True Crime Episodes

Richard Aderson spent his last nine minutes doing something almost no one manages under pressure, he stayed calm. Shot on the side of a New York highway, he crawled back to his car and gave a 911 dispatcher a detailed description of his killer, down to the make of the car and the state of the plate. Twenty-nine years later, the case is still open. This week, Carlos and Sam dig into what that composure actually says about Richard, why the shooter's claim to be a cop changes how this case has bee...

In this episode of Carbon & Keel, Carlos revisits Slim Turkey—the true-crime podcast he created under a pseudonym while still working as a cop—and the 1997 murder that anchored it. Richard Aderson was shot on the side of a New York highway and managed to describe his killer before he died. Nearly thirty years later, his case remains unsolved. But revisiting the investigation means revisiting something else. Carlos hadn't listened to those recordings in five years. The co-host on those recording...