
#66 - Blood Money - Part 3: The Content Machine
In part 3 of Blood Money, we're stepping inside the content machine. Filmmaker Brian McGinn and author Nicki Egan take us through the incentives and pitfalls facing any true crime content creator. Ge...
5 Maj 20231h 3min

#65 - Blood Money - Part 2: The Fishbowl
In part 2 of Blood Money, we're stepping into the ground zero where all true crime stories originate: with the victims. Kris Pedretti, Christine Marie, and Sarah Turney help us explore what it means t...
4 Maj 20231h 7min

#64 - Blood Money - Part 1: One Bloody Thing After Another
True crime has become a massive industry that takes real life suffering as grist for the content mill. Is it possible to tell such stories in an ethical way? How did we even get here? To answer these ...
3 Maj 20231h 4min

BONUS - Ask Us Anything
We've got some updates for you, a preview of BLOOD MONEY, our upcoming miniseries about the history and ethics of true crime, and we answer your questions, about trauma gremlins, smiling through hell,...
14 Mars 202337min

#63 - Documenting Innocence (Joe Berlinger)
When Joe Berlinger packed up his things to go to West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993, he thought he was going to make a documentary about a satanic ritual murder. Instead, he found a witch hunt determined ...
15 Feb 202342min

#62 - Protect Your Heart (Jason Baldwin)
By the time he was sixteen, Jason Baldwin had already felt the sting of prejudice from his community in West Memphis, Arkansas. Kids at the trailer park where he lived had long been shunned by more we...
1 Feb 20231h 11min

#61 - Love and Justice (Anna Vasquez)
Anna Vasquez was just nineteen when she and three of her friends were accused of a horrific crime that they were completely innocent of. Their case was swept up in the mass hysteria about satanic cult...
18 Jan 202358min

#60 - The Why of the Why (Dylan Marron)
Most people are pretty bad at having difficult conversations. We don't get much practice--the internet makes sure that we mostly see content from people we agree with. When we do see opposing viewpoin...
4 Jan 202344min




















