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I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is crime writers on the podcast about other podcasts and also about pop culture true crime journalism.

And this week we discussed the podcast hanging a reporter from the mercury news probes whether the hanging death of a 10 year old boy was more than suicide.

We also revisit some familiar stories in our true crime updates and give a preview of some of the stuff we're going to be talking about in upcoming episodes joining me to get all that done and a whole lot more is my true crime co author real life husband host of these are their stories the law and order podcast and as Kevin wrote in the script.

The sexiest man I know Kevin Flynn I didn't think you'd pre read it you would just read it like Ron Bergen listen i'm just really happy that you helped put it in the script so you are the sex makes me sexy just for that also with us is journalist true crime author license to private investigator former defense investigator certified cat lady.

An amateur ufologist Laura Bricker hello Laura hello I would like to add newly minted painter to my repertoire this week nice I did see a little bit of that on so.

Social media you're getting up on some ladders and doing some shit good for you I didn't go up in the letter oh my god no no no no I paid someone to do that but I am painting the front door that is like the extent of my home improvement project but I'm I'm getting you know kind of in the nesting mode I think with the cold weather and everything i don't want to hear about your nesting mode we do not need any more crime writers on babies.

Oh my goodness no and finally is the LeBron James of reluctance the brilliant novelist behind the city trilogy co host of radio free dystopia podcast and our favorite resident adding Thomas Toby ball hello Toby.

Bajor hello.

All right I have one.

Oh my god wait wait a minute just can I just say what an exhausting week on social media of responding to exactly zero angry tweets about pain lintzy.

And zero angry emails I was going to mention it I think we really Kevin is always very um controversy a verse and he's always saying like don't talk about.

A certain FBI profiler who's maybe been attacking you on Twitter on the podcast because we don't want to get like all of these emails and all of these tweets.

And you were reticent to bring up the pain lintzy controversy but then you were so fired up that you did anyway two weeks ago and we have received.

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