White Boy Rick, Chapter 1 – Like Father, Like Son

Shattered

WDIV Local 4 | Graham Media Group

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Chapter 1 – Like Father, Like Son: In 1984, crack cocaine is becoming an epidemic in Detroit. Several African-American drug gangs are battling each other for territory. On the east side of the city, a white teenager is about to find himself at the center of it all when the FBI asks him to learn everything he can about the drug dealers in his neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	I was hired to kill White Boy Rick in the late 80s.
0:11.0	Yeah, he came for me, he tried to kill me on...
0:14.7	Out of Drive?
0:15.7	Out of Drive in Dickerson.
0:17.2	And we were in a Corvette convertible and we were sitting at a stoplight.
0:22.0	When they pulled up a stop, we pulled up,
0:22.6	stopped, we pulled up on the side of him.
0:27.0	I saw a van, I was looking,
0:28.8	I was in the passenger seat.
0:30.5	We had the music up pretty loud,
0:32.3	and I happened to plants over my shoulder. God willing, I saw
0:37.0	a slide door on the van opening. And I told my buddy, said pull off and he didn't hear me and I reached my leg over the thing and I pushed on the gas and we went through the red light.
0:51.0	And that's when the shots rang out. the red light. And so he was gone.
0:52.6	And that's when the shots rang out. From W. D. D. I. V. and Grand Media, this is shattered, The White Boy Wreck Story.
1:07.0	Chapter 1, like Father, like Son. I'm Mort Krim. I'm Krim. I'm Kerm. These are the stories breaking tonight.
1:18.0	I'm Scott Bernstein. I'm a Detroit area journalist, author, and historian.
1:23.7	As far back as 1985, Worshi, who has earned the nickname White Boy Rick,
1:28.3	was hanging out with the Curry family.
1:30.5	You know, one of my earliest memories as a kid
1:32.3	was being with my parents you know on the floor maybe while they were doing their work watching the nightly news I'd be playing with my my action figures or my Tonka trucks and then this almost comic book like character
1:45.6	was was on the television news a lot. How does a 16 or 17 year old kid, Richard Worshi Jr.
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