Ep 105 Post-Show Brief: The Frontline treatment
[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
[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
[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?
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
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
[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
[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
Plus, it's time to vote on January's book-review topic.
Serial · Law & Disorder
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...