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Speaker 1: Murder in Miami is a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Miami had become the murder capital of the United States.

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Speaker 1: Every day somebody was getting shot, murdered, robbed. I would

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Speaker 1: categorize it as the wild West because any Vaddy crossed

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Speaker 1: the cartails and any white that gets killed everybody it

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Speaker 1: was home in. Phil Stanford dove into Miami's shadowy, sinister side,

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Speaker 1: just as cocaine was captivating and corrupting the city. Down

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Speaker 1: at the end of the bar, there's this guy. Hands

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Speaker 1: me his card, says Clay Williams. Intercept Detective Agency, setting

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Speaker 1: Stanford on an unbelievably surreal path, and I called the

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Speaker 1: number on it. Secretary answers, She says, I'm sorry, we

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Speaker 1: don't have a Clay Williams here. Did he ever turn up?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, about two weeks later they found his body

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Speaker 1: in the Everglades. That's how you got rid of But

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Speaker 1: you dumped him in the Everglades with the alligators. A

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Speaker 1: path filled with temptation. As we say in the staff,

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Speaker 1: money talks and bullshit walks. They were making millions of

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Yeah, no matter what I did, I

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Speaker 1: got paid very well. I thought it was a great

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Speaker 1: job and riddled with violence. She was found beaten and

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Speaker 1: stopped in the trunk of her Mercedes. I thought I cut.

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Speaker 1: I knew that I had to get out of there

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Speaker 1: as fast as I could. I was scared for my life.

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Speaker 1: A world orbiting around a mysterious and controversial Manda drug

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Speaker 1: pilot by the name of Lamar Chester. And Lamar Chester,

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Speaker 1: did you ever run anything with Grass? Until I turned

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Speaker 1: over that load of coat to him on the island?

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Speaker 1: You offered Lamar a million dollars to land at his island.

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Speaker 1: Chester would claim he did it all for the CIA,

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Speaker 1: many into a sprawling federal investigation linked to the highest

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Speaker 1: levels of corruption and betrayal. And did he tell you

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Speaker 1: who he was running the guns for? It was obvious

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Speaker 1: the CIA was running that show. So Clay wasn't the

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Speaker 1: only person who was murdered. Oh no, not by a

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Speaker 1: long shot. I'm Lauren Bright Pacheco. Join me for Murder

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Speaker 1: in Miami. I talked about walking into the Devil's den,

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