The Real Cocaine Bear Story: Andrew Thornton Tri-State Crime Scene
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06/28/26
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What happens when a highly trained, elite narcotics detective realizes the bad guys are having way more fun than the cops? He starts a multi-million-dollar cartel, of course.
This week on Crime Salad, Ashley and Ricky are diving headfirst into an 80s action movie. Andrew Thornton II wasn’t just a cop, he was a wealthy Kentucky blue-blood, a paratrooper, and a licensed lawyer who threw it all away to become the mastermind of a massive international drug pipeline known as "The Company." But Thornton's massive ego and extreme paranoia eventually lead to a fateful, pitch-black flight over the Georgia woods.
Join us as we untangle a tri-state crime scene featuring 75 pounds of pure Colombian cocaine falling from the sky, a deadly cartel revenge plot, a dead man wearing night-vision goggles and Gucci loafers, and the ultimate winner of the story... a 175-pound black bear who went on to inspire a Hollywood movie.
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On a quiet Sunday morning in March 2012, a jogger on Utah’s Jordan River Trail made a gruesome discovery: pools of blood on a pedestrian bridge and a single red sneaker discarded near the water. Hours later, the lifeless body of 15-year-old Annie Kasprzak was pulled from the river.
Just the night before, Annie had vanished from her home, leaving behind a runaway note and a shocking confession. As investigators frantically pieced together her final hours, they were dragged into a chaotic web of deception. From rumors of a teenage pregnancy to a phantom gang member named "LJ," and a revenge-seeking witness who derailed the case for an entire year—nothing in this investigation was what it seemed.
When detectives finally traced the digital footprint of the blocked numbers calling Annie’s phone, the truth proved to be far more chilling than anyone could have imagined.
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