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Speaker 1: Not all crime stories are created equal. I'm Scenario Glinton.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a celebrity or a comedian or an influencer.

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Speaker 1: I'm a reporter. And every reporter has that one story

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Speaker 1: that their bosses were too afraid to take on. But

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Speaker 1: now with this podcast, I have the chance to tell

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Speaker 1: stories too important amiss. We begin with the shocking crimes

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Speaker 1: of Ed Buck.

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Speaker 2: A prominent donor to the Democratic Party. A man by

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Speaker 2: the name of Ed Buck has been arrested after a

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Speaker 2: third man nearly died of an overdose in his West

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Speaker 2: Hollywood home.

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Speaker 1: This is shattering the system.

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Speaker 3: It was harrowing. I was speechless. The accounts of the

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Speaker 3: victims were just truly shocking. I had never seen anything

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Speaker 3: quite like this, and I don't think I ever will again.

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Speaker 1: How real prosecutor is shocked. You know you have a

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Speaker 1: story For this series, I'm taking a much more personal

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Speaker 1: and direct approach, because you know what, the last thing

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Speaker 1: the world needs is another mild mannered reporter camera. Actually,

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Speaker 1: look Chris Darden on the wrong side yet again, if.

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Speaker 4: You look at it outside of the criminal justice sphere

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Speaker 4: or the criminal justice space, then I can understand why

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Speaker 4: people would say that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but in this show, we are not stopping at

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Speaker 1: true crime. So if you're blonde and perceived as beautiful

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Speaker 1: with blue eyes, you get that around o'clock media coverage.

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Speaker 1: I spent my entire career telling stories on NPR, Planet Money,

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Speaker 1: This American Life, and let's be honest, there are way

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Speaker 1: too many true crime podcasts. This is something very different.

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Speaker 1: This season. We take a close look the story of

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Speaker 1: how a wealthy, gay, white political donor took advantage of

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Speaker 1: a broken system to end the life of one man

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Speaker 1: and then do it all over again with a second victim.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how your heart doesn't break for the

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Speaker 5: families who lost people they cared about. Their grief, their

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Speaker 5: hurt and sadness live on and will haunt me forever.

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Speaker 4: LA's a jungle. You gotta be careful. You know, this

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Speaker 4: city is very deceptive because it's beautiful, but there is

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Speaker 4: so much darkness in this city and it's always been there.

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Speaker 1: It's more than true crime. It's Shattering the System the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Shattering the System on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.