Introducing-American Hostage
True Crime Cases with Lanie
TCFC Media
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In the series premiere, radio DJ Fred Heckman (Jon Hamm) receives an unexpected call from a listener that turns his life upside down.
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| 0:00.0 | Mailchimp would like to talk to you about customers. |
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| 0:30.4 | Hey truecrime fan club listeners, so I just started this new show that you probably heard about. |
| 0:35.6 | It's a truecrime podcast called American Hostage. |
| 0:38.6 | And I'm honestly very happy that I can binge it all at once because every episode leaves you hanging. |
| 0:44.7 | Now here's the thing. It's set in Indianapolis in 1977. |
| 0:49.2 | American Hostage is a suspenseful true story starring John Hamm, |
| 0:53.2 | S. Fred Heckman, who is a beloved local radio reporter. |
| 0:56.7 | This is all true by the way. |
| 0:58.1 | So he's forced into the middle of a life or death crisis. |
| 1:01.7 | So this hostage-taker named Tony Carritzis basically demands to be interviewed live on his popular |
| 1:07.7 | radio news program. Now, Heckman uses his radio show essentially to give Carritzis this platform. |
| 1:15.0 | And so because of this, Carritzis gradually becomes a media sensation and an unexpected |
| 1:21.0 | national hero during this nail-biting 63-hour police stand-up. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm not joking you. It was insane. |
| 1:28.0 | I covered this case on Cribs of Passion and trust me, |
| 1:31.7 | it definitely deserves to be an entire podcast because the story's nuts. |
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