I'm Danny Gold, the host of Criminal Lives, a brand new true crime series available exclusively

on Wondry Plus. Criminal Lives is a series about everyday people who became criminal

masterminds, as told by the actual criminals themselves. It's a show about ambition,

greed, and what some people are willing to risk to get to the top.

I'm about to play you a clip from the first episode of Criminal Lives, where we'll meet Greg

Valentino, the Royd King, who went from scrawny kid to bodybuilding legend, and then stumbled

into the dangerous world of underground steroids.

Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the entire series right now exclusively and ad-free.

It's the fall of 1995, Yorktown Heights, New York.

Inside a hardcore no-frills gym, Greg Valentino is just finishing a set of a 150-pound dumbbell curls.

He's admiring his massive biceps when his phone rings.

It's his friend Paul.

Paul calls me and he tells me we need to talk and we

need to talk in person. Come right now, come down to the city because you know, you can't talk

about this shit on a phone. Greg and Paul are partners in a growing black market business.

They sell anabolic steroids to fellow gym rats looking to get jacked.

Business has been good, but now there's trouble.

And when Greg gets the Paul's apartment, he finds out just how much trouble they're in.

The whole house has been ransacked. Everything's gone.

It looked like a robbery.

And he said to me, bro, it's all gone.

I said, everything as in everything.

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