Into The Fire: True Crime Stories

Episode #56, this Friday June 27, 2025 at 7:pm CST, I will be joined by Christine Burke, who is the founder of Everything Genetic Genealogy. She is a Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogist, an author of four books. Christine is most known commonly known for a 48 hour solve of a 31 year old cold case using Forensic Genetic Genealogy and she has been able to find bio family for civilians in as little as an hour and much more. Will prove to be a very interesting and educational episode.

June 20, 2025 at 7pm CST Live, Into the Fire Episode #55, the special guest will be Jared Bradley - The DNA Guy
Jared has an extensive background in leadership, sciences, operations, and marketing. He has worked for M-Vac™ Systems since 2006; he has been the President since 2010. He also served 14 years with the US Army and Army Reserves, achieving the rank of Captain. Since leading M-Vac™ Systems into the forensic market, Mr. Bradley has had the opportunity to teach people all over the world about the M-Vac™ and wet-vacuum DNA collection including in the UK, Thailand, France, Australia, South Africa, UAE, Oman, China...

Episode #54 coming to you this Friday, June 13, 2025 at 7 pm CST with University of Central Florida Special Victims Detective Rick Salcedo, and Sexual Assault Survivor Rachel Sines.
An incredibly brave and resilient sexual assault, robbery and armed kidnapping survivor is now working alongside the UCF detective who ultimately solved her case, despite mistakes, to ensure other officers never make those same mistakes.
Learn more about Rachel Sines and UCF Detective Rick Salcedo's partnership and how they're Getting Results Together to help future victims of sexual assaults. Learn more about Rachel Sines and UCF Detective Rick Salcedo's partnership and how...

Larry Wilcox is a template for tenacity and relentless success in the film and tech business. His motto is “consistent and incremental improvements for qualitative efficiency in life.” He has tirelessly worked in all facets of the film business as the star in two TV series, the last being CHIPS on NBC, and for 30 years, he was successful as a SAG actor. He starred in movies with Charleton Heston, James Coburn, Lee Marvin, Farah Fawcett, Barbara Hershey, Vic Morrow, Don Murray and others with many credits where he always creates a new character with intriguing layers. Wilcox is also a memb...

This Friday May 30, 2025 at 7pm CST, Into the Fire Episode #52 will feature Steve-O coming to you from my living room. right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) was willing to do whatever it took to become famous. After failing miserably at the University of Miami and couch-surfing with friends, he decided that in order to further his goal of becoming a stuntman he would enroll in Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. But it was his relentless attention whoring that ultimately led to working with Johnny Knoxville on a new stunt-based reality show called...

This Friday, May 23, 2025 at 7:00 pm CST Live, I will be taking questions from Chat! Hope to see you during Show!

Edward W. Wallace Jr. has served the NYPD for over 20 years and retired April of 2004. During his tenure with the NYPD Mr. Wallace performed various law enforcement duties including, Uniformed Patrol, Plain Clothes Patrol, Training Officer, Crime Scene Investigator, and finally Counter Terrorism Investigator. Mr. Wallace held the coveted NYPD rank of Detective First Grade. Mr. Wallace spent 15 years in Crime Scene Investigations and investigated 2649 crimes scenes including both World Trade Center Attacks, the October 2001 Anthrax Attack, and has given testimony as a forensic expert in 393 trials. Not to mention the fact that he is also an author who has...

When someone extends a gesture of kindness, it is the reciprocal act of appreciation which solidifies a bond between individuals. "Thank you" expressed in a heartfelt way is enough to seal the deal as two people lock eyes and embrace. It is very powerful. The frequency is balanced, energy exchanged in a precious moment. If the gratitude is expressed at a distance, it can be equally impactful. A story can overwhelm the mind and open the heart to a cosmic connection. It happened with Dottie. The perfect analogy for a lesson awaits. She lives in the heart of Michigan for...

Into the Fire episode #47 will be on next Friday, April 25, 2025 and will and my guest on the show will be Dominick Polifrone. ATF Special Agent Dominick Polifrone went undercover for eighteen months to apprehend Kuklinski Starting in 1985, Kane and Polifrone worked with Phil Solimene, a close.long-time friend of Kuklinski, to get Polifrone close to Kuklinski. Posing as a Mafia-connected criminal named Dominic Provenzano, Polifrone purchased a handgun-muffler combination from Kuklinski. In recordings, Kuklinski discussed a corpse he kept in a freezer for two and a half years. He told Polifrone he preferred poison, saying, "Why be messy? You do...

This Friday April 11, 2025 Into the Fire Ep. #46 at 7 pm CST it will be a "Where are they Now" First 48 edition with one of the OG's from Miami Homicide, Retired Detective Freddy Ponce..... Freddy is now is a PhD and educates detectives Internationally.... A real inspiration with an amazing story...... This is a will no doubt be a fun episode with one of the original detectives on the show who has went on to educate many others along the way......Dont forget to subscribe to my Detective Jason White You Tube page to catch several past episodes... It is appreciated!!!

This Friday, March 21, 2025, Info the Fire Episode #45 will feature a real legend,. Billy Queen, raised in North Carolina and son of an ATF Agent, served as a Special Forces soldier in the US Army during the Vietnam War. After leaving the military, he served as a police officer in NC for six years, then became an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol where he served for 2 years before joining the ATF. Early operations included infiltrating the Aryan Nation and the KKK. Then in early 1998, as part of an operation to infiltrate motorcycle gangs, he joined the San Fernando Valley...

This Friday, March 14, 2025 Into the Fire episode #44 will feature two from the Great state of North Carolina. We are going to talk with Zachary Neefe and Ray Dawson about Child Exploitation, the Invictus Task Force and more...
 
Zachary Neefe is a Criminal Investigator with Homeland Security Investigations RAC Greensboro, North Carolina, responsible for fourteen counties in Central NC, including the four-county area covered by the Invictus Child Exploitation Task Force (ITF). Special Agent Neefe is HSI’s full-time representative to the ITF and specializes in proactive online investigations targeting child sexual abuse material distribution, traveler/online enticement cases, and...

This Friday, March 7, 2025 at 7:00 pm CST LIVE, Into the Fire episode #43 will feature Kristen MacLeod from Flock Safety in Boise, Idaho. We will "TALK FLOCK", which is one of the biggest game changers in the world of criminal justice to date.
Kristen is a Community Engagement Manager with Flock Safety, a public safety technology company. With 20 years of combined experience in criminal justice and law enforcement, she is passionate about helping create safer communities for everyone. See how this company is helping agencies solve crimes in record numbers across the country.  

This Friday, February 28, 2025 at 7:00pm CST LIVE, episode #42 of Into the Fire on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, we are honored to have a real legend, Scott Michaels who is the narrator, and co-writer of Six Degrees of Helter Skelter, which is an incredible documentary of the Manson Murders case. Truly epic,, if you go to my Detective Jason White Facebook page and go to the playlist you can watch the episode. Also, Scott consulted with Quentin Tarantino on the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.... And if you have heard enough, well there is more, he is the guy that...

February 21, 2025, Episode #41 of Into the Fire, I am honored to have Tulsa Police Officer Aurash Zarkeshan join the show. On June 29, 2020 at 3:06 a.m., Officer Zarkeshan conducted a traffic stop in the area of 8900 East 21st Street, and his backer was Sgt. Craig Johnson. During the traffic stop, the driver refused exit the vehicle. At 3:23 a.m. the driver fired multiple shots, stricking both officers. Johnson died the following day and Zarkeshan, who was in critical condition began his journey of survival. Will be an epic episode with an incredible person with an emotional story. In the meantime, check out...

This Friday, February 14, 2025, episode #40 of Into the Fire, I am honored to be joined by Michael Cantrell who is an author of multiple books, and someone I would consider an authority when it comes to the world of corrections....
Host of The Prison Officer Podcast, Michael Cantrell has worked in Corrections for more than 30 years. Now retired from The Bureau of Prisons, he is a writer and speaker on leadership, resilience, and crisis management.
Michael has published over fifty articles in print and online. He has also written four books, including Born of the Ozarks, Monotonous Chaos, Finding...

This Friday, February 7, 2025 at 7:00 pm CST, Episode #39 of Into the Fire will profile Leslie Ghiglieri. Leslie is a friend of mine who served as a co-member with me on a true crime panel on the 3PNR podcast where we analyzed and gave opinions on High Profile homicide cases... In addition she is a crime author who wrote "The Decision to Kill". Leslie also had a connection so to speak with serial killer Ed Kemper, which we will talk about in the episode... Will be fun to hang out with my friend who I haven't spoke to in a while... She...

Episode #38 of Into the Fire this Friday, January 24, 2025, I will have Coach JC Connelly. Someone who is someone I am proud to call a friend.
Coach JC is the founder of the WIN ALL DAY movement, a performance coaching business committed to building WINNERS in life. But it didn’t start there. After throwing away his basketball opportunity, hitting rock bottom, over $400k in debt, suicidal and in the fight of his life to be a father Coach JC was able to create a new story for his life.
Coach JC was able to overcome by discovering personal de...

This upcoming Friday, January 17, 2025 at 7 pm CST on episode #37 of Into the Fire, I will be joined by special guest Mike Elam and former guest Danny Cupples for a Part 2 episode where we will focus on the Sheriff Bufford Pusser Ambush that happened in 1973 and resulted in his wife Pauline Pusser being murdered, and Sheriff Pusser getting shot and surviving the attack. Was it an ambush, or was it staged... Pauline Pusser was exhumed approximately 56 years after the murder and currently the case remains unsolved but is actively being investigated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Hope to see you...

This Friday, January 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm CST live on Episode #36 of Into the Fire, I am honored to be joined by my newest friend in Law Enforcement, Detective Bianca Becker and her police therapy dog Luna from the University of Central Florida Police Department. 
Currently, Detective Becker is assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division, where she spends most of her time dedicated to the investigation of sex crimes and victim advocacy with her K-9 partner, Luna. Detective Becker is a FDLE certified instructor and has presented case studies for international conferences and advanced training courses. She regularly works with and i...

This upcoming Friday, January 3, 2025 at 7 pm CST on episode #35 of Into the Fire, I will be joined by special guest Mike Elam, who is a retired law enforcement officer and author, who in my opinion is the #1 authority in the Sheriff Bufford Pusser saga, which is profiled in the movie "Walking Tall". Sheriff Pusser was portrayed as a legendary Sheriff in western Tennessee from the late 60's and his wife was tragically murdered.... This case remains unsolved and her body was exhumed within the last year and a half based on new evidence, in large part due to information provided...

Episode #34 of "Into the Fire" will be live December 27th, 2024. This episode will feature a legend in the world of Fire Death Investigations and Serial Arson, Ed Nordskog. He has worked as apatrol officer, detective, undercover OPERATOR, Bomb Technician & Arson Investigator to training detectives. Ed Nordskog has become an author, teacher and a professional arson profiler.

This Friday , December 13, 2024 at 7 pm CST, Episode #33 of Into the Fire, I will have guest Tegan Broadwater. Tegan is a CEO, musician, entrepreneur, podcast host, philanthropist, and author of “Life in the Fishbowl.” Tegan’s unique experience in business, music, and rare deep undercover work ignited a passion for contributing to positive social change. His contributions manifest in his newest creative company, Uncommon Souls, which purposefully inspires conversations between different people about important issues such as systemic racism, police & community relations, and criminal reciprocity experienced by boys without fathers.

This next Friday, November 15th, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST Live, it will be episode #32 of KGRA's #1 crime show "Into the Fire"... This coming Friday, I am honored to have Retired Warden/Authur Phillip Parker, who came up through the ranks to become Warden of one of the toughest prisons in the country, which is the Kentucky State Penitentiary, AKA The Castle on the Cumberland. This prison also was the prison in Kentucky that housed death row. Also joining us is retired Captain 
Troy Belt, previous guest and brother from another mother, who also worked with Warden Phillips.
Both will m...

November 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST Live, on Into the Fire episode #31, I will be joined by Kim Woodward. She is a certified handwriting analyst, former CIA intelligence officer and educator. Her skills and experience include strategic interviewing, threat assessment investigations, surveillance and counter-surveillance, statement analysis and deception in handwriting, and personality profiling through handwriting. Will absolutely be an interesting episode....

November 1, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST, Into the Fire returns after a summer break with special guest Retired Phoenix Police Officer Jason Schechterle who almost lost his life from being burned his police car from a traffic collision..... Inspirational person to the next level!!!! Looking forward to having him as the guest for the return episode from the summer break.... Hope to see our loyal fans along with people new to the show.

Episode #29 of Into the Fire on July 12, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. will be Part 2 of Questions and Answers with Detective Jason White and Retired Ronnie Leatherman. Part one was a blast, and Part 2 will certainly not disappoint….. 7:00 pm CST. Hope to see tons of people join us!!!

Ronnie and i will reflect on past episodes and take questions from our viewers & listeners.

This Friday, June 21, 2024, KGRA Digital Broadcasting's "Into the Fire" episode #27, we will have special guest Troy Belt who spent a career with the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Troy started his career in 1998 at the Kentucky State Penitentiary AKA "The Castle on the Cumberland", home to Kentucky's Death Row. Troy promoted through the ranks up to Captain, and served in Internal Affairs and Administrative Supervisor. Troy also finished out his career as the Western Kentucky State Commander of the Hostage Negotiations Crisis Team. he was also in at least one episode of MSNBC's show called "Lockup" which was aired a few...

June 14, 2024, Friday night at 7:00 pm CST, Into the Fire episode #26 hits the airwaves on KGRA Digital Broadcasting with special guest Kathy Kleiner. In the fall of 1976, she attended Florida State University and pledged Chi Omega Sorority. On January 15, 1978, she was attacked by Ted Bundy. He entered the sorority house and attacked four women, killing two. Kathy was one of the two women who were brutally beaten and fortunately survived that night. Tune in to hear Kathy's incredible story...

June 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST on this weeks episode of Into the Fire on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, we will be joined by Dr. Ross Miller, who is a Forensic Pathologist with the Oklahoma State Office of the Chief Medical Examiners Office. Forensic pathologists perform autopsies to determine what caused a person's death. They are also involved in the investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death. Knowing about these circumstances allows them to determine the manner of death — natural, accident, suicide, homicide, or undetermined. It is a fascinating world that most don't get to know about. Should be an awesome episode..

This Friday, May 31, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST episode #24 of KGRA Digital Broadcasting's Into the Fire will have Doug Young who is a crime scene specialist with the Thornton Police Department in Thornton, Colorado. Doug is someone I have know for years, who also is the Founder of Triad Forensics... Triad Forensics is a Forensic training and consulting company based in Colorado. Triad does both prosecution, defense and private training and casework. Part of the discussion is going to focus on the M-VAC, which is a game changer in the world of forensics...

This Friday on May 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST episode #23 of Into the Fire, we will be honored to have Retired Chief Chuck Jordan of the Tulsa Police Department. Absolutely a legend officer, investigator, who later became one of my favorite chiefs on the department. He is someone who actually walked the walk, and his experience in law enforcement spanned over 50 years. Will be a fun episode talking to someone who has forgotten more then Ronnie and I will ever know.... Hope you tune in and check this one out....

Tonight, May 10, 2024, Episode #22 of Into the Fire from KGRA Digital Broadcasting. This week will be honored to have two distinguished Cold Case Detectives from the East Palo Alto Police Department. Both Sgt. Joseph Klein and Sgt. Jason Peardon are standouts and have definitely made an impact. In 2022, this duo achieved a 100% clearance rate, along with 100% of shooting incidents being cleared by arrest. In 2023, the city received international attention for having zero homicides in a calendar year from the first time since the cities inception in 1983. Will be fun talking to these all-star investigators from the the San Francisco bay area...

Episode #21 of Into the Fire this Friday May 3, 2024 at 7 pm CST Live on KGRA Digital Broadcasting will be Brittany Frederick. She is an award-winning journalist for nearly 24 years. Brittany currently runs TVBrittanyF.com and hosts the podcast MOTIVATE with Brittany Frederick. She is an authority on true crime and crime procedurals, well known for her coverage of A&E's The First 48. And trust me, she is arguably the most knowledgeable fan of the show out there... She holds a degree in Administration of Justice and a minor in Criminology..... She will be a ton of fun to have on the...

April 26th 2024 at 7 PM CST, on episode #20 of "Into the Fire", we will have Senior Forensic Investigator Ashleigh Berg. She is a certified Latent Print Examiner, Bloodstain Pattern Analyst and Senior Crome Scene Analyst by the international Association for Identifiaction. She is literally one of the most impressive crime scene investigators out there. She will be a treat to have on our show!

April 19th, at 7 PM CST on #19 of "Into the Fire", i will be joined by Retired Det. Matt Frazier of the Tulsa Police Homicide Unit who has been retired for several years now... so this will be a fun "Where are the Now Episode" along with cool stories from the past. Matt was always one of my favorites to get out and help on a case... Will be a ton of fun having my good friend on the show...Ronnie will have the night off...

Friday April 12 2024, episode 18 of our radio show/podcast we will have a very special guest and friend of mine. This guest is definitely on of my favorite field producers/camera guys out there. He has worked on The First 48, American Chopper, Naked and Afraid, Live PD and Extreme Loggers and that is just the short list of the shows he has filmed on... I have said many times, that he is one of the most interesting people out there, and he happens to be behind the camera so most never knew his name,but trust me, one of the best...

April 5, 2024 at 7:00 pm CST on episode #17 of Into the Fire, we will be joined by Retired Warden Dan M. Reynolds who once served as warden of one of Oklahoma's most notorious prisons, known to most Oklahomans as "Big Mac".  He served in many different areas within Oklahoma Corrections, and has written many books along the way... He is going to be an interesting guest to talk about the world that exists within the prison. We are looking forward to having him as a guest with us, and hope you get a chance to tune in and check out this episode a...