Crime Guys is an inside look at law and disorder provided by veteran reporters George Anastasia of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Walt Hunter of CBS 3 News. The two journalists have been covering murder and mayhem in the Philadelphia area for a combined total of over 60 years. Anastasia has specialized in organized crime and is the author of five books, four about the mob and one about the infamous Tom Capano murder case. Hunter is an expert on police procedure and may have more law enforcement sources and contacts than any other reporter in Philadelphia. Each Sunday night they recap the top crime stories of the week while fielding phone calls from listeners.
Walt Hunter – CBS 3 Reporter
CBS 3 Reporter Walt Hunter is one of the market's most outstanding investigative reporters. In 2004, Hunter was named best TV reporter by Philadelphia Magazine in its "Best of Philly" issue.
Hunter joined CBS 3's news team in 1980 covering the police beat, and since that time, has earned a reputation for breaking many of the Philadelphia area's top stories. Hunter was the first to report the use of military explosives in the MOVE shootout (which he covered under fire) and the first to expose major safety hazards at J.F.K. Stadium (which led to its closing). Hunter has also broadcast more than 40 reports exposing Philadelphia's child welfare system, which led to many reforms.
His hard-driving and in-depth reporting style has won him more than 20 awards including eight Philadelphia Emmy Awards and an Emmy nomination in 2004 plus honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, UPI and the Philadelphia Press Association.
A Philadelphia native, Hunter worked his way through college working summers as
a deck hand on an oil barge at a Philadelphia refinery. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
He made his move to television following five years as the morning drive and police beat reporter for WCAU-AM. He also worked as a reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin and The Main Line Times where at 23 he was named the youngest managing editor in the history of the paper. In his spare time, Hunter works out with weights, runs and is a volunteer firefighter in his community.
Address e-mails to hunter@cbs3.com.
George Anastasia – Philadelphia Inquirer Journalist
Veteran Philadelphia journalist George Anastasia has been writing about organized and disorganized crime for thirty-five years, covering casino gambling in Atlantic City, mob hits in Philadelphia and criminal prosecutions throughout the country.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter is the author of five books. His work has appeared in Penthouse, Playboy and The Village Voice. He also has been featured on several network television news magazine reports about organized crime and has worked as a consultant on projects for ABC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel and National Geographic.
His books include “The Last Gangster” (ReganBooks/Harper Collins, March 2004), a New York Times bestseller that chronicles the demise of the Philadelphia mob.
His other books are “Blood and Honor” (William Morrow & Co., 1991), which Jimmy Breslin called it “the best gangster book ever written”; NYT bestseller “The Summer Wind”(Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1999) about the Thomas Capano-Anne Marie Fahey murder case; “The Goodfella Tapes (Avon Books, 1998), and “Mobfather” (Kensington Books, 1993).
Anastasia is the author of a novella, “The Big Hustle” (Philadelphia Inquirer Books, 2001) and has contributed to two anthologies of Italian-American writers, “A Sitdown with the Sopranos” and “Don’t Tell Momma.”
Born in South Philadelphia and raised in southern New Jersey, Anastasia is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1969) with a B.A. in French Literature. He has also studied at Swarthmore College and the University of Florida.
He has been an adjunct professor/lecturer at Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and Temple University, and has been a lecturer for a U.S. State Department-sponsored series of weeklong seminars on journalism and organized crime in Bulgaria (2004, 2007), Croatia (2005), Serbia (2006) and Italy (2007).
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