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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Investigative reporter and documentary producer David Holthouse was sexually assaulted as a child. He says that trauma led him to devote his life to unmasking monsters, both real and imagined. His newest project took him to a dangerous part of Northern California — the supposed home of Bigfoot. Holthouse tells KCRW about investigating a more than 25-year-old triple homicide for the Hulu series “Sasquatch.”
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. Investigative reporter and documentary |
0:07.0 | producer David Holt House was sexually assaulted at age seven. As a result of that trauma, |
0:12.9 | he's devoted his life to unmasking monsters, including his rapist. He reflects on the impact of that |
0:19.5 | event on his career and talks about his latest project, |
0:22.6 | the Hulu series Sasquatch. It follows a tale of a possible triple homicide that Holt House heard |
0:28.2 | when he was working briefly on a cannabis farm when he was in his early 20s. Some locals held |
0:33.3 | that the killer really was a literal monster, said to prowl the dense forests of Northern California's so-called Emerald Triangle. |
0:40.8 | Another director I work with named Josh Ruffay, |
0:43.6 | he texted me kind of out of the blue, |
0:45.2 | and he'd become a fan of this podcast called, I think, Sasquatch Chronicles, something like that. |
0:50.1 | And he was like, man, if we could just find some sort of, like, |
0:53.6 | legit true crime story wrapped up in a Sasquatch myth. |
0:58.5 | And I immediately like flashed on this experience I'd had. |
1:02.6 | Holt House talks about the perils of chasing down a possible killer, as well as his years obsessively planning to murder the man who assaulted him as a child. And he explains how a |
1:12.6 | one-off appearance in a student documentary about cockfighting led to his career in nonfiction films. |
1:19.1 | But first, we banter. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:30.2 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt. |
1:31.1 | Bellany, hello, Matt. |
1:31.8 | Hi there. |
1:39.3 | So we are on the cusp of the annual gathering of the Titans in Sun Valley, where in the past, |
1:44.8 | huge deals like the Disney acquisition of ABC Cap Cities have gone down. |
1:50.9 | Didn't happen last year because of the pandemic, obviously, is going to happen this year. |
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