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THE DOSSIER
THE DOSSIER
CRIMINAL MINDED MEDIA

Welcome to The Dossier, an immersive documentary audio experience brought to you by Criminal Minded Media and led by Emmy-nominated television producer Don Sikorski.  The... more

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Episodes

USA VS HIP HOP EP. 7

In hip hop, the end of the 80s ushered in a thriving music industry, with hip hop, diversifying itself immensely.... more

11 Dec 2024 · 33 minutes
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 6

There were many defining events as it relates to the intersection of crime, the War on Drugs, and hip hop... more

04 Dec 2024 · 33 minutes
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 5

The years of 1987 and ’88 ushered in the golden age of hip-hop, when a few groundbreaking artists, acting as... more

27 Nov 2024 · 37 minutes
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 4

As hip hop and the war on drugs hit the mid 1980s, it can be argued that both commercial endeavors... more

20 Nov 2024 · 31 minutes
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 3

If any story defines what New York was like at that time, it's the story of New York City subway... more

19 Nov 2024 · 42 minutes
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 2

In the dynamic early years of hip hop, you could still see the influences of the disco era in the... more

19 Nov 2024 · 47 minutes
USA VS HIP HOP EP. 1

In America in 2024, we have all watched major American cities burn the result of a powder keg that exploded... more

19 Nov 2024 · 35 minutes
USA VS HIP HOP TRAILER

From its start, the art of Hip-Hop music has not only defined our countries generations, it has done so by... more

22 Oct 2024 · 2 minutes
THE REAL SOPRANOS TRAILER

The Sopranos considered by many the greatest show in television history, made the New Jersey mafia water cooler talk across the... more

16 Oct 2024 · 1 minute
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 12 - RAMPART REVISITED WITH KENNETH BOAGNI

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned... more

28 Aug 2024 · 46 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 11 - THE TIMELINE PART 2: GOIN' BACK TO CALI

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned... more

30 Jul 2024 · 59 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 10 - THE TIMELINE WITH BIG GENE DEAL

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned... more

22 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 9 - JUST A SIMPLE MORTGAGE BROKER

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned... more

13 Jul 2024 · 59 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 8 - THE KEVIN GAINES QUANDARY

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and... more

05 Jul 2024 · 52 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 7 - SUGE'S RIGHT HAND MAN IS GUNNED DOWN

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and... more

22 Jun 2024 · 41 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 6 - THE GRAVEYARD MURDER

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all... more

14 Jun 2024 · 42 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 5 - THE EXECUTION OF YAFEU FULA

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all... more

11 Jun 2024 · 43 minutes
BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 5: THE UPSIDE-DOWN

In Stranger things, The Upside-Down is an alternate dimension existing in parallel to the human world. It contains the same locations and... more

29 May 2024 · 16 minutes
BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 4: THE VIDEO FROM HELL

As the media scrum has gone quiet and the news cycle has moved on from the Homeland Security raids into... more

17 May 2024 · 18 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 4 WITH RJ BOND

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all... more

10 May 2024 · 52 minutes
HIP HOP VS. THE COPS EP. 8: WHAT'S REALLY CHANGED?

In this final episode of this audio series, I needed to come full circle with an idea that I started... more

06 May 2024 · 24 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 3 - THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF BRUCE RICHARDSON

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down... more

04 May 2024 · 35 minutes
BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 3: THE GAME IS THE GAME

As the news cycle churns, and people search for more answers around the HSI investigation of Puff, this last week... more

02 May 2024 · 18 minutes
HIP HOP VS. THE COPS EP. 7: SCOTT LA ROCK TO TYRE NICHOLS

91 MURDERS in Hip-Hop, that is the current number of Hip-Hop artists who have been killed since 1987 when Scott La... more

29 Apr 2024 · 20 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 2 - EAST VS. WEST TURNS DEADLY

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down... more

27 Apr 2024 · 36 minutes
BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 2: THE RAID

When the ticker came across the screen on CNN on March 26th, 20024 there was news footage of a HSI... more

25 Apr 2024 · 14 minutes
HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 6: DERRICK PARKER, THE HIP HOP COP

The story of the Hip-Hop Cops when I started the documentary back in 2004, was that it was a secret... more

22 Apr 2024 · 27 minutes
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 1 - THE MURDER OF KELLY JAMERSON

Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down... more

19 Apr 2024 · 36 minutes
BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 1: DIDDY IN FEDERAL HOT WATER

Where to begin, with the news of Homeland Security Investigations raiding the homes of Diddy in Los Angeles, New York,... more

17 Apr 2024 · 18 minutes
HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 5: DARK TIMES IN NYC

As my persistence to tell the story of the Hip-Hop Cops increased, my “fixers” —Steve Lobel and Pistol Pete, delivered on their promise to... more

15 Apr 2024 · 16 minutes
HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 4: HINDSIGHT IS 20/20

As I have started the introspective study of my life since the documentary I created 17 years ago, I don’t... more

08 Apr 2024 · 20 minutes
HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 3: MURDER INC. AND SUPREME

If you have been listening in, a New York Times article about rap lyrics that I read by a pool in the... more

01 Apr 2024 · 20 minutes
HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 2: THE HUNT IS ON!

In Episode one, I talked about securing a weird dossier that was compiled by federal and state law enforcement to... more

25 Mar 2024 · 22 minutes
HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 1: WHO ARE THE HIP HOP COPS?

My name is Don Sikorski. I grew up in the confines of suburban Norwalk, Connecticut, a fan of the hip... more

18 Mar 2024 · 24 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 23: THE DEATH ROW SEARCH WARRANT

In 1999, LAPD detectives Buford Watts and Fred Miller (whose name should ring a bell) served a sweeping search warrant... more

11 Mar 2024 · 21 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 22: INVESTIGATIVE LEADS

As we get deeper into the FBI Files data dump, one correlation came to mind: at every step of the... more

04 Mar 2024 · 31 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE 7: THE DOSSIER OBITUARY- "REST EASY CHUCK"

Here at Dossier HQ, it is with a melancholy sadness that we end our years long quest to get disgraced... more

01 Mar 2024 · 26 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 21: THE POLITICS OF MURDER

The FBI investigation documents are broken out into a few categories: the last two episodes really looked at the idea... more

26 Feb 2024 · 35 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 20: FULL FIELD INVESTIGATION PT. 2

Don Sikorski continues dissecting what we’re calling the ‘Origin Document’ of the FBI’s investigation into Biggie’s murder, and this is... more

23 Feb 2024 · 38 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 19: FULL FIELD INVESTIGATION

In Season One of The Dossier, retired FBI agent Phil Carson walked listeners through the origin of his investigation into... more

19 Feb 2024 · 30 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 18: FRANK LYGA INTERVIEW PT. 6

Detective Frank Lyga had already been through more in the last few years than most officers deal with during a... more

16 Feb 2024 · 36 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 17: FRANK LYGA PT. 5

After being cleared by LAPD’s Robbery Homicide Detectives, the District Attorney’s office and THREE Shooting Boards, Detective Frank Lyga thought... more

12 Feb 2024 · 33 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 16: FRANK LYGA PT. 4

As Detective Lyga’s career twisted in the wind following the shooting death of Kevin Gaines, he would face a multitude... more

05 Feb 2024 · 27 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE 6: THE RAMPART REPORT PT. 2

When any police department gets into trouble, leadership will do their best to triage the problems right away. At the biggest... more

01 Feb 2024 · 19 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 15: FRANK LYGA PT. 3

In the immediate aftermath of the death of Kevin Gaines, the story of the cop versus cop shootout in broad... more

29 Jan 2024 · 34 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE. 5: THE RAMPART REPORT

If you say the name Rampart to anyone, maybe they have heard and identify it with an immense police scandal... more

25 Jan 2024 · 27 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 14: FRANK LYGA PT. 2

March 18th, 1997 - The events of that afternoon would have far reaching effects that are still felt to this... more

22 Jan 2024 · 35 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE 4: 3.10.97 — CHUCK PHILIPS AND THE DAY AFTER

Rehashing the day after Biggie was killed is old news, for you maybe it isn’t. What isn’t old news is Chuck... more

17 Jan 2024 · 22 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 13: FRANK LYGA ORIGIN STORY PT. 1

Since March of 1997, former LAPD Detective Frank Lyga has been an enigma, followed by whispers and innuendo regarding his... more

15 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 12: A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

It was in 1995, that the relationship between Chuck Philips and his obsession with Suge and Death Row Records started. Suge... more

08 Jan 2024 · 30 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 11: RANDALL SULLIVAN INTERVIEW PT. 2

Randall Sullivan has built a journalistic legacy over the course of his career. He was a contributing editor at Rolling... more

01 Jan 2024 · 25 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 10: RANDALL SULLIVAN INTERVIEW PT. 1

In 2002, Randall Sullivan decided to publish LAbyrinth, what I consider the best piece of journalism ever written about the LAPD... more

25 Dec 2023 · 28 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 9: SEARCHING FOR CHUCK

It must be five years now that I have kept a color-coded binder of information under my desk inside my home... more

18 Dec 2023 · 28 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 8: PENITENTIARY VOICES

After coming across Waymon Anderson’s name in numerous LAPD, FBI and civil trial documents, Don Sikorski tries to unpack his... more

11 Dec 2023 · 35 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 7: THE FORGOTTEN FILES WITH KENNETH BOAGNI

In June of 2005, the Wallace Family Civil Trial was in court, the wheels of justice were spinning. On a... more

04 Dec 2023 · 37 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 6: LAPD PLAY HIDE & SEEK

As we’ve discussed in detail, the city and the LAPD continually hid the existence of information, as well as witnesses... more

27 Nov 2023 · 29 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE 3: THE FBI DOCUMENTS PART 2.

In this week’s bonus episode, Criminal Minded Media's Don Sikorski and Senior Producer John Anagnopoulos of The Dossier Season II:... more

22 Nov 2023 · 26 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 5: INFERNAL AFFAIRS

In January of 2001, the LAPD instituted a formal internal affairs investigation bearing LAPD Internal Affairs number CF-01-0190. In what... more

20 Nov 2023 · 25 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE 2: THE KEVIN GAINES CONNECTION

After CMM's Don Sikorski is contacted by ex-LAPD Detective Frank Lyga, we take a closer look the facts and rumors... more

15 Nov 2023 · 30 minutes
DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 4: THE CORRUPT CITY OF ANGELS

The game was clear, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. The City of Los Angeles knew if they could just... more

13 Nov 2023 · 32 minutes
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It must be five years now that I have kept a color-coded binder of information under my desk inside my home office. The... more