True Crime with Writer Michelle McNamara

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Writer Michelle McNamara (TrueCrimeDiary.com) talks about her passion- true crime. Scott Peterson, Josh Powell, Jeffrey Dahmer, we talk about all of your favorite killers. Turn off the lights, light a candle, and gather round folks....it's time for a true crime story with web sleuth Michelle McNamara.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the story-worthy podcast.
0:15.3	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn, and Hannes Finn.
0:27.7	Thank you. Christine Blackburn and Honest Finney. Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannes Finney, and we're coming to you from Holcomb, Kansas.
0:35.2	Wilcum, Kansas is where the crimes took place that Truman Capote wrote about in his
0:39.3	1959 book, In Cold Blood.
0:42.9	Ooh, see, that's eerie right there.
0:45.2	As soon as you go in cold blood, the whole tone sets, it's like an eerie thing going on.
0:50.8	It is.
0:51.2	It's eerie.
0:51.6	We have candles burning.
0:53.2	There are spiders, plastic spiders, we hope, set into sort of things in the wall to make shadows. It's really hard to read our notes. All right. Here's what's happening, you guys. We have a storyteller tonight. She brings forth the subject true crime. True crime. True crime. But it's not just true crime and it's not just like, well, it's an interesting background. It's obviously a serious topic, but it's a topic that has just gained so much popularity lately. Yes, it is. And there seems to be like an old genre of it, like kind of like the Sherlock Holmes back in England kind of thing. No, no, no, but the newer thing. No, not Sherlock Holmes. You mean Jack the Ripper? Jack. Those obsessions about who was Jack the Ripper. Right. But the new thing is more like John Bonae Ramsey, O.J. Simpson, Elizabeth Smart. I mean, now we're getting into like people want to know the psyches behind the people that are committing the crimes. It's not just about the victim anymore. Right. People are, yeah. Well, people, I guess, have always been fascinated by crime, but it's like now people just want to know every horrible, horrible detail about the crime and about the phone calls made before the crime. And it's like, who is that guy in Dateline NBC? Stone Phillips. Stone Phillips. His whole career is based on true crime as far as I'm concerned. Well, it's very interesting. And our guest tonight, Michelle McNamara, she actually has contributed to Dateline NBC. Oh, I did not know that. Yes, and I'm sure it must be in a true crime fashion. But she has a, she has her own website called Truecrime Diary.com.
2:22.1	And it's a website designated, designated to true crime, but not just, not just the wild stuff.
2:29.7	Like, not just like John Wayne Gacy or, you know, not just the.
2:33.5	Not the biggest names. Not the biggest names.
2:34.5	Not the biggest names.
2:35.3	A lot of times it's more about unsolved crimes. Yes, yes. That is it. Yeah, that's another whole thing. Yeah, people love the unsolved crimes. There's a whole group of people. I know like literally people like forensics, like pathologists and detectives, there's a group of them and they get for lunch, like once a month in, I'm going to say New York, some play, maybe Chicago, but probably New York, and they present, and somebody will present a unsolved, a major unsolved crime to them. Yeah. They will try and solve it. Well, but there's even a television show now. I can't remember the name of it, but where they take college kids and they, you know,
3:10.2	like it's their season, or their semester project.
3:12.3	Jersey Shore.
3:12.8	I believe it's called Jersey Shore.
3:14.8	Desperate Housewives of NYU.
3:17.7	Desperate Housewives of Dead Desperate Housewives of the morgue.
3:21.9	Made no sense.
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