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On Wednesday the Apostrophe Podcast Network debuts the true crime podcast The Miami Chronicles: Booby Trap, the first in a nonfiction anthology series about significant crimes that took place throughout the area.
Set in the suburbs of North Miami, The Miami Chronicles: Booby Trap explores the story surrounding the 1979 murder of 14-year-old Boy Scout Richard “Richie” Brush Jr., who broke into Scoutmaster Carmine “Chuck” Falco’s empty house looking to find marijuana. Inside, a booby trap set off a rifle — shooting Richie and leaving him to bleed out and die on the floor.
The series unveils how Chuck wasn’t the friendly Scoutmaster that families thought he was or the cool weed dealer that local teens around the neighborhood knew him as — but a rapist who was molesting and blackmailing scouts.
Apostrophe is launching the series with podcast hosting company Acast.
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It seems to me it was 1978 but I knew Richard aka Richie very well. He sat right next to me on my left in class at a school we caled T.J. which was Thomas Jefferson Jr. High at that time in Biscayne Gardens North Miami area. We were friends. Richie was very protective of me. Other boys were bullying me but he wasn’t allowing it in that class. He always stuck up for me & the other kids left me alone when he was around. He was a very nice kid. We were both thin boys but he was taller. We were both 14-year-old boys. Back then, if you were a boy & some adult was messing around with you, you tended to keep your mouth shut. You thought you’d be in trouble instead of the adult. It was a very different culture. The Scout Leader was obviously giving the boys weed to smoke so they’d get high & he could do what he wanted with them & keep them coming around. I was very devastated at the time. There was a family grocery store called Biscayne Supermarket & I was a bag boy at times. I heard about it in there. I’ve never forgotten Richie & never will. I can’t believe it has been 43 years now. I left Florida long ago & haven’t even been back to Miami in 30 years. Miami has many bad memories for me & the death of a 14-year-old friend ranks at the top of that list.