S20 Ep96: Bless Your Heart: Murder In Buckhead w/Leigh Dunlap

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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True Crime Tuesday presents: Bless Your Heart: Murder In Buckhead with Screenwriter/Author, Leigh Dunlap!

Anderson Tupper, a member of one of Atlanta’s richest families, has been found murdered in the dugout of the Little League field where he was a volunteer coach, and it’s up to Detective Shay Claypool, a single mother from the other side of town, to find his killer. With the exclusive area of Buckhead threatening to secede from the city of Atlanta and take its tax revenue with it, Shay is under pressure to solve the murder of one of Buckhead’s own. Accustomed to handling drug dealers and prostitutes, she must now contend with an even more sinister group: the Buckhead Betties, the insufferably entitled women of Georgia’s most affluent zip code. One of them might be a murderer, but who? Is it the old-money queen of Buckhead? The mysterious new girl in town? The drug dealing trophy wife? It seems secrets and lies are as plentiful as luxury handbags in Atlanta and everyone’s guilty of something. Shay’s investigation will make her examine her own prejudices and discover that, as women and mothers, she might not be that different from the Betties after all. And if she isn’t careful, they just might take her down with them.

On Today's TCT, We sit down with Leigh Dunlap and get the lay of the land in Buckhead, figuring out who could be the main suspect to have killed Anderson Tupper, all while discussing Atlanta's culture, the culture of the rich and famous, Pete Rose, Miami Vice, and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting.
0:25.5	This is True Crime Tuesday.
0:26.5	I'm your host, Tim Dennis.
0:28.0	We have a heck of a show for you today, folks.
0:30.3	In fact, we've got a really good show today.
0:32.6	Jessica Freeberg will be with us,
0:34.1	and we'll have dumb crime, stupid criminals coming up in just a bit.
0:36.6	But first, we're going to go a little bit off the beaten path today.
0:40.0	We have a really good crime fiction thriller for you today.
0:45.2	Not true crime today, but a fiction thriller.
0:47.9	One that I had the pleasure of reading over the weekend.
0:49.9	In fact, it is being released today as we speak.
0:53.0	It's called Bless Your Heart a Thriller.
0:54.7	My guest is quite the esteemed guest today.
0:58.7	Lee Dunlap is with us.
1:00.8	And boy, I'll tell you, this book, if you like, I'm trying to think of the way to put this,
1:08.4	if you like Desperate Housewives meets the perfect crime thriller
1:14.3	and whodunit. It's kind of a mix of those two. Look at that. I got to steal that from you, too.
1:19.4	Oh, okay. I'll let you steal that, apparently. Lee is, Lee is put together that type of debut novel in Bless Your Heart.
1:30.2	Boy, I tell you, I had a great time sitting down and reading this book this weekend.
1:34.4	We'll tell you a little bit about it.
1:36.4	Lee is a screenwriter behind the hit movie, A Cinderella Story starring Hillary Duff.
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