True Crime Reporter™
Go Inside the crime scene tape as Investigative Reporter Robert Riggs and his Law Enforcement sources tell exclusive backstories from his 30 year career covering serial killers and sociopaths.
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The True Crime Reporter™ podcast takes its audience behind the
yellow crime scene where few podcasters dare to go.
The Dallas-based podcast takes listeners on a journey into
darkness guided by Peabody Award-Winning investigative reporter
Robert Riggs.
Everything is bigger in Texas, and crime is no exception.
The 2021 Webby Awards named the True Crime Reporter™ podcast
among seven honorees, including Dateline NBC and BBC Sounds for
“Best True Crime Podcast.”
Hailed as the Internet’s highest honor by The New York Times,
Claire Graves, Executive Director of the Webby Awards, praised
Riggs’ podcast, "Honorees like Robert Riggs and the True
Crime Reporter™ podcast are setting the standard for innovation
and creativity on the Internet. It is an incredible achievement
to be selected among the best from the nearly 13,500 entries we
received this year from 50 states and 70 countries."
A leading television streaming channel is currently producing a
five-episode news documentary based on Riggs’ first season about
serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff.
Bill Johnston, a decorated former federal prosecutor, joined the
True Crime Reporter™ podcast in 2021 as Riggs cohost.
This Texas duo has been up close and personal with the worst of
the worst criminals, including serial killers, mass murderers,
and sexual predators. You name it, and they’ve seen it from the
crime scene to the courtroom, from maximum-security prisons to
death row.
Their real crime stories are stranger than fiction.
True Crime Reporter™ produces three types of episodes.
True Crime Reporter™ Extra - features highly produce narrative
storytelling about criminal cases. It blends Robert Riggs’
writing/narration with his interviews of investigators, crime
victims, forensic experts, convicted criminals, music, and
natural sound.
True Crime Reporter™ Confidential - conducts a classic “police
procedural.” Riggs and Johnston weave compelling stories
during an interview-style/talk show. Think of them as the “Larry
King’s” of True Crime. They interview investigators, crime
victims, forensic experts, members of the judiciary, even
convicted criminals about criminal cases.
True Crime Reporter™ Texas Ranger Files - features unique access
to the case files of one of the worlds’ most legendary law
enforcement organizations. Riggs and Johnston interview Texas
Rangers about their most unusual investigations. These officers
work murders in the wild frontier of Texas. True Crime
Reporter™ tells epic and heroic stories about the Rangers that
most people have never heard.
Our mission is not only to entertain but also to educate. The
episodes on True Crime Reporter™ discuss means and motives. We
want listeners to come away with insights about crime prevention
and self-protection.
The criminal justice system has recognized Riggs and Johnston for
their sensitivity to crime victims. Bill Johnston received the
“Victim Advocate of the Year Award” for bringing the nation’s
first prosecution under the Violence Against Women’s Act. Three
weeks after its enactment, Johnston utilized the new law to
prosecute a man who sent a twenty-pound pipe bomb to his ex-wife
in an attempted murder plot.
The American Bar Association has honored Riggs with its Silver
Gavel Award for investigative reports that exposed corruption in
Texas’ parole and prison systems. The Dallas Crime
Commission, in conjunction with the FBI, awarded Riggs its
first-ever Excellence In Reporting Award for his investigation of
teenage heroin deaths in Plano, Texas, and a landmark series on
identity theft.
The first season of True Crime Reporter™ broadcasted a 17-episode
series about the corrupt release of serial killer Kenneth Allen
McDuff from prison by the Texas Parole Board. Bill Johnston
organized and led the successful manhunt for McDuff.
Following Robert Riggs’ news investigation about parole selling,
Johnston prosecuted the Texas Parole Board Chairman who had
released McDuff.
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