Wigging Out: JT Leroy
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Ah, the late 1990s. Gritty realism ruled the day in film, music, and literature. And wunderkind JT Leroy took the book world by storm. A kid who survived the streets and HIV, he became the literary darling of the indie set. JT Leroy touched hearts and minds across the globe. Except JT Leroy wasn't all that he seemed. In fact, he wasn't anything he seemed.
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| 0:00.0 | After Lives is a new podcast about the life and legacy of Lélene Polanco, a transgender Afro-Letina who died tragically on Rikers Island jail complex. |
| 0:09.7 | Justice for Lélene. |
| 0:11.9 | Léin loved to dance, she loved to sing. She was just happy to be alive. |
| 0:16.0 | Stepping foot on Rikers Island has been widely acknowledged of potential death sentence. Listen to AfterLives, available on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | The 1881 Shoot Out in Tombstone, Arizona, known as the gun fight at the OK Corral, only lasted 30 seconds, |
| 0:37.0 | but the market left on popular imagination has held on for nearly 150 years. |
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| 1:04.0 | A middle-aged electrician is murdered in a quiet Amsterdam suburb. |
| 1:08.0 | The killing leads investigators into a web of drugs, money laundering, |
| 1:12.0 | and state-sponsored assassinations that stretches from Dublin to Dubai. |
| 1:16.5 | At the center is a cocaine super cartel and a hidden economic war between democracies and dictatorships. |
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| 1:27.6 | Hot Money, the New Narcos. |
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| 1:35.1 | podcasts. |
| 1:36.1 | Ridiculous Crime is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
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