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Missing

350 // Murder City's Michael Arntfield

Missing

Crawlspace Media

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

3.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

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/. 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/. 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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0:30.0

Welcome back to Missing. I am Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

0:43.0

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

0:47.9

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

0:52.0

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

0:56.2

doing. Oh well thank you. I am doing great here today. Thanks a lot for

0:59.8

asking. And yeah, we have a fantastic guest today. His name is Michael Arndtfield and he is

1:07.8

from Canada and he's written books and he's on TV and he spent about an hour with us. He also

1:14.1

is on the board of directors at the Murder Accountability Project and you can check out what they're

1:19.3

doing at MurderData.org. It's already been a resource that we have used here at Crossspace

1:25.4

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

1:30.6

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

1:35.4

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

1:40.9

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

1:47.2

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

1:52.6

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

1:58.9

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

2:05.1

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

2:10.4

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

2:15.8

Make sure you check out his books and I hope you really enjoy this conversation with Mr. Michael

2:22.0

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

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