Kareem Tabsch and Joey Daoud hosts of true crime podcast Paradise Lost: Crime in Miami

Miami and true crime are a match made in, well, hell.<br /><br />Since its inception, the city has attracted nefarious characters, culminating in 1981, when Time magazine released its infamous November issue in which it declared Miami "Paradise Lost." For any other city, it would have been considered a black eye to its reputation, but the Magic City has always found a way to embrace its perceived lawlessness.<br /><br />From authoritarian leaders accused of massacres to serial killers not wanting to be found, the southern tip of Florida can sometimes feel like an alternate reality where being a criminal doesn't stop you from holding a position of power - hell, it doesn't even stop you from holding office.<br /><br />Wanting to preserve South Florida's sordid history are producers Kareem Tabsch and Joey Daoud. Borrowing its name from that Time cover, Paradise Lost: Crime in Miami is a 13-episode podcast - presented by iHeartMedia's My Cultura podcast network and a co-production with Sonoro and Trojan Horse - that delves into some of Miami's most lurid true-crime stories. It made its debut with an episode devoted to the godmother of Miami crime, Griselda Blanco. "Miami is such a wellspring of bizarre stories that it made sense to revisit some of them," Tabsch says. "The podcast tells the story of the city through the crime that has happened here."<br /><br />Tabsch and Daoud felt it was fitting to launch the series with Blanco, a woman whose story has elevated her to mythical status - which perhaps makes people lose sight of the fact that she was also responsible for a lot of death and violence. Known as La Madrina and the "Black Widow," she was accused of having a hand in at least 40 murders between New York City and Miami, including the killing of a two-year-old boy in a drive-by shooting at SW 168th Street and South Dixie Highway in 1982.<br /><br />The second episode focuses on Linda Cooney, the Palm Beach socialite who shot and killed her ex-husband, Jim, in 1992, and later shot and paralyzed her son, Kevin, i