For decades, FIFA presented itself as the guardian of the world’s game - the final authority on fairness, competition, and global unity through soccer. But behind closed doors, that image quietly collapsed.

In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, we peel back more than a century of history to expose how FIFA evolved from a modest governing body into one of the most corrupt institutions in sports history. What began as a mission to standardize rules became a sprawling criminal enterprise fueled by bribery, patronage, and unchecked power.

This is not a story about bad referees or controversial calls.

It’s a story about systems - how money, loyalty, and silence reshaped world soccer from the inside out.

1. How FIFA was founded in 1904 - and why its structure made corruption almost inevitable
2. The moment money entered the game and changed everything
3. How development funds became political leverage
4. The rise of Sepp Blatter and the culture of entitlement
5. Brown-envelope bribes, destroyed evidence, and quiet “loans” that made scandals disappear
6. How U.S. prosecutors used Mafia-era laws to bring FIFA down
7. Why critics say the system is still vulnerable today

This is a story-mode, documentary-style episode, designed to feel like you’re watching a true-crime series - not a recap, not a debate, and not a highlight reel. It’s a deep dive into how power corrupts when no one is watching.

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Because in this world, corruption doesn’t always wear a suit.

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In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, host Steve dives back into one of the most disturbing cases in true crime history - the Pizza Bomber case.

This isn’t just a robbery gone wrong. It’s a story of calculated cruelty, where Brian Wells, a pizza delivery driver, was manipulated, lied to, and strapped into a bomb that no one ever intended to disarm.

We break down:

1. Why Brian appeared calm leaving the bank - and when that calm turned to terror
2. The absurdity of a “master plan” that netted barely $8,000
3. The impossible scavenger hunt designed to fail
4. The twisted psychology behind Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, Kenneth Barnes, and William Rothstein
5. An umbrella-disguised shotgun that feels ripped straight from a Bond villain’s closet
6. And the haunting question: was Brian ever supposed to survive?

Along the way, we roast the stupidity where it deserves it, slow down where the humanity demands it, and ask how people can be cruel enough to treat another human being as disposable.

Plus, a teaser for next week’s deep dive into the FIFA corruption scandal.

On August 28, 2003, a pizza delivery driver walked into a Pennsylvania bank with a bomb locked around his neck and a note demanding money. Minutes later, he was dead - killed by an explosive that detonated live on television.

But this wasn’t a robbery gone wrong.

In this story-mode episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, we unravel the disturbing truth behind the Pizza Bomber case - a crime built not on desperation, but on calculation. A scavenger hunt designed to fail. A bomb designed to never be disarmed. And a man placed at the center of it all who may never have had a real choice.

As investigators peel back the layers, a cast of deeply fractured minds emerges: a brilliant but violent mastermind, a bomb builder with nothing left to lose, a drug dealer chasing one last score, and a delivery driver whose role - willing participant or expendable pawn - remains bitterly contested to this day.

This episode explores not just what happened, but why - and why this case still unsettles investigators, families, and listeners decades later. Because the most horrifying part isn’t the bomb. It’s the realization that the cruelty was intentional…and the outcome was always the same.

Listener discretion advised.