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I'm Rebecca Lavoie, and this is Crime Writers' On.

Crime Writers On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop culture, other podcasts.

And on this episode, to the rest of the high school, they seemed like three best friends.

But when one vanished, nobody suspected the other two were involved.

We'll talk about the Hulu True Crime documentary series, Friends Like These, The Murder of Skyler Nice. Joining me to get that done in more is true crime author, TV journalist, and host of, These are their Stories, My Husband, and Love of My Life, Kevin Flynn. Hello, Kevin. Hello, Rebecca. Also with us is Private Investigator, Certified Pet Detective, resident Cat Lady, and author of the Piper Green series of cozy mysteries. It's Laura Bricker. Hello, Laura. Hello, Rebecca. And finally, all the way from Valencia, Spain. Author of the City Trilogy, host of Rip Current, More like Ancient Phalians, and the podcast soon to be a major motion picture, Strange Arrivals, it's Toby Ball,

Kpasa, Toby.

Ola, Buenos, Rebecca.

So, Kevin, this is Thursday's program.

It is.

What's coming up on next week's show?

Yeah, next week we're going to talk about the series from Apple TV, Imperfect Women.

Oh.

And then a week from today, the podcast will discuss is Someone's hunting us. I'm glad you're doing a perfect woman. I'm getting a lot of requests to do that. That sounds intense. So, Kevin, before we start the show, can we just talk about what we've been capturing on our ring cam? Yeah, sure. I accidentally left the garage door open. Mm-hmm. It's your fault. It's totally my fault. wokeoke up the next morning, went to take Briscoe for a ride, and our garbage can was knocked over, and I checked out the ring, and what did I see? But a mother bear and two little cubs going into our garage and attempting to steal our trash. Exciting, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, it fell, the trash barrel, like, fell on, I guess I would call it its stomach. So the way it lifts open, the bear couldn't lift it. If it fell the other way, be able to pop it right open, right? But if the way it fell that the lid wouldn't open for them, otherwise, they would have just enjoyed all of our delicious trash. That's right. I have something else to tell you about the bears. There's actually a second video, which I actually didn't notice. I just looked at the one of all three of them, how cute they were. There's a video of the mother bear walking into our garage on the passenger side of my car. And she's in there for a little while. Uh-huh. And all I could think about was, we have so much food in there. We've got, we got extra pasta. We've got all that party, barn party food in that container. They're all in plastic containers, thank God. Yeah. And, yeah. And the other thing is, I think she left a little scratch on my car. Like a tiny wine. It's not like upset about it, but I was like, I think This is like where the bear like. Yeah. Anyway. Do you guys remember the crime of the week where it was the insurance fraud where a guy dressed up like a bear and scratched all the luxury cars to get the insurance money? Yeah. Those guys went to jail. That trial just happened. Did they show up in their bear outfits or did they have to show up in their? No, but they did have a wildlife expert who said, that's clearly a person in a bear suit. Which is funny because every time I see a black bear, I think that's a person in a bear suit because that's what they look like. The one bear that knocked over the trash can, the mother, after she does it, she stands up on her back feet and like backs up a little. Like, oops.

Well, there was that bear that was so human-like that it was like all over the internet. Oh, the grizzly in Russia? It was like standing up. And it was like, yeah, that was kind of wild. Russian people and their bears, man. That one might expect. I've seen a TikTok where a dog walks into the kitchen like that. The dog just walks around on its back two legs.

Is she not AI?

Oh, gosh, it could have been AI. Where a dog walks into the kitchen like that. The dog just walks around on its back two legs.

You sure it's not AI?

Oh, gosh, it could have been AI, I suppose. Anytime you see an animal video, you should always assume it's AI. I can't trust it, yeah. You're right. You see those videos where it's like, this deer came over to our house. And now it's our dog's best friend. It's fucking AI. And the dog comes and rescues the baby right before lightning strikes or some stupid. AI.

AI, AI, AI.

Anyway.

Our world sucks. It's fucking AI. And the dog comes and rescues the baby right before lightning strikes or some stupid.

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