Speaker 1: On October twenty first, nineteen eighty six, in Miramar, Florida,
Speaker 1: a woman returned to her town home to find her boyfriend,
Speaker 1: twenty eight year old firefighter Billy Alpurn, lying dead in
Speaker 1: a pool of blood. Billy had been bound, gagged, and
Speaker 1: his throat cut from ear to ear. There was no
Speaker 1: murder weapon, no sign of forced entry, and no immediate suspects.
Speaker 1: She's a shame, you know that they took up from us.
Speaker 1: This had all the signs of a professional hit. When
Speaker 1: four of Billy's friends also turned up dead, detectives couldn't
Speaker 1: help but think Billy was mixed up in something big
Speaker 1: and bad, Tangled in a web way darker and deeper
Speaker 1: than anyone expected, involving some of South Florida's most dangerous criminals.
Speaker 1: So how did they cross paths with Billy? The Apollo
Speaker 1: Jim a no frills prison yard style facility dedicated to
Speaker 1: pain and gain, a place where cops and crooks could
Speaker 1: share a safe space to iron. It was owned by
Speaker 1: a jacked X cop named Gil Fernandez. That guy is
Speaker 1: a gangster, gangst gangster. I'm Scott Weinberger, podcaster and investigative journalist.
Speaker 1: But before that I was at deputy sheriff in Browie County, Florida,
Speaker 1: the very same county where Billy's brutal murder took place
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties, a time where drug traffickers flooded
Speaker 1: the state. Just picture the movie Scarface. I worked those
Speaker 1: streets and I saw the violence firsthand. Billy's case, even
Speaker 1: thirty seven years later, was as cold as they come,
Speaker 1: but that was about to change. My name is Danny Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm a detective. Remember, please, Spartman, this is Scott Weinberger.
Speaker 1: We're actually reopening an old case, and your name came up.
Speaker 1: Danny was on a mission to reopen Billy's case, and
Speaker 1: I was on a mission to join him, documenting step
Speaker 1: by step in real time. This was a case of
Speaker 1: a lifetime, especially if we could solve it. Ever expected
Speaker 1: what we'd find out along the way and how deep
Speaker 1: the corruption would go. You were a cop, you know
Speaker 1: that there's good ones and bad ones. Thought they were
Speaker 1: gonna kill me, so I kept my mouth shut and
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. All these years, people were afraid
Speaker 1: to go to the law because he was a former cop.
Speaker 1: What we learned shocked us and it will shock you too.
Speaker 1: And so this was up to thirty three. Are you
Speaker 1: talking about homicides? Yeah? Join us as we finally exposed
Speaker 1: the chili motive behind a string of brutal murders and
Speaker 1: unearthed new evidence. We got some back. There is DNA there,
Speaker 1: including the DNA of Billy Halpern's killer. Listen to Cold
Speaker 1: Blooded the Apollo Jim Murders starting on April twenty second,
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