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June 22, 2023

The Docket 06.22.23 Toma and Gein

A '70s crimoir procedural, and a major case with nothing new to tell us

the true crime that's worth your time

The Dave Toma story, and how it led to Baretta; cringey midcentury attitudes about AAVE, infertility, and white/abled saviors; if your “let’s rap!” youth pastor got a TV show; titling tropes; when ghoulish outliers get badly recoded for the queer experience; Wisconsin winters do shit to people; and our predictions re: a post-strike increase in “upcycled” true crime.

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  • the Best Evidence RSS feed

  • Dave Toma on Wikipedia

  • Toma S01.E10 “Rock A Bye” on YouTube

  • Kristin McMurran on Toma’s public-speaking career

  • Toma: The Compassionate Cop

  • Quaid In Full on Baretta S01.E04

  • How to watch MGM+

  • Harold Schechter’s Gein book is, of course, out of stock ATM — but his Ripped From The Headlines is pertinent here

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