48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty has launched a podcast called My Life of Crime. The show dropped its first episode on Friday, in which Moriarty “takes you inside” the home where Lizzie Borden allegedly killed her family. (Don’t get too freaked out, folks: the place is a bed and breakfast now, not some abandoned murder mansion. In fact, Sarah visited there this summer, and got me this lovely lip balm:

(Ugh, I know. I’m getting a manicure on Thursday.)

Anyway. Erin isn’t promising us any lip balms, but in a press release for the six-part podcast she says her “re-examination of the case has a surprising conclusion.” If she is able to wrest any surprises out of the well-trod Borden case, good for her, I guess. On other episodes, she’ll look at the death of Natalie Wood and -- finally, something a little less basic -- she’ll visit Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s prison with an innovative music program. You can check out the show here. -- EB

On tomorrow’s episode of The Blotter Presents, Sarah and guest Marcia Chatelain will discuss Showtime’s Murder In the Bayou, which is based on a book of the same name. The five-part show made its debut this past Friday, and I’ve been curious to hear what Ethan Brown, who wrote the book, thinks of the show. After all, it can be hard when your baby takes on another form, even when you’re getting paid for it!

Speaking to Bustle, Brown -- who says he’s continued to investigate the Jeff Davis 8 case since his book was published two years ago -- the producers of the series were able to get “remarkable cooperation” from local law enforcement, something that helped move the reporting ball forward. In addition, he says, the show allows the survivors of the victims a platform they would never have in print.

“No matter how good of a writer you are, nothing can beat people sitting in front of the camera and being honest and open about their memories, their thoughts, and their feelings,” Brown tells Bustle. “I feel very small next to that kind of power." I haven’t started the show yet, as, to be honest, I was waiting to hear what Sarah and Marcia thought. Watch for tomorrow’s newsletter, where we’ll all get to see their assessment of the series. -- EB

The real Wendy Carr is telling a Pittsburgh newspaper what Mindhunter got right (and wrong). As Best Evidence subscriber Susan Howard suspected, we’re talking about Ann Burgess, who at age 82 remains a prof at Boston College’s Cornell School of Nursing. Back in the day, she worked with John Douglas and Robert Ressler as they studied serial offenders, and co-authored three books with the pair. As Douglas is the inspiration for Holden Ford and Bill Tench is a thinly-veiled Ressler, Howard is, in many ways, Carr.

Speaking with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Burgess says that the first season got “80 percent of the cases pretty solid” and that Carr’s requirement that their research be based in methodology rang true. However, she says, while Carr is a psychologist, Burgess is and was a professor of psychiatric mental health nursing -- a change she suspects the show made because “they had to give this Wendy Carr an occupation or profession that people would understand, and they didn’t understand nursing,” Burgess says.

Also, Burgess says, while Carr is a lesbian, Burgess is not. “My son called me and said, “‘What haven’t you told me, Mother?’” Burgess says. “We kind of joked about it. Obviously, they’re making a wide cut for an audience.” You can read the full interview with Burgess, who is kind of a badass, here. -- EB

People seem to really like Unheard: The Fred & Rose West Tapes. The British podcast about a couple (that’s the Fred and Rose in the title) who were convicted of dismembering and killing at least 12 young women (including their own daughter and Fred’s stepdaughter from a prior marriage) has dropped two episodes so far, spurring a couple people to message me saying that they think it’s a solid true crime listen.

They might be onto something -- the show is hosted by Howard Sounes, the reporter who broke the story on the couple’s arrest in 1994, which will make for a better informed show than someone who’s learned the details of the case third-hand. Have you listened to it yet? If not, here’s a link to the show, and if you have, tell us your opinion of it in the comments. -- EB

Quick hit: This NYT story on UC Santa Cruz paleogeneticist Ed Green is extremely relevant to our interests, and is worth your attention. Green’s found a new way to extract DNA from a rootless hair, something that until now hasn’t been possible. As you can imagine, the crime-solving potential of this advance is pretty major. Check out the piece, by reporter Heather Murphy, here.

Wednesday on Best Evidence: The Blotter Presents, Episode 112 won’t just discuss Murder In The Bayou: Sarah and Marcia will also cover Herbalife docuseries Betting On Zero.

What is this thing? This should help.

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