Point Blank: Bonus Interview with Connor Sheets

This Is Actually Happening

Wondery

True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A special bonus episode featuring a conversation between TIAH host, Whit Missildine and Connor Sheets, an investigative journalist with the Los Angeles Times who co-produced the Point Blank series. In this conversation we discuss the origins of the series, how Connor originally got the story, the different storytelling approaches of print journalism and podcasting, the highs, lows and astonishing moments in creating the series.

Producers: Whit Missildine, Connor Sheets

Content/Trigger Warnings: gun violence, murder, graphic bodily injury, explicit language

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to this is actually happening.
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0:08.7	Hello, I'm Hannah.
0:09.9	And I'm Sirete.
0:10.9	And we are the hosts of A Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast.
0:14.6	Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.
0:18.0	From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch's
0:22.7	harga.
0:23.7	Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for
0:28.3	us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we
0:31.1	like.
0:32.1	We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's
0:35.1	blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon
0:39.8	of genetic sexual attraction.
0:41.6	Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.
0:46.4	Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized?
0:49.0	What drives a child to kill?
0:51.3	And what's the psychology of a terrorist?
0:53.3	Listen to Redhanded wherever you get your podcast.
0:55.4	To access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music, or by subscribing to Wondry
1:00.6	Plus in Apple podcasts or the Wondry app.
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