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October 23, 2019

The Blotter Presents 117: Leavenworth and Criminal #77, “The Escape”

The five-part documentary series from Starz, Leavenworth, looks at the very complicated case of Clint Lorance, and after the first episode, guest Jeb Lund and I were a little impatient with the painstaking set-up — but…

October 16, 2019

The Blotter Presents 116: The DNA Of Murder and Direct Appeal

Paul Holes joins the Oxygen family with The DNA Of Murder; Blotter Holes-ologist Mike Dunn joins me again to talk about the new show, and whether it’s really anything new at all. Was local law enforcement…

October 2, 2019

The Blotter Presents 114: Motive and Snowball

Toby Ball and I took on two newish podcasts this week: the first from WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, Motive, looks at the strange case(s) of TJ Jimenez. But is a competent, ambling narrative —…

September 18, 2019

The Blotter Presents 112: Murder In The Bayou and Betting On Zero

Dr. Marcia Chatelain joins me for the first time to talk about a first for Showtime: the network’s foray into the true-crime-series space with Murder On The Bayou. The five-part series looks at the so-called…

August 7, 2019

The Blotter Presents 107: Free Meek and ReMastered: Who Killed Jam Master Jay?

Eve Batey on a new Amazon docuseries, and a Netflix-series cold case

July 31, 2019

The Blotter Presents 106: No One Saw A Thing and The Doorstep Murder

Two prestige properties…two disappointments? Allison Lowe Huff and I discuss

July 24, 2019

The Blotter Presents 105: Uncovered (The McMartin Family Trials) and Bundyville S02 (The Remnant)

Toby Ball on a pretty-good-for-Oxygen special and a very-good-period podcast

July 22, 2019

Picking Out Of A Line-Up: Recently Acquired True-Crime Books

Five from SDB’s to-read pile

July 17, 2019

The Blotter Presents 104: Injustice With Nancy Grace and Who Killed Garrett Phillips?

Lani Diane Rich on the reliably infuriating Nancy Grace, and the reliably excellent new HBO doc from Liz Garbus

June 5, 2019

The Blotter Presents 099: When They See Us and Who Killed Nancy?

Piper Weiss on two very New York stories, one great, one…terrible

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