Eli Weinstein defrauded investors of $275 million across three separate Ponzi schemes spanning two decades. He went to federal prison. He received presidential clemency. Within months, he was running another scheme.

This episode goes deep inside the mechanics of serial financial fraud—how these criminals build trust, move money, hide assets, and exploit the very systems designed to stop them. From Weinstein's origins as a used car salesman in New Jersey to his prosecution in 2025, this is a case study in how Ponzi schemes actually work—and why the same people keep getting away with it.

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All details come from court documents, official records, and sworn testimony.

Between September and December 2022, a murder-for-hire conspiracy in Mobile, Alabama produced one of the most spectacular criminal failures in recent memory. John McCarroll recruited shooters, provided illegal weapons including machineguns, and directed attack after attack against his target: Milton Carter.

The result? Two innocent people murdered. One permanently paralyzed. Six others wounded. Nine victims who had nothing to do with McCarroll's vendetta.

Milton Carter? Never got a scratch.

Even more damning: the defendants documented their own crimes on Instagram and Facebook—bragging about shootings, mocking failed attempts, and continuing to obstruct justice on recorded jail phone lines.

This is True Crime Cases You Haven't Heard. I'm Steve Rhode. This case comes directly from federal court documents, FBI evidence, trial testimony, and jury verdicts.

All details in this episode come from court documents, official records, and sworn testimony.

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It was about 2 AM when I realized the Lobster Trap Murder case wasn't what I thought it was. I'd been reading court documents for hours—the victim, the violence, the assumptions. But then I got to the transcripts about the accomplice who got dragged in. She wasn't a criminal. She was trying to help someone she thought cared about her. Bad choices in a moment of misplaced loyalty destroyed her life.

That's what you don't hear on Wednesday mornings.

This week, instead of a case, I'm pulling back the curtain on True Crime Cases You Haven't Heard. How my background as a police dispatcher, morgue technician, 30-year investigative journalist, surveillance photographer, and search-and-rescue pilot (callsign: FIRE DEMON 1) shapes every episode. Why I obsess over court documents instead of trusting summaries. What 20-60 hours of research actually looks like. Why listeners tell me they sat in their driveway because they couldn't stop listening until they knew what happened.

Plus: what's coming next, including cases about emergency response failures and institutional protection of predators.

No AI narration. No sensationalism. Just documentary storytelling with the receipts to prove it.

This episode: 25 minutes of what really goes into the work.