S16 Ep9: C.J. from Rainbow Crimes

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Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bob sits down with the Host and Creator of the Rainbow Crimes podcast. CJ talks about her journey creating a show that spreads awareness about crimes involving a marginalized community, and speaks about a couple of the cases that she's covered.

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0:00.0	From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.
0:19.4	I'm Bob Roth.
0:41.6	Hello everybody and welcome back to truth and justice. I have a special episode for you guys today.
0:48.3	I am joined by a fellow true crime podcaster that has a very specific niche of true crime that she covers.
0:55.1	Her name is CJ and she is the host of the Rainbow Crimes podcast, formerly beyond the rainbow.
0:56.7	When did you make that change, CJ?
1:00.7	Oh, I just decided to do it for the new year, actually.
1:06.4	Oh, so just now after about five years of run the podcast. Yes.
1:07.3	I was asking my listeners, I said, you know, I'm feeling a little stagnant, and I'd like to, you know, maybe rebrand a little bit.
1:15.3	What do you guys think if I changed the name?
1:17.7	And I presented them a logo that one of my fellow Darkcast network shows came up with on AI.
1:24.7	And they loved it.
1:25.9	So I'm all, okay, let's go with that then and see if we can spruce
1:29.5	things up a little bit. Yeah, that AI stuff is crazy right now. I have, I teach
1:34.1	broadcasting in our local high school, and they're creating logos for their podcast. And a few
1:38.9	of them are like, well, look, Mr. Ruff, you can go right on AI and they'll just build the logo for you. Oh, that's very cool.
1:44.9	Yeah, yeah, it's really neat. So, CJ, tell us a little bit about yourself. So you've been
1:49.2	doing the podcast now for about five years. Well, before we get into how you started the podcast,
1:55.3	I think, why don't you share what Rainbow Crimes is all about? What's your podcast about?
2:00.9	Rainbow Crimes previously, about. What's your podcast about? Rainbow Crimes previously Beyond the Rainbow is about true crime of the LGBTQ community.
2:08.6	And I cover crimes against LGBTQ people and crimes by LGBTQ people.
2:17.7	Okay. And how often do you do episodes?
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