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True Crime Campfire

Apt Pupil: The Murder of Richard Carno

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

There’s an old saying that if you’re not where you want to be in your life—or who—you should “fake it til you make it.” And it can work great. For example, let’s say you’re terrified of public speaking. And inside you feel like you’re about to either pee yourself, barf up everything you’ve ever eaten, just turn around and flee, or possibly all three. But instead of letting the audience see your nerves, you straighten your shoulders and stride out to the podium in your best outfit, with a big, fake, confident smile on your face. Chances are, people will never know how scared you were, and you’ll actually start to FEEL confident after a while. But…what if you never get to the “til you make it” part? What if the core of your being is so dark, so abhorrent, so contrary to everything that makes us truly human, that your only option is to fake it, all the time? I bet you’d get real good at it. William Saroyan once wrote, “It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.” For the villain in this story, it was just the opposite. The rehearsal was all about hiding the self.

Sources:
Investigation Discovery's "Diabolical," Episode "Teach Me to Kill"
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2004/jan/22/siblings-facing-off-against-each-other-in-murder-t/
https://www.newsbreak.com/nevada/las-vegas/news/1547024008696/susanne-carno-paid-her-brother-to-murder-husband-richard-carno-so-she-could-pocket-the-life-insurance
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2004/mar/12/carno-insists-shes-innocent-at-sentencing/
http://www.jailhouse-babes.com/personals/f094/f09-497.htm

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0:00.0

Your daily life often goes like this.

0:04.0

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0:08.0

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Until the 14th of November, book your flight to Abbey from 417 pounds or Nairobi from 511

0:20.9

return including tax from Manchester via Paris.

0:24.0

Elegance is a journey, Air France.

0:26.8

To book and for terms and conditions, visit Air France.

0:29.4

co-dot-co. UK.

0:30.4

Hello, campers.

0:32.4

Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:35.0

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

0:38.0

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:42.0

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the

0:44.3

true crime campfire.

0:45.6

There's an old saying that if you're not where you want to be in your life or who you should fake it till you make it and it can work great

0:59.8

For example, let's say you're terrified of public speaking, and inside you feel like you're about to either pee yourself, barf up everything you've ever eaten, just turn around and flee, or possibly all three.

1:11.0

But instead of letting the audience see your nerves, you straighten your shoulders and

1:14.9

stride out to the podium in your best outfit with a big fake confident smile on your face.

1:20.4

Chances are, people will never know how scared you were were and you'll actually start to feel confident after a while.

1:26.0

But what if you never get to the till you make it part?

1:30.0

What if the core of your being is so dark, so abhorrent, so contrary to everything

1:36.1

that makes us truly human, that your only option is to fake it, all the time?

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