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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case · Top 5 TBP Topics All-Time
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
[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
[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)?
[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
[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
[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
Patrick Radden Keefe's masterful narrative of the Troubles combines crime, history...and some shade.
Leverage S05.E06, "The DB Cooper Job"
[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
[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
[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
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
[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!
[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
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
[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
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
[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
[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
[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,...