Robert Riggs & The True Crime Reporter® Podcast & TV Shows

Reporter – Author – Podcaster – Filmmaker – AI Consultant

Guided by Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Riggs, True Crime Reporter® features stories about infamous criminals, dangerous minds, and what happens when companies behave like criminals.

His companion newsletter, Stories To Keep You Safe, teaches lessons from veteran investigators, crime survivors, safety experts, offenders, and people who have faced danger firsthand.

It reveals how criminals operate, how scams unfold, how emerging threats exploit trust, and how to stay one step ahead.

In an era when crime is too often reduced to recycled narratives and sensationalized retellings, the True Crime Reporter® podcast cuts a different path.

Riggs founded the podcast on a promise rarely kept in the genre: to take listeners inside stories they have never heard or to reveal new, meticulously sourced details about the criminal cases they thought they knew.

Based in Texas, Riggs has chronicled some of the state’s most notorious crimes. These blood-chilling stories remind us that the truth here is often stranger and far darker than fiction.

Ride shotgun with Riggs on stories that stretch across America and beyond as he investigates infamous crimes, elusive scams, artificial intelligence threats, corporate negligence, historical turning points, and life-defying struggles that reveal the human consequences of danger, disruption, and survival.

On his True Crime Reporter® podcast and in his books, Riggs shares his experiences as a veteran reporter who has walked crime scenes, covered mass killings, interviewed killers, questioned investigators, reported from war zones, and followed cases long after the headlines faded.

Riggs also sits down with some of the most fearless voices in true crime nonfiction to uncover the untold details behind their bestselling books.

These authors have stepped straight into real danger, stared down serial killers, exposed corruption, and unearthed truths others fought to keep buried. Riggs knows something about that.

He has spent decades chasing criminals, investigating public-safety threats, and uncovering the human consequences of greed, violence, and institutional betrayal.

Stories don’t simply unfold on True Crime Reporter®. They close in around you.

Every account is built on the kind of reporting audiences can trust: firsthand interviews, documents, records, research, and years spent in the field asking difficult questions of people who lived through the danger, investigated it, caused it, or tried to bury it.

True Crime Reporter® is for listeners who want to understand how predators choose their victims, how big business hurts people and evades responsibility, how technology creates new ways to deceive, and how ordinary people can recognize danger before it is too late.

Decades of trust and reputation have given him access to investigators, prosecutors, survivors, whistleblowers, experts, offenders, and people wronged by crime, corruption, and corporate abuse.

For armchair detectives who want to go deeper, his audiobooks, eBooks, paperbacks, and hardcovers expand these cases into full-length accounts drawn from decades of reporting.

Reviewers of his audiobooks describe his voice as smooth as whiskey, and listeners call it soothing, no matter how dark the story. Riggs pulls you into the scene.

The result is immersive storytelling, strengthened by original music scored to set a haunting mood, sharpen the tension, and carry you deeper into the moment.

If you crave true crime stories you can’t put down, investigations that expose hidden dangers, and reporting that reveals what people do when survival is on the line, don’t just listen.

Subscribe now to start your journey into darkness.

Riggs has earned three “ Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards for Investigative Reporting” — the broadcast equivalent of a Pulitzer — for going toe-to-toe with the powerful and the dangerous.

The Dallas Crime Commission and the FBI honored him with their first-ever “Excellence in Crime Reporting Award” for exposing identity theft kingpins and Mexican drug cartels. The American Bar Association’s “Silver Gavel Award” recognized his investigation for uncovering systemic corruption inside the Texas parole and prison systems.

Riggs has pried truth from mountains of records others tried to bury, faced threats hurled in his face, and sat in courtrooms as juries delivered justice to violent criminals and stared down the worst of the worst behind bars.

During three decades of television news reporting, Riggs traveled far beyond America’s streets — under fire in Iraq while embedded with U.S. troops, chasing terrorists across Europe, inside the White House press corps covering presidents, and into disaster zones where survival hung by a thread.

He reported from the eye of the storm on some of the nation’s most harrowing breaking news stories, from the mass shooting at Luby’s Cafeteria in Texas and the 51-day Branch Davidian siege in Waco, to the Oklahoma City bombing, the standoff with the Republic of Texas separatists, and countless natural disasters.

Before journalism, Riggs served as an investigator on the Joint Committee On Defense Production for the legendary Congressman Wright Patman of Texas, spearheading inquiries that reached into the Watergate scandal and exposed Pentagon bribery schemes.

In 2001, Texas A&M University honored him with its College of Architecture’s “Outstanding Alumnus Award” — a distinction given to less than one percent of graduates.

He is a recognized expert in AI-assisted research and storytelling as well as a member of the FBI-affiliated InfraGard National Members Alliance dedicated to protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure.

Grounded in Texas grit and guided by an unwavering belief in truth, he tells the stories that matter — with the courage to go where they lead and the resolve to see them through

Besides creating the True Crime Reporter® podcast, books & audiobooks, Riggs produced the award-winning five-part Freed To Kill streaming television series.

It exposed how a serial killer released under a cloud of corruption went on a multi-year abduction and murder spree in Texas.

You can reach Riggs at fan@truecrimereporter.com.

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Click here to purchase my “Texas Crime Stories” audiobook. It downloads into your podcast app.

Click here to purchase the Paperback & Kindle editions on Amazon.

Schedule me to speak at your social meeting or corporate event.

My presentation, “Evil Walks Among Us,” features stories about serial killers and notorious criminals and personal safety tips.

Step into the storied halls of the Texas Prison Museum and uncover the gripping tales of infamous inmates, daring escapes, and the history of justice in the Lone Star State.

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You can reach me at fan@truecrimereporter.com.

Read my biography.

Kenneth Allen McDuff is being escorted into the Texas Death House. McDuff was believed to be the only condemned inmate in the nation ever paroled and then returned to death row for another murder. He went to death row in 1968 for killing two teenage boys, was paroled after the death penalty was overturned, and returned to death row in 1991 for killing two women. 11/17/1998

I based the first season of the True Crime Reporter® Podcast on my investigation of serial killer Kenneth McDuff. McDuff, a former death row inmate, was released on parole in Texas under a cloud of corruption.

In 2021, the podcast was honored with a 25th Annual Webby Award for Best True Crime Podcast. Claire Graves, Executive Director of The Webby Awards, stated, “Honorees like Robert Riggs and the True Crime Reporter®’s 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.”

FREED TO KILL – AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SERIAL KILLER KENNETH McDUFF

As an Executive Producer, I spun off the podcast series about McDuff into Freed To Kill, a five-part television documentary that premiered on Fox Nation Streaming in March 2022. The five-part series received a Telly Award for television documentary in May 2022.

It has drawn praise from journalism stalwarts. Retired CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer, who appeared in Freed To Kill, succinctly encapsulated its impact: “This is the story of pure evil, and you told it well.”

In the documentary, I revealed my intrepid reporting style by using old-school “shoe leather” tactics—knocking on doors, tracking down sources, and uncovering facts.

Outside of reporting, I enjoy the frontier spirit of Texas through my love of horses.

It offers an escape into nature that balances my intense work.