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Southern California News Group

Crime Beat

A weekly True Crime podcast

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Crime Beat

Southern California News Group

Crime Beat

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Crime Beat

Southern California News Group

Crime Beat

A weekly True Crime podcast
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Sep 6th, 2020
In this special episode of Crime Beat, you will meet Janine Madera, a fierce advocate for justice who works as a homicide prosecutor in the Orange County District Attorney's Office. She has tried 72 trials and won 57 convictions without hearing a word of testimony. Madera is deaf and operates in the courtroom with stra...

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Jan 16th, 2020
The "Crime Beat" team offers insight into Season 2 at a Coast Conversation event, and we wrap the season with updates on what is going on with key people you met along the way.

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Jan 9th, 2020
Xavier Lopez gave a final statement that proved truth still wasn't part of his defense strategy.

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Jan 2nd, 2020
You will hear the entire interview with Sam Lopez from the day Cathy Torrez's body was found.

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Dec 26th, 2019
Detective Daron Wyatt takes us on a tour of Placentia to show where and how Cathy's murder took place.

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Dec 19th, 2019
Was Cathy Torrez pregnant? One of the witnesses makes an incredible revelation.

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Dec 12th, 2019
After 13 years, police arrest four suspects in the murder of Cathy Torrez.

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Dec 5th, 2019
The Cathy Torrez murder investigation is dead. No one is investigating. Mary Bennett and Daron Wyatt can't seem to find anyone who cares.

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Nov 27th, 2019
Rebecca Lavoie, host of "Crime Writers On," talks with Crime Beat host Keith Sharon about podcasting, journalism and some of the best true crime podcasts of all time.

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Nov 21st, 2019
Police finally find a fingerprint and some DNA evidence, but neither belongs to Sam Lopez.

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Nov 14th, 2019
WARNING: This episode includes details from Cathy Torrez's autopsy report that might disturb some listeners. Skip to 9:40 to avoid those details. Police believe Sam Lopez is lying about his movements on the night Cathy disappeared. But they can't arrest him because they don't have probable cause.

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Nov 7th, 2019
Cathy doesn't come home after working a shift at Sav-On. People from her family and the community send out search parties trying to find her.

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Oct 31st, 2019
In the months before she died, Cathy was dating Albert Rangel, who wanted more from the relationship than Cathy could give him.

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Oct 24th, 2019
Sam Lopez takes Cathy on a date, and she comes home drugged with slashed tires and no panties.

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Oct 17th, 2019
We reveal the content of 18 letters between Cathy and Sam. The letters were discovered after Cathy died.

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Oct 10th, 2019
We meet Cathy Torrez, Mary Bennett and the people in their neighborhood. The last person we meet is Sam Lopez, who lives across the street. About Season 2: On Feb. 12, 1994, Cal State Fullerton honor student Cathy Torrez didn't come home after working the evening shift in the photo department at Sav-On. A week later, h...

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Oct 3rd, 2019
After Cathy Torrez was murdered in 1994, Girl Scouts planted a tree to honor her. To Cathy's mother, Mary Bennett, that tree only served one purpose.

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Sep 18th, 2019
The body of 20-year-old honor student Cathy Torrez was found in the trunk of her car. For more than 20 years, her mother fought for justice. And for most of that time, the suspected murderer lived across the street. Would justice ever be served?

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Mar 21st, 2019
A former getaway driver and the writer who captured his story have a big week. And find out what a master thief thinks of the movie about the biggest bank heist in U.S. history.

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Mar 14th, 2019
Master thief Amil Dinsio loses his edge late in his career ... and his freedom. One of the stars of the movie based on the heist, Rachael Taylor, chokes up about the real story. And “Crime Beat” becomes the podcast the Nixon people don’t want you to hear.

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Mar 7th, 2019
The story appears in 2003, and producers from film companies begin to call. You’ll hear the ups and downs of writing a screenplay, and how it took more than 15 years for the movie “Finding Steve McQueen” to get made.

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Feb 28th, 2019
Getaway driver Harry Barber starts a new life and tries to live without attracting attention to himself. Everywhere he goes, he is surrounded by cops.

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Feb 26th, 2019
On Feb. 19, 2019, police made an arrest in the cold-case killing of 11-year-old Linda O'Keefe, who was strangled in Orange County in 1973. Southern California News Group reporter Keith Sharon tells the true crime story of the pursuit of her killer. Our regular podcast, "Crime Beat," Season One: "Stealing Nixon's Millio...

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Feb 21st, 2019
With the bank breached, and the FBI scrambling to find clues, the boys from Youngstown tried to slip away … and one of them got farther than he ever dreamed.

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Feb 14th, 2019
All that stands between Amil Dinsio’s crew and the President’s secret stash are an alarm system, reinforced concrete and 500 locked safe deposit boxes.

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