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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

334 // Murder City's Michael Arntfield

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from both the Missing and Crawlspace shows! Ad-free episodes and more at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Missing" for your first month FREE! Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by Michael Andrew Arntfield. Michael is a Canadian academic, author, criminologist, true crime broadcaster and podcaster, and a professor at the University of Western Ontario. From 1999 to 2014, Arntfield was employed with the London Police Service as a Police Officer and Detective. In 2014, Arntfield left policing to accept a customized academic appointment at the University of Western Ontario. Today, Arntfield teaches "literary criminology," a term he adopted combined English literature and crime studies program. The fascinating conversation covers Michael's work on his book Murder City which tell the story about London Ontario, once known as the serial killer capital of the world. Michael's incredible knowledge and insight into crime and crime prevention is utilized perfectly as he sits on the board of directors for the Murder Accountability Project. Website: https://michaelarntfield.com/ Murder Accountability Project: https://www.murderdata.org/ Books available: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Arntfield/e/B01N64Q795/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk London Ontario Serial Killer Capital of the World article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/london-ont-was-world-s-serial-killer-capital-uwo-prof-1.3207957 Follow Michael on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mikearntfield?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ToCatchAKillerTV LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikearntfield/ This episode is brought to you in part by our wonderful sponsors, Modern Fertility, Vessi, ButcherBox & Best Fiends. Modern Fertility will help you find power in your fertility info and get proactive about your reproductive health. Get $30 off your fertility test when you go to https://modernfertility.com/Crawlspace30/ Vessi is a remarkable company that produces high quality, lightweight footwear and gloves that are 100% waterproof. We love them and you will too! Go to https://vessi.com/ and use code CRAWLSPACE for 15% off your entire order! ButcherBox was started with the idea that everyone should have access to high-quality, humanely raised meat. Each month, they deliver 100% grass-fed beef, humanely raised pork, and free-range organic chicken straight to your door. Sign up today at butcherbox.com/CRAWLSPACE and use code CRAWLSPACE to get Free Ribeyes for a Year plus $10 off. Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Another true crime show we are sure you'll enjoy is our friends Justin & Aaron from The Generation Why Podcast! Follow them on Amazon Music or listen early and ad free on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Join the Crawlspace Discussion Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/talkcrawlspace/ Crawlspace Media is part of the Glassbox Media Network. Check them out here: https://glassboxmedia.com/ Go to https://smile.amazon.com/ to connect your existing Amazon account to donate to Private Investigations For the Missing. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ http://piftm.org/donate https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

0:30.0

Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

0:40.0

Doing fantastic today, Tim. After we spoke with our guests, we became a little bit smarter,

0:44.8

a little bit more aware of crime and crime prevention. Hope everyone out there is doing

0:48.9

just as well as I'm doing in Tim. I don't want to prevent you from telling us how you're

0:53.2

doing. Oh, well, thank you. I am doing great here today. Thanks a lot for asking. And yeah,

0:58.2

we have a fantastic guest today. His name is Michael Arndtfield and he is from Canada and he's

1:06.1

written books and he's on TV and he spent about an hour with us. He also is on the board of

1:12.2

directors at the Murder Accountability Project. And you can check out what they're doing at

1:17.0

MurderData.org. It's already been a resource that we have used here at Crawl Space Media for

1:23.1

years. Make sure to check that out, but also check out his books. We speak a little bit about

1:27.8

one of his books called Murder City. We also speak about his latest book, How to Solve a Cold

1:33.0

Case, which I'm currently listening to and it's great so far Lance. He really is a great writer and

1:38.4

although he is a criminologist, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, a London

1:44.6

police officer for 15 years where he served as an officer and a detective. He's been utilized

1:50.1

as an expert on numerous networks, including the Peacock Network, ID Discovery, A&E, HBO,

1:56.7

the Oxygen Network, the list goes on and on. And I have to say, I was a little surprised at how

2:02.0

intimidated he was by us. It took a little while for him to get the jitters out, I feel.

2:07.0

Well, I'm not sure if you're... That wasn't the read I had on it. Oh, okay. But anyway, he is

2:12.4

great. Make sure you check out his books and I hope you really enjoyed this conversation with

2:18.1

Mr. Michael Arndtfield. And before we get to Michael, we're going to take a quick break for our

2:23.0

sponsors. Stick around. Thanks to our sponsors and now we're back to the program.

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