Hello and welcome to the sidebar presented by True Crime Daily taking you inside the

courtrooms of high profile and notorious cases from across the country. I'm your

host Joshua Ritter. I'm a criminal defense lawyer based in Los Angeles and

previously an LA County prosecutor for nearly a decade. You can find me on

Instagram and Twitter at Joshua Ritter ESQ or at Joshua Ritter.com. We are recording this on Friday, March 1st,

2024. In this week's episode, what effect will new federal evidence have on the trial of a woman charged with killing her police officer boyfriend.

Plus, trial continues in the case of a film armorer and prop master charged for the onset death of Alec Baldwin's film Rust.

But first we have breaking news.

Guilty on all counts is the verdict for a woman accused of conspiring to murder and conceal the body of a wealthy

socialite. Today we are joined by Joel Waldman, a Emmy-winning journalist, investigative

reporter, and host of the YouTube show Surviving the Survivor.

And today Joel has some exciting news for us.

Joel, welcome.

Josh, great to be here.

Appreciate you having me me back I'm glad that happened

absolutely I've been looking for this especially because you have something new to

talk to us about you have a new book out it's aptly entitled

surviving the survivor but the subtitle, which I love, is a brutally honest conversation about life and death with my mom, a Holocaust survivor.

Joel, I've read some advanced portions and it is funny and it's touching and it's moving and it's inspiring and I really enjoyed it and I'm very glad that you went through the effort to put it together with you and your mom

but tell us more a little bit if you could about the book and how it came to be.

Well Josh I appreciate that it is called Surviving the Survivor. It is just like the

podcast title. People always ask, you know, because we host a true crime show and

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