Hey everybody, it is just John today on another shot and we're doing a different episode

this week in that I recently got the chance to sit down with Brian O'Connor.

He is an executive producer, he has many roles, but an executive producer on the OG True

Crime Show snapped on Oxygen and it was such an honor and so much fun to chat with him.

So without further ado, let's get right into my interview with Brian. As head writer,

what exactly can you tell our listeners goes into sort of the decision making process

for an episode and has that changed over the years? I mean, we're on what season now, 27 or 28

of snapped? 28.04 air last Sunday. So the 500th episode is 28.08, it's coming up pretty soon.

So the show has changed a lot, you know, in its 16 years. You know, when we started, it was always

about, it always profiled cases of wealthy women, generally attractive. That has changed a lot

over the years. We cover a lot more cases. We're not limiting ourselves to one profile.

If you will. Yeah. So now we have a full time, we have a full time group of researchers

whose sole job is to look for cases. Cases come from everywhere. Totally. We have a spreadsheet,

an Excel spreadsheet that is constantly moving up and down. I was sent a case just like a couple

days ago from another producer of a woman who was arrested for allegedly poisoning her husband

with mushrooms. Oh, that was a new one. I have not seen that before. So these cases come from

everywhere they come from the police officers interview. But generally speaking, we have about 200

potential episodes, you know, at the beginning of any given season and maybe 50 to 60 of those

are actually produced. The criteria is it always has to have a woman who is convicted of a crime.

You know, sometimes she works alone. Sometimes she has a partner. Sometimes she swings the axe.

Sometimes her buddy does. You know, so it really varies. But there always needs to be like a good

mystery. Everybody loves a good mystery. You know, I was like, absolutely. It goes back to like childhood,

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