Nope, that's not a typo: Best Evidence publisher Eve Batey joins me to talk about a movie that's still in "theaters," Most Wanted. Featuring Josh Hartnett's foxy 'stache and a breakout ugly performance from Jim Gaffigan, Most Wanted interrogate

154: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and The Con

Aug 12th, 2020 1h 6m

[CW: The episode reviews series that discuss sexual assault, harm to children, and suicide. Please listen with care.]Omar Gallaga returns to discuss two very grim and infuriating properties, starting with Lifetime's Surviving Jeffrey Epstein,

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Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The House of Versace

Aug 11th, 2020 7m 27s

Wondery’s Even the Rich gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the stories of some of the greatest family dynasties in history. This season, three siblings — Gianni, Donatella, and Santo Versace — built one of the greatest fashion labels the wor

153: Ann Rule's Sleeping With Danger and The Last Narc

Aug 5th, 2020 1h 24m

Two guests, no waiting this week, as ...These Are Their Stories co-host Kevin Flynn joins me to talk about Ann Rule's Sleeping With Danger, starring Elisabeth "Serena Southerlyn" Röhm and Leslie "ME Rodgers" Hendrix. It's a thumbs-sideways from

152: Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia and The Perfect Murder S05E09

Jul 29th, 2020 51m 45s

Is this the widest gulf in quality between the two shows under discussion in Blotter history? Maybe! But Netflix's new three-part series on the "Commission Case" that brought down the New York Mob is disciplined, compelling, and reminds me and

151: The Business Of Drugs and Summer Of Sam

Jul 22nd, 2020 1h 15m

Filmmaker and baseball-Twitter-improver Randy Wilkins joins me to talk about Netflix's The Business Of Drugs, a six-part series hosted by Amaryllis Fox that tries to take a value-neutral look at the economics of black-market substances. But is

150: Athlete A and American Greed S13.E06

Jul 15th, 2020 55m 14s

[content warning for discussions of child sexual abuse, suicide]Stephanie Green ventures back into the grim case against Larry Nassar with me this week, this time with Netflix's Athlete A, which sets itself apart from other properties by also

149: I'll Be Gone In The Dark and Murder Made Me Famous

Jul 1st, 2020 1h 5m

[content warning for sexual assault, neonaticide, truly egregious Foley design]When the subject is the Golden State Killer, the guest is Mike Dunn, who's back to talk about the first three episodes of HBO's I'll Be Gone In The Dark. Directed

148: Miracle Fishing and Exhibit A

Jun 24th, 2020 51m 55s

How to describe Miles Hargrove's documentary about his father's kidnapping by FARC guerrillas in 1994 -- a kidnap memoir? Found footage meets ransom procedural? It's all of that, and it's unique in the genre; my guest Jeb Lund and I don't know

147: Belly Of The Beast, Coded Bias, and the Yasmin Neal interview

Jun 17th, 2020 34m 3s

[CW for references to domestic violence, racial violence, and medical malpractice.]The podcast staycations on the doc-festival circuit this week with a couple of films from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Belly Of The Beast, a harrowing

146: Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story and Woman On Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

Jun 10th, 2020 1h 35m

The Dirty John franchise, clumsily named though it is, is back -- and Marcia Chatelain is back to talk about it. It doesn't feel "necessary," in These Times...and yet we're both planning to keep watching, thanks to Amanda Peet's fearless perfor

145: Quiz and No Stone Unturned

Jun 3rd, 2020 1h 13m

First-time guest and Best Evidence contributor Margaret Howie joined me to talk about Quiz, the miniseries about the UK Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal now airing on AMC. Is it as good for what it leaves out as what it puts in? Are there

Blotter Brief 43: Reed Redmond on Mobbed Up

May 25th, 2020 22m 38s

Mobbed Up: The Fight For Las Vegas drops Tuesday, May 26. I interviewed producer and host Reed Redmond about the podcast, interviewing Mob enforcers, mid-century nostalgia, and NOT watching Casino. SHOW NOTESMobbed Up at the Las Vegas Revi

144: Fake Heiress and Unsolved Mysteries S03.E10

May 20th, 2020 1h 9m

After our plans to cover Amazon docuseries The Last Narc got disappeared along with the show, Jessica Liese and I pivoted back to familiar ground: Fake Heiress, a late-2019 pod on everyone's favorite art-foundationing NYC scammer, Anna Delvey/S

143: A Confession and Let Him Have It

May 13th, 2020 1h 9m

Allison Lowe Huff returns for a UK docudrama two-fer, starting with A Confession, ITV's miniseries from last year about the murders of Sian O'Callaghan and Becky Godden, and the confession to them that cracked the cases but ruined a detective's

142: Stolen Babies and The Phoebe Judge Interview

May 6th, 2020 1h 26m

Piper Weiss returned for a 1993 Lifetime movie about Tennessee baby broker Georgia Tann, Stolen Babies, that won Mary Tyler Moore an Emmy. Is this a notch above the usual '90s Lifetime fare, or do the accents ruin the relatively snappy pacing a

141: Bad Education and Frontline's "Terror In Little Saigon"

Apr 29th, 2020 1h 3m

Toby Ball takes a break from refilling the Clorox shot-ski to talk about HBO's ripped-from-the-2004-headlines docudrama, Bad Education, in which Wolverine and CJ Cregg defraud the Roslyn school district -- and Toby and I really liked it, but di

140: True History Of The Kelly Gang and Catch & Kill

Apr 22nd, 2020 56m 17s

Australio-Irish icon Ned Kelly got the very first big-screen treatment in 1906, and now the director of Snowtown is back with yet another one. Does Justin Kurzel's time-shifted "punk" take on Peter Carey's novel hold Alex Segura's and my intere

138: A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy and American Animals

Apr 15th, 2020 1h 11m

A new hour-long documentary confronts the deaths of Jen and Sarah Hart and their six adopted children in A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy -- but did this doc need to exist? And does it do anything the Broken Harts podcast didn't? Lat

138: Atlanta's Missing And Murdered and The Robert Kolker Interview

Apr 7th, 2020 1h 58m

[CW for violence against children]Toby Ball returns to discuss -- from a safe distance -- HBO's limited series on the Atlanta child murders of 1979-1981, Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. Is it too ambitious? Did it set out t

137: The Scheme and Finding Steve McQueen

Apr 1st, 2020 1h 2m

Mike Dunn returns -- from a safe distance -- to talk about HBO's college-hoops bribery-scandal doc The Scheme. Did we like it so much because we really miss sports, or is Christian Dawkins just that charismatic? Actually, it's probably both, an

136: Lost Girls and All Good Things

Mar 18th, 2020 1h 10m

[Mgmt. apologizes for various sound issues, incl. 1) construction noise next door; 2) dog being a yappy heller; and 3) Skype throttling Kevin's sound.]Kevin Smokler is back to discuss Liz Garbus's feature on one fragment of the Long Island Se

135: The Most Dangerous Animal Of All and Hustlers

Mar 11th, 2020 1h 2m

Can FX repeat its American Crime Story success in the unscripted space? The Most Dangerous Animal Of All takes a big swing, but Gary Stewart may get stuck on the bench with me, my guest Eve Batey, and everyone else whose dads aren't the Zodiac.

134: McMillion$ and Rotten

Mar 4th, 2020 54m 44s

I'm so grateful Dr. Marcia Chatelain made time for even more discussion of fast-food malfeasance; she's my guest again as we take a look at the back half of Monopoly-scam docuseries McMillion$. The character-based future seasons we wanted, "poo