
True Crime Reporter® Podcast
The True Crime Reporter® Podcast takes listeners inside "the yellow crime scene tape."
Peabody Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Riggs provides "real-life" crime stories from law enforcement officers, experts, and convicted criminals.
Riggs launched the Webby Award-winning podcast in late 2020 with a 17-part series about serial killer Kenneth McDuff.
The former death row inmate was released on parole in Texas under a cloud of corruption. McDuff started a killing spree the day after he walked out of prison, a free man.
Riggs turned his McDuff podcast into a 5-part streaming television series titled "Freed To Kill." The hit series was honored with a 2022 Silver Telly Award for best TV documentary.
Riggs was both an Executive Producer and the principal storyteller. He assembled interviews with all of the investigators, the victim's family members, and people who played a key role. After watching the first episode, retired CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer, who appears in the series, said, "This is the story of pure evil, and you told it well."
Riggs has been up close and personal with serial killers, mass murderers, sexual predators, and terrorists. He has covered crime scenes, trials, prisons, and executions.
He spent decades in front of the television news camera, telling stories to millions of viewers of WFAA-TV Channel 8 News and the CBS Station Group.
Riggs was an embedded reporter with the Army unit that led the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and he also covered Gulf War I. He has covered the White House, Congress, Pentagon, and State Department during the administrations of President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush.
He is a member of the FBI's North Texas Chapter of InfraGard, which was formed in response to the 9/11 terror attacks. He is also a longtime member of the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE).
Riggs has been named an Outstanding Alumnus of Texas A&M University.