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This San Francisco true crime investigative podcast follows private investigator Mike Spencer as he examines a biker murder in San Francisco. The true crime podcast host Spencer looks at a case of his from 1998. His podcast won a James Madison Freedom of Information award from Northern California Society of Professional Journalists in 2026.
A gunman killed Murphy one morning at a halfway house in a quiet neighborhood near the ocean. Murphy, a biker and three time convicted felon, tried to escape by running through a window. He died at the scene. Spencer had Murphy under surveillance in a child custody case three months before the death. Did Murphy's criminal past catch up to him or was it the private eye's former client, Grandma, who orchestrated the hit? A.C. Thompson of ProPublica and Murphy's daughter join Spencer to discuss the case.
Spencer fights San Francisco Police in a public records battle to win not only the case file to the crime but the witness and suspect crime audio interviews from the time.
A gunman killed Murphy one morning at a halfway house in a quiet neighborhood near the ocean. Murphy, a biker and three time convicted felon, tried to escape by running through a window. He died at the scene. Spencer had Murphy under surveillance in a child custody case three months before the death. Did Murphy's criminal past catch up to him or was it the private eye's former client, Grandma, who orchestrated the hit? A.C. Thompson of ProPublica and Murphy's daughter join Spencer to discuss the case.
Spencer fights San Francisco Police in a public records battle to win not only the case file to the crime but the witness and suspect crime audio interviews from the time.
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every 235 days
Average audio length:
50 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
7 episodes
since Aug. 24, 2020
episodic
explicit content
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Host/private eye Mike Spencer airs parts of the tapes from the case file. These interviews have never been heard by the public. Spencer won the tapes in 2025 after a five-year battle with the San Francisco Police Department. The tapes are part of the case file from the June 12, 1998 murder of the e…
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Host/Private Eye Mike Spencer's five-year battle to obtain records in the case pays off when police release audio of witness and suspect interviews to him. It's the first time the public has ever heard these tapes. It's clear that as early as a day after the June 12, 1998, shooting death of biker a…
Spencer private eye, the host, wins a public records battle on the case that he has fought for five years. After several attorneys turned him down to represent him vs. San Francisco Police, the police legal division voluntarily released the case file on the 1998 uncharged murder case. The file does…
Host Mike Spencer private eye escalates his records battle with the DA and Police Department by the San Francisco Sunshine Records Ordinance Task Force. He addresses the Task Force committee, who will decide whether the full task force will hear his arguments for obtaining records in the June 1998 …
Host Mike Spencer private eye shines the light on the prime suspect in the broad daylight slaying of Gary Murphy, the grandmother who fought Murphy for custody of his then 6-year-old daughter. This is the 25th anniversary of the June 12, 1998, killing when a gunman chased Murphy through a halfway h…
Host Mike Spencer obtains a San Francisco Police detective memo and copy of a returned search warrant regarding the June 12, 1998, murder for hire of independent biker Gary Vincent Murphy. However, the 6-page memo that details the police investigation ultimately just leads to more question than ans…
Former reporter turned private eye Mike Spencer looks back at a case of his from 1998. Gary Murphy, a three-time convicted felon, came to the door of the halfway house he managed in San Francisco's quiet Outer Sunset District. A man wanted information about the program. When Murphy turned his back …
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