I Am A Killer Season 2

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

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

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ten inmates, ten lifelong sentences, ten episodes featuring prisons across the United States. In season 2 of the docuseries I Am A Killer, streaming on Netflix, every episode recounts one prisoner’s memories of the events that led to their crime, underlying motivations, and how they make sense of their lives now. Interviews with victims, their families, and detectives uncover multiple layers to the stories and reignite the debate about rehabilitation and restitution in America’s criminal justice system. In this episode, Rebecca Lavoie (Crime Writers On...) speaks with Danny Tipping, the executive producer of the docuseries. This episode contains spoilers so make sure to watch the whole series before listening on. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our guest was recorded in his home and not in a studio. We appreciate your understanding of the change in audio quality.

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast for Netflix Original True Crime Stories.
0:06.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy, your host.
0:11.0	Each episode will take a close- up look at a binge worthy true crime
0:14.4	documentary or series and I talk to the people who made them digging deep into
0:18.6	the backstories and getting answers to questions raised by what we just watched.
0:24.4	On the show this week, season two of the docuaries,
0:27.5	I am a killer.
0:29.5	The documentary profiles 10 inmates serving life sentences with extraordinary
0:33.9	access to prisons across the United States. Every episode recounts
0:38.3	one prisoner's memories of the events that led to the crime, underlying
0:42.2	motivations,
0:43.4	and how they make sense of their lives today.
0:46.3	Interviews with victims, their families,
0:48.2	and detectives uncover multiple layers
0:50.3	to the stories and reignite debate over rehabilitation and restitution in America's
0:55.2	criminal justice system.
0:57.8	I'll be talking with Danny Tipping, the series executive producer.
1:01.5	A few notes, this episode contains spoilers so make sure to watch the whole
1:05.7	series before listening on. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic our guest was
1:10.8	recorded in his home and not in a studio.
1:13.2	We appreciate your understanding.
1:15.0	I've never talked about this.
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