Hello, I've already walked back to another episode of the casual criminalist, the murder of Travis Alexander,

written by Emma, thank you so much Emma, read by me, your dear host here, Simon, the former of the show,

if you knew here, never read this before. We're going to explore it together, so let's have fun.

Shout out, it's probably not fun, it's about murder. I don't know why I say that,

let's just get into it then, shall we?

Some people are fascinated by the work that goes into writing a script for the casual criminalist.

Yeah, I mean, there's a subreddit, which is like my subreddit, reddit.com forward slash r forward slash

Simon Whistler, casual crit is probably the most talked about show in that subreddit and about

writing and I know several other writers are active in that subreddit, so go check it out.

Most often it involves scrounging the internet for a variety of sources and GC tidbits before

piecing an informative and entertaining story together that Simon reads to you guys for this script.

I had to listen to 24 hours worth of audiobooks, watch police interviews, hours worth of trial footage,

read a book of blog and several other court documents. Oh my god, Emma, I'm not paying you enough.

That is an insane amount of work, but this time I also watched a movie since it came up more than once

during the various retellings of the case. It was a 1987 movie, fatal attraction,

starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Ann Archer. That's not, there's another,

nah, I'm thinking of double jeopardy, right? The husband is like, she's accused of

murdering a husband whatever and she's like, she goes to prison for her and then she's like,

well, as soon as they get out of prison, I'm going to murder it in time square or something like that.

I don't remember if you had a really good movie. For those of you who haven't watched it,

spoiler alert, it's about a successful lawyer named Daniela as an affair with a book editor named

Alex. After he breaks things off with her and tries to fix things with his wife, Alex loses it,

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