Host Steve “Murph” Murphy (retired DEA Agent, featured in NARCOS on Netflix) takes you inside the most intense and fascinating true crime stories in the world. Real life tales from the most notorious cases everyone knows and some you’ve probably never heard of (until now) from those who broke the law and those who were sworn to enforce it. Murph asks the questions and gets into the true stories from the real life players in the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all — the Game of Crimes.
268: My Dream Job: 30 Years in the NYPD: Gangs, Drugs & Counterterrorism in the Joint Terrorism Task Force
Oct 06, 2026
Show notes
New York City will always be one of the number one targets in the world — and stopping the next attack is nothing like TV. Retired NYPD Detective Tom Smith reveals why complex investigations span years, and why catching a murderer is easier - with terrorism, you're dealing with an event that hasn't happened yet.
267: Part 2: Model Detective: 25-Year Chicago Homicide Cop Turned 20/20 Star
Sep 30, 2026
Show notes
Retired Chicago Police Detective Sergeant Michele Wood returns for Part 2 - from Chicago murder rooms to Hollywood lights. After 25 years behind the badge and 15 years hunting killers in homicide, she lived the bizarre reality TV never shows - a death scene so grim the roaches left, a roach crawling on her neck as she worked the body.
267: Part 1: How a Chicago Detective Survived 25 Years in Homicide
Sep 29, 2026
Show notes
Retired Chicago Police Detective Sergeant Michele Wood spent 25 years behind the badge and 15 years hunting killers in homicide. From U.S. Army service to flight attendant and waitress to the murder rooms of Chicago, her true story of heels, handcuffs and homicides shatters every TV myth about police work.
266: Part 2: Secret Service Agent Faced Death - Now He Lives Without Fear
Sep 23, 2026
Show notes
Retired U.S. Secret Service agent John Constantine returns for Part 2 to talk about the one enemy you can't outgun — fear. After 23 years protecting presidents, a brush with mortality forced him to make peace with death — and finally learn how to live without fear.
266: Part 1: I Led the Secret Service Counter Assault Team – Then I Lost Everything
Sep 22, 2026
Show notes
John Constantine served nearly 23 years in the U.S. Secret Service, rising to Team Leader of the elite Counter Assault Team - the heavy guns who stand between presidents and catastrophe.
In Part 1 of this raw Game of Crimes interview, host Murph sits down with John to unpack the critical rifle incident that triggered an investigation, shattered his identity, and sent him spiraling into depression. When your entire self-worth is your badge, who are you when it's questioned?
265: Part 2: He Put 51 Crips Away — Then Spent $150K Saving Their Kids
Sep 16, 2026
Show notes
Former Fort Worth Police Officer Tegan Broadwater returns to Game of Crimes for Part 2 of 'Life in the Fishbowl' — the brutal aftermath of 18 months infiltrating the Crips. In Part 1, his cover survived a COPS rerun on a trap house TV. Now he faces the heavier truth: every bust has a human cost.
265: Part 1: He Heard Himself on COPS While Undercover in a Trap House
Sep 15, 2026
Show notes
Former Fort Worth Police Officer Tegan Broadwater takes you deep inside 'The Fishbowl,' an 18-month undercover operation where every word could get you killed. Posing as a kingpin, he earned trust and walked into a gang trap house for what should have been routine — until his own voice echoed from the television.
264: Part 2: DEA's Batman Busted: The Raid That Almost Ended His Career
Sep 09, 2026
Show notes
He wore a Batman suit on a real DEA raid. NBC put it on TV. And that 10-second joke made him the most famous myth in the DEA for 30 years!!
264: Part 1: DEA's Real Batman Raided Drug Houses in Atlanta
Sep 08, 2026
Show notes
Former DEA Agent Steve Peterson became the "Batman of DEA" — wearing a replica Batsuit from the 1989 Michael Keaton film on high-stakes drug raids in Atlanta. What started as a Halloween joke became a powerful psychological tactic in the war on drugs.
263: Part 2: They Called Me Hollywood: My Life Inside the Mongols MC
Sep 02, 2026
Show notes
"They didn't let me pick my name. I wanted Slash. They gave me Hollywood. J Hollywood." And in the Mongols, your road name is your life — get it wrong, you're dead. I spent 34 years with the ATF, two Medals of Valor, and lived double lives inside America's most violent outlaw motorcycle gangs. This is what it cost me — and why my family is my only legacy.
Our TOPPODCAST Picks 
Stay Connected
