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I love (most) of the heavy hitters, Charlie Manson makes me laugh more than it should. Really anything that comes up as “part 1” (a series) you know is gonna be good!

Also the research and references are great. I’ve read a few books they’ve recommended. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party is an amazing book.

If you liked Hunting Warhead, you should check out American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road. The audiobook will keep you hooked until the end!

Have a listen to mine. Music City 911. I am an actual 911 dispatcher with 20 years of experience and we play real 911 calls and give our take as well as details about the case itself, some of the big cases (Waco, Brittany Murphy, Kobe Bryant, etc) Our first couple episodes has a little more background info on us so a bit more chatting on those but a lot more info on the calls themselves in later episodes.

Have a listen to the 1st minute of the newest episode and it will give you an idea of what it's about.

Listen here or on any podcast player.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/772607/4715000-michigan-murder-florida-deadly-crash

Get a copy of Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered by Emily Thompson

She's the host of Morbidology - which is one of the best/most-underrated TC podcasts out there.

Roberta Glass' Podcast gives a really compelling Guilty argument.

Richard Dwyer (dwyercrimeblog?) on Youtube also makes a good case.

This episode of William Ramsey Investigates feat. Roberta Glass interviewing Ken Kratz was very illuminating. https://player.fm/series/william-ramsey-investigates/roberta-glass-interviews-ken-kratz-the-most-hated-man-on-the-internet-part-1

My podcast Music City 911 has covered a couple, with the 911 calls played. One of them I will link or you can listen on any podcast app.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/772607/3163639-broken-arrow-familicide-covid19

Episode 7 of Music City 911 is one we did where we highlighted and played a call from and discussed a home invasion. Very shocking. As a 911 dispatcher having been on the phone with probably hundreds of these in my career it never gets easy.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/772607/2779528-kobe-bryant-faye-swetlik

Killafornia Dreaming

Killafornia Dreaming covered the case in 3 episodes starting with episode 50. I really liked how she covered it.

Not true crime, but this is a great fiction crime novel that involves an actual 18th century shipwreck and combines true history with modern fiction. I really love this author and this book specifically is quite good: https://www.amazon.com/Grave-Tattoo-Val-McDermid/dp/0312936109

My mom bought me this off Amazon for my birthday. I haven’t played it yet though. It has good reviews. Sherlock Holmes - The Thames Murders & Other Cases https://www.amazon.com/dp/2370990074/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_t5IfFbAAMGAC0

OMG, I just read the book about the Erin Corwin case! It's called Secret of a Marine's Wife, by Shanna Hogan, and it was just published on February 26th. Thanks so much for recommending this podcast -- I just subscribed and can't wait to listen!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D2BJK93/?coliid=ICAKWB798PMVN&colid=1T9J5O21NA3DZ&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

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Crier's book was full of good evidence for Scott's innocence. Anne Bird's book was nonsense, although she saw Laci's missing earrings which she wore that day being sold in Oakland. Her watch was pawned earlier in Modesto.

Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works...and Sometimes Doesn't

and

Presumed Guilty: What the Jury Never Knew About Laci Peterson's Murder and Why Scott Peterson Should Not Be on Death Row

give the other side of the argument.

So I’m researching for my own book about the victims from an intersectional feminist perspective. I’m looking at Rubenhold’s book right now and I’m having to fact check a lot in order to figure out what I can and can’t use. It’s super tedious and TBH, I am super annoyed at having to do this. From what I’m seeing, she either misrepresented or manipulated primary sources and very strategically left certain details out. I’m thinking this was so she could fit the facts to the hypothesis that she already had in mind. If you look back at what we have of the inquests, either transcribed for the papers or the actual documents, the doctors who performed the postmortems on Polly, Annie, and Mary Jane all found evidence of a struggle or defensive wounds. These women were not asleep when killed. They either tried to evade their killer or fight back, but he subdued them.

So much with this book — the research, the writing, the promotion, and Rubenhold’s associated conduct — is just really sketchy. And yes, she was treated horribly by certain male members of the Ripperologist community who are notorious for being misogynist assholes. However, mainstream Ripperologists are not lying when they give lists of the things she misrepresented or left out. Unfortunately, she’s not on the up-and-up.

There’s actually a much better victim-centered book written by a mother-daughter team that just came out. It acknowledges Rubenhold’s work, but their findings fall in line with the standard narrative.

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Monster-Murderer-Jackie-Anderson-ebook/dp/B09T6WM6DX

On the Case: True Crime

Step into the field to unravel criminal investigations, tracking the drama of each story by featuring the opinions of those closest to the case, including law enforcement officials, the families of the victims and the incarcerated, lawyers from both sides, and first-time interviews with convicted murderers.

https://anchor.fm/onthecase

Generation Why covered it too: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/574-the-generation-why-podcast-28291464/episode/the-norway-shooter-133-29249349/

I can recommend the episode we did about James Bulger on the Solvable Mysteries Podcast (and Youtube Show)

Fair warning, our show is a lot of chit-chat, exposition, personal experiences, and conjecture. I tried to go pretty deep into abnormal child psychology on this particular episode, and the topic is one that I have very strong opinions about.

If informal, long-form podcasts or Youtubes are your thing, and where it intersects on this topic, you might enjoy this. I look forward to your feedback, if so.

You can try out mine, Music City 911.

My show is a bit different than most others in that I am a 911 dispatcher with 20 years of experience in the field. I have guests on the show that are also 911 dispatchers or in related fields and we listen to and review 911 calls as well as talk about the cases. Will leave a link for the 1 minute trailer so you can get an idea of what we do.

Also, I am friends with Erica from Southern Fried True Crime. She is one of the reasons I started this show.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/772607/5343868-music-city-911-official-trailer

[Prison episode](https://castbox.fm/episode/New-Mexico-State-Penitentiary-Riot-(Part-One%3A-Powder-Keg)-id1678473-id109623795?country=us)

This podcast is devoted to the Delphi case - 7 episodes. scene of the crime

Still on Castbox and looked at Spotify and google podcasts.

https://open.spotify.com/show/7CAQwwji76yEkut5GXGCQ9?si=HblBmQBoSyyjzvZcDAW1rA

https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9vYnNjdXJhY3JpbWVwb2RjYXN0LmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz

There's a podcast called the Bookmen Show, which has an episode devoted to American Kingpin:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/674597/2045409-episode-2-nick-bilton-american-kingpin

He talks about it in more detail here: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly90YWNvYm91dHRydWVjcmltZS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw&episode=NDk2NWVmNTVhMzkwNDk0ODlmYTk4NjAzMTE2OWQ0MzM&hl=en&ep=6&at=1567022719492

If you haven't seen it already, I'd highly recommend the audiobook for Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

Thanks for this - I've had a copy of HAPPY LIKE MURDERERS sitting on my shelf for quite awhile now and haven't mustered the courage, so maybe a podcast will give me a different opening to the case!

I highly recommend the book that Sarah Murdoch wrote about Lissa Yellowbird, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country. The audiobook was available with my local library collection on Libby

I would recommend this book Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives, I have similar fascination and it give me a lot to think about.

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You're not wrong! It's the second podcast I ever listened to, I started back when it was a Serial follow-up podcast called Serial Dynasty, so I didn't know any better and just listened along for the ride.

He's talked about this before, the biggest stumbling block they have is the commitment to a LIVE crowdsourced investigation. When I started listening to other podcasts I was like "Oh these are so tight and fast moving and well edited, this is nice" but then I realized it is because they do all the work and investigating ahead of time and then sit down for weeks or months and cut and polish it until it's a perfect shiny diamond. With Bob, we're all standing in the river with pans full of dirt sifting around for the gold with him. Which has its charm, but also the drawbacks of you get wet and dirty instead of just having a gem handed to you!

When you have a live ongoing investigation, there's going to be weeks where not much happens but you are still expected to turn out a show, hence the weeks where it's kind of tedious and nothing much happens. What would be nice is going back through seasons after they're done and editing them down to be more concise and streamlined, but I know they don't have the manpower or budget to do that. I do think the follow-ups are wholly unnecessary, I didn't like them when Undisclosed started doing them either.

If you want to see what Bob can do when he isn't fettered by the constraints of a live crowdsourced investigation, check out The Forgotten West Memphis Three show he did for Oxygen: https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-West-Memphis-Three-Season/dp/B086PGGYW7

In both his and my opinion, covering this case for season 5 of the podcast was a mistake, he says it was the first and last well-known, high profile case he wants to take on because there was SO much ugliness from people who already have their minds made up. But the outcome, of getting to make this tv show, was worth it. It's a really good miniseries.