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Category: Major Cases

January 16, 2019

The Blotter Presents 081: The Skies Belong To Us And The New Yorker’s “A Cold Case”

First-time guest Alex Segura joints me to talk about The Skies Belong To Us, a page-turner that made a bunch of 2013’s best-of lists — and with good reason, as each of us only needed…

January 14, 2019

Blotter Brief 28: Dirty John, The Dirty Truth

Yet another take on John Meehan, the Newell family, and our ongoing preoccupation with same.

January 9, 2019

The Blotter Presents 080: Surviving R. Kelly And Behind The Music

Mark Blankenship on Lifetime’s wrenching, but imperfect, activist docuseries — and the simmering rage of Jim Forbes

December 19, 2018

The Blotter Presents 079: The Innocent Man And Misfortune, “The Lou Pearlman Story”

Allison Lowe Huff on a surprisingly good Netflix series, and a disappointingly flip white-collar crime pod

December 12, 2018

The Blotter Presents 078: Leah Remini: Scientology And The Aftermath And “The Apostate”

Jeb Lund is back to put the third season of Leah Remini’s eponymous confrontation of Scientology “on the cans,” and we don’t mean to be entheta about it, but why not change the format to…

November 28, 2018

The Blotter Presents 077: Believed And 30 For 30’s “The Two Escobars”

Stephanie Early Green probably regrets suggesting Believed as a Most Wanted topic…

November 19, 2018

Blotter Brief 16: The Truth About True Crime With Amanda Knox

Yes, that Amanda Knox, and she’s ambivalent about hosting Sundance’s companion podcast to Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle. But is she GOOD at it?

November 14, 2018

The Blotter Presents 075: Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle And Frontline

Toby Ball returns to discuss a Jonestown miniseries and a vintage Frontline.

November 9, 2018

Blotter Brief 13: What Haunts Us

An Emmy-nominated look at a prep-school predator and the wide swath of his crimes, from a first-time documentarian.

November 1, 2018

Blotter Brief 10: History Channel’s Watergate Documentary

Oscar-winner Charles Ferguson takes on the fall of the Nixon White House for the History Channel. Set your DVRs; it’s good!

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