This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was shot and killed on the Las Vegas Strip, a man is finally on trial for his murder.
On September 7, 1996, Tupac and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight were leaving the Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas when a white Cadillac pulled alongside their BMW and someone opened fire. Tupac was hit four times. Six days later, he died at just 25 years old.
For decades, theories about his murder have implicated rival gangs, the East Coast–West Coast rap feud, Suge Knight, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, and more. But the case remained unsolved—until investigators turned their attention to a man who had spent years publicly talking about what happened that night: Duane "Keffe D" Davis.
In Part 1, we break down the events leading up to Tupac's murder, the MGM Grand fight that may have set everything in motion, the original investigation, the suspects, Keffe D's extraordinary history of interviews and admissions, and how his own words eventually helped put him on trial almost three decades later.
Because after nearly 30 years of theories about who killed Tupac, a jury is finally going to hear the case.
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In the weeks before Lauren McCluskey was murdered, the danger wasn't invisible.
The stalking. The lies. The escalating threats. The extortion. The repeated contact after the relationship ended. Lauren reported what was happening, asked for help, and kept trying to protect herself.
So if the signs were already there, why wasn't anyone able to recognize what they meant?
In Part 2, we step back from Lauren's case to ask the bigger question we've been working toward: Can we actually tell which abusive relationships are most likely to turn deadly?
We look at what researchers know about intimate partner homicide, the warning signs that matter most, why some seemingly terrifying behaviors aren't as predictive as we might assume, and what happens when known risk factors are scattered across different people and systems instead of being seen together.
Because the problem may not be that there are no warning signs.
It may be that recognizing them is only the beginning.

When 21-year-old University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey ended a brief relationship, she had good reason to believe she'd caught the warning signs early.
The man she'd been dating had lied about his name, his age, and his criminal history. Lauren ended the relationship immediately.
But he didn't leave her alone.
What followed was a terrifying escalation of stalking, harassment, extortion, and repeated attempts to get help — ending less than three weeks later with Lauren's murder on the campus where she lived and went to school.
Lauren's case leaves behind an agonizing question: when we look back after someone has been killed, the warning signs can seem painfully obvious. But are they actually obvious before the violence happens?
In Part 1, we begin Lauren's story and ask a much bigger question: Can we tell which abusive relationships are most likely to turn deadly?
Because if we can identify danger before someone is killed, that changes the question of what we should be doing about it.


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After researching dozens of studies, court decisions, and primary sources, we discovered the answer wasn't nearly as simple as we expected.
Do men receive more justice than women?
Are women taken less seriously?
Or are different myths shaping how we perceive different victims?
In Part 2, we examine what the research actually says about victim credibility, gender stereotypes, reporting, prosecution, and sentencing—and why the evidence challenged some of our own assumptions.
Because the biggest surprise wasn't whether gender matters.
It was how it matters.


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A Facebook post comparing the murder of Calum Simpson to violence against women raised a question we couldn't stop thinking about:
Do we treat violence against women differently than violence against men?
At first, the answer seemed obvious.
Then we started reading the court records.
In this episode, we tell Calum Simpson's story—from the night he met two strangers to the evidence presented in court—and explain why one social media post sent us down a much bigger investigation.
This is Part 1 of a two-part series.
In Part 2, we leave the courtroom and follow the research to see whether the evidence actually supports what we thought when we started.
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