145: Blago: The Rise and Fall of Rod Blagojevich
Rod "Blago" Blagojevich had a charmed path to the Governor's Mansion in Illinois: He married Patty Mell, the daughter of a powerful Democratic Alderman who helped him jump from state legislator to Gov...
18 Aug 202051min
144: Big Dan's: The Nation's First Televised Rape Case
In 1983, a 21 year-old woman walked into a bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts. When she tried to leave a little later, the door was locked and 4 men raped her over the course of 2 hours on the bar's po...
11 Aug 202051min
143: King Richard (Trial By Media Episode 4)
THIS ONE IS ALL ABOUT THE PIZZAZZ FACTOR, YOU GUY! CUE. THOSE. JAZZ. HANDS. Richard Scrushy (a name you can't say without sounding hammered) is a mediocre, yet very rich, white dude. He runs a huge c...
4 Aug 202049min
142: 41 Shots: The Killing of Amadou Diallo (Trial By Media Episode 3)
In the early hours of February 4, 1999, 23-year-old Amadou Dialo, an unarmed black man standing on the steps of his apartment building, was fatally shot by four plain clothes New York City police offi...
28 Jul 202049min
141: The Subway Vigilante (Trial By Media Ep. 2)
On December 22, 1984, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot 4 black teenagers on the New York City subway. He claimed self defense--that the 4 boys were in the process of robbing him. But eye witness ...
21 Jul 202052min
McMillions
Fam! We are so excited to share episode 1 of our coverage of HBO's "McMillions." It's perfect for week 729 of quarantine because there's no murder! It's mostly just Mafia idiot (come for us Frank Colo...
20 Jul 202047min
140: Talk Show Murder (Trial By Media Ep. 1)
Two words: Jenny Jones. On March 6, 1995, Scott Amadure and Jonathan Schmitz went on the Jenny Jones show. On the show, Scott revealed to Jonathan that he had a crush on him. Jonathan, seemed to take...
14 Jul 202054min
139: 13th
The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted freedom to enslaved people. Except, it didn’t really. The drafters...
7 Jul 202049min
