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  • TGF 090 Lewis Lent: The Redacted Report

    TGF 090 Lewis Lent: The Redacted Report
    Feb 27 2026
    This episode of The Redacted Report is a companion piece to our full deep dive on the Lewis Lent case released earlier this week. If you haven't listened to that episode first, we strongly recommend starting there, as this isn't a recap. This is where we dig into the overlooked, lesser known, and rarely discussed facts surrounding Lewis Lent and the investigation that brought him down.

    We examine the disturbing specifics of Lent's so-called master plan as documented in Massachusetts court records, including his description of the multi-compartment confinement system he was constructing and the chillingly clinical victim profile he laid out for investigators.

    We explore how his terminology for interim victims reveals the calculated progression of a predator who was actively transitioning from impulsive kills to long-term captivity.The episode also covers the remarkable coincidence involving Detective Owen Boyington and his daughter Amy, both of whom apprehended criminals on the same day in January of nineteen ninety four.

    We look at the lasting impact on the Shallies family, whose decades of scrutiny following Lent's arrest is a story that rarely gets told, and the twenty twenty four return to their property by investigators still searching for Sara Anne Wood. We discuss the evidentiary significance of the duct tape match that connected the Bernardo murder scene to Lent's vehicle three years later, the legal technicality that means Lent has never served a single day in New York for Sara Wood's murder, and the heartbreaking words of Jamie Lusher's father at the twenty thirteen press conference.

    We also break down Lent's mental health defense strategy, including the alter ego he conveniently named after his own middle name, and why prosecution psychologists argued he was faking every bit of it.If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Sara Anne Wood or Jamie Lusher, please contact the New York State Police Troop D Headquarters at 315-366-6000.
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    23 min
  • TGF 089 Lewis Lent

    TGF 089 Lewis Lent
    Feb 25 2026
    For seven years, Lewis Lent worked as a janitor at a movie theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He volunteered his time helping the blind. He studied the Bible and became an ordained minister. He mentored neighborhood kids who called him "the Big Brother." And behind that mask of kindness, he was hunting, abducting, and murdering children across the northeastern United States.In this episode, we trace the full story of Lewis Lent from his troubled childhood in rural upstate New York through his nomadic years drifting across Florida, New Mexico, and the Northeast, to the horrific crimes that would eventually define him.

    We cover the nineteen ninety abduction and murder of twelve year old Jimmy Bernardo from a Pittsfield strip mall, the nineteen ninety two disappearance of sixteen year old Jamie Lusher in Westfield, Massachusetts, and the nineteen ninety three kidnapping, rape, and murder of twelve year old Sara Anne Wood in Sauquoit, New York.We also tell the story of the girl who stopped him. Twelve year old Becky Savarese, who faked losing her breath and slipped out of her backpack to escape Lent at gunpoint on a frozen January morning in nineteen ninety four. Her courage and quick thinking cracked open cases that had gone cold for years and ended a predator's reign of terror.

    This episode covers the massive multi-state investigation, the three day interrogation that produced Lent's chilling confessions, his so-called "master plan" to imprison children in a hidden room in his apartment, and the courtroom proceedings that put him away for life.

    We also examine the thirty year search for Sara Anne Wood's body, a search that continues to this day because Lewis Lent refuses to tell her family where he buried their daughter.

    If you have any information about the whereabouts of Sara Anne Wood or Jamie Lusher, please contact the New York State Police Troop D Headquarters at 315-366-6000.
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    1 h et 14 min
  • TGF 088 The Frenchman Bay Six: The Redacted Report

    TGF 088 The Frenchman Bay Six: The Redacted Report
    Feb 20 2026
    Six teenage boys left a house party in Pickering, Ontario, in the early hours of March 17, 1995, and vanished without a trace. Durham Regional Police settled on a theory almost immediately — the boys stole a boat, went joyriding on the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, and drowned. Case closed.

    Except it wasn't. Not even close.In this episode, we go beyond the official narrative and dig into the facts that never made the headlines. The details that got buried, ignored, or actively suppressed.We examine why Jay Boyle called his girlfriend at 1:30 a.m. and told her he was coming to her apartment — only to never arrive. We break down the surveillance footage that only captured three of the six boys at the marina, while the other three were never seen on camera at all.

    We look at evidence suggesting Danny Higgins, the youngest of the group, may not have even been with the others when they disappeared.We cover the two girlfriends who called police at 3:30 a.m. to report the boys missing — and were dismissed. The 36-hour delay before any real search began. The sidescan sonar contract that was lined up and then cancelled by Durham Police without explanation. The "unsinkable" boat that was never found. The gas can that turned up on the wrong side of the lake with no water inside it after nearly two weeks adrift. We reveal the three unidentified strangers caught on the marina's surveillance tape just minutes after the boys — who were never investigated.

    The critical dockside camera that went offline at 2:21 a.m. at the worst possible moment. And the surveillance footage that Durham Police told a private investigator didn't exist — until his third access to information request proved otherwise.We walk through the 1998 discovery of red jeans and human remains in the Niagara River that matched Jay Boyle's description — a discovery the Boyle family wasn't told about for 15 years. The bureaucratic nightmare that followed. The broken chain of evidence. And the forensic results that raised more questions than they answered.

    This episode is built on the 13-year investigation of private investigator Bruce Ricketts, who worked this case pro bono until his death in January 2024, and on the documented record he left behind. The boys: Jay Boyle (17), Chad Smith (18), Robbie Rumboldt (17), Jamie Lefebvre (17), Michael Cummins (17), and Danny Higgins (16).The case remains open.

    The boys are still classified as missing persons.Anyone with information is asked to contact the Durham Regional Police Service at 1-888-579-1520, ext. 2511.
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    31 min
  • TGF 087 The Frenchman Bay Six

    TGF 087 The Frenchman Bay Six
    Feb 17 2026
    On the night of March 16, 1995, six teenage boys left a house party in Pickering, Ontario and headed toward the East Shore Marina at Frenchman's Bay. They told friends they'd be back before sunrise. None of them were ever seen again.Jay Boyle, 17. Chad Smith, 18. Robbie Rumboldt, 17. Jamie Lefebvre, 17. Michael Cummins, 17. Danny Higgins, 16.

    Known collectively as the Lost Boys of Pickering or the Frenchman Bay Six, their disappearance remains one of Canada's most baffling unsolved cases thirty years later.In this episode, we walk through the full timeline of that night, from the party to the marina, the surveillance footage that captured three of the boys entering the property at 1:48 a.m., and the unidentified individuals recorded on that same footage just minutes later.

    We examine the thirty-six-hour delay before police launched a search, the massive air, land, and water operation that followed, and the single piece of physical evidence ever recovered — a gas can found twelve days later on the American side of the lake near Wilson, New York.

    We dig into the official theory from the Durham Regional Police Service, that the boys stole a fourteen-foot Boston Whaler and capsized on the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, and we examine the serious questions raised by private investigator Bruce Ricketts, who spent over thirteen years working the case without pay before his death in January 2024. Ricketts challenged nearly every aspect of the investigation, from the cancelled sidescan sonar search to the surveillance video that police later claimed didn't exist in their records, to the human remains found in the Niagara River in 1998 that the Boyle family didn't learn about for fifteen years.No bodies. No boat. No wreckage. No clothing. No personal effects.

    Six teenagers, gone without a trace. This is a case defined not by what was found, but by what wasn't, and by the questions that three decades of silence have never answered.If you have information about this case, contact the Durham Regional Police Service at 905-579-1520, extension 2511, or submit an anonymous tip to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. Case reference number 95-26936.
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    1 h et 13 min
  • TGF 086 Blaze Bernstein: The Redacted Report

    TGF 086 Blaze Bernstein: The Redacted Report
    Feb 13 2026
    On January 2nd, 2018, nineteen-year-old Blaze Bernstein walked out of his parents' home in Orange County, California, to meet a former high school classmate. He left behind his wallet, his keys, and his glasses. He never came home. In Tuesday's episode, we laid out the facts of the case.

    Tonight, we go deeper — into the encrypted chat logs, the self-authored diary of hate, the dating app predation, the neo-Nazi training camps, and the celebration of murder inside a domestic terror cell that most of the mainstream coverage never touched.

    We dig into Samuel Woodward's "Sam's Diary of Hate," a series of emails he wrote to himself documenting his campaign of terror against gay men on Grindr, and the prosecution's chilling theory that this was a "ceremonial killing" designed to win prestige within the Atomwaffen Division — a neo-Nazi terror network linked to five murders in just eight months.

    We walk through Woodward's paramilitary training in Texas, his meetings with the godfather of accelerationist neo-Nazi ideology, and the quarter of a million encrypted messages where Atomwaffen members celebrated the murder and called Woodward a "one-man gay Jew wrecking crew."

    We break down how Woodward's story changed dramatically between his police interview and his trial testimony, how he lied to Blaze's desperate parents while they searched for their missing son, and how six and a half years of delays nearly broke a family waiting for justice. And we end where the story demands — at the stones of Borrego Park, where grief became a movement.On July 3rd, 2024, Samuel Woodward was found guilty of first-degree murder with a hate crime enhancement. On November 15th, 2024, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    He refused to appear in the courtroom for his own sentencing. If you or someone you know has information about domestic extremist activity, contact the FBI tip line at tips.fbi.gov. If you or someone you know is a victim of a hate crime, contact the Department of Justice at civilrights.justice.gov.

    Learn more about the BlazeItForward kindness movement at blazeitforward.org.
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    31 min
  • TGF 085 The Murder of Blaze Bernstein

    TGF 085 The Murder of Blaze Bernstein
    Feb 10 2026
    On January 2nd, 2018, a nineteen-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore slipped out of his parents' house in Lake Forest, California, to meet up with a former high school classmate. He left without his wallet, his glasses, or his keys. He never came home.

    Blaze Bernstein was everything you'd want a kid to be. A pre-med student at an Ivy League school, the managing editor of a culinary magazine, a gifted writer who once said that writing gave him his voice. He was the oldest of three children in a tight-knit Jewish family, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, and a young man who was just beginning to live openly and authentically as a gay man.

    The person he went to meet that night was Samuel Woodward, a former classmate from the Orange County School of the Arts. What Blaze didn't know was that Woodward had become a trained member of the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi terrorist organization that specifically targeted LGBTQ and Jewish people. He didn't know about the hate diary, the encrypted chat rooms, or the training camp in Texas. He didn't know that Woodward had brought a knife and a skull-faced terrorist mask to their meetup that night. This episode covers the full story. Blaze's life and the family that shaped him. Woodward's radicalization from a troubled kid in a homophobic household to a committed domestic terrorist. The seven-day search that gripped Orange County.

    The rain that uncovered a shallow grave. The arrest, the evidence, and the six agonizing years it took to bring this case to trial. The testimony that exposed a killer's lies. And the verdict that finally held him accountable. It also covers what came after.

    How the Bernstein family turned the worst moment of their lives into a movement called Blaze It Forward, and how a nineteen-year-old kid who loved food, writing, and people left a legacy that hatred could never erase. This is a difficult one. But it's a story that deserves to be heard.
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    1 h et 17 min
  • TGF 085 Trooper Chadwick LeCroy: The Redacted Report

    TGF 085 Trooper Chadwick LeCroy: The Redacted Report
    Feb 6 2026
    On December 27th 2010, Georgia State Trooper First Class Chadwick LeCroy pulled over a car with a broken taillight on Bolton Road in northwest Atlanta. It should have been routine. Instead, it became the first fatal shooting of a Georgia trooper in thirty-five years.

    The man behind the wheel was Gregory Favors, a thirty-year-old career criminal with eighteen prior arrests stretching back to 1998. He'd been convicted of drug charges, weapons violations, forgery, and obstruction. He was on active probation in Cobb County.

    And he should have been in prison. This episode digs into everything that went wrong before that night. The rocket docket system that fast-tracked felonies and handed out lenient sentences to clear overcrowded jails. The July hearing where a prosecutor asked for four years and a judge gave sixty days. The December thirteenth release when no officer showed up to testify and a known flight risk walked free on a signature bond.

    The missed court appearance the morning of the murder that should have triggered a bench warrant. We examine the finger-pointing between District Attorney Paul Howard, Mayor Kasim Reed, APD Chief George Turner, and Chief Judge Cynthia Wright. We look at the failed push for Chad's Law and the reforms that came too little, too late.

    And we remember the man behind badge 744, the trooper who spent his whole life dreaming of wearing the uniform and finally got his chance at thirty-six years old.This is the story of a death that didn't have to happen.
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    29 min
  • TGF 084 Trooper Chadwick LeCroy

    TGF 084 Trooper Chadwick LeCroy
    Feb 2 2026
    This one is personal because I knew and worked alongside Trooper Chadwick LeCroy when I was an Atlanta Police Officer. Chad and I served together in Zone 2, and later I had the privilege of working with him when he joined the elite Georgia State Patrol Nighthawks DUI Task Force. He was one of the good ones – the kind of officer you wanted backing you up, the kind of man who made the badge mean something. On December 27th, 2010, Chad was murdered during what should have been a routine traffic stop. He pulled over a broken taillight on Bolton Road in northwest Atlanta.

    The driver was Gregory Favors, a thirty-year-old career criminal with eighteen prior arrests and ten felony convictions. Favors fled, crashed his car, and when Chad approached on foot – without drawing his weapon – Favors fired three shots through the passenger window. One bullet struck Chad in the neck. He died in the ambulance on the way to Grady Memorial Hospital. But here's what makes this case so infuriating: Gregory Favors should have been locked up. He'd been arrested just seventeen days earlier and was out on a nineteen-thousand-dollar bond despite pretrial services recommending he be held without bail. Three times in 2010, the system said he was too dangerous to release.

    Three times, judges ignored those recommendations. On the morning Chad was killed, Favors missed his court hearing. He should have been in jail, but instead he was free to murder a good man. The investigation was swift – dashboard camera footage captured everything. Favors stole Chad's patrol car, dumped it on Gun Club Road, and was arrested by Atlanta PD officers.

    After nearly four years of legal proceedings, he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty and received life without parole plus fifty-five years.

    Chad LeCroy was the first Georgia State Trooper killed by gunfire in thirty-five years. He left behind his wife Keisha, sons Bret and Chase, and a law enforcement family that still feels his loss. A bridge over the Chattahoochee River now bears his name, and a scholarship in his memory helps new troopers get their education.

    This is the story of how system failures cost a hero his life, and why there really are no such things as "routine" traffic stops.In memory of Trooper First Class Chadwick Thomas LeCroy, Badge #744.

    End of watch: December 27, 2010.
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    1 h