BEST of True Crime with Michelle McNamara
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2013
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Writer Michelle McNamara (TrueCrimeDiary.com) talks about her first brush with solving crime and then discusses one of the biggest unsolved crimes ever- Jon Benet Ramsey.
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| 0:00.0 | Next week on Storyworthy, we have comedian Graham Elwood. |
| 0:03.5 | And I'm going to tell you why being in a long-distance relationship is really stupid. |
| 0:08.4 | That's next week on Storyworthy. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome to the Story Worthy podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney. Welcome to Storyworthy. |
| 0:40.7 | I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Honest Finney, and this is a best-of-story-worthy podcast. |
| 0:47.8 | That's right. |
| 0:48.4 | You know how we do it, Honest. |
| 0:49.5 | Every couple of months, we come along with a best-of show. |
| 0:52.4 | And what that is is we basically are just |
| 0:54.8 | repurposing stories that have already been told. That's true. And we obviously, they are the best |
| 1:00.4 | stories. And in this case, we have a, this is a special best of because both stories are by |
| 1:05.0 | the same person. That's right. Michelle McNamara. She is a writer. And you know what she is, |
| 1:09.2 | honest? She is a truth seeker is what she is. |
| 1:12.5 | Yes. She enjoys the true crime and the helping of the solving of the true crime. So she's like a sleuth. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah. Well, Michelle McNamara is actually pretty special because she's actually solved crime. |
| 1:23.0 | She has, she works with different detective agencies and she gives tips and they call her and she |
| 1:29.7 | investigates things yes she actually i know and like our friend caroline who loves the true crime |
| 1:34.5 | gerald our our graphic designer she loves true crime but now she's training to actually be an |
| 1:39.7 | investigator right so the woman who brought you the storyworthy logo you see yellow yellow, you see red, and you see orange. She doesn't want to do that anymore. Now she wants to solve crime. Right. And I think that hopefully she will not repurpose our logo to involve like a dead body, like they chalk outline and a big blood splatter, story worthy. Bam! |
| 2:01.5 | I don't know. |
| 2:02.1 | That could be advertising now that I'm thinking of it. |
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