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Soledad O’Brien · Monopoly · Theranos
$ · January 10, 2020
Plus: Why hasn't this been adapted yet?
The True-Crime Audiobook Narrator Hall Of Fame
$ · January 10, 2020
We can do a Hall Of Shame some other time — I didn’t want to go negative on two threads in a row — but I’d love to hear about books in the genre whose audio...
America’s Most Wanted · Nisman
$ · January 9, 2020
Plus: Another podcast about the DC sniper
The Blotter Presents 127: Surviving R. Kelly Pt. 2 and Blood: A Memoir
January 8, 2020
Plus Pamela Smart, Polanski, and Reddit herrings.
Just Mercy · Weinstein's PowerPoint
$ · January 7, 2020
Plus: show notes for The Blotter Presents 127
The Menendezes · White House Farm · Nicky Scarfo
January 6, 2020
Plus Kevin Smokler on activist documentaries.
What's the last true-crime book you quit?
$ · January 3, 2020
Was the writing bad? Was the writing trying too hard to be good/literary? “It’s gross to say ‘not enough pictures, right?” Not always! (My most recent bail...
Adam Walsh · R. Kelly · Don’t F**k With Cats
January 3, 2020
Plus: Phishing in India
JonBenét · Manson Masks · Madeleine McCann
January 2, 2020
Plus: The true crime/crafts connection
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case · Top 5 TBP Topics All-Time
December 31, 2019
Don’t forget to vote on the first bonus book-review topic of the new year! As requested (hey Muffy!), my write-up of The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, which...
Blotter 125 Aftershow: The Worst Dark Tours
$ · December 31, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 12/23/19] In which Jeb and I talk about murder tours we DON'T want to take...and I come up with absolutely the most disrespectful idea...
November Bonus Book Review: Catch And Kill
$ · December 31, 2019
[posted to Patreon 11/30/19] The crime Which one, truly. The inside flap of Ronan Farrow's Catch And Kill: Lies, Spies, And A Conspiracy To Protect Predators...
Blotter 122 Aftershow: (Which) Would You Rather (Have Solved)?
$ · December 31, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 11/29/19] A thought exercise in which Toby and I contemplate which one of a pair of famously unsolved cases we'd rather know the answer...
Blotter 119 Aftershow: The Next Fear Of 13
$ · December 31, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 11/8/19] What cases seem to need a Fear of 13 treatment -- highly personal, unique, and individual-driven? Eve and I brainstorm...
October Bonus Book Review: King Con
$ · December 31, 2019
[published on Patreon 11/1/19] The crime From the book jacket: "Edgar Laplante was a small-time grifter, virtuoso singer, and handsome young charmer. ... In...
December 2019 Bonus Book Review: Say Nothing
$ · December 31, 2019
Patrick Radden Keefe's masterful narrative of the Troubles combines crime, history...and some shade.
Leverage S05.E06, "The DB Cooper Job"
$ · December 30, 2019
[posted to Patreon on 10/24/19] Running gags on other podcasts to the contrary, I don't know, or care, THAT much more about the DB Cooper case than the...
Blotter 115 Aftershow: True-Crime Blind Spots
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 10/10/19] The cases Stephanie Early Green and I don't know anything about, and feel like we should, plus the narcotizing properties of...
Blotter 114 Aftershow: The Moratoria
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 10/3/19] Cases Toby Ball and I just really can't hear about anymore, at least for a while. (Note: I confidently announced the name of...
September Bonus Book Review: Furious Hours
$ · December 30, 2019
The crime It's more complicated than the book jacket's rendering, what with the voodoo rumors and the insurance fraud and whatnot, but the inside cover of...
Episode 113 Aftershow: More/Better Sports Criminals
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 9/26/19] The choice of Oscar Pistorius as the opening topic is one of the things Sports Criminals got right, in AB's and my...
Episode 111 Aftershow: Adapt This Now!
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 9/12/19] Eve and I make our pitches for the next prestige property to come out of current true-crime headlines. Plus, are Popeye's...
August Bonus Book Review #2: My Friend Anna
$ · December 30, 2019
The crime Subtitled, "The True Story Of A Fake Heiress" is Rachel DeLoache Williams's memoir, for lack of a better term, of her friendship with Anna "Delvey"...
Episode 110 Aftershow: Bridging The Gap
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 8/30/19] [grooooan] Yeah, sorry. Anyway: John Ramos and I talk about what other media the bridge-cheating story might lend itself to,...
August Bonus Book Review #1: Norco '80
$ · December 30, 2019
Is a bank robbery I'd never heard of the "goddamned thrill ride" one of the jacket blurbs promises?
Blotter 109 Aftershow: Based On A True Story
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 8/22/19] Will Leitch on a real-life crime that absorbed him, and the challenges of including true crimes in fictional narratives.
Blotter 107 Post-Show Brief: Judging Jurists
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 8/9/19] "Inspired" by the "Honorable" Genece Brinkley in Free Meek, Eve and I spitball other jurists for the limited-series treatment....
Blotter 106 Post-Show Brief: 4.5 States Of Crime
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 8/1/19] Allison Lowe Huff and I talk about the Times list of the most notable crime books from each state in the union -- specifically,...
Ep 105 Post-Show Brief: The Frontline treatment
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 7/25/19] Toby stuck around to talk about which stereotypically trash-coverage cases should get a more sober-sided consideration from...
The Blotter Presents 104 Post-Show Brief: The Topics We Can't With
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 7/19/19] Lani Diane Rich and I talked about true-crime topics we try to avoid, and why the Manson-versary isn't something we're...
The Blotter Presents 103 Post Show: Erin Lee Carr's Next Project
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 7/12/19] The director has a sub-specialty in complex women; Eve Batey and I picked a handful for her to tackle next. Look out, Marion...
The Blotter Presents 101 Post-Show Brief: What makes a great docudrama?
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 6/21/19] What sets the The Old Man And The Guns and the Zodiacs apart from the Devil's Knots -- casting? Staying up on the tightrope...
The Blotter Presents 100 Post-Show Brief: Local Constabulary
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 6/14/19] After the main podcast, Toby and I talked about under-the-radar unsolved crimes from our hometowns that we'd like to see in...
The Blotter Presents 099 Post-Show Brief: Ava's Next Project
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 6/13/19] I swear to God, I remember posting this! It must have been a beautiful dream I had...in Texas, where I was on a work trip late...
The Blotter Presents 098 Post-Show Brief: American Experience Narrators
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 5/31/19] No shade on Oliver Platt et al., seriously...but if I had my pick (AND could map out a fantasy season topic), who's narrating...
Blotter 096 Post-Show Brief: Ranking Bundy Actors
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 5/10/19] A bunch of actors have played Ted Bundy over the years, from Mark "Gibbs" Harmon to James "Spike" Marsters and beyond. Jeb Lund...
Patreon Brief 8: Untouchable
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 4/29/19] Randall Sullivan's 2012 Michael Jackson bio is exhaustive, exhaust-ING, and ultimately not worth the time.
Patreon Brief 7: Delhi Crime
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 3/29/19] Shefali Shah gives a well-built procedural that certain something.
Q&A With Abducted In Plain Sight Director Skye Borgman
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 2/27/19; audio appeared in Blotter Presents 087] Sarah D Bunting: Thank you again for making the time to do this, especially with the...
Patreon Brief 6: Just Another Missing Kid
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon 2/26/19] The 1982 Best Documentary Feature Oscar-winner about the disappearance of Eric Wilson still has something to tell us today....
Patreon Brief 5: Crime Of The Century
$ · December 30, 2019
[uploaded to Patreon on 1/26/19] Crime Of The Century's take on Ludovic Kennedy's Lindbergh-case theory exhausted the statute of limitations on my patience...
Patreon Brief 4: Dirty Money
$ · December 28, 2019
[originally posted to Patreon 12/27/18] I binged Netflix's corporate-malfeasance docuseries over the holiday; you should make time for the whole series, but...
Patreon Brief 3: The Art Of The Con And Too Pretty Too Live
$ · December 28, 2019
[originally posted to Patreon 11/19/18] Two books about very different cons...that share one unfortunate quality.
Three Takes On The Slender Man Case
December 28, 2019
Afternoon, readers! I’m porting the Patreon archives (and others) over here today, and I thought I’d release this one from 2018 to “gen pop” so you can see...
Patreon Brief 1: The Encyclopedia Of Unsolved Crimes
$ · December 28, 2019
[originally published to Patreon 10/28/18] Apparently everything's a frame job in this second edition of Michael Newton's reference book. Should you grab it...
September 2018 Bonus Ep: Picking Out Of A Line-Up, Behind-The-Scenes-Of-Criminal-Justice Edition
$ · December 28, 2019
[originally published to Patreon 9/29/18] One book that inspired Season 3 of Serial, and four other books/longform articles like it. And if you like authors...
The First 48 · Ann Rule's Best
December 27, 2019
Plus, it's time to vote on January's book-review topic.
Serial · Law & Disorder
December 26, 2019
It’s Boxing Day, so we’re UN-boxing some archival material from the-blotter.com — my review of Serial S1 from five years ago (…doesn’t it seem like that...
True crime to wrap gifts by
December 24, 2019
Happy Christmas Eve to those of you who celebrate (and a very quiet day to those who don’t). The wrapping sprint is on at our house today; I’m choosing...
Incident At Big Sky · New Epstein Pod · The Clearing
December 23, 2019
Plus: Part three of our holiday reading list
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