Episode 3: The Confidante
Mon, 19 May 2025
Jess and Jake speak with Sarah and learn about her past life. As a social worker, she really knew ho...
Episode 2: The Poster Child
Mon, 12 May 2025
In her home state of Rhode Island, Sarah builds her reputation as a celebrated war hero. But as her ...
Episode 1: The Warrior
Mon, 12 May 2025
A mysterious handwritten letter arrives from Sarah Cavanaugh. In it, she asks: What do you think of ...
Introducing Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah
Mon, 05 May 2025
Sarah was everything people wanted her to be—until she wasn’t. Deep Cover: The Tr...
Introducing Underbelly: Killing Kurt
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
We’re sharing a trailer from season three of the Underbelly podcast: Killing Kurt. Kurt Calabr...
Episode 4: The Donor
Wed, 28 Aug 2024
Amy Gaines McQuade sits down with GOP donor and former Santos supporter Cathy Soref. Then Amy and Ja...
Episode 3: The Plea
Wed, 21 Aug 2024
George Santos pleaded guilty in federal court this week. Amy Gaines McQuade was in the courtroom. Am...
Episode 2: The Congressman
Mon, 19 Aug 2024
George Santos takes office. His communications director, Naysa Woomer, walks us through her five mon...
Episode 1: The Campaign
Mon, 19 Aug 2024
George Santos runs for Congress and wins. Then the stories he told on the campaign trail start to fa...
Deep Cover: George Santos
Thu, 15 Aug 2024
George Santos, the former Republican Congressman from New York, told a lot of stories about his life...
Unpacking the Verdict
Mon, 29 Jul 2024
Jake Halpern speaks with Jerri Williams, former FBI agent and host of the podcast, FBI Retired Case ...
Behind the Scenes of The Nameless Man
Mon, 01 Jul 2024
Jake Halpern speaks with James Forman Jr., story consultant on Deep Cover’s fourth season, The Nam...
Episode 6: The Verdict
Mon, 27 May 2024
Our season finale. What the jury decided and how the verdict sits with the federal agents, jurors, a...
Episode 5: The Trial
Mon, 20 May 2024
Witnesses testify. A vigorous defense is mounted. What will the jury decide?See omnystudio.com/liste...
Episode 4: The Grand Jury
Mon, 13 May 2024
An assistant prosecutor in Philadelphia prepares the case to be heard by a grand jury. Is there enou...
Episode 3: The Yearning
Mon, 06 May 2024
After nearly 20 years with no answers, the Wood family learns that police are investigating a new le...
Episode 2: The Confession
Mon, 29 Apr 2024
The alleged accomplice confesses. Investigators try to piece together who the victim might be from t...
Episode 1: The Rumor
Mon, 22 Apr 2024
Two federal agents investigate a rumor about a decades old murder. See omnystudio.com/listener for ...
The Nameless Man: Deep Cover Season 4
Wed, 10 Apr 2024
How do you solve a murder case when you don’t know who the victim is? Deep Cover: The Nameless Man...
Camouflage Bias: Part 3
Mon, 12 Feb 2024
In 2022, we released a series called Camouflage Bias that told the story of Ronnie Carrasquillo– a...
Camouflage Bias: Part 2
Mon, 12 Feb 2024
This episode originally ran in 2022. We’re rereleasing it today along with an update on Ronnie’s...
Camouflage Bias: Part 1
Mon, 12 Feb 2024
This episode originally ran in 2022. We’re rereleasing it today along with an update on Ronnie’s...
The Search for Brooke Henson
Thu, 13 Apr 2023
In July of 1999, a young woman named Brooke Henson went missing from Travelers Rest, South Carolina....
Deep Cover Live with Emily Bazelon
Mon, 27 Mar 2023
In this special episode of Deep Cover, recorded live at Littlefield in Brooklyn, host Jake Halpern a...
Episode 6: A Shared Name
Mon, 06 Mar 2023
Esther's past catches up with her, as investigators in South Carolina seek answers about what happen...
Episode 5: The Searchers
Mon, 27 Feb 2023
Esther’s sister has been looking for her for nearly a decade without any luck. A US Marshal is bro...
Episode 4: A Very Sophisticated Gal
Mon, 20 Feb 2023
When Esther flees New York, she inadvertently ignites a media firestorm. Reporters and TV producers ...
Episode 3: The Imposter
Mon, 13 Feb 2023
A woman named Esther Reed has been living in New York, but attending college under a different ident...
Episode 2: The Star Man
Mon, 06 Feb 2023
Detective Jon Campbell wants more information about the woman – at Columbia University – claimin...
Episode 1: The Dark Corner
Mon, 30 Jan 2023
Brooke Henson disappears from her home in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. No one can find her. She’...
Never Seen Again: Deep Cover Season 3
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
A small town detective gets a tip that leads him on an epic search. He believes he's uncovered an ...
Camouflage Bias: Part 2
Mon, 19 Sep 2022
2022. After Ronnie Carrasquillo exhausts his appeals, he faces the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. B...
Camouflage Bias: Part 1
Mon, 19 Sep 2022
1978. A few months after the Aleman trial wraps up, the presiding judge, Frank Wilson, sentences a y...
Episode 10: The Witness
Mon, 14 Mar 2022
September 1997. Bob’s wiretap evidence culminates in two major trials and the downfall of a mafia ...
Episode 9: The Vanishing
Mon, 07 Mar 2022
November 1989. Bob’s undercover work has some serious consequences for an old friend. His days as...
Episode 8: The Big Fish
Mon, 28 Feb 2022
April 1989. Bob goes after his most important target: Pat Marcy. But as he works his way up the cri...
Episode 7: The Philosopher King ft. Michael Imperioli
Mon, 21 Feb 2022
December 1988. Bob wires up. He and the FBI set their sights on three targets: a mobbed-up car sales...
Episode 6: The Breaking Point
Mon, 14 Feb 2022
February 1986. Bob Cooley represents a bodybuilder who brutally assaulted a female police officer. T...
Episode 5: The Babe in the Woods
Mon, 07 Feb 2022
July 1973. Who can stem the tide of corruption in Chicago? In this episode: two attempts to clean up...
Episode 4: The Favorite Son
Mon, 31 Jan 2022
July 1942. How did Bob Cooley, an Irish ex-cop from a family of cops and lawyers, become Bob Cooley,...
Episode 3: The Fix
Mon, 31 Jan 2022
May 1977. After a witness decides to speak out, a hitman named Harry Aleman stands trial for the mur...
Episode 2: The Murder
Mon, 24 Jan 2022
September 1972. A teamster named William Logan is gunned down outside his home, in what’s widely t...
Episode 1: The Walk-In
Mon, 24 Jan 2022
March 1986. A high-rolling lawyer named Bob Cooley walks into a federal prosecutor’s office and sa...
Deep Cover Season Two Trailer
Mon, 10 Jan 2022
Who was Bob Cooley? Deep Cover Season Two launches on January 24th. Listen to the whole season earl...
The Origin of Ned’s Novel, Plus a Sneak Peek of Deep Cover Season Two
Thu, 23 Dec 2021
The launch of Deep Cover Season 2 is just a month away. Until then, we bring you a conversation betw...
The Supply Side
Mon, 21 Dec 2020
Jake delves into one piece of the puzzle that he didn’t quite get into in season one but has conti...
Episode 9: 1989
Mon, 31 Aug 2020
Ned gets too close with a female source, a dangerous move that stands to end his marriage and perhap...
Episode 8: The Political Shitstorm
Mon, 24 Aug 2020
Word gets out that the smugglers have a silent partner who is none other than Manuel Noriega – the...
Episode 7: The Honeymoon is Over
Mon, 17 Aug 2020
This is the story of Leigh Ritch’s escape. It begins with his friends, Tommy Lee and Heather Lockl...
Episode 6: The Silent Partner
Mon, 10 Aug 2020
As Ned is in Grand Cayman working undercover to investigate Leigh Ritch, he hears talk about a “ge...
Episode 5: A Different Kind of Animal
Mon, 03 Aug 2020
The kingpin of the smuggling syndicate – Leigh Ritch – is safely out of reach in the Cayman Isla...
Episode 4: The Gentleman Smuggler
Mon, 27 Jul 2020
Shine takes Ned to Beaufort, North Carolina, where an abandoned boat full of marijuana had been disc...
Episode 3: El Dorado
Mon, 20 Jul 2020
Ned makes his move on Shine by baiting him into a chili cook-off. It turns out Shine is also looking...
Episode 2: What Will the Neighbors Think?
Mon, 13 Jul 2020
As Ned goes deeper undercover with Toby, making busts and infiltrating biker gangs, his wife Kathy b...
Episode 1: The Masked Man
Mon, 13 Jul 2020
Detroit FBI agent Ned Timmons busts Toby Anderson, a violent criminal who also fancies himself a bud...
Introducing Deep Cover
Mon, 29 Jun 2020
Marijuana, motorcycles, and mayhem. Deep Cover is the true story of an FBI agent in Detroit who goes...