Inside True Crime BENT: How a Homeless Teen--Turned Credit Card Counterfeiter--Made Millions in the Cyber Underworld and Walked
THE SLEEK CURVED BODY of the Gulf-stream G-V cut through the thin Nevada air at nearly six hundred miles per hour and 43,000 feet. Tonight, however, the glossy white private jet's typical cargo of corporate executives and Hollywood royalty had been replaced by a gifted crook and his female…
Matthew B. Cox · 2025-11-13 Open source Inside True Crime COWGIRLS & KILOS: The Bizarre Tale of a Dukes of Hazzard-Style Dope Ring, Cut with a Heap of Southern Insanit
IT WAS A MOONLESS NIGHT, three 4×4’s stopped under the cypress canopy. The vehicles’ high-beams hit the swamp and several alligators slithered off the banks into the black waters of the Florida Everglades. Jessica Marie Bell and her female co-conspirators—Aubrey Waldron, Jetta Frake, Jamie Hewitt,…
Matthew B. Cox · 2024-05-09 Open source Inside True Crime THE HOAX: The Collapse of the Mystery Surrounding Kim Porter's Memoir
COURTNEY BURGESS TEXTED ME in a panic on the morning of October 21, 2024, stating: “Feds came to my house and tour it up and took all my electronics including my studio equipment.” Despite the horrible grammar, I could sense the panic, and imagined him standing in his home, surrounded by the…
Matthew B. Cox · 2019-12-06 Open source Inside True Crime DEVIL EXPOSED: A Twisted Tale of Drug Trafficking, Corruption, and Murder in the City of Angels
ALL FOUR TIRES OF THE PORSCHE caught air as the vehicle shot out of the building's underground garage. The fire alarm screamed in the distance. The ice lab — located on the top floor of the Sunset Plaza condominium building — was burning. The European supercar hit the asphalt with a thud, Pierre…
Matthew B. Cox · 2019-11-22 Open source Inside True Crime THE SOURCE: The Twisted Tale of How an LA Kingpin Paid the Jalisco Price
THE SLENDER HISPANIC male, veiled in a hooded sweatshirt and dark pants with short black cropped hair, stealthily approached the large beige house—a pistol tucked in the small of his back. It was December 12, 2011, in the city of Arcadia, a wealthy suburban Los Angeles bedroom community, nestled…
Matthew B. Cox · 2019-06-15 Open source Inside True Crime THE UNLIKELY NARCO: How a Struggling American College Student Ended up a Key Operative for the Mexican Cartels
THE TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD slipped his U.S. Passport to the female agent at the Orlando International Airport Customs desk. From behind the counter the stern woman carefully compared the data on the screen before her to Jacob Diaz’s travel documents. Her eyes bounced between the handsome baby faced…
Matthew B. Cox & Pierre Rausini · 2019-05-17 Open source Inside True Crime ATONEMENT: An Interwoven Tale of Massive Scams, Murders & the Redemption of a Con Man
THE AK-47 CRACKED, sending a 7.62 projectile spiraling down the assault rifle’s barrel. It briefly traveled through the air, then plunged into the attractive forty-two-year-old blonde’s chest. The round blew a dime-sized hole in her rib-cage as it spiraled through the woman’s upper-torso and tore…
Matthew B. Cox · 2019-05-17 Open source Inside True Crime SHARK IN THE HOUSING POOL: On the Run with the Secret Service's Most Wanted
WHEN I PLACED MY GARY SULLIVAN ID on the counter of the pristine Columbia, South Carolina branch of Wachovia Bank in March 2005, I appeared to be just another clean-cut businessman sporting a Rolex in Dolce & Gabbana; conducting a routine bank transaction, removing some cash from one of my many…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-15 Open source Inside True Crime DUDE, WHERE'S MY HAND-GRENADE?: How the Real War Dog Swindled Hollywood Out of Millions
A CHUNKY EFRAIM DIVEROLI—the real life gunrunner played by Jonah Hill in the movie War Dogs—sat opposite myself, Matthew Cox, and my literary agent, Ross Reback. To be perfectly transparent, I should mention, although I’m a true crime writer, at the time I was also a federal inmate. Like Diveroli,…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-14 Open source Inside True Crime BAILOUT: The Life & Lies of Marcus Schrenker
AT NEARLY 24,000 FEET over Alabama, Schrenker shouted "Four-two-eight-delta-charlie!" into his headset. He was cutting through the freezing January air at 300 mph in a single engine turbo-prop Piper Meridian. "Atlanta Center! This is an emergency! I'm experiencing severe turbulence and my…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-13 Open source Inside True Crime OXY RUSH: From High School Wrestlers to Oxycodone Kingpins
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE ROUND UP, a pop-country dance club located just outside Tampa's city limits. The place was packed with drunken southern belles line dancing to Blake Shelton's Redneck Girl underneath the disco balls and duhalf naked strippers in Stetsons, seductively slow riding the mechanical…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-12 Open source Inside True Crime CASH & COKE, REBOOT: Two Brothers Wreak Havoc in the Narcotics Underworld
SLIGHTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT, Robert "Snoop" George III and his brother Devell Hawkins, pulled to the curb and shifted the metallic blue Mercury into park. Lush palm trees and palmetto bushes peppered the upscale subdivision in Cypress Gardens, Florida. Mediterranean-inspired McMansions with pools and…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-11 Open source Inside True Crime INDEFENSIBLE: A Story of Government Corruption, Murder & One Man's Fight for Freedom
EX-DEA TASK FORCE AGENT Donald Nides, placed his Taurus .357 revolver to the right-side of his head. He pushed the steel cylindrical barrel against the soft tissue of his grey temple; then pulled the hammer back until it clicked into the locked position and wrapped a finger around the trigger.It…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-09 Open source Inside True Crime DEVILS OF CONTRABAND: How a Former High End "Escort" Survives South Florida's Narcotics Underworld
STANDING OUTSIDE THE SUITE, she checked the chambers of the snub-nosed, Smith & Wesson .38 Special, one last time, before slipping it into her Louis Vuitton purse. Her eyes nervously darted up and down the hotel's empty hallway. She took two deep, cleansing breaths and softly rapped on the door of…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-08 Open source Inside True Crime CASH LOGISTICS: Perfect Inside Job Goes Sideways
By Matthew B. CoxTHE BULKY, SQUARE, armored-truck jolted to a stop feet from the Bank of America branch, located in the center of the plaza—Garda’s iconic red and white logo displayed on its side. Within its bowels was $1.5 million in cash.Fifty yards across the parking lot, behind the dumpsters, a…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-07 Open source Inside True Crime PAIN: The Rise and Fall of the Largest Pill Mill in the Nation
By Matthew B. Cox''DEA!" GROWLED THE TALL, lean black woman as she approached the crowd of patients meandering outside the pain clinic's entrance. A mixture of nearly a dozen federal agents, state health department investigators, county sheriff deputies and detectives marched in unison behind her.…
Matthew B. Cox · 2017-11-07 Open source Inside True Crime AMERICAN NARCO: The Unbelievable Story of Karey Woolsey and Danny Sweep . . . Drug Dealers by Day, Rock Stars
American Narco Written By Matthew BTHE MEXICAN, Juan Medina Gonzales, was on time, as usual. He pulled the mid-sized RV to a stop just shy of the house. Karey hadn't expected the RV. Typically, Juan dropped off around thirty to forty pounds of marijuana a week–-once he'd fronted him two hundred…
Matthew B. Cox & Pierre Rausini · 2017-11-06 Open source Inside True Crime THE GAP: The Outrageous Story of how a Confidence Man Reinvented a Classic Con and Left the Mark Holding the B
IT’S UNCLEAR IF Sebastian Black[1] was wearing one of his signature Brioni suits and suspenders during the long flight to Australia. Nor do we know if the seasoned confidence man drank Sambuca on the rocks–his favorite liqueur–or flat soda. He may or may not have flirted with the attractive flight…
Matthew B. Cox & Pierre Rausini · 2017-11-04 Open source Inside True Crime IT'S INSANITY: The Bizarre Story of a Bipolar Megalomaniac's Insane Plan for Total World Domination
THE U.S. MARINES STOOD TAUT at the edge of the gatehouse, the black Suburbans and Lincoln Towncar entered the White House grounds. Inside the Lincoln sat Frank L. Amodeo, the founder of Mirabilis Ventures Inc, a conglomerate of over seventy companies in various industries—including consulting,…
Matthew B. Cox & Pierre Rausini · 2017-11-04 Open source