Blotter Brief 30: Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt For Justice
Oxygen’s new series, on hundreds of possibly connected possible drowning deaths, sounds crazy…but it just might work.
Blotter Brief 29: Untouchable
David Feige’s 2016 documentary interrogates sex-offender registry statutes, but may not have questioned its own edit closely enough.
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…
Blotter Brief 28: Dirty John, The Dirty Truth
Yet another take on John Meehan, the Newell family, and our ongoing preoccupation with same.
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
Blotter Brief 27: 60 Days In, Season 5
A&E’s undercover show heads to Arizona, and raises the stakes. Is it worth revisiting?
Blotter Brief 26: Broken Harts
Two moms, six adopted kids, one terrible crash…and a somewhat amateurish podcast that’s still compelling.
Blotter Brief 25: Murderville
The Intercept’s investigation of a wrongful conviction in Georgia is a sadly familiar story — in more ways than one.
Blotter Brief 24: The Lake Erie Murders
Will ID’s event series on a notorious 1989 Ohio abduction hold your attention?
Blotter’s 11: The Best Of 2018
My top-ranked reads, listens, and watches of the year