Best of 2021: Crime Scene

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We are looking back on one of your favorite You Can't Make This Up episodes of the year. In February of 2021, the docu-series 'Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel' was released on Netflix. Our host Rebecca Lavoie interviewed director and executive producer, Joe Berlinger, about the anthology series 'Crime Scene', the disappearance of college student Elisa Lam, and the notorious Cecil Hotel located in downtown Los Angeles.The second season of the acclaimed documentary series 'Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer' is out now on Netflix. The anthology series 'Crime Scene' unpacks the ways in which certain locations can become accomplices to the crimes that take place in them, with each season tackling a new location tied to a dark past.In December 1979, firemen responded to a blaze at a disreputable hotel in Times Square. What they found in the room sparked a manhunt for Richard Cottingham, a prolific serial killer who hid in plain sight among the people of Times Square. The series takes viewers deep into the investigation, laying out the social and systemic forces in a near-lawless area that allowed Cottingham’s horrific crimes to go unnoticed for far too long.If you have a favorite documentary from 2021 or a favorite You Can't Make This Up podcast episode, tweet our host @reblavoie your thoughts.Thanks so much for listening to today's episode & all this past year. 2021 wouldn't have been the same without you. We can't wait to share more about your favorite real-life stories shown on Netflix in 2022!

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't Make This Up.
0:07.0	You can't make this up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind
0:17.4	your favorite Netflix documentaries and films and it's been so hard to pick a favorite from this year's series and documentaries.
0:25.0	Some of the things I've enjoyed watching in 2021 include the Athletic Scandal Series Bad Sport,
0:32.0	the Rage Inducing Conversion Therapy documentary Prayaway, and the tear jerking adoption stories
0:38.4	and found.
0:40.1	What was one of your favorite Netflix series of 2021?
0:43.8	One of our biggest podcasts had to do with a mystery at a downtown Los Angeles hotel.
0:49.5	In 2013, college student Alyssa Lamb disappeared at the Cecil Hotel.
0:55.0	We never saw her leave and we communicated that to our peers.
1:01.0	That we felt that she's still here somewhere.
1:04.0	She never left the hotel.
1:06.0	The disappearance baffled police and mobilised an army of internet sloths
1:11.0	with their own theories about surveillance tapes, likely suspects, and nefarious
1:15.6	cover-ups.
1:16.6	But as we found out in crime scene, the vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, it was just the latest in a string of bad acts in the building over the years.
1:26.6	This story is part of a larger narrative that goes on and on and on and on and it has been for the last 75 years.
1:37.0	On December 29th season 2 will premiere of crime scene, The Times Square Killer.
1:43.7	But back in February, I talked with Emmy Award winning
1:46.6	an Academy Award nominated filmmaker Joe Burlanger
1:50.1	about the first season of his crime scene series.
1:53.0	Let's listen again to that interview.
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