The Blotter Presents

Latest Episodes:

Brief 16: The Truth About True Crime With Amanda Knox Nov 19, 2018

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A seemingly reluctant true-crime figure wades into the podcasting fray with a companion podcast to Sundance's Jonestown docuseries.

Brief 15: Reply All Episode 99, "Black Hole, NJ" Nov 16, 2018

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Reply All takes a Mystery-Show-ish journey into the dark Russian-online-shopping-hacker heart of...Woodbridge?

075: Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle And Frontline's Amerithrax Episode Nov 14, 2018

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The fortieth anniversary of the mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana is next week, and Sundance's Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle miniseries looks back; Toby Ball joins me once again to talk about when Jim Jones's sincere dreams of utopia curdled, which Jonestown property is the least difficult to get through, and what we hope became of that Willie kid. Later, with both the MAGA bomber and Robert Mueller in the headlines recently, we're also looking back at another series of attacks by mail -- and another Mueller investigation -- with Frontline's "The Anthrax Files."

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Jonestown: Terror In The Jungle
American Experience, "The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple"
TBP's all-Jonestown Ep 013
The New Yorker, "Orphans Of Jonestown"
Frontline, "The Anthrax Files"

Special Guest: Toby Ball.

Brief 14: Kingpins Nov 12, 2018

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Parcast's latest takes a three-part look at Pablo Acosta Villarreal and the pre-cartel Mexican drug trade.

Brief 13: What Haunts Us Nov 09, 2018

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

074: Dr. Death And Gypsy's Revenge Nov 07, 2018

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Stephanie Early Green joined me for Ep 009 on Mommy Dead And Dearest, so it felt only right that she sit with me again for Gypsy's Revenge, a follow-up on the Gypsy Rose/Dee Dee Blanchard case from ID that, to our surprise, was pretty good and not superfluous. (Our conversation about Gypsy's father's sexy audiobook voice? Deeehhhfinitely superfluous.)

But before that, we dug into the eminently bingeable, utterly horrifying Dr. Death, Wondery's six-part look at the reign of surgical terror of Christopher Duntsch. What makes the pod so captivating -- Laura Beil's narration? nifty, understated details like Stella the dog? our own struggles with back pain? We talked about all that, plus what exactly Duntsch's problem is, willing accomplices, doing operations from YouTube instructional videos, and much more in Episode 074.

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