Dark Arenas

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Have you ever thought about whose job it is to track international fugitives, hunt child abductors, conduct espionage, or pull human remains from concealed mass graves? Everyday thousands of good and decent people work in these Dark Arenas. They’ve chosen professions that grapple with the grotesque, deal with the deviant, and dodge the dangerous. In this audiochuck original series you will hear first-hand accounts of what it's like to investigate the darkest crimes and most violent criminals in society. Host Delia D’Ambra has traveled across the United States to collect one-on-one interviews with crime scene experts, FBI agents, forensic interviewers, medical examiners, DEA agents, a former CIA Director, ATF special agents, and more. Each week she works to understand how these professionals’ jobs affect them, and most importantly, why they keep at it day after day. read less

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The Dark Arenas podcast is a documentary true crime show. The host is investigative journalist Delia D'Ambra. She interviews the investigators who apprehend the worst criminals. They share their harrowing true stories. Guests on the show include forensics experts, spies, and detectives. They investigate crimes like counterfeiting and human trafficking. Listeners will hear about the real world these people live in.

D'Ambra is a passionate storyteller above all else. She studied journalism at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her career began in TV news reporting. D'Ambra moved into true crime when she began researching a murder in her hometown. This research led to her weekly true crime podcasts CounterClock and Park Predators. After producing several other podcasts, she started the Dark Arenas podcast. With this podcast, D'Ambra gets the perspective of those who see the worst of humanity.

True crime fans often hear about awful crimes. Dark Arenas explores the lives of law enforcement professionals who investigate them. D'Ambra interviews federal agents. She also speaks to an investigator from the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Former CIA Director Porter Goss shares the hidden world of international intelligence. Agents of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reveal how they identify and prevent bombings. In one of the darkest arenas of all, a federal agent discusses her experience tracking child predators.

Investigators on the Dark Arenas podcast come from all sorts of backgrounds. Guests include a former US Secret Service agent tasked with guarding presidents. Another is a forensic sketch artist who recreates faces from witness descriptions. Some guests on the show have investigated the unthinkable. An FBI agent reveals his investigation of child abductions. Whoever the guest is, the stories on the show are both fascinating and terrifying. All fifteen episodes of this limited series are available for streaming now.

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Episodes

NEW SEASON: CounterClock Season 6
May 10 2024
NEW SEASON: CounterClock Season 6
Since the release of CounterClock Season 1, Delia has received hundreds of requests from families of victims of violent crime. In November 2022, one message in her inbox stood out from the rest. It was from a middle-aged woman asking for Delia's help investigating the mysterious death of her 27-year-old brother from 1991. The message stood out for one big reason. The man's mangled body was found in an all-too familiar place to Delia. Eastern North Carolina.Thirty-three years after Douglas Wagg, Jr. turned up on a lone stretch of railroad tracks in the middle of the night in rural Martin County and over a year since Delia took on the case the scope of what was really going on in the area during the 1990's has come into view. Who was Doug? How did he end up so far from home? Who was he last seen with? Was the train really what killed him? Why was his case never investigated?The journey to find the answers to those questions has revealed a web of small town secrets that feel like fiction, except they're not. Over the course of the Season 6 investigation Delia has interviewed more than 45 people, spoken with convicted murderers in prison, and traced the origins of a disturbing pattern of behavior within local law enforcement that may have resulted in a decades-long cover up of multiple deaths. The investigation into what happened to Doug Wagg appears to be just the tip of a very large, very complicated iceberg that someone has worked hard to keep hidden for more than three decades. For even more time with CounterClock, follow us on social media.Instagram: @counterclockpodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @CounterClockPod | @audiochuckFacebook: /CounterClockPodcast | /audiochuckllc