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On October twenty first, nineteen eighty six,

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in Miramar, Florida, a woman returned

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to her town home to find her boyfriend,

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twenty eight year old firefighter Billy

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Alpurn, lying dead in a pool of blood.

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Billy had been bound, gagged, and

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his throat cut from ear to ear.

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There was no murder weapon, no sign

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of forced entry, and no immediate

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suspects. She's a shame, you know

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that they took off from us. This had

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all the signs of a professional hit.

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When four of Billy's friends also turned

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up dead, detectives couldn't help but think

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Billy was mixed up in something big

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and bad, Tangled in a web way

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darker and deeper than anyone expected,

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involving some of South Florida's most dangerous

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criminals. So how did they cross paths

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with Billy?

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The Apollo Jim a no frills

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prison yard style facility dedicated

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to pain and gain, a place where

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cops and crooks could share a safe

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space to iron. It was

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owned by a jacked X cop

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named Gil Fernandez. That guy is

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a gangster, gangsto gangs. I'm

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Scott Weinberger, podcaster and investigative

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journalist. But before that. I was at deputy

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sheriff in Browie County, Florida, the very

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same county where Billy's brutal murder

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took place in the nineteen eighties, a

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time where drug traffickers flooded the

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state. Just picture the movie Scarface.

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I worked those streets and I saw the violence

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firsthand. Billy's case, even

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thirty seven years later, was as cold

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as they come, but that was

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about to change.

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My name is Danny Smith. I'm a detective. Remember

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Polase Spartman. This is Scott Weinberger. We're

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actually reopening an old case, and your

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name came up. Danny was on a

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mission to reopen Billy's case, and

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I was on a mission to join him,

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documenting step by step in real

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time. This was a case

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of a lifetime, especially if

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we could solve it. Never expected

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what we'd find out along the way and

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how deep the corruption would

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go. You were a cop, you know

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that there's good ones and bad ones. Thought they were

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gonna kill me, so I kept my mouth shut and I

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didn't say anything. All these years, people

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were afraid to go to the law because

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he was a former cop. What we learned

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shocked us, and it will shock you too,

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and so this was up to thirty three. Are you talking

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about homicides? Yeah? Join us as

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we finally exposed the chili motive

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behind a string of brutal murders

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and unearthed new evidence. We got

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some back. There is DNA

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there, including the DNA of

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Billy Halpern's killer. Listen

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to Cold Blooded the Apollo Jim

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Murders starting on April twenty

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second, on the iHeartRadio app,

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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you get your podcasts.