Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, and our universal desire for a savior. Detroit’s a tough town, and its residents are even tougher. They’ve weathered riots, a drug epidemic, political scandal, and innumerable other hardships, but they’re still here—and they have stories to tell.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Crook County: The Secret Double Life of a Mafia Hitman | 2025-02-25 | ||
| You Might Also Like: The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi | 2024-07-30 | ||
| Introducing | Beyond All Repair | 2024-04-24 | ||
| Introducing “Operation: Tradebom” | 2023-02-27 | ||
| Bonus Episode: The Streets Don't Love You Back | 2019-09-05 | ||
| S2 E19: From the Ashes | 2019-08-29 | ||
| S2 E18: United States v. Kwame Kilpatrick | 2019-08-22 | ||
| S2 E17: Operation Bombay Dreams | 2019-08-15 | ||
| S2 E16: Surrendered | 2019-08-08 | ||
| S2 E15: The Murder of Tamara Greene | 2019-08-01 | ||
| Introducing The Ballad of Billy Balls | 2019-07-31 | ||
| S2 E14: The Affair | 2019-07-25 | ||
| S2 E13: Gary Brown v. Mayor of Detroit | 2019-07-18 | ||
| Introducing Man in the Window | 2019-07-17 | ||
| S2 E12: Fake News | 2019-07-11 | ||
| S2 E11: The Hip Hop Mayor | 2019-07-04 | ||
| S2 E10: Right Here, Right Now | 2019-06-27 | ||
| S2 E09: Dimitri | 2019-06-20 | ||
| S2 E08: Operation Backbone | 2019-06-13 | ||
| S2 E07: Who Killed Damion Lucas? | 2019-06-06 |