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who's in my life foreign [Music] of True Crime garage for 2021. yeah I hope everybody's strapped
in and ready to rock for 2022. we're going to revisit something that we've done here a couple of times in the
garage we've done this three times that I can count here Captain so for those of
you keeping score at home you let me know if the Colonel's right or wrong I found it two and a half exactly right or
incredibly wrong so today what we are going to do is we are going to list for you what we are calling the must-watch
True Crime for 2021 now that does not mean that these came out in this last year it's just our addition
to our previous episode so the caveat was that they couldn't be on one of your previous list yes and so here's the
thing we want to make sure we point out right from Jump Street here that if we are going through our list and you go
well these guys are idiots nobody's arguing that we've heard it before what we are arguing is that we're not idiots
because something you really liked watching didn't make it on today's show that is because again this is the fourth
time that we're doing this so whatever you loved watching either a we disagreed with you or B it's already on one of our
lists so I recommend if you haven't already go back and check out some of those old episodes and they are the
Halloween episode from 2016. we have a must-see True Crime episode that's number 197 from April of 2018 and then
in 2020 in August we did must watch True Crime episode number 420 that was a way
to celebrate 4 20. that's for sure so go back and check out those and see if you
agree with our overall list and today we're going to add to those wonderful lists that we've already created well
and we're supposed to have the week off and I was so excited I was going to go skiing but the colonel said no it's time
to fire up that garage ship and get back in the garage so let's kick this thing off right number five that's right
Captain I said here in the garage we don't take weeks off maybe maybe that's cool and Kosher for other True Crime
podcasts maybe you're in the garage we do double duty my friend we lazy shows we we work every week and we work twice
as hard every week that's right all right so with that with that attaboy that we just gave ourselves my number
five and I think you're asking me to start here captain and kick it off my number five is titled the most dangerous
animal of all searching for my father and finding the zodiac killer now this is actually from a book that was
released in May of 2014 by Gary Stewart and the book is well written and the case is well laid out and the case being
his argument that his father was the infamous Zodiac Killer well this became a four-part FX documentary miniseries
that was released I think it was 2020 it may have been 2021 I failed to put that
in my notes Here Captain job loser the general premise is this uh it does come from a New York Times bestseller book it
is in the True Crime category it's really like an emotional powerful Journey that this man takes to find his
long-lost father and once he figures out who his actual father is his birth father is he starts to suspect that
maybe that same guy could be the still at large serial killers in America the Zodiac Killer now I do want to throw
this out there though while I don't agree with Gary Stewart's theory that his father is the zodiac
he does certainly make some compelling arguments along the way and there are people that debate him what's cool about
the show is they openly debate Gary Stewart at times during the show they're not just trying to sell you this like a
lot of times a docu-series or some of these shows will come up with their Theory and they're just gonna beat it
into your head until you believe them they want you to walk away from the experience and go well somebody finally
got it right we've been arguing about this well not arguing against each other but we we've been talking [ __ ] about
this for years some of these documentaries they'll flat out just lie about stuff just to try to get their
point across and purposely leave things out to sway you one way or the other here I like that they kind of openly
debated I think it adds to The credibility of what I'm watching and what was interesting for me I watched
this Captain shortly before we did our zodiac episodes and it wasn't so much for research it was more of uh okay
let's make sure we didn't miss something here let's make sure that Gary Stewart's
Theory you know I wanted to confirm her at least for self-confirmation of if I believed Gary Stewart or not I believe
here's what I believe at the end of the day that you can fly Gary Stewart firmly
believes that his father is the Zodiac Killer and I commend him for putting together such an interesting book I
don't really agree with the Theory the show is incredibly interesting and it goes by anybody that's a fan of anything
zodiac should check this out and again go into it with the idea of I can still like this and not agree with the theory
yeah there's a lot of great facts as they pertain to the Zodiac case and there's a lot of interesting ways that
he points out that his father is the killer but unfortunately Gary will not be he's not the first person nor will he
be the last to come out and tell us that his father or relative of theirs is in fact the Zodiac yeah I mean I I told
people for years my that my father was the Zodiac but he he's not good at writing code so that's yeah and he would
have been about for my math I'm guessing he would have been about 12 or 13. yeah
at the time so strong pretty nasty teenager yeah strong for his age well and again this so you're number five
kind of ties to my number five a little bit in the sense that and we've been learning this for the last five years
you can only get so much information from a news article or if if there's one or two sources that
have covered a case sometimes when we're able to talk to the family members of the victims we're getting a whole
different perspective of the case and in this case you have somebody looking into
this huge colossal case but from the perspective of I believe my father is the killer the documentary that I'm
picking for number five is American Tragedy it's Sue Cleveland I hope I'm saying that right I think I say it wrong
it's it's her talking about her son became one of the killers in the Columbine massacre she affectionately
referred to her son as Sunshine boy and so it's basically when the mass shooting happens the first thing we're
going is what what was this person's home life like how were they raised where were their parents it's it's a
look from that perspective and it and it's very interesting and and I think it took her a lot and I I applaud her for
for telling her story I think that's a fantastic pick there Captain really interesting stuff and I know that she's
been active over the years when she felt that it was okay to kind of come out and
and flesh out the story a little bit because there is just that huge nagging question
of why why why why in this situation and she offers up her her perspective on that and I know that
she's been I know that she's put out some books or at least a book over the years so uh kudos to her and a fine pick
by you there Captain for my number four I went with a Wilderness of error so this again is me going back to the well
this is FX as well just like my fifth pick but a Wilderness of error the trials of Jeffrey McDonald
this again is from a book by one of my favorites uh maybe not one of my favorite True Crime authors but one of
my favorite True Crime documentary makers that's Earl Morris who we've talked about on the show before because
he is responsible for one of the best true crime documentaries in my opinion The Thin Blue Line so his book was
published in September of 2012 and basically it's a lot similar to True Crime addict from James Renner where a
large portion of the book is him discussing his Fascination and obsession with the
Jeffrey McDonald case now Jeffrey McDonald is a case that we covered here in True Crime garage uh it's the case of
Jeffrey McDonald the Green Beret physician accused of killing his wife and two daughters at their home in Fort
Bragg on February 17th of 1970. he eventually was convicted of the crime and he is claimed innocence the entire
time uh he's been in a federal prison since 1982. now A wilderness of error was a five-part television series based
off of the book that first aired on September 25th of 2020 and I thought this was incredibly
fascinating I thought it was really well put together I liked the dramatization that they put together on the case I
liked that they again this was more of a debate of did Jeffrey McDonald kill his family or not
they didn't come up with their Theory and you know really try to hit it home for
you they presented reasons why he may be guilty and reasons why he may be innocent
and they got some of the good information for him being guilty from the old book fatal vision that we talked
about when we covered the McDonald case here yeah now one thing that I found really interesting is that Earl Morris
who I believe to be an incredibly brilliant and smart individual he seems to think that Jeffrey McDonald is
innocent and he's he just struggles so hard and I think he has an understanding that not only do the courts disagree
with him but the general public as a whole seem to disagree with that idea I know there's a lot of people that have
argued his innocence over the years and there's there's a good a good foundation
of people out there that believe him to be innocent but I just found it interesting that that such a smart
individual brilliant individual such as Earl Morris is struggling with with what I think is kind of an open and
shut case well sometimes your thoughts and opinions come from your gut and sometimes they come from your butt there
are a couple cases that we've covered in the past that my gut feeling has leaned towards
maybe opinions that are not popular in the True Crime world um I will I won't mention those because
I'll get a bunch of hate mail but there's there's certain cases where there's little details that I can't get
over even though the overwhelming evidence maybe points towards their innocence so
kind of see where somebody could get ramped up in that but I think it's key too here again another situation you
don't have to agree with the person making the film to enjoy the mini series or the docuses yeah or
respect the information that they're giving out and yeah at the end of the day this is still a brilliant
docu-series that's incredibly fascinating it's so very I cannot explain the the wonderful quality of
of everything from the cinematography to the to the choice of languages in uh the
the narratives throughout it's it's really well put together and you would expect nothing less than near Perfection
from somebody like uh Mr Morris well I'm just gonna get this out of the way on my
list I I believe the majority of them are actually one parters just maybe 90 minutes long
I found that a lot of the documentaries that have come out that are multiple series I I think wants making a murder
was such a hit on Netflix and the staircase was such a hit I believe the staircase was originally on HBO or
like the Jinx was such a hit or or the staircase was such a hit I think a lot of these production companies were
looking for the next docu series that was going to be huge when some of these docu-series would
have been way better off if they would have just did a one-parter or two partner so my number four is John Wayne
Gacy Devil in Disguise now the first one that I told you about the American Tragedy I watched that on Prime Amazon
Prime the John Wayne Gacy Devil in Disguise I watched that on Netflix and it's all based around the interview that
he did and I could see some people watching this going well this is kind of lazy a lot of the the clips and a lot of
the information they're giving us is from this John Wayne Gacy interview that he did before he was put to death but
but I think it's again to get the full scale of any of these cases or these killers or these profiles this is
definitely one way to do it is to hear from the horse's mouth or in this case the Devil's Mouth that's one that I've
not seen yet Captain I have it on my list of must see True Crime for me so I I appreciate you bringing that back to
my attention well I appreciate you because I just wrote down your first two because they were not even I have not
seen those yet so good thing we have nothing to read because we have things to watch yeah that's right so number
three number three on mine and this is a bit of a stray from the traditional True
Crime stuff that would typically fall on my list I'm going with a single episode
of Dateline and it's from season 29 and it's episode 59. it's the Amy mihalovic Dateline that's
titled what happened to Amy it came out September 17 2021 if anyone wants to figure out how
to go back and retroactively watch that the reason why this makes my list and makes it so high up on the list was this
is this is a story that I obviously know very well in a case that I know very well
and I knew I'd heard some Rumblings that Dateline was in the Bay Village Ohio area and putting together a piece on the
Amy mihalovic case now the Amy mahalovic cases from 1989 her body was found in 1990 so thanks for getting around to it
Dateline but um what I was worried about with that with that rumor was two things
one it's a little late to the Ball Game and two will I learn anything because when I know a case this well
often I'll tune into something and there's nothing no gain for me here smarty pants here well I mean I'm not
claiming that with every case but I would be it would be just flat out wrong for me to tell you otherwise in the Amy
case well and sometimes with the date lines and and some of the hour-long TV shows it's like you you hear about 10 15
minutes of information and then back from commercial break let's repeat have that information tell you an another
little nugget come back from commercial break repeat all that information again and then tell you a nugget and basically
you're like if you wanted to sum this up in 10 minutes we we could have got through this well and yes and Dateline
is going to do an hour to episode on a case that we've done episodes here in the garage on the same case and done
more than five hours of material so thinking that I'm going to learn something in a shorter version of what
we've done here in the garage doesn't seem likely now I don't know how much I learned or gained from the episode
itself but what was great is just how well it was done and how well it was put together I think it's one of the the
finer versions of the Amy maholovic case and in somewhat of a shorter format because even if it's a two hour long
episode which I believe it was once you factor in the commercial breaks you're really at about an hour and 20 minutes
and so this case if any of our listeners are clueless for some Bizarro reason it's the 10 year old Amy mihalovic who
was abducted in Bay Village Ohio and then her body wasn't found until months later and it's a still unsolved case and
it's one of the most infamous cases from Northeast Ohio and one that really refuses to go anywhere and I'm very
thankful for that because I think that that's how this thing will eventually get solved but again that was Dateline
uh for this most recent season episode number 59 from season 29 and it's titled what happened to Amy one thing that I
thought was absolutely brilliant that they typically don't do on Dateline so take everybody a little bit behind the
scenes here while Dateline and what is it 48-hour mystery or uh there's a few different there's there's three of
the major shows that are on the big networks the air usually once if not twice a week and they're typically
covering a case a true crime case now those three shows are watched by millions and millions of people they're
very popular shows and that's why they're on the major networks I typically don't watch those I
typically don't watch Dateline it's just not my cup of tea there's so much True Crime out there and so many different
ways to digest the information and get the information dateline's not at the top of my list I
only have so much time right yeah so to consume the information now one thing you also like really deep Dives and and
as long as I've known you you like to Deep dive into an author writing about the case yeah because that's really
sorry people but that's really the only way to Deep dive into it um there's just not much to gain from a
40 45 minute episode on a case in most cases so right but hey buddy gives you a it does give you a kind of um the lay of
the land and it and then I think what Dateline does a good job of is it can um spark your interest in a case but you
quickly learn even on your first Google search that you now know as much as the the show just told you in an hour-long
show yeah and I didn't have to sit through uh 15 20 minutes of commercial breaks but all three of those major
shows while I'm not a regular Watcher or viewer of those shows right I do record
them every week because I don't want to find out after the fact that they covered a case that either a
we covered or B we're going to cover and then I have difficulty locating where to
watch that episode so I record them all and then I go back and look through them
and delete them as needed or save or watch them as needed the maholovic episode what happened to Amy I happened
to be home it was a Friday night I happened to be home on that Friday night and I get a text from a friend of mine
and it didn't give any details at all all it said was I'm not going to see you on this episode
am I and I thought of course what jumped in my mind is like well this must be something true crime
and if I had to guess that means somebody is doing the Amy mihalovic case yeah if they're going to see your ugly
face it'll probably be connected to this case and so I thought you know what I'll flip
over and see what's what's recording on those shows and see if somebody's doing Amy because again I heard Rumblings that
they were up there taping now I heard Rumblings that they were up there filming a year or so before this episode
came out and so I tuned in and I'm like oh of course datelines finally releasing the
Amy maholovic episode and I thought I'll tune in for a little bit and I'm sure I'll get bored of it
and I'll find something else to watch nope didn't tune out at any point I I made it all the way through in one
sitting and I thought that one thing that was interesting and very different from what they typically do is later in
their coverage of Amy's case they were they were constantly putting the the information tip hotline number at the
bottom of the screen which you don't typically see them do that on Daytona Dateline now half the time they're well
the majority of the time they're covering a case that's already solved so it's not necessary but I loved the way
that they did it I thought they tell the story very well I thought that they had
Phil tours knee and they had uh spetzel they had all the key players that they needed to tell the story in its best
form and they really knocked it out of the park and I loved that they kept including the tip hotline number for
anybody that may have any information even all of these years later my only problem with that and one of the reasons
on my list is it didn't feature you well you're the first to make that complaint
who's in my mind [Music] all right we're back I hope everybody is ready to celebrate the new year
New Year same old ass that's right Cheers Cheers somebody asked me when do you think
you'll stop I go well I said in my mind that we're going to do a thousand episodes so we're at least
going to get there whether I have to drag you kicking and screaming we'll get there
cheers to you Colonel cheers to you Captain so number three my number three and I I have to a little bit of a
reason why I I have not heard from anybody about this docu-series normally people say hey watch this check this out
it was good hey have you seen this no if you haven't Don't Waste Your Time stuff
like that but the Ripper series it was a four-part series about the Yorkshire Ripper this
came out last year right before Christmas so perfect time to put out a docu-series because it's going to hit
during the Christmas holidays when people have time and they're sitting around and they're they're either
watching uh a horrifying Hallmark Christmas movie or they're watching a horrifying True Crime
Doc and I I've I found this to be very interesting but I spent about a month around last Christmas in England
so the reason why I say watch at your own risk is I don't know it was my first time being in Europe so I don't know if
them talking about the air that area obviously because it's a it's a British case
I don't know if that played into my enjoyment of the docu-series if that makes any sense certainly makes some
sense to me that case is very interesting and I love the way that uh criminal profiling really played a big
role in the detection and apprehension of the Yorkshire Ripper well it was interesting as I was watching it like I
was going sightseeing and seeing different towns and Villages and stuff like that and then I go home at night
and you know pop on episode two and then they'd be talking about some part of town that I was just in to see just how
how much things evolved from the late 70s to 80s to to when I was visiting just last year so yeah it's a four-part
docu-series it's my number three on the list number two Colonel number two and I went
with dirty John season two which is Eight Episodes and I know it from Netflix but I did a little snooping and
it sounds like it actually came out in May of 2020 first on the USA Network so I watched it on Netflix and this one is
really surprising for me and what I mean by that is that I had zero interest in watching this mm-hmm
but I I started watching it uh doesn't like the dirty John well I don't know that but uh I just
I had zero interest in watching it nothing compelled me to to watch it so a friend of mine was watching it and I
joined them and it was I couldn't turn away I was sucked in immediately and it was it's very well done it's all a
dramatization and I know that there are some Liberties that were taken but um it's based off of a real life crime
uh Betty Broderick was convicted of murdering her ex-husband Daniel Broderick the third and his second wife
who you know replaced her basically Broderick lost her mind and and killed both of them
in a in the most long Winding Road of of anger that I've ever seen I mean she didn't
just flip out and freak out and kill them as soon as you know as soon as she became upset about the situation this
was going on for a long period of time and so dirty John season two is eight episodes and a large portion of it is
the events leading up to you know their lives together as husband and wife and and raising their kids and then Daniel
Broderick who is going outside of stepping outside of the marriage and eventually which leads to divorce and
then all the events that lead up to the double homicide and then including the two trials that took place afterwards so
she was tried once not convicted and tried again and that was the time that they got the conviction Amanda Pete
plays Betty Broderick uh Christian Slater plays Daniel Broderick and I it's incredibly good it's salacious that's
probably one of the things the turn off factor that that didn't excite me about sitting down to watch it den of geek.com
calls dirty John season 2 The Betty Broderick story review a trashy True Crime with tragedy underneath
and then I liked it so much one thing that I found myself curious about and going out of my way to seek and find and
watch was the survivors the the children that are now grown in fact they were pretty they were getting older when this
case broke when she committed the the homicides but it was really interesting for me to hear them in interviews saying
what was real about this show and what was not real you know what was kind of fluffed up a little more uh embellished
it was uh it was interesting to see and hear their words on everything number two for me and at this point we don't
have any repeating just anybody that's keeping track number two for me was Night Stalker
this is a four-part series it was released early in 2021 uh January around then it's a
four-part four episodes and it's it runs about three hours in total so less than an hour per episode and I
think there's there's two reasons why like this again when we're talking about perspective of a case
to follow uh Gill and Frank the two lead detectives on this case to kind of follow where their head you know
as their these attacks were happening as evidence was coming in where their heads
were at what they were looking into that part of the investigation was so interesting to me and also how some
people in the Departments disagreed with them or or how other departments helped
them out but also there's uh artistic value to this docu-series it shows this car constantly driving around at night
you know basically stalking people and it's very well put together and I've had a lot of people in law enforcement that
don't like watching these documentaries that have watched this and said it's kind of like you invited
two of your favorite detectives to sit down and tell you a story about a case that they investigated and and how
things happen that's what it feels like and this is one that we've talked about on off the Record before because we were
both so impressed with it when it first came out and yes you're right it's just like inviting your two favorite
detectives to sit down and tell you about probably the most infamous case that they've ever worked on maybe one of
the most infamous cases from the the state of California but you said the the right terms there two favorite
detectives because I tell you what one thing for me in my experience of the the docu-series here Gil Carrillo and Frank
Salerno they become two of your favorite detectives when you watch this like you
you're rooting for them the whole time they're very good at their jobs they're very driven and they're people that you
are proud to stand behind and cheer them on as their are looking for one of the most evil killers that you can imagine
and so these two are brilliant in their own regard and the the the series itself
was fascinating I'm very much you know into these older cases and some of it's just the imagery the real life imagery
of seeing you know the old police cars the old neighborhoods and things like that I thought it was really well done
for me it was so close to making my list like if if I had to give a top-notch honorable mention or if the list was a
little longer than five this would certainly be on my list Night Stalker the hunt for a serial killer well and a
little story for you for the for the listening audience lean in if you will we're at crime con and and Austin I get
on the we were invited to have VIP drinks last minute there there's if you get VIP passes they set up little
dinners and little cocktail events and and so a lot of the hosts uh will meet up with the VIP any and you get to go
and have free drinks it's a great thing so jump on the elevator and here comes Gill
one of the detectives in this case and and one of the um speakers at crimecon just me and him riding to the elevator
and I go hey you go into the VIP thing yeah yeah and I introduce myself I know I'm the captain from True Crime
garage I watch your docu-series and uh and I've heard a lot a lot of Praise from detectives that have that I've
watched and he just kind of lit up and he just seemed like a such a good guy and it was one of my highlights of crime
con Austin well yes and it was intriguing that he was going to be there and one thing that I kept hearing from a
lot of the people attending crime con this year was the same thing over and over again there's so many impressive
people that you want to meet that are going to be there some featured and some you know a little more behind the scenes
and what have you but Gill time and time again when I spoke to everybody he was the he was the one that
people wanted to meet and they were never disappointed yeah because he was there personality his yeah his he's a
personable individual he's very he would fit nicely here in the garage Captain I
like the cut of the jib yeah nice and Gill Wherever You Are nice Jim all right number one it's that
time yes for my number one I went with again a single episode this is from season 21 of a long running true crime
series that is on the Investigation Discovery Channel the ID channel for those that are nasty uh season 21
episode 21 that's easy to remember of On the Case with Paula Zahn and it was titled terrifying connections
and this was it was going to be difficult Captain for anything other than this to be my number one and the
reason being is that the terrifying connections episode was about the now solved homicide of Tony Muncie and Tony
Muncie is an individual that we we're talking about his case before anybody else was talking about his case his case
was was pretty much forgotten here in the great state of Ohio and that upset us here in the garage this was a teenage
boy that was taken from everyone way too soon way too young and it was something
that angered me and the captain and we decided hey we're going to cover this and this is a story that is not being
talked about this was such a breath of fresh air you know Paul is on is that's a good
that's a good program to begin with and they always put out quality episodes but
this one was incredibly well done but it was also that they were featuring a case
that many people outside of Columbus unless you've heard our show you don't know the case and this is when a 15 year
old boy Tony Muncie vanished under very mysterious circumstances and police feared the worst and we talked about it
here in the garage on our coverage there was there were multiple killers that were at one time investigated as
possible perpetrators of this teenager's homicide and it wasn't until all of these years
later that it was actually solved and it was solved by the hard-working women and
men over at the Delaware County Sheriff's Office they refused for decades to let go of this case and one
thing that I was so impressed with the Delaware County Sheriff's Office just as a whole not just in the Tony Muncie case
but in in everything that they do is the brutal honesty and and how they stand behind what they tell the public
they are just like every other agency out there that says you know what cold cases matter we care about cold cases if
you kill somebody in our County or our city you get locked up we will find you we will find out what you did and we
will take you to court you will have your day in court and we will seek Justice for these victims we don't care
if the case is one day old 10 days old 10 years old or decades old they're the same as every other agency in this great
nation by saying that where they are different from many of them is that they actually do care number one and they
actually are working those old cases and the Tony Muncie case is proof of that that all these decades later they could
still solve the case a couple shout outs here to the hard-working women and men who worked this case over the decades to
see it all the way through Delaware Sheriff William Lavery who worked the case starting in 1983. there are
multiple interviews with his brother John on Muncie who contacted our show after we did our coverage of the case
and it was good to see him in a better place now that his brother's case has finally been solved and a lot of what
was still a mystery has has come to light all of these years later also a shout out to detectives Rusty Yates and
detective Jeff Bessinger who I've personally met and spoke with a couple of times and detective Sally Brink all
who were instrumental in getting this case solved and they dedicated the episode rightfully so in memory of
detective Dan Otto who died in 2012 and a vehicle accident Dan Otto they dedicated the episode to him because he
was one of the driving forces that kept the case alive in their department and really was determined and and and got
all these other key players to Rally around him to to be so determined and so passionate to solve this case everybody
get out your pen and paper as the kernel goes over his top five list once again for you so and maybe just tell them the
title and also again maybe where you watched if you can remember so my number five was the most dangerous animal of
all that's the Zodiac Killer case featuring Gary Stewart and that was on FX my number four was on FX as well a
Wilderness of error the trials of Jeffrey McDonald my number three was Dateline what happened to Amy the Amy
mihalovic episode and that was season 29 episode 59 and then my number two dirty
John season two again I guess it was released on the USA Network but I watched it on Netflix and I'm 100
confident that it's still available on Netflix and then finally saving the best for last number one on the Case with
Paula Zahn the episode title was terrifying connections and that is is the Tony Muncie episode season 21
episode 21 Discovery I always say this backwards Captain so I'll say it correctly here investigation discovery
the ID Channel all right my number one the boys who killed a child now look this is this is a a weird one because I
have found the same documentary or close to the same documentary titled multiple
things so I'm going to actually give you two to watch the one that I watched was called
the boys who killed a child it's on real stories you can find it on YouTube but there was also a really good
60 Minutes done on this it was a Australian you know in Australia they have their version of 60 Minutes the
James Bulger murder inside the Chilean police investigation I'd almost pair those both together the the first one I
gave you the boys who killed a child is under an hour long and then obviously the the 60 Minute
episode you know we've covered a lot of child murder cases and those are always tough and you always have uh you know a
sad feeling the whole time that you're researching them and there's some days that we're in the garage and we we cover
those cases and it's like for the next couple days it's like you might as well just not talk to me I'm
just not in the mood 10 minutes in to this or maybe even five minutes and it's just it was all those
emotions but like times ten it was very tough to watch and hear some of this stuff but but I felt like it was
important it's a it's a very sad case and it's very tragic but it's you know I I think maybe also because of the
holiday seasons when you're at a Christmas party maybe it's not the best time in the world but you look over and
you see your nephew or your niece or your own child or or a grandchild or whoever and they're just having the time
of your life their lives and they bring so much more joy to the event right Christmas is you know they always
tell you Christmas is for the kids and and again when you have kids or or you have kids in your family that you love
and they give you so much more joy and this documentary is like the opposite it's
like shows you how like when you see like a John Wayne Gacy or something you go okay you can almost
see the Evil coming out of them or you see like I don't know like a Charles Manson or something like that
you can kind of just go okay yeah that's that's evil but when you see the pictures once they arrested these these
two boys it's like you're seeing a whole different side of evil I don't know if disturbing was the right word
but it's um I think it's one of those documentaries that I'll I'll just never forget like
I'll never that case is um and I've always wanted to cover the case and so I was looking it up earlier this year and
put it on my list of things to watch and after watching it I'm like I I just don't even know if I could cover the
case I don't know if I could get through it well for those of you keeping score at home get your pen out again the
captain's gonna go through his top five I feel like I brought the party down get
the party back up people this is must watch True Crime 2021 number five American Tragedy I
watched this on Amazon Prime but you know how they always say like you only have a couple more days to watch this
that that was one of those ones so if you want to watch American Tragedy Sue Cleveland's story about raising her
son that went on to be a shooter in the Columbine massacre you watch that on Prime John Wayne Gacy Devil in Disguise
that is on Netflix the Ripper the Yorkshire Ripper case four-part docu-series on Netflix and number two
The Night Stalker the hunt for a serial killer you can find that on Netflix as well and number one the boys who killed
a child this was produced by real stories and you can find it find this on YouTube and
that is my top five and go back and listen to some of our other episodes where we talk about the must watch True
Crime and here are other lists again those episodes are must watch True Crime from episode number 420 August of 2020
must see True Crime episode number 197 April of 2018 and the Halloween episode from 2016 where we're talking all kinds
of True Crime things that you should be watching be it documentaries or series or what have you now big shout out to D
armstrong11 who in 2016 started adding our recommendations our best True Crime docu-series and such to IMDb the order
on there is a little shaky but there are there's so many of them listed there so
if you want to see them in list form while you're listening to the old episodes you can find that is titled
True Crime garage best true crime documentaries and again shout out to D Armstrong wherever you are here's a
cheers to you yeah and if you're feeling Froggy Fresh go to our blog whether it's
your top five or top 10 we've we've done both numbers but if you want to I'd love
to see people's top 10 list of their favorite true crime documentaries because then I could go through each
list and figure out which ones I haven't seen yet so if you want to do that add your top 10 list to our blog at
truecrime garage.com yeah and we'll see you next year grab a chair grab a beer let's watch some true crime
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friends thanks for telling a friend adheres to a great 2022 hopefully colonel so many cases that we've talked about in
the past this will be the year that they get solved yes hopefully so Colonel any recommended
reading this week no captain we're going to skip it this weekend we just gave every wonderful listener out there 10
things to go out and watch if they've not seen all of those you got some homework to do so check out our
recommendations let us know how you feel at truecrime garage.com hit us up on the
blog yeah if you need more True Crime garage for your ear boss check out our bonus show called off the Record and you
can do so at our website truecrimegarage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't live
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Brief Summary

Nick and Captain share their top true crime documentaries of 2021, discussing notable titles and their insights on various cases.

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Must-Watch True Crime for 2021. The hosts list their must-watch true crime recommendations for the year, emphasizing unique picks.
The Most Dangerous Animal of All. A discussion on the compelling documentary about the Zodiac Killer theory.
American Tragedy: A Mother's Perspective. Exploring the emotional journey of a mother whose son was involved in the Columbine massacre.
A Wilderness of Error. A deep dive into the trials of Jeffrey McDonald and the debate over his guilt or innocence.
Dateline: What Happened to Amy. A well-produced episode covering the infamous Amy Mihalovic case.
Dateline: What Happened to Amy. A deep dive into the Amy Mihalovic case, highlighting the unique storytelling approach.

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