Kurupt

Grep News | Charlie Cruz

Kurupt is your true crime podcast featuring criminal masterminds. Our podcast focuses on the fascinating world of clever criminals rather than violent crime. With a lighter tone that appreciates the planning and ingenuity, the show delivers cat-and-mouse investigations, satisfying justice, and the message that crime doesn't pay. Perfect for true crime enthusiasts who prefer clever schemes over dark violence. Episodes cover heists, con artists, white-collar fraud, espionage, famous escapes, wrongful convictions, and historical outlaws - all told with intrigue, storytelling.

  1. 3D AGO

    Jimmy Hoffa Disappearance In 1975 Baffles Science

    Jimmy Hoffa walked into a restaurant parking lot in 1975 to meet two mob captains about getting his union job back and literally vanished into thin air. His foster son Chuckie probably picked him up in a borrowed car that later tested positive for human remains, but the body has never been found despite fifty years of FBI searches under stadiums, farms, and construction sites. The people who planned it are all dead now and they pulled off the most famous unsolved murder in American history by using Hoffa's own desperation against him.

    13 min

  2. JAN 26

    Bellagio Heist Defies Probability In Nevada 2000

    A guy walked into the Bellagio at 4am wearing a motorcycle helmet, robbed a craps table of 1.5 million in chips in four minutes, and rode off into the Vegas night like it was the easiest thing in the world. Problem is those 25k chips were all serialized and tracked, so he couldn't cash them anywhere without getting flagged—then he started posting online as Biker Bandit bragging about the heist and selling stolen chips to undercover cops. Tony Carleo, son of a Vegas judge with a massive gambling problem, got caught three months later because he literally couldn't stop talking about what he'd done.

    11 min

  3. JAN 19

    Enron Accounting Created A Gravity Well In Texas

    Enron executives threw a champagne party celebrating their sixth year as America's Most Innovative Company while secretly knowing they were completely broke, hiding billions in debt through thousands of fake partnerships with names like Raptor and Chewco. They used mark-to-market accounting to book 20 years of imaginary profits immediately, insured their own bad bets with their own stock, and when someone finally asked where the actual cash was, seventy-four billion dollars in value vanished in eighteen months. The CFO personally pocketed forty-five million from his own schemes, Arthur Andersen shredded evidence until the entire firm collapsed, and the smartest guys in the room went to prison for building America's largest corporate bankruptcy on spreadsheets and pure audacity.

    15 min

  4. JAN 12

    Inside The Heist That Outsmarted Antwerp Diamond Vault

    Italian thieves spent two years renting an office inside the Antwerp Diamond Center just to study its security, then walked out with over a hundred million in diamonds after defeating ten layers of protection with literal hairspray and styrofoam. They pulled off the impossible heist over Valentine's Day weekend, cracked what experts called an unbreakable vault, and worked undisturbed for three days straight. Then they got caught because someone tossed evidence in the woods without burning it properly, leaving behind receipts and a half-eaten salami sandwich with DNA that led police straight to their door.

    12 min

  5. JAN 5

    Ponzi 1920 Massachusetts Experiment In Perpetual Profit

    Boston cops are doing crowd control because a 5'2" Italian immigrant is taking in a quarter million dollars per day promising to double people's money in 90 days through some postal coupon scheme. Charles Ponzi is paying out early investors with new investors' cash while buying mansions and custom suits, and nobody's noticing he'd need 160 million postal coupons to pull this off when only 27,000 exist worldwide. When it finally collapses in August, 40,000 people lose everything and Ponzi accidentally gives his name to every investment scam for the next century.

    15 min

  6. JAN 3

    Christmas Heist Empties 2700 Deposit Boxes and Steals 30 Million Euros

    A crew drilled through a parking garage wall into a German bank vault on Christmas week and cleared out 2,700 safety deposit boxes—up to 30 million euros in gold, cash, and family savings accumulated over decades. They used industrial-grade equipment, worked for hours undisturbed while everyone was home with wine, and escaped in a high-performance Audi RS 6 with stolen plates before anyone realized what happened. Police have surveillance footage and zero hot leads, while victims who thought their life savings were untouchable just lost everything to what might be Germany's most audacious bank heist in decades.

    14 min

  7. 12/29/2025

    Quantum Betrayal CIA Mole Aldrich Ames In Virginia

    A CIA officer walked into the Soviet Embassy during his lunch break in the mid-80s and sold out a dozen American intelligence sources for fifty thousand dollars because he needed to pay off his credit cards. Rick Ames then spent nine years betraying his country while driving a Jaguar and buying a house in cash on a government salary, getting at least ten people killed before anyone bothered checking his bank account. The most catastrophic intelligence breach in CIA history happened because a mediocre spy with a drinking problem wanted a lifestyle upgrade and the agency just didn't think to ask why he suddenly had half a million dollars lying around.

    12 min

  8. 12/22/2025

    Amelia Earhart Vanished Over Pacific Scientists Follow Echoes

    Fuel-heavy Lockheed Electra lifts off from Lae for a 2‑mile dot called Howland; 18 hours later Earhart’s radio goes urgent, fuel low, then silence. In 1937, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca heard her but she couldn’t hear them; Roosevelt launched the biggest search to date, found nothing, and decades later TIGHAR’s Nikumaroro bones, aluminum and cosmetic jars stayed intriguing but unproven. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were chasing a 29,000‑mile equatorial circumnavigation and ended on a 157/337 line that still haunts aviation history.

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Kurupt is your true crime podcast featuring criminal masterminds. Our podcast focuses on the fascinating world of clever criminals rather than violent crime. With a lighter tone that appreciates the planning and ingenuity, the show delivers cat-and-mouse investigations, satisfying justice, and the message that crime doesn't pay. Perfect for true crime enthusiasts who prefer clever schemes over dark violence. Episodes cover heists, con artists, white-collar fraud, espionage, famous escapes, wrongful convictions, and historical outlaws - all told with intrigue, storytelling.

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  • Creator
    Grep News | Charlie Cruz
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
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