True Crime, Society & Culture: History Episodes
Inside Anatomy of a Murder
This is a short excerpt from an upcoming episode of Flint Justice. In this preview, Arthur Busch explores the real Michigan homicide case that inspired Anatomy of a Murder and the lawyer behind it, John D. Voelker—prosecutor, defense attorney, Supreme Court justice, and writer. The full episode exa…
John D. Voelker and Anatomy of a Murder: Law, Doubt, and Justice in M…
A deep dive into Anatomy of a Murder, the real Michigan homicide case behind the novel, and the remarkable legal career of John D. Voelker—lawyer, writer, and Michigan Supreme Court justice.
The Michigan Murderer: John Norman Collins and the Ypsilanti Terror
He looked like an all-American college student, but John Norman Collins was “The Michigan Murderer.” In the 1960s, his crimes terrorized Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Author Gregory Fournier joins Radio Free Flint to discuss Terror in Ypsilanti and the dark story behind one of Michigan’s most infamous s…
Former Public Safety Chief of Bishop Airport Recalls Flint Terror Att…
Send us a text Former Bishop Airport Public Safety Director Chris Miller discusses a 2017 terrorist attack at the Flint, Michigan, airport. He also talks about the changes the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America had on current operations at Bishop International Airport. The retired Public Safety Dire…
The Interesting Journey of a Flint Civil War Battlefield Flag
Send us a text Flag Day Special. The Flint soldiers had much success as union soldiers in the American Civil War. There were 90,000 Michigan soldiers deployed in the American civil war. The Flint 10th Infantry deployed along with their battle flag to the civil war battlefields of Tennessee, Mississ…
Ben Pauli: Democracy and the Flint Water Crisis
Send us a text Ben Pauli, a Kettering University Political Science Professor, is a water rights activist. Pauli embedded himself with a group of Flint residents during the Flint Water Crisis. This is the group that brought the tainted Flint drinking water problem to the public's attention. The grou…
Troubadour of Crossroads Village Michigan: Neil Woodward
Send us a text Troubadour Neil Woodward is an instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and folk historian who helps preserve Michigan musical traditions. He is often heard at historic Crossroads Village, Michigan, near Flint in the summer months. Neil holds the title -- State Troubadour. In 2003, the M…
Dave Liske: History of the Flint Style Coney Island Restaurant
Send us a text Dave Liske discusses his new book "The Flint Coney: A Savory History." Learn about the history of the Flint food culture and love affair with the Flint-style Coney Island hot dog. In a lively interview with author Dave Liske who shares recipes, secrets, and myths about Flint and Detr…
Rev Robert McCathern and His Hip-Hop Civic Park Church
Send us a text Rev. Robert McCathern, the pastor of a hip church in Flint's Civic Park, tells of convincing young people to put away guns and take up hammers to improve the area. Rev. Robert McCathern, the pastor of the Joy Tabernacle Church, leads a church some call a "hip" church. His Flint, Mich…
The First Internet Murder Trial (ft David Nickola)
Send us a text The Sharee Miller murder case is one of Michigan's most notable criminal cases this century. The love triangle that Ms. Miller fostered resulted in the death of her husband, Bruce Miller. Sharee engaged in a torrid affair with a Kansas City cop. She convinced her then-boyfriend, Jerr…
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water Crisis (ft. Anna Clark)
Send us a text Anna Clark is an accomplished author and journalist. In The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy, Anna examines what happened to poison the water in Flint, Michigan. She digs into the public policies that need reform and drinking water policy decisions by the F…
Jermaine Reese, PhD
Send us a text Jermaine Reese, spent eighteen years as a Flint Police Officer. He shares his policing career, its highs and lows. He patrolled the Flint, Michigan neighborhood where he was raised. What is life like in a City of Flint patrol car? What will it take for Flint's crime statistics to imp…
The KKK and Flint, Michigan 1920-2020
Send us a text The KKK has been very active in Flint, Michigan since at least the 1920's. Michigan has been a hotbed for white nationalist and KKK activity for 100 years. This is a Radio Free Flint podcast essay on the history of the KKK, White Nationalists and other hate groups in Flint, Michigan.…
Fighting the Poll Tax with Attorney Robert Segar
Send us a text This Black History Month podcast is in honor of and dedicated to Evelyn Thomas Butts and her attorney Robert Segar of Flint, Michigan. Evelyn Thomas Butts, an African American civil rights activist and politician in Virginia. She is best known for challenging the poll tax and took he…
Former neo-Nazi Leader Charts an Unusual Path
Send us a text Ryan Lo'Ree, is the former leader of the Rollingwood Skins a white nationalist gang. He participated in this interview. Flint has its share of radical white nationalist groups. Ryan Lo'Ree is a man with a life story made for a television drama production. He has emerged from the roug…
The Bath Schoolhouse Bombing, with author John Smolens
Send us a text Author John Smolens is an award winning novelist whose historical fiction Day of Days tells the story of the tragic and shocking bombing of the Bath, Michigan Schoolhouse in 1927. There were 45 people killed in that bombing and countless children and adults injured. In the spring 192…
The Purple Gang's Legendary History (ft Gregory Fournier)
Send us a text Gregory Fournier is the author of The Purple Gang: Detroit's Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of America's most notorious Prohibition-era gangs. Fournier shares fascinating stories during this interview about one of America's most notorious gangs. American popular culture ha…