S17 Ep88: Jimmy The King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop w/ Gus Garcia-Roberts
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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of Suffolk County, New York. As the county hustled to bring the case to a dubious resolution, a wayward local teenager emerged with a convenient story to tell. For his cooperation, Jimmy Burke was rewarded with a job as a cop.
Thus began Burke’s unlikely ascent to the top of one of the country’s largest law enforcement jurisdictions. He and a crew of likeminded allies utilized vengeance, gangster tactics, and political leverage to become the most powerful and feared figures in their suburban empire.
Until a pilfered bag of sex toys brought it all crashing down.
Gus Garcia-Roberts joins TCT to talk about the case that started it all for Jimmy Burke and the eventual downfall of Jimmy The King, in this must hear podcast!
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| 0:53.1 | Welcome in everybody to the best in true crime podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Tim Dennis. I got a great show for you today folks. I ran into through |
| 1:03.4 | mutual friend of ours Alan Warren, an amazing book that I want to talk to you |
| 1:08.6 | about today and folks boy this this is a long one but a good one and in Jimmy |
| 1:14.6 | the King murder vice in the reign of a dirty cop and we're gonna jump into it |
| 1:18.2 | right away today. Our guest has put together a doozy of a book that you're |
| 1:23.6 | gonna want to thumb through not just thumb through but really spend some time |
| 1:26.9 | with it. Gus Garcia Roberts is an investigative reporter for the Washington |
| 1:32.0 | Post. He previously worked on investigative teams for Newsday the Los Angeles |
| 1:36.1 | Times in USA today. He was a member of the Newsday team that was a finalist for |
| 1:40.4 | the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its series on Hidden Police |
| 1:45.4 | misconduct on the Eastern end of Long Island. He is the co-author of Blood |
| 1:50.3 | Sport, A-Rod in the quest to end baseball steroid era and the author of |
| 1:55.4 | Jimmy the King murder corruption and an American cop which is the book that |
| 2:00.9 | we are talking about today. Let's welcome in to True Crime Tuesday. Gus Garcia |
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