
True Crime Reporter™ Podcast
True Crime Reporter™ is an original true crime genre podcast based on three decades of reporting “real-life” stories by Peabody Award-Winning investigative reporter Robert Riggs. Riggs taps into three decades of criminal cases from his career as an investigative reporter and committee investigator in the U.S. Congress.
The first season of True Crime Reporter™ is currently being made into a television series titled Freed To Kill for a major streaming channel.

Former decorated federal prosecutor Bill Johnston teams up with Riggs to take listeners inside “the yellow crime scene tape”. Riggs and Johnston go where most true-crime podcast hosts have never dared to venture.
For more than four decades, this duo has been up close and personal with serial killers, mass murderers, sexual predators, and terrorists. You name it, and they’ve seen it from the crime scene to the courtroom, to prison, even the Texas’ death chamber.
Both are compelling storytellers. Riggs spent decades in front of the television news camera telling stories to millions of viewers. Federal juries returned guilty verdicts in every prosecution that Johnston undertook during his 14-year career with the U.S. Justice Department.
Riggs and Johnston’s true crime stories are stranger than fiction.
They take listeners on a “Journey Into Darkness”.
True Crime Reporter™ publishes a variety of three types of episodes for its fans on a weekly basis.
- True Crime Reporter™ Extra – features narrative storytelling episodes about criminal cases. We produce a compelling story blending Robert Riggs writing/narration; interviews with investigators, crime victims, forensic experts, and convicted criminals; and music/sound effects.
- True Crime Reporter™ Confidential – Riggs and former decorated federal prosecutor Bill Johnston conduct a classic “police procedural” in each episode. Their true crime cases are stranger than fiction. 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 – delves into our unique access to the case files of one of the most legendary law enforcement organizations in the world. Riggs and Johnston conduct interviews in a unique style that unfolds stories. In some episodes, Riggs leads Johnston into a rendition of how the Texas Rangers worked for him to solve past criminal cases. Also, Riggs and Johnston interview Texas Rangers about their most unusual cases. These officers still work crimes in the wild frontier of Texas. We tell epic and heroic stories that most Texans and the world have never heard about.
Watch the True Crime Reporter™ YouTube Channel to view more than 200 of Riggs’ news reports and listen to the podcast.
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