May 18, 2026

GOLD SHIELDS EPISODE 164: THEN I GO HOME TO MARIO KART-PROSECUTOR JARRETT FERENTINO

GOLD SHIELDS EPISODE 164: THEN I GO HOME TO MARIO KART-PROSECUTOR JARRETT FERENTINO

We hope you enjoy this episode of Gold Shields, let us know how we did. He prosecuted a serial killer who escaped on bedsheets and turned himself back in. He took the Brittanee Drexel case from 600 miles away with no law license and no jurisdiction, because Dawn Drexel made one phone call and you don't say no twice. He stood over a dead baby on Christmas Eve morning and sat next to his daughter in church that night. Jarrett Ferentino spent 20 years as a prosecutor in northeastern Pennsylvania...

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We hope you enjoy this episode of Gold Shields, let us know how we did.

He prosecuted a serial killer who escaped on bedsheets and turned himself back in. He took the Brittanee Drexel case from 600 miles away with no law license and no jurisdiction, because Dawn Drexel made one phone call and you don't say no twice. He stood over a dead baby on Christmas Eve morning and sat next to his daughter in church that night.

Jarrett Ferentino spent 20 years as a prosecutor in northeastern Pennsylvania. This is what that actually looks like — the homicide scenes where the trial starts before anyone is arrested, the Hugo Zelensky case that lasted 15 years, the child cases nobody talks about, and the question every prosecutor eventually has to answer: if you stop caring, how do you get anyone else to?

GOLD SHIELDS. Two former NYPD Detectives. The guests who go deeper because of who's asking.

0:00 — Introduction 0:23 — Welcome to Gold Shields

3:20 — How Farentino Got Here

4:48 — The Trial Starts Outside

5:52 — First Scene, First Case

8:04 — Speaking for the Dead

9:38 — The New Guy at the Scene

12:19 — Reading the Room

13:31 — When Defense Attorneys Burn You

17:13 — The Case That Lasted Fifteen Years

19:24 — What Zelensky Left Behind

20:18 — Three DAs and a Corrupt Courthouse

22:32 — Something Happens to My Family

23:10 — Inside the Zelensky Case

26:45 — The Cases No One Talks About

28:51 — Christmas Eve

31:50 — Mothers, Murders and Motivation

34:15 — The Brittany Drexel Case

37:22 — What Really Happened

39:08 — When You Encounter True Evil

40:30 — The Last Line of Defense

42:40 — High-Profile Cases and Bad Crime Scenes

47:36 — Pride Gets in the Way

48:25 — Where to Find Jarrett

50:20 — Rapid Fire

53:27 — Best Advice for Young Lawyers

54:07 — Closing


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