The Sneak and Morally Indefensible

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🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Kevin kicks off the discussion with some excellent medical news. In season two of "The Sneak: The Murders at Whiskey Creek," Jack Murphy was a champion surfer who captured headlines in 1964 as a cool jewel thief for stealing the world’s largest sapphire from a New York museum. But was the charming thief known as "Murph the Surf" more violent than his legacy portrays? The relationship between a murderer and a journalist resulted in Fatal Vision, one of the most famous true crime books. But to what lengths was the author willing to go to get the story? We’ll review “Morally Indefensible.”

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0:00.0	Kevin.
0:01.0	Yes.
0:02.0	I know you've heard by now.
0:09.0	Huge true crime podcast update.
0:10.7	We all have heard.
0:11.7	Curtis Flowers, the subject of the greatest podcast of all time in the dark in this genre,
0:17.4	True Crime, Criminal Justice, charges against him have been dropped.
0:21.2	They will not be refiled.
0:22.5	It is over.
0:23.5	Drop with prejudice.
0:24.5	Drop with prejudice.
0:25.5	And we recorded our podcast too early this week in order to talk about this huge development
0:30.5	as a true crime podcast update.
0:33.1	But I have some good news.
0:34.9	I got to talk to someone who knows a little bit about this case.
0:40.2	I can imagine that you may have learned of this news about the state dropping the charges
0:46.2	against Curtis Flowers.
0:47.8	But I'm wondering how it felt in that moment for you to hear that news.
0:51.8	I mean, I think that's an extraordinary moment.
0:55.7	Even though at a certain point it seemed like things were leaning that direction that
1:00.0	it would be dropped, you never know until it happens.
1:02.6	And certainly in a case that's gone to trial six times, nothing in this case is unthinkable.
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