Heaven's Gate, Toby's Cult of Personality, & Stranger Things 2 First Impressions
No more Amazon list??? Yup, the behemoth site kicked us out of their affiliate program, so we'll have to find something else for Toby to do...The Crime Writers open up the hit podcast Heaven's Gate, and, KNOWLEDGE ALERT, one of the panel is kind of an expert on the cult phenomenon.Plus, the panel will dive into Stranger Things 2 in full next week, but isn't shy about sharing first impressions. And no, Toby STILL hasn't seen Goonies! Also, an update from the courtroom in the Serial Season 2 subject Bowe Bergdahl's sentencing, and our Crime of the Week climbs to 30,000 feet for some felonious hanky panky. For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
3 Nov 20171h 10min
Mindhunter from Netflix, Making a Murderer's Paper Trail, and an Ode to Stampy
The Crime Writers dive in to Mindhunter - a series from Netflix about FBI profilers that even Rebecca can get behind.Plus, Stampy died! Lara does a little PSA every pet lover should listen to.DONATE TO CATS 1ST, THE RESCUE ORGANIZATION THAT GAVE STAMPY A CHANCEAnd, yet another filing in the never-ending paper trail for Making a Murderer's Steven Avery. Is his lawyer Kathleen Zellner a genius? Or is she a little cuckoo?Finally, our Crime of the Week asks a critical question...what would *you* do if you came home from the thrift shop with a dead person in your purchase? For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
27 Okt 20171h 20min
Accused Season 2 and BIG Serial and S-Town legal news
The Crime Writers review the second season of Rebecca's favorite true crime podcast from last year, Accused by the Cincinnati Enquirer. Will the story of the unsolved murder of Retha Welch stand up to the success of season one? (Spoiler alert: one of us has issues!)In a pair of true crime podcast updates, we talk about the surprising plea deal made by S-Town subject Tyler Goodson, as well as the maybe-surprising plea in Bowe Bergdahl's case.Our crime of the week will make you high...especially if donuts are your drug of choice. For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
20 Okt 20171h 5min
Dirty John (and Debra!), a Sarah Koenig encounter, and a (maybe) deal for Serial's Bowe Bergdhal
Rebecca met Sarah Koenig!! She fills us in on that awkward encounter.What's the latest with Serial season two subject Bowe Bergdahl? Seems he's made some kind of deal with the government. We invite back retired USMC Lt Col James Weirick of the Military Justice podcast to explain why he thinks some of the early media reports are wrong and what a plea for a lighter sentence might look like.Then the panel digs into the new hit podcast from the LA Times, Dirty John.TO SKIP PAST THE SPOILERS AND JUST HEAR OUR REVIEW, GO TO TIME CODE: 1:03:25This six-part true crime profile looks at grifter John Meehan and the trouble he wreaked on Debra Newell and her family. Judging by your Twitter and Facebook questions, you seemed just as amazed by Debra's willingness to forgive the gold digger as you are in Dirty John's evil designs.In Crime of the Week, how many Facebook likes would you need before your turned yourself into the police? For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
13 Okt 20171h 19min
Law & Order does the Menendez Brothers, Scott Peterson's guilt in question, Steven Avery gets dealt a blow
The Crime Writers review the totally not Law & Order take on a famous case: Law & Order: The Menendez murders. Plus, a big setback for Stephen Avery has the panel revisiting our opinions on the Making a Murderer protagonist's guilt. Also in question...the guilt of Scott Peterson. Yeah, we know.In the Crime of the Week, things go wrong when a school administrator tries to pull a silly prank For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
6 Okt 20171h 7min
American Vandal, The Confession Tapes, and a Making a Murderer update
Did Brendan Dassey's dubious confession on "Making a Murderer" make your skin crawl? The Chief Circuit Judge in his ongoing appeal said it did. But the other two federal judges may be leaning the other way.In podcast news: "Accused" will roll out a new season next month. Also, the teams behind HowStuffWorks and Up & Vanished are getting together to re-investigate a series of child murders in Atlanta that were solved in 1981.This week's podcast focuses on two very different series from Netflix. "The Confession Tapes" shows a series of cases in which the police used questionable techniques to get suspects to confess. Were they falsely given? Were they merely aggressive or provocative ways to get a killer to admit to their crimes?Next, the unexpectedly savvy satire of everything we love about true crime. "American Vandal" may start as a lowbrow take-off on "Serial" or "Making a Murder," but the comedy is surprisingly meta, embracing all tropes of the podcasts and documentaries which have become ubiquitous. In the end, we still want to know, "Who drew the dicks?"In the Crime of the Week - the FBI really shouldn't tell the Internet to ask them anything. For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
29 Sep 20171h 12min
The Deuce review, updates on Slenderman, S-Town and Unabomber and SO much more
The Crime Writers change the way we do business because someone told us to. We dive into a bunch of updates on cases surrounding the S-Town podcast and the super-creepy stabbing at the center of the HBO documentary "Beware the Slenderman," plus Kevin holds Rebecca hostage and forces her to watch the rest of that ridiculous Unabomber show.Speaking of being held hostage, will the team force Kevin to listen to even more Someone Knows Something? (Yeah, we hope get to do that!)We then dig in to The Deuce, the latest in prestige TV from HBO and David Simon, the creator of the show that white people LOVE to talk about loving: The Wire.In our crime of the week, a jogger takes a big ol' poop on someone's lawn. No, that really is a thing. For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
22 Sep 20171h 18min
We review Hanging AND catch-up on Laci, Scientology, Slenderman & more!
Weekly episodes have returned (no more goldbricking for Bricker - no more laying about for Lavoie)! The Crime Writers revisit some of the content they've recently discussed and give final verdicts on Homecoming, The Murder of Laci Peterson, and updates in the Slenderman case. Toby offers a preview of next week's topic: HBO's The Deuce. And the blowback about the Payne Lyndsey - Up and Vanished controversy is deafening...not.The panel dives into the new podcast from the Mercury News, "Hanging: The mysterious case of the boy in the barn."In Crime of the Week, how much Liquid Plumber can we get to London? For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com.
15 Sep 20171h 8min
