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**The Blotter Presents**

The true crime worth YOUR time, reviewed weekly. Sarah D. Bunting, desk sergeant.

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Brief 8: The Lost Tapes: Clinton Impeachment Oct 30, 2018

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Smithsonian Channel's archival overview of Clinton's high crimes and misdemeanors is solid, but perhaps superfluous.

Brief 7: Carruth Oct 29, 2018

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The Charlotte Observer's look at the 1999 hit on Cherica Adams by her child's father, Rae Carruth, makes an NFL-crime-podcast trifecta. Should you listen?

Brief 6: Taberski, Rudolf, And Judge On Making A Murderer Oct 26, 2018

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Netflix's You Can't Make This Up podcast on MAM Pt. 2 doesn't quite work.

073: Making A Murderer And Karla Oct 24, 2018

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Is MAM still the same marathon-able, frustrating, compelling show in Part 2 as it was in 2015? Should Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi have tried harder to make the second season less "one-sided" as to Steven Avery's guilt -- or not at all? Does the second act suffer from a dearth of Strang and Buting, or of suspense as to Avery and Brendan Dassey's fates? And where does Kathleen Zellner keep all those stylish jackets?

Speaking of disgraces, the less said about 2006's Skinemax-y take on Karla Homolka, Karla, the better, except that you're better off watching Ellen Pompeo's ripped-from-the-headlines SVU on the case...or Misha Collins's apology for even being IN it. Brady violations and Lecter imitations: it's an all-new The Blotter Presents.

SHOW NOTES

Making A Murderer Part 2 on Netflix * USA Today lists key revelations from Part 2
Misha Collins on regretting making Karla
Some of the information Bernardo's parole hearing kept secret (warning: involves unsavory descriptions of his behavior during a "relationship" with a woman while he was in prison)
Ellen Pompeo's Law & Order (which was an SVU crossover, so I wasn't wrong?)

Special Guest: Eve Batey.

Brief 5: POV, "Lindy Lou, Juror No. 2" Oct 23, 2018

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From a July POV episode, one woman's emotional battle with her decision to give a man the death penalty.

Blotter Brief 4: Steve McNair: Fall Of A Titan Oct 22, 2018

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Sports Illustrated wades into the NFL-adjacent crime-pod fray with Tim Rohan's investigation of a 2009 murder-suicide.

Blotter Brief 3: Someone Knows Something, Season 5 Oct 18, 2018

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The CBC cold-case podcast returns for a fifth (!) season, this one on the murder of Manitoba teenager Kerrie Ann Brown.

072: The Sentence And This American Life Oct 17, 2018

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Toby Ball on Rudy Valdez's personal and affecting The Sentence, and a 19-year-old This American Life that in many ways could have been recorded last week -- plus parallels to the current season of Serial, how many crappy congressfolk keep haunting stories of the war on drugs, and how the tiniest of possession charges can, if you'll forgive the pun, snowball. The personal is political in The Blotter Presents Episode 72.

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SHOW NOTES

The Sentence on HBO
VF's review of The Sentence
This American Life 143: Sentencing
Episode 024 on Strong Island
The New Yorker's 2017 profile of the Sacklers'/Purdue's role in the opioid crisis
Frontline, "Snitch"

Special Guest: Toby Ball.

Blotter Brief 2: Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez And Football Inc. Oct 16, 2018

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The Boston Globe's spotlight team turns its attention to the crimes of -- and the crimes that made -- Aaron Hernandez.

Blotter Brief 1: Last Seen Oct 15, 2018

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Introducing Blotter Briefs (tee hee, "briefs"): capsule reviews of all the stuff I don't get to on the main podcast. Today's topic is art-heist pod Last Seen from WBUR and the Boston Globe.

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