Speaker 1: Not all crime stories are created equal. I'm Scenario Glinton.
Speaker 1: I'm not a celebrity or a comedian or an influencer.
Speaker 1: I'm a reporter. And every reporter has that one story
Speaker 1: that their bosses were too afraid to take on. But
Speaker 1: now with this podcast, I have the chance to tell
Speaker 1: stories too important amiss. We begin with the shocking crimes
Speaker 1: of Ed Buck.
Speaker 2: A prominent donor to the Democratic Party. A man by
Speaker 2: the name of Ed Buck has been arrested after a
Speaker 2: third man nearly died of an overdose in his West
Speaker 2: Hollywood home.
Speaker 1: This is shattering the system.
Speaker 3: It was harrowing. I was speechless. The accounts of the
Speaker 3: victims were just truly shocking. I had never seen anything
Speaker 3: quite like this, and I don't think I ever will again.
Speaker 1: How real prosecutor is shocked. You know you have a
Speaker 1: story For this series, I'm taking a much more personal
Speaker 1: and direct approach, because you know what, the last thing
Speaker 1: the world needs is another mild mannered reporter camera. Actually,
Speaker 1: look Chris Darden on the wrong side yet again, if.
Speaker 4: You look at it outside of the criminal justice sphere
Speaker 4: or the criminal justice space, then I can understand why
Speaker 4: people would say that.
Speaker 1: Yes, but in this show, we are not stopping at
Speaker 1: true crime. So if you're blonde and perceived as beautiful
Speaker 1: with blue eyes, you get that around o'clock media coverage.
Speaker 1: I spent my entire career telling stories on NPR, Planet Money,
Speaker 1: This American Life, and let's be honest, there are way
Speaker 1: too many true crime podcasts. This is something very different.
Speaker 1: This season. We take a close look the story of
Speaker 1: how a wealthy, gay, white political donor took advantage of
Speaker 1: a broken system to end the life of one man
Speaker 1: and then do it all over again with a second victim.
Speaker 5: I don't know how your heart doesn't break for the
Speaker 5: families who lost people they cared about. Their grief, their
Speaker 5: hurt and sadness live on and will haunt me forever.
Speaker 4: LA's a jungle. You gotta be careful. You know, this
Speaker 4: city is very deceptive because it's beautiful, but there is
Speaker 4: so much darkness in this city and it's always been there.
Speaker 1: It's more than true crime. It's Shattering the System the podcast.
Speaker 1: Listen to Shattering the System on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.