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    L.A. Not So Confidential: The Premier Forensic Psychology Podcast

    An L.A. based podcast brought to you by two forensic psychologists who dissect the intersections where true crime, forensic psychology, and entertainment meet.

    “True Crime, Psychology, and Snark: Trust Us. We’re Doctors.” 

    All of our episode resources can be found on our website: www.la-not-so-confidential.com and be sure to follow along on Instagram: @lanotsopodcast, TikTok: @lanotsoconfidential & X: @lanotsopod

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    Announcement: Columbus, Ohio Meet Up Aug 31, 2026
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    Meet-up for all!
    Friday, September 11th at 6pm, local time.
    The Beeline Easton Town Center Columbus, Ohio
    Drop us a line on social to let us know you'll be there! (No official rsvp necessary)
    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lanotsopod
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    Introducing Valley of Shadows: The Devil’s Punchbowl Jan 19, 2026
    Show notes Valley of Shadows is a new true crime podcast that digs into a nearly 30-year old secret buried in the California desert. On June 11, 1998, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jon Aujay set out for a run in California’s Devil’s Punchbowl park — and never came back. Aujay has yet to be found. The Sheriff’s Department rules Aujay’s disappearance a suicide, but friends, family, and fellow deputies insist the story doesn’t add up. Instead, they believe Aujay may have stumbled into the Mojave Desert’s criminal underworld — where outlaw biker gangs crank out methamphetamine and local cops operate on both sides of the law. Through exclusive interviews, revealing wiretaps, and buried police files, journalists Hayley Fox and Betsy Shepherd explore one of Southern California’s most mysterious missing person cases. In Valley of Shadows, they ask: What is the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department hiding?
    Find Valley of Shadows wherever you get podcasts.

    Featuring: Strictly Stalking Dec 13, 2025
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    Strictly Stalking is a weekly true crime podcast exploring true stalking cases from survivors- in their own words. Every Tuesday, hosts Jaimie Beebe and Jake Deptula cover a unique stalking case by interviewing stalking survivors, advocates, and experts.
    This episode highlights the phenomenon of Erotomania in a non-celebrity case.
    Find their podcast here.
    Subscribe to their YouTube channel here.
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    The Psychology of Goodbye Oct 04, 2025
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    Welp. Here it is. All the thanks you and goodbyes in the world would not be enough.
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    216. AI Psychosis Oct 04, 2025
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    We are leaving you with the future. For our final episode, we explore the occurrences of "AI Psychosis" and lay out what chatbots are really doing. Spoiler alert, they don't care about your well-being.
    Future Policing podcast
    The Daily Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral podcast
    Episode 28 Folie a Deux: The Madness of Two
    Episode 185 Folie a Deux Revisited
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    215. Behind the Couch: Getting the Story Right w/ Dark City Podcast Sep 17, 2025
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    For our final Behind the Couch, we talk with Leah, the producer and co-host of the Dark City podcast, about the importance of research in historical true crime storytelling and revisit some of the vintage cases we have both covered, including Lizzie Borden and Winnie Ruth Judd of the Trunk Murders.
    Listen to Dark City here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dark-city-touring-the-hidden-history-of-famous/id1738799067
    Watch our conversation over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/bSfEcckxliI?si=1ixmuuhNKAsixO1u
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    214. Poisonings Sep 03, 2025
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    Cults, Black Widows, and spies, oh my! The act of poisoning has been used by a very diverse set of perpetrators throughout history and all the way up to today. We give you several case examples to try and cover them all after looking at the profiles of poisoners and answering the question- Do women kill more often with poison?
    Episode 32 Killer Nurses
    Episode 69 Facticious Diroder Part 1
    Episode 70 Facticious Diroder Part 2
    Episode 107 Assassinations
    Behind the Couch: Medical Child Abuse w/ Det. Mike Weber
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    Notes from friend of the show, John, on films related to A Blueprint for Murder and poisenings
    Joseph Cotten films, selected:
    Too Much Johnson (1938) - a work print of a silent film, meant to be screened during a stage production, lots of amusing footage. It has some very beautiful images toward the end. Welles inadvertently ahead of his time, it's an edit-your-own movie, with your choice of music as well.
    Citizen Kane (1941) - every time I see this, I notice something else amazing about it. This exchange has taken on new dimensions in the internet era:
    Carter: "There's no proof that that woman was murdered, or even that she's dead."
    Kane: "...she's missing, and the neighbors are getting suspicious."
    Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) - deep Hitchcock with lots of psych and noir interest, I very much recommend it. The father character and his friend are True Crime enthusiasts, and they have a detailed discussion about poisoning.
    Gaslight (1944) - Angela Lansbury's first movie, the title has entered the common lexicon. It's memorable, plenty of psych and noir interest.
    Duel In The Sun (1946) - great cast, and the color really works well: there's something strangely camp about this film. Standout performances include Jennifer Jones, Lillian Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, and the opening narration by Welles.
    The Third Man (1949) - classic and sort of its own thing, it involves poisoning in the context of a tainted-penicillin racket, central to the plot.
    Othello (1951) - I've seen this several times and until today I didn't even know Cotten was in it, an uncredited cameo.
    Niagra (1953) - solid crime drama starring Marilyn Monroe, it also features Cotten's 'A Blueprint For Murder' co-star Jean Peters.
    Touch Of Evil (1958) - three words: Welles, Dietrich, Mancini. Mercedes McCambridge is great in this too. Cotten plays a medical examiner.
    Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) - you know: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Cotten, Agnes Moorhead, and Mary Astor in her last movie. Al Martino (Johnny Fontane in The Godfather) sings the title song.
    The Grasshopper (1970) - wild exploitation film, not to be taken too seriously: a late-nighter to be sure. It's scheduled on TCM, Saturday, 9/6 at 1:15 am, and probably streaming after that.
    F For Fake (1973) - essential Welles, with great musings on authenticity, deception, and fraud: Cotten appears as himself.
    ***
    Though perhaps not directly related to 'A Blueprint For Murder', Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) involves poisoning and seems influenced by Gaslight (1944), both films with a distraught Ingrid Bergman character.
    ***
    'A Blueprint For Murder' cinematographer Leo Tover shot many worthy movies, including:
    Bachelor Apartment (1931) - star and director Lowell Sherman attended the Fatty Arbuckle hotel party disaster, and later testified about it in court.
    Is My Face Red? (1932) - very offbeat comedy-drama, expertly directed by William Seiter, it includes a quintessential pre-Code image: a chorine bending over completely to exclaim from between her own legs, "Meow!" It also has one of the era's most gruesome descriptions of mob violence.
    Thirteen Women (1932) - Largely set in Los Angeles, and Peg Entwistle's only film before jumping off the Hollywood sign. Also, remember pages 94 and 105 of 'Applied Psychology' by Hollingsworth and Hoffenberger.
    No Man Of Her Own (1932) - originally a novel by Val Lewton (I Walked With A Zombie, The Seventh Victim, The Curse Of The Cat People), and the only movie with Gable and Lombard (they married 7 years later), Edmund Goulding (The Flame Within [outstanding early psych relevance], The Razor's Edge, Nightmare Alley) has a story credit.
    I'm No Angel (1933) - a scene at the piano with Mae West and Cary Grant--as Mae sings "I Want You, I Need You"--emanates a sparkling old Hollywood glamour. It's her last pre-Code release ("Your best isn't good enough. Try doing your worst").
    Murder At The Vanities (1934) - while not a great movie, it has a strong appearance by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, and also the legendary production number "Sweet Marijuana".
    Dead Reckoning (1946) - noir with Bogart, it's worthwhile, but not one of my favorites.
    note: Tover shot the original film adaptation of The Great Gatsby (1926), which apparently hasn't survived.
    ***
    A Blueprint For Murder (1953) writer-director Andrew Stone also directed the great Stormy Weather (20th Century Fox, 1943), a landmark musical with an all-black cast.
    ***
    Shorter version: some movies with notable poisoning content are Shadow Of A Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), and The Third Man (1949).


    213. Behind the Couch: The Mother Next Door with Detective Mike Weber Aug 20, 2025
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    Join us as we have a conversation with Detective Mike Weber about his book, The Mother Next Door, three stories of incredible cases of medical child abuse (Munchausen By Proxy).
    Book: https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Next-Door-Deception-Munchausen/dp/1250284279
    Det. Mike Weber's page: https://www.mikeweberconsulting.com/
    Nobody Should Believe Me podcast: https://www.nobodyshouldbelieveme.com/
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    212. Piquerism Aug 06, 2025
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    This week, we dive into a very specific sexual paraphilia, often associated with serial murder cases. We lay out the foundational research and see how it has been analyzed in case studies, dating back to the 1700's. We also discuss the London Monster, the Whitechapel Murders, and more recent cases, including whether or not we think piquerism fits with the Idaho 4 case.
    Dr. Watson short video on the London Monster
    Eavesdroppin Podcast
    Our Knife Crime Crisis documentary
    Watch our past Behind the Couch livestreams here
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    Behind the Couch: Women Who Talk to the Dead with Kate Schweit, Ret. FBI Jul 30, 2025
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    Join us as we have a conversation with Katherine Schweit about her new book, Women Who Talk to the Dead, a story of incredible determination of female law enforcement officers in the pursuit of justice for 200+ murder victims.
    See LA in A Day Tours
    Kate Schweit's book
    Kate Schweit's website
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