Mangione.

Today, we're going to talk about a case involving a person named Aidan Gonzalez.

I believe it's spelled A-D-E-N Gonzalez.

And before we get there, my first question to all you guys, what made you want to become a police officer

well i i started out as it really wasn't much else i could do i didn't have many qualifications

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