The War At Home · The Pharmacist · James Ellroy
And it's time to vote on next month's book review!
Lost Girls · Jeffrey Epstein · New Podcasts
Plus: Of course we have longreads! We always have longreads
The First True Crime That Freaked You Out
I confess that I don’t recall the first true crime I ever consumed. It was probably The Stranger Beside Me, because there was a summer where everyone — kids...
Kim Kardashian · Bill Cosby · GSK
Plus: Some fairly fun casting news
Theranos · Robert Ressler · James Hanratty
Plus reviews from the archives, and all the things Americans don't know.
Scottsboro · Oprah · Amanda Knox
Plus: Still more longreads!
OJ 25 · Murder Squad · Nancy Grace
Plus: How we're ruining longreads
128 Post-Show Brief: Nev Schulman, Future Robert Stack?
…Snerk. Spoiler: no. But Piper Weiss and I did talk about whether Catfish is ripe for a true-crime spin-off, whether Nev and/or Max should host it, and “if”...
Mindhunter · Michelle Carter · Up And Vanished
Plus: A deal that might be of interest
The Blotter Presents 128: True Life Crime and Love After Lockup
Plus Unlocking The Truth, and the predatory '90s Mets.
Russell Simmons · Zodiac · Last Days Of August
Plus: Show notes!
Oscar Noms · Who Killed Vincent Chin? · Stupid Zapruder Tricks
Plus a controversial short film, and an important Twitter poll.
Soledad O’Brien · Monopoly · Theranos
Plus: Why hasn't this been adapted yet?
The True-Crime Audiobook Narrator Hall Of Fame
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
Plus: Another podcast about the DC sniper
The Blotter Presents 127: Surviving R. Kelly Pt. 2 and Blood: A Memoir
Plus Pamela Smart, Polanski, and Reddit herrings.
Just Mercy · Weinstein's PowerPoint
Plus: show notes for The Blotter Presents 127
The Menendezes · White House Farm · Nicky Scarfo
Plus Kevin Smokler on activist documentaries.
What's the last true-crime book you quit?
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
Plus: Phishing in India