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Crime Writers On...

Broken Harts broke our hearts (and not in a good way)

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Society & Culture, True Crime, Author, Panel, Writer, Review, Tv Reviews, Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Two true crime updates this week. The "hot sheriff" from Murder Mountain issues a rebuttal of-sorts to the Netflix doc. Meantime, based on a recent court decision favorable to his case, Adnan Syed's legal team has submitted a supplemental filing in his appeal. Then there's a special cameo from this month's guest on Toby Ball's Deep Dive podcast. Next the crime writers talk about the hit podcast "Broken Harts." This collaboration between HowStuffWorks and Glamour magazine looks at the case of a family killed when their van was intentional driven over an ocean cliff. The background of the Harts is compelling, but does the pod do a good job presenting any of these issues? FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "BROKEN HARTS," GO TO 57:09. In crime of the week: open sesame. SPONSORS THIS WEEK LegacyBox - go to legacybox.com/crime to get 40% off your first order Simple Contacts - get $20 off your contacts at simplecontacts.com/CWO20 or enter code CWO20 at checkout Pretty Litter - go to prettylitter.com promo code CRIME for 20% off Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.: https://patreon.com/partnersincrimemedia

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0:00.0

You can support this podcast at patreon.com slash partners in crime media.

0:21.0

I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Writer's On, the podcast about other podcasts and also about Drew Crime, pop culture journalism.

0:27.0

And this week our take on the hit podcast broken hearts will break down and review this true crime podcast and we won't shy away from its many many problems.

0:38.0

Plus some true crime updates and a whole lot more and joining me to get all that done is my real life husband and true crime co-author, former TV journalist and karaoke tracks, aficionado, Kevin Flynn, hello Kevin.

0:51.0

You know sometimes people want like some instrumental music around the house.

0:55.0

They don't show they do some dinner, washing dishes, you know, I just like why not just do some karaoke because you know the songs and you don't have to worry about the vocals.

1:05.0

It's still at my side.

1:07.0

You didn't actually sing along though. So just sounded like we were in a cheap Japanese restaurant listening to karaoke tracks of green day and Elvis Costell was really weird.

1:15.0

I love you anyway though.

1:16.0

Yeah, thanks.

1:18.0

Also with us is journalist true crime author, former defense investigator licensed private investigator, certified cat lady and Marie condo convert Laura Bricker.

1:28.0

Hello Laura. Hello. Yeah. My family is afraid that I'm going to ship them next door because they're no longer bringing me joy.

1:36.0

Ken came home today and the cat was laying in the bed. He's like, feel like she better watch out. You're going to get rolled up and stuck in the drawer.

1:42.0

He's holding thirds.

1:44.0

Yeah, sorry.

1:45.0

Cats going in the drawer. He brings me joy family going to neighbor dance house.

1:50.0

And finally our captain of Woksonism, the author behind the noir novels known as the city trilogy are Patreon book club host and the proud owner of a cat who hates him.

2:01.0

Toby ball. Hello, Toby.

2:04.0

Peace.

2:06.0

Toby, you have to share that picture with everybody on our social media feed so they can know what I'm talking about.

2:10.0

Yeah, it's pretty incredible. I don't know if the irony comes across to people who don't know me as well.

2:15.0

Like Toby, how did I not know in all this time and all of my ranting and raving about orange male cats that you had an orange male cat?

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