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Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts
Sunday, 10 March 2019
Podcast Update - The Cycling Podcast
Podcast Update - Chantel McGregor
Another Podcast
Which ties in with sad news from the Classic Rock Society
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Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Podcast Update - Murder book, Michael Connelly
If you like Michael Connelly, you'll like.........
If you like Harry Bosch, you'll like.......
The Murder Book True Crime Podcast
Episodes 1-6 Are Available Now
A carjacking, gunshots
and murder outside a popular Hollywood
nightclub. A gun, a fingerprint, and a
bullet on the ground hold the key to unlocking a case that would last over 30
years.
Murder Book Season One -
The Tell-Tale Bullet.
Episode 1: Hollywood Homicide
Episode 2: San Francisco Calling
Episode 3: Wiretaps, Search Warrants, and DNA Swabs
Episode 4: The King Of Cold Cases
Episode 5: The People vs. Pierre Romain
Episode 1: Hollywood Homicide
Episode 2: San Francisco Calling
Episode 3: Wiretaps, Search Warrants, and DNA Swabs
Episode 4: The King Of Cold Cases
Episode 5: The People vs. Pierre Romain
New! Listen To Episode
6: Reluctant Witnesses
The ex-sister-in-law. The childhood friend. A
bullet wound at an LAPD family day picnic. As the prosecution continues their
case against Pierre Romain, they encounter unforeseen challenges from witnesses
with divided loyalties, testimonies with seemingly faded memories, and new
speculation that would bring the LAPD's investigation tactics under question.
A new episode will
download every Monday for the next 6 weeks.
Subscribe and listen for free each week.
See photos and bonus material for
each episode on the Murder
Book website.
https://patch.com/california/hollywood/copy-guilty-1987-carjacking-murder-hollywood
A federal officer's police department application ultimately led to his arrest and conviction for a 1987 carjacking murder in Hollywood.
By California News Wire Services, News Partner
https://patch.com/california/hollywood/copy-guilty-1987-carjacking-murder-hollywood
Spoiler Alert
Details of the case
Cop's Job Application Lands Him
In Jail For Hollywood Murder
By California News Wire Services, News Partner
Aug 10, 2017 8:04 pm ET
Updated Aug 11, 2017 9:18 am ET
LOS ANGELES, CA — A reputed former gang member-turned-federal police officer was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in a 1987 killing during an attempted carjacking in Hollywood. Pierre Romain, 53, was tied to the shooting death of 21-year-old Jade Maurice Clark by cold case detectives using DNA from a .25-caliber slug. The seven-man, five-woman jury deliberated less than two days before finding Romain guilty of murder and finding true an allegation that he personally used a gun. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ordered Romain to be taken into custody while awaiting sentencing, set for Sept. 15. He faces up to 27 years to life in state prison. "It's too dangerous to tempt him to flee," Fidler said, as Romain handed some items from his suit pockets to his lawyer and deputies handcuffed him. Clark's mother, Yolanda, who asked that her last name not be used, cried quietly as the verdict was read and thanked jurors as a group outside the courtroom. "This has been a 30-year journey," she said. "You'll never, ever, ever have any idea of how thankful I am."
One juror stepped up and hugged her. Prosecutors said Romain was a 22-year-old gang member at the time of the June 29, 1987, killing. Police said Romain had crashed a friend's customized Nissan 300 ZX just before he and an accomplice tried to take a nearly identical model from Clark, who was parked outside a club at 845 N. Highland Ave. Romain was wounded in the arm in trading shots with the fatally injured Clark, who had a .25-caliber pistol under his seat, police said.
Romain and an accomplice were arrested about a month after the shooting, but charges were dismissed at a preliminary hearing based on insufficient evidence. At the time of that first arrest, Romain was an active candidate for a job as a Los Angeles Police Department officer. Romain was arrested again in 2003 while employed as a police officer at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo. At the time of his 2003 arrest, Romain had applied for a job with the San Francisco Police Department. A call from SFPD background investigators prompted LAPD Detective Rick Jackson to reexamine physical evidence from the cold case shooting. More sophisticated DNA testing technology allowed detectives to use a bullet fired from Clark's gun to tie Romain to the case. Romain's attorney, Winston Kevin McKesson, denied that his client was ever a gang member. "He was a trained policeman ... Everything he did was inconsistent with gang membership," McKesson said in his closing argument. McKesson said his client's career was left "in limbo" as a result of the "false allegations" against him. Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef said the DNA evidence was undeniable. "There is no getting around the DNA," Mokayef told jurors. The victim's mother praised cold case detectives for never giving up on her son's case. "It does work .. delay doesn't mean denied," she said.
By ELIZABETH MARCELLINO, City News Service; Photo: Shutterstock
LOS ANGELES, CA — A reputed former gang member-turned-federal police officer was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in a 1987 killing during an attempted carjacking in Hollywood. Pierre Romain, 53, was tied to the shooting death of 21-year-old Jade Maurice Clark by cold case detectives using DNA from a .25-caliber slug. The seven-man, five-woman jury deliberated less than two days before finding Romain guilty of murder and finding true an allegation that he personally used a gun. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ordered Romain to be taken into custody while awaiting sentencing, set for Sept. 15. He faces up to 27 years to life in state prison. "It's too dangerous to tempt him to flee," Fidler said, as Romain handed some items from his suit pockets to his lawyer and deputies handcuffed him. Clark's mother, Yolanda, who asked that her last name not be used, cried quietly as the verdict was read and thanked jurors as a group outside the courtroom. "This has been a 30-year journey," she said. "You'll never, ever, ever have any idea of how thankful I am."
One juror stepped up and hugged her. Prosecutors said Romain was a 22-year-old gang member at the time of the June 29, 1987, killing. Police said Romain had crashed a friend's customized Nissan 300 ZX just before he and an accomplice tried to take a nearly identical model from Clark, who was parked outside a club at 845 N. Highland Ave. Romain was wounded in the arm in trading shots with the fatally injured Clark, who had a .25-caliber pistol under his seat, police said.
Romain and an accomplice were arrested about a month after the shooting, but charges were dismissed at a preliminary hearing based on insufficient evidence. At the time of that first arrest, Romain was an active candidate for a job as a Los Angeles Police Department officer. Romain was arrested again in 2003 while employed as a police officer at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo. At the time of his 2003 arrest, Romain had applied for a job with the San Francisco Police Department. A call from SFPD background investigators prompted LAPD Detective Rick Jackson to reexamine physical evidence from the cold case shooting. More sophisticated DNA testing technology allowed detectives to use a bullet fired from Clark's gun to tie Romain to the case. Romain's attorney, Winston Kevin McKesson, denied that his client was ever a gang member. "He was a trained policeman ... Everything he did was inconsistent with gang membership," McKesson said in his closing argument. McKesson said his client's career was left "in limbo" as a result of the "false allegations" against him. Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef said the DNA evidence was undeniable. "There is no getting around the DNA," Mokayef told jurors. The victim's mother praised cold case detectives for never giving up on her son's case. "It does work .. delay doesn't mean denied," she said.
By ELIZABETH MARCELLINO, City News Service; Photo: Shutterstock
Sunday, 4 November 2018
More on Podcasts
Missed this one on my last update.
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Some absolutely fantastic discussions on all sorts of subjects
There's a wiki page here with details of all the epidoses, subjects and guests
Saturday, 20 October 2018
Podcast Update
As mentioned I have added the Test Match Special podcast to my library.
Some great discussions on there, though there tends to be a bit of repetition over it's various formats.
An excellent in terview was "Vaughany meets Warney"
I dont want to have to give some spoiler alerts, but there was some really good discussions about life, the universe and everything, to quote Douglas Adams.
If the episodes that I listened to, were the comedies of the week I dread to think what the others were like, though when I say listened to, I started 3 episodes and never made it to the end of any of them, such was their lack of Comedy of the Weekness
Some great discussions on there, though there tends to be a bit of repetition over it's various formats.
An excellent in terview was "Vaughany meets Warney"
I dont want to have to give some spoiler alerts, but there was some really good discussions about life, the universe and everything, to quote Douglas Adams.
Another podcast that I have just deleted, is BBC Four's Comedy of the Week.
If the episodes that I listened to, were the comedies of the week I dread to think what the others were like, though when I say listened to, I started 3 episodes and never made it to the end of any of them, such was their lack of Comedy of the Weekness
Saturday, 29 September 2018
Podcasts
I get plenty of time when commuting and also whilst out on road to listen to podcasts.
These are some of my favourites.
Tailenders.
Loosely based on cricket, it features Jimmy Anderson (worlds record wicket taker-Non spinner), Felix White (Maccabees) and Greg James (Radio 1 DJ).
An addition from almost the start of the podcast is Machin Tendulkar, so called, as Matt is loosely related to Indian cricketing God, Sachin Tendulkar. Machin was a complete noobie to cricket, which he knew nothing about, and asks questions by proxy for his mate Chris.
Absolutely brilliant, especially the Michael Vaughan episode.
The team meet Machin Tendulkar
Next up, a podcast about serial killers with plenty of general fill in chat. May contain the odd swear word. There are currently 50 different serial killers discussed from Peter Sutcliffe, Fred and Rose West and Harold Shipman to David Berkowitz and the Zodiac Killer.
Excellent series.
John Barnes
Nigel Owens
Michael Carrick
Kumar Sangachihuahua (See Tailenders)
Kriss Akabusi
Luther Blissett
Ossie Ardiles
To name a few
Another excellent sporting podcast with
Andrew (Freddie) Flintoff, Robbie Savage and the ping-pong guy, (Matthew Syed)
Similar to the At home with series, When Orla met has some excellent interviews with;
Mark Cavendish
Johnny Peacock
Jonathan Waughters
Judy Murray
Pippa York
again, just to name a few.
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