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You Can’t Make This Up

Next Up: Catching Killers

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

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

4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Next up on You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about Catching Killers. This series retells the stories of some of America’s most notorious serial killers from the point of view of the people who caught them. Each film in this series recounts the investigation into one infamous case. Next week, our host Rebecca Lavoie will be interviewing one of the series directors, Alex Emslie. Make sure to watch Catching Killers before then, and especially the two-episode arc "True Lies, Part 1 & Part 2: The Happy Face Killer" to follow along with Alex Emslie's insight into the case. We want to know what story shocked you the most on Catching Killers. If you have thoughts to share about this series, tweet Rebecca @reblavoie and she might just read your tweet on our next episode! Stay tuned!

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0:00.0

I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is you can't make this up. You Can't Make This Up is the Podcast Where We Uncover The True Stories Behind Your

0:20.0

Favorite Netflix Documentaries and films.

0:23.3

I am very excited to tell you about next week's episode about the true crime Netflix

0:28.3

documentary, Katching Killers.

0:31.2

It's a four-part series looking at the hunt for some of the world's most notorious serial

0:35.8

killers. What sets these stories apart from other documentaries covering the same crimes

0:41.2

is they're told almost exclusively by the investigators who went after the

0:45.9

killers.

0:47.1

The investigators provide their insights, their victories, their misgivings, all of it about the cases they have been assigned.

0:57.0

Episode 1 deals with the hunt for Gary Ridgeway who would come to be known as the Green River

1:02.3

Killer.

1:03.4

He was either convicted or suspected of the murders of up to 71 women in the 1980s and 90s.

1:10.8

The realization that we might have a serial killer was overwhelming.

1:17.0

It's something we had never dealt with before.

1:21.0

We knew at this point we had to ramp up our investigations.

1:26.0

We reached out to dozens of law enforcement.

1:30.0

I mean it became evident that we really needed to work together on this.

1:34.1

Now if you remember Charlize Tharran's Oscar winning performance in Monster,

1:38.9

then you're familiar with the killer in episode two.

1:41.8

We hear from the detectives who went after Eileen Warnos,

1:45.0

a rare female serial killer who targeted men.

1:49.7

Even though we didn't have enough to charge her

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