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  • The true crime worth YOUR time, reviewed weekly. Sarah D. Bunting, desk sergeant.
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  • Closing Statements

    Closing Statements
    Aug 26 2020
    The story continues...

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    3 mins
  • 155: Most Wanted and While The City Sleeps

    155: Most Wanted and While The City Sleeps
    Aug 19 2020
    Nope, that's not a typo: Best Evidence publisher Eve Batey joins me to talk about a movie that's still in "theaters," Most Wanted. Featuring Josh Hartnett's foxy 'stache and a breakout ugly performance from Jim Gaffigan, Most Wanted interrogates the role of budgetary concerns in law-enforcement corruption and/or incompetence...and we interrogate the crusading-reporter subgenre and whether it's true to life.

    We do it twice, as a matter of fact, as our Cold Case topic is While The City Sleeps, a movie that references the William Heirens case but is actually about whether media's attempts to "make" a story is itself the story...or criminal. The 1956 thriller stars Vincent Price, Drew Barrymore's dad, and a realistically sodden Dana Stevens in a tale about a callow press scion using a string of murders to pit his top men (...uch) against each other for a plum job. We recommend it, and not just because it kiiiind of makes John Douglas look like an ass for claiming nobody knew how to profile properly before 1974, so hike your pants up to your pits and have a listen to The Blotter Presents, Episode 155.

    SHOW NOTES
    • Where to watch Most Wanted
    • The Most Wanted/Target Number One Wikipedia page
    • Reply All's Compstat episode
    • Stephen McHattie's Zodiac credit
    • Kill The Messenger
    • While The City Sleeps on Amazon
    • My Ripped From The Headlines review
    • Eater NY on Marchi's (and the Eater's Digest podcast)
    • Wikipedia's William Heirens page

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 154: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and The Con

    154: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and The Con
    Aug 12 2020
    [CW: The episode reviews series that discuss sexual assault, harm to children, and suicide. Please listen with care.]

    Omar Gallaga returns to discuss two very grim and infuriating properties, starting with Lifetime's Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, which centers the survivors of Epstein's monstrousness while also indicting a society that let him manipulate it with shocking impunity. It's a good docuseries that's also a difficult sit, and the rare discussion of the case of late that had the capacity to tell us something new.

    The Con also told us something new, about a different kind of predatory behavior -- the outright frauds that led to the financial crisis of 2008. It's a straightforward narrative without a lot of production bells and whistles, but it's also a very careful accounting (so to speak) of all the different bad actors in the world of mortgage fraud, from inexperienced brokers to rapacious CEOs to the Wall Street traders who created the demand. The podcast may not be fast, but you'll be furious by the end of The Blotter Presents, Episode 154.

    SHOW NOTES

    • Surviving Jeffrey Epstein
    • My Primetimer review of Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
    • Where to watch The Con
    • Guardian review of The Con 
    • Omar at LEVEL and Terribly Happy
    • Check out Native deodorant and Hello Fresh!
    • Best Evidence
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    1 hr and 6 mins
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