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weather outside is frightful but the garage is so delightful it's warm and delightful and since you've no place to
go here's our show here's our show here's our show I didn't want to admit this to anybody but because we're all
friends here about December 15th all my coffees have Bailey in them until the start of the new year it would be weird
if they didn't he he sure smells like Bailey's a gentleman that I love listening to Dave
damashek he's a sports guy and I've listened to him forever back when he was radio guy and he was a writer for uh wi
Ben Stein's Money so he's he's not just Sports guy a bit of a you know comedy background if you will but he says this
is his favorite time of year he he says around somewhere between December 10th and December 15th you can just tell the
boss to go and screw because yeah I'll be here I'm gonna be here but I'm not doing any work and oh by the way I'm
going to be drunk well that's part of of our job yeah so best of 2024 should we Define that for the
beautiful listeners for the beautiful listeners so this is anything True Crime related it could be a documentary it
could be a book it could be a podcast it could be anything True Crime related that
we consumed during the year of 2024 so we could have wrote we could have read a book from
1981 and thought it was so amazing and that's on our list I will just go ahead and say that I believe everything but
one item that I am that's on my top five list is from the year 2024 the majority
of mine are from 2024 and I will when necessary I will um pivot yes I will let you know the date of release for pivot
for the item consumed or the True Crime consumed well these are my favorite episodes and so I guess you know this
time of year is great we can tell our boss to go screw we're getting drunk and we're going to talk some true
crime but the top five best of 2024 as we see it mhm so let me I'll just start off are you sure cuz I I was thinking
about this right before flipped on the microphones because start off well I I think that sometimes when somebody goes
last in a countdown uhhuh it almost implies that their selections might be of better importance than the others and
I don't look at it that way but but in a countdown usually the last thing to be named is considered the best right right
and I want to say this to you my friend I am very intrigued by what your five will be so the listeners should know I
have no idea what you've chosen you don't know what I've chosen I have no clue and because I'm so intrigued of
what you have picked and I know that it's going to steer me in the right direction to consume something true
crime in the early 2025 just on my own excitement level could I go first to make your picks more
important than but I have a question for you yes sir out of my top five list and
your top five list how many how many will be the same not in the same order but how many things on your list will be
the same as my list I would say there's a chance for I think two is most likely that could be the same because when
we're only doing five if we were doing 10 I would say three for sure but three of
these three of these on my countdown I know you've viewed or or read as well right and so I'm putting the minimum at
two maximum at three because two of my selections I don't think I have no knowledge prior knowledge that you are
even aware of them probably not I'm not aware of a lot of things well but that's what's crazy
is you compare 2024 to 1994 there's and thankfully because we're you know we we are intrigued by
True Crime and fascinated by it there's so much more to consume nowadays than there was back then yes and so it's it's
getting more and more every year and unfortunately you just can't put earballs or eyeballs on everything
that's out there because there's just so much of it and frankly look not all of it is good either right there's a lot of
really good True Crime out there but there's also just kind of some junk along the way and everybody out there we
all have busy lives and family and wonderful things going on we can't always be busy with True Crime and so
there's only so much you can consume and that's why you're going to see one or two items that maybe didn't get consumed
in the year that it was released we're lucky enough to dive into cases every week but that also hinders us from
keeping up with new True Crime we are eyeballs deep neck deep in a new case each week and it doesn't I don't like
the worst is when a new True Crime documentary comes out on one of the great streaming services yeah and you're
like wow I cannot wait to put my butt in that recliner pour a cold beverage and watch this documentary oh but if I do
these cases you don't like to start researching too many of them at the same time because it gets confusing and so
I'm always like well maybe there'll be enough time in the week next week that I'll be able to get to it and then I'm
three or four days behind and you're out in public and people are talking about it and you're like no no no no don't
tell me anything don't tell me what happens yeah yeah doesn't really work that way but yeah did they solve the
case that's that's all all right so uh number five number five and I did say that I
will go first so it would be weird if I was just silent here I went with one and
this one is one that I think that we might both have on our list I don't know if if it appears on yours I don't know
if it'll be in the same spot but I say that because either one or both of us did say after recommending it a dozen
times to the listeners that it will probably be on one or both of our list and so of course my number five is who
killed Robert Juan which was a fantastic documentary two parts both approximately
1 hour each actually I'm looking at it now episode one was 61 minutes episode two was 75 minutes and individually
they're titled murder on Swan Street and the unraveling truth this was a case that I was unfamiliar with a friend of
ours we who we saw and hung out with at crime con had suggested said hey Nick have you ever heard of the Robert Juan
case and I said no I said where's it out of and and she said Washington D.C and look that's that's one of the
great cities of this country and so I I my ears perked up and I said tell me a little bit about it she told me a little
bit and God bless her she it was the tip of the iceberg and so I got home and I realized there's a documentary about it
she if she told me that I failed to remember and I saw that it was on peacock peacock's doing some good things
I think they a lot of good sports on peacock these days too I thought this documentary was very well put together
it's not from 2024 but it was new to me I believe it came out in 2022 uh 2023 2023 okay so I wasn't too
late I was late to the party but not too late they weren't cleaning everything up
by the time I got there I loved one I thought the way that they put it together was fantastic I thought that
the the the model that they had of of the town home that they lived in that the suspects if you will lived in was so
key to the documentary and we said that in our attempt at covering this case to the best of our ability in a four-part
series not too long ago that one part that is confusing from a storytelling perspective is the layout of that
beautiful town home that they lived in to have the model there that was put together and to reference it
throughout the course of the telling during the Stu series I thought was key the
visualization of that and then the characters and I say characters but these are real life people that were
telling us the story right the bloggers that had covered it they were so interesting to listen to and the
attorneys the prosecutor and the defense attorney were their personalities were brilliant and they were like it was
almost like something out of fiction where somebody's like here's the here's the perfect defense attorney and how
they should act and conduct themselves and the arguments that they should make on the other side of that table was the
fictional Picture Perfect version of a prosecutor who was who is determined to get truth and justice for the victim you
can't dream up better characters no and to be honest with you I really both of those attorneys
prosecution defense very successful individuals prior to this case I remember when I heard I think it was the
prosecutor first the district attorney I when I'm hearing him and he's talking about the case I
thought at first glance man I'm like if this thing goes to trial that dude's winning and then they introduce the
defense attorney and I'm like hm he's going to be pretty tough to beat and it was intriguing I well done to Peacock
and to the directors producers of who killed Robert Juan still an unsolved case very sad case the victim U very
incredible guy great guy and so I hope we get answers there of course but if you're looking for something to watch I
say Buckle in because you watch this one and you're going to want to go and listen to our four-part series you're
going to want to get on the internet and learn more it's so but it's so well done
that it it only leaves you Desiring more because the case is so intriguing yes and that's why it's also my number five
boom so there we go we got we go one down so let's go to number four on our top five all right
number four is I went with a harvest of Innocence The Untold story of the West Memphis 3 murder case this by the Great
Dan stum who anybody that's followed the case will know was the defense attorney
for Jesse Miss Kelly one of the three defendants in this case and I I thought Dan stum was a breath of fresh air of
course there's no shortage of material out there to review on this case there's several books several documentaries I
think there's another documentary in the works so there's no shortage of interesting and good consumables here
but I thought he was a bre breath of fresh air because a lot of the books and documentaries and things you'll review
online are skewed one way or the other that the the West Memphis 3 are innocent or they're guilty and we've certainly
covered the case and added some of our opinions to the case as well yeah but he's a bre of fresh air one because he
represented one of the the defendants he represented a complicated defendant Jesse mkelly was a complicated
defendant to have and represent and to hear impossible to represent correct and to hear him voice at
length what he said what was summed up in earlier documentaries where he says you know I went I took this case I was
assigned this case as a as a public defender and I thought the guy was guilty he told he confessed he told me
he did you know he confess to me right and I thought I went into this thinking well I'm I'm going to represent this guy
and try to get him make sure that he doesn't get the death penalty make sure that I represent his best interest and
that he's treated fairly but when I lay my head down on the pillow at night I know that he's responsible so if he ends
up in prison that's where he belongs but then to hear how his opinion morphed and
changed after he learned of the details of the case and learned more from his his defendant and from Jesse M Kelly and
and got to to know the boy Jesse and how his opinion changed and then how he fought
so hard for somebody who he believed to be innocent and so I thought the book was
fascinating we were lucky enough to have Mr stum on the show and he and I spoke to and poor poor
Captain had to edit this thing I could only imagine probably took two weeks out of the guy's life it was it was long I
know and I was I was so excited to send never again send you the file because I was like I know how invested you've been
in this case over the years and the amount of intrigue you have about this case so I thought oh man I'm going to
send it to him and it's going to be a joy for him to edit it because you know there's some there's some really good
nuggets in here and some really good conversation but it was it was I'm sure something very difficult to cut up and
part of it was Mr stinum and I talked for so long and I go here's a little peek behind the curtain real quick due
to the time change and due to his job and due to what I do here at True Crime garage the only time that he and I could
do this interview it started at 900 p.m Eastern which is the time zone I live in
on a Friday night you know the crispiest of Colonels enjoys his Friday night I thought you know what for Dan stum I
will give up my Friday night for the beautiful listeners I will give up my Friday night and this book that I just
read I will give up my Friday night we started that at 9900 p.m. I opened up a bottle of red
wine at 9:20 because I thought you know what if I sip on this wine it'll keep me
going so I don't I don't start to I don't start to get tired fast forward to about 3 hours later it's now after
midnight I've drank the entire bottle of red wine and we're still talking about the case so uh thanks to Dan stum for
coming on the show and thanks this book was way overdue frankly it it could have
come out 10 years prior as far as I'm concerned but I I very much enjoyed it it's a different perspective and it's I
added it to the collection of the growing collection of West Memphis 3 and information that I've compiled over the
years my number four is Cold Case who killed John Benet ramsy it was on Netflix it's a three-part series it's
funny because I was telling you before we started rolling on the microphones this uh documentary has
gotten a lot of criticism online saying there's not really new information they claim there's a bunch of new evidence
and they don't really present that evidence to the audience but the people rating it on
Netflix it's sitting at about uh 7.5 which is similar to the Robert Juan um documentary so I thought it was good
I'm so fascinated with the case that almost anything even if it's garbage I will probably cons consume
hoping that there's some little nuggets of new information or or maybe a different way to look at some of the
evidence this one Captain for me was an honorable mention I strongly considered it for my five spot I I really enjoyed
it I didn't look forward to watching it to be honest with you because I thought oh here's this new documentary what's
going to be new about it but after I sat down and you told me you said it was good and so I thought well if Captain
says it's good then I out of respect for his opinion which I value greatly I will
sit down and I'll give it a go and you know what if I if I hate it after 30 minutes I can always turn it off but due
to your recommendation I sat down and I couldn't help it man I found myself deeply invested in the documentary and
like you said maybe there's not a whole lot of new information per se within the
confines of that three-part Series right but some of it was described sight slightly different some of the images
that were shown at least one or two of the pictures that were shown were new to me
for the first time and I thought it I thought it to be I couldn't I finished episode one and could not wait to start
episode two so thank you for the recommendation my friend well here's why I think it was an important documentary
is we got to hear from John Andrew ramsy Bob witson we we've got to hear from Michael Kane uh
Michael Tracy so many individuals Steven singular and Joyce singular if you just took each one of
these individuals and you just set them down for a long form interview now that would have been fascinating an hour just
give each one of these individuals an hour because each one of these individuals could have talked for
probably multiple hours and to hear long long form interviews from all these individuals and and also we get to hear
John Ramsay talk a lot so I think that's why it's important yeah that's my number
four and I give it two thumbs up I thought it was worth the watch and worth being in my top five absolutely 100% two
thumbs up top three here we go we're hitting it yeah we're we're full head of steam here now baby all right my number
three is a book that came out this year in 2004 sorry 2024 wow wow a foreign faction by James
Kohler this was recommended to me by a couple of friends and to be honest with you when I picked it up I had thought
initially that it was a book that had already come out that it was not new and in fact they recommended this book to me
just about three or four weeks after it had come out and because of the subject matter I thought it was an older book
that I had just overlooked the subject matter here too is John Benet so the full title is foreign faction who really
kidnapped John Benet by James ker and this is available in several different forms paperback I believe it's available
in hardback as well but you can get it on audible if you're a subscriber to audible or if that's a uh maybe somebody
gets you the gift of audible this year yeah this would be one that I would recommend and as you can see and
longtime listeners of this show do know that the captain and I have an addiction and one of those maybe more
than one addiction but one addiction we have and share is that if something about the John B Ramsey case comes out
we're probably going to watch it listen to it or read it at some point and so I was very thankful to my friends who
recommended it to me and I I've while I do not the the thing about John Benet with the case and same with West Memphis
3 for that matter a lot of the opinions a lot of the stuff that comes out has a certain amount of fact and a certain
amount of opinion to it right and while I'm while I may not agree with the opinion expressed in that material or
that Source I try to look at it from an entertainment value and with the John B documentary series that you just talked
about that's how I had to look at it did I enjoy spending my time however long it
took me to watch that did I enjoy spending my time was I was I intrigued was I ready to and eager to watch the
next episode yes and I thought with foreign faction at first I was like yeah I was like I'm I I hesitated to pick it
up and man I'm glad that I did because very quickly I'm I'm talking minutes into this I was like okay I'm excited
I'm excited once again and I'm I'm ready to tear through this so I listened to it
on Audible I didn't I didn't actually read the book but I thought it was very well put together and very happy that
it's my number three it is not my number three but I just finished it last week and we could probably do five
episodes just on that book and and our thoughts on their thoughts thoughts on thoughts welcome to thoughts for your
thoughts that's an old Parkson wreck joke if yeah if there's people out there like what are these idiots doing my
number three is and this is where it gets a little weird I I think I'm correct on this information but it's
media pressure the untold story of Mara Murray it's a 8 part podcast series told
by Mara's sister Julie Murray and it came out February 5th of 2024 not 2004 like I had said I thought
it was an interesting take having a sister and and she's not the only person telling us about
Mara and her disappearance you know she brings in other individuals but because she's the sister she's able to have
contacts and have individuals that we might not have heard of in the case so I thought it was very well done I thought
Julie did a great job and I thought it was a with all these cases you're just trying to put the pieces of the puzzle
together and I don't know if it puts all the pieces of the puzzle together but I
it gives us more pieces to play with and try to complete a uh um full picture so
that's my number three and we'll get to the top two spots right after this quick
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two spots best of 2024 yes and I am currently looking for because we had some coverage on my number
two selection here and I wanted to look back here it is so on our wonderful show
off the Record available for subscribers on Apple subscription and patreon hashtag is a sponsor that's right in
fact it's of our own creation but the the book that I'm going to recommend here it was recommended on our show but
also I got the privilege of interviewing the author the title is dead end inside
the hunt for the I70 serial killer and this is by the great Bob ciphers who is an
award-winning journalist and CBS reporter and frankly just one hell of a damn good guy so Bob ciphers was was on
the initial coverage of this case so for those of you that do not know the the first murder in this series took place
way back in 1992 at the time Bob ciphers was working as a reporter in and near in and around
the St Louis area and they had one of the murders that took place near St Louis and so he hops in his car and he
goes out there to investigate and do the story for the newspaper at the time this
I70 serial killer case for me I I get it that everybody's intrigued and have different interest
but for me Captain this one is really you have Jack the Ripper zodiac and then it's the I70 killer for me those are the
ones that just I they they haunt me they they stay in my thoughts they creep into
my my dreams and nightmares and thoughts for thoughts thoughts for thoughts this
case intrigues me I and I'm whoever this killer was it seems like as quickly as they showed up on the scene and started
killing people they've then they very quickly vanish afterwards and it's a killer that seems to have very little
interaction with the victims and the victims seem to be completely at random right locations almost seem at random
yeah and the Killer is called the I70 killer because most of the murders well not most all of the murders take place
somewhere off of Interstate 70 right and in multiple cities across multiple States in a very short period of time so
it's a very unique series of killings and a very unique killer who's still unidentified to this day so when it
comes to unidentified Killers like I said Third only in mystery level for yours truly to Jack the Ripper and the
Zodiac Killer and then to talk further about how great of a guy Bob ciphers is when we were at the last crime con I
walked over to he he was sharing a table with some other authors that are under the same publisher this one is available
on Amazon and also on kindall I I read this one on Kindle and the great thing about Bob was he not only covered the
case in 92 in the Greater St Louis area but they formed a task force so in 2021 they being investigators from the
different jurisdictions where these murders took place created a task force and the task force was smart enough to
say you know what we're going to travel to each of these locations together for Pro for probably the first time we're
going to get investigators from each jurisdiction that will travel arm and arm together in unison to each one of
these locations and review each case together on location and they said you know what we need to document this yeah
oh who we going to get to document it somebody says you know Bob ciphers really did a damn good job covering it
in St Louis back in '92 and stuck with it he stuck with it for years after the afterward after the killer seemed to
disappear into the shadows and so he was the perfect person to document it but when he showed up on scene he wasn't
just documenting and watching what the investigators were doing he was sitting there and in his book he talks about
some of his own thoughts and observations that he made at each one of the crime scenes and he found new people
to interview and potentially some new eyewitnesses many many years later in this case that will
prove to be valuable soon at some point in this ongoing investigation so we're at crime con 2024 earlier this year in
the great city of Nashville Nash Vegas baby Nash Vegas so I go over because I wanted to make sure I said hello to Bob
great conversation I had with him on off the Record which was in came out March 3
30th of 2024 our conversation with Bob ciphers I go over to talk to him he interrupts me and at first I thought my
hair trigger reaction I go this guy's rude just like it's like he's just going to interrupt me he interrupts me Captain
by standing up and hugging me oh like I'm in I'm in mid the second sentence out of my mouth he just stands up grabs
me pulls me in close bear hug action and he goes thank you thank you thank you and I said what's that for Bob I thought
my dumbass I thought he was hugging me because it helped him sell some books he goes Nick that is from the victim's
families I told the victim's families who I've known for all these years that you were kind enough to have me come on
your show to talk about their cases that are still unsolved and several of them told me Bob if you see him in the C give
them a hug and thank them and so Bob Bob gave me that hug and it me man it I tell you what my heart uh it it got
me right in the chest my friend right in the chest the Grinch it grew your heart
grew three sizes that's right it got me right in the chest and and Bob's just a great guy he cares so much about those
people the victims their families in this story and if anybody can help push this thing through and get this suspect
and apprehend somebody and put somebody in prison for this should they still be alive uh I'm glad that Bob's there
helping along the way yeah it's it's fascinating especially going to Crime con and talking to different individuals
about what cases people become obsessed with you know I think a lot of people become obsessed with the John Benet
ramsy case or west Memphis 3 or or cases that there's a lot of documentaries and
books about because you can get your hands on so so much information and then there's these other cases where there's
not as much meat on the bones if you will but they still can swirl around in your brain and and really occupy a lot
of your thoughts so my number two and I'm going to I have to set this up a little bit
it's it's not a shocking one because you had it on your list so I think we're now
two two for two right yes but Harvest of Innocence the untold story of the West Memphis 3 murder case and it was a book
there was no option to get it on Audible look we have a lot of weird [ __ ] going
on in this world uh we can get access to information maybe sometimes too fast and
everything's right at our fingertips and I think sometimes that can Boggle people
down and I Know It boggles me down and just a little a little tip going into the new year for anybody that struggles
with mental health my therapist said to me let's examine some of the points in your life that you can look back and go
in 1994 that was a great year right and start examining well what were you doing
and what brought you enjoyment and are you doing those things today and as cool as it is to to watch a documentary or
easy as it is to watch a documentary or to watch things on YouTube that's why my
number three pick the the untold story of Mara Murray it was a podcast series and I remember getting into podcast and
the podcast series The long form series were so fascinating to me and and would like you said it's how entertaining is
is this a tough watch to get through when I'm reading this book am I just trudging along in the
quicksand and so the reason why my number three spot my number two spot they're they're
really the ways I would have to consume content more so of uh years years in the past right so the fact that
you couldn't get this book I I still don't know if you can get this book on audible but to you know at fir at first
it was like I'm going to force myself to I I I do a little thing at the end of the night where I I charge my phone and
I just check a couple things in my office and then I just kind of sit there and unwind and sometimes I listen to a
podcast sometimes it's a YouTube video maybe I just practice my guitar or whatever but when I got this book I I I
decided I'm just going to spend 20 minutes minutes to an hour every night reading this book and most nights I'd
get to about that hour mark and go H just keep reading you know CU it's it's just a fascinating book but I also think
by reading a book as opposed to listening to a book it it's also a way to slow yourself down so a harvest of
innocence by Dan stum is my number two here we are so we have two both L up yeah top spot two line up we both were
correct on that one let's see if our top one lines up with a harvest of Innocence
I always almost slip and say Harvester of Sorrow the old Metallica song yes all right two very different things don't M
don't mistake them my number one pick and look sometimes this happens but and if
you if you want to tie me up and throw rocks at me and stone me to death in the in Town Square I I'll
understand seems a little aggressive little a little much uh punishment doesn't fit the crime
but my number one is not has not been a recommendation on our show that we often
have not every week but most weeks we have a recommendation most of the times it's a book could be a podcast could be
a documentary but my number one I consumed this I read this at the start of 2024
and in fact it came out middle of the Year 2022 I just never purchased it didn't get to it yet and unfortunately
this one fell at a weird time on our show where I was where I was having to read other things and watch other things
based off of the cases we were covering at the time so while I was reading this book at the same time it never made it
to a recommendation because after several weeks I had kind of put it down I was finished with it and we had recommended
other things and I just thought well we'll get back to it and here we are at the end of 2024 and this is the first
time I'm recommending it to anybody but the the name of the book is shadowman by
Ron francel and this book was brilliantly written by a a man who is a very acclaimed author he's written I
think 17 or 18 books and he's a great non-fiction writer he's a journalist he's covered War he's covered natural
disasters both here and abroad one of his books that I loved is called the darkest KN uh which is a true crime
bestseller but shadowman had everything that the colonel looks for in a true crime book so the full title is
shadowman an elusive psycho killer in the birth of FBI profiling according to the book this is
the first time in history that the FBI's Behavioral Science unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial
killer and we know how you like those profiles I do and and I'm I am a bit of a behavioral science unit Fanboy so I'm
not I'm not ashamed to admit it and I tend to read everything that former members of that unit put out I got my
hands on shadowman it wasn't until this year the case is intriguing so the the case it's actually two cases because he
is was a serial killer the cases go back to the 70s 1973 a 7-year-old girl went missing from a Montana Campground while
her family's there vacationing in the middle of the night this is the stuff of nightmares friends
night absolute nightmares in the middle of the night somebody cut a slit in the tent and pulled her through the slit in
that tent snatching her away from her family in the middle of the night and goes undetected and so we have this
killer and he starts taunting the victim's mother with phone calls and there's another victim here her name is
Susie joerger who was a an adult she was a waitress but this was this book is about
a horrible horrible individual that is so so incredibly evil and his deeds were so incredibly evil that it's shocking
it's only due to the passage of time that many people do not know about this killer so I loved this book I thought it
was great and it was the best True Crime that I read that I consumed in this year
2024 my number one spot is going to Monsters the L and Eric Menendez story this is they consider this the
second season of monster the Anthology series the first season was dmer the Jeffrey dmer story but this same team
are the ones that are responsible for doing the biop pick in the series people versus
OJ and I thought this was so well done that it made me go back and watched the people versus OJ and then made me go
back and watch monster the Jeffrey dmer story and what's so fascinating to me about this
biopic is it did a couple things there's a the way they told the story is I believe it's called like U
rashomon effect is and the way the way they tell the story is from multiple perspectives at the same time so
there'll be a scene where you know some look everybody knows that they killed their
parents but it's why did they do it the why becomes the most important thing the
why is going to be whether they get a few years behind bars or they spend the Le the rest of their life in
jail so it's so fascinating because there's there'll be a scene that points to them
as as abused victims that ended up killing their abuser and then there's other scenes that paint them as well
they weren't abused they were just getting rid of their parents so they could inherit the
money and it's just so well done and to really see the genius of it if you only watch it one time and I know it's a long
series but if you watch it for the second time you will start seeing the The Genius of how they had to lay this
out and it also makes me excited for which I guess they'll call it their third season of monster which will be
the Ed G story and I believe it's going to be titled the original Monster so that is my number one intriguing well
Captain you've given me some ideas on things that I should be watching and reading and intrigued to
see what they do with the Ed Gan story as well yeah I'm it's tough I mean I like I said I I so badly wanted because
Ryan Murphy and his team did you know American Horror and I every time one of these comes out because I you don't want
them to glorify killers in any way shape or form but when the dmer one came out which
made me go back and I end up watching some documentary where it's like dmer tapes or something in his own words and
when they're showing pictures of D's apartment if you ask me is that the set of monster or is that D's real apartment
I couldn't tell you because that's how well they do of recreating these scenes and Rec creating these real life
characters and putting them onto uh screen and maybe a documentary or a book might change your mind a little bit of
how you view a case I didn't ever think a biopic would make me change my viewpoint on a case
and and they were able to do that so again I I just think it's a a fascinating Series
so top five of 2024 I'm got to pull back up my list I had it number five who killed Robert
Juan number four Cold Case who killed John Benet Ramsey that's on Netflix number three media pressure the untold
story of Mara Murray a eight part podcast series number two a book a harvest of innocence by Dan sto the
untold story of the West Memphis 3 murder case and then number one monster the Lyall and Eric
Menendez brothers biopic on Netflix and I had it number five as did you who killed Robert
Juan the documentary series on peacock number four again from your list a harvest of innocence by Dan stum new
friend of the show as of 2024 a fantastic audio book a foreign faction by James Kohler then we have at number
two dead end inside the hunt for the interstate 70 serial killer by again new friend of the show Bob ciphers who we
met at crime con con and my number one was shadowman an elusive psycho killer in the birth of FBI profiling by Ron
Fran cell and we would love to hear your top five so when we post this on social
media or on the blog go to tr garage.com and post your top five on there if you want to would love to get your
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Brief Summary

The episode reviews the best true crime content of 2024, featuring documentaries, books, and podcasts with notable guests.

Key points

Dexter Morgan's Origin Story. Explore the hunger inside Dexter Morgan in this new serial killer origin story.
Best of True Crime 2024. A celebration of the best true crime content consumed in 2024.
Who Killed Robert Juan?. A deep dive into a compelling documentary about an unsolved case.
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?. A critical look at a new Netflix series on the infamous case.
Media Pressure: The Untold Story of Mara Murray. A podcast series by Julie Murray that explores her sister's mysterious disappearance.
Dead End Inside: The Hunt for the I70 Serial Killer. An investigative book by Bob Ciphers about a haunting serial killer case.

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Episode quotes

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Celebrating the holiday spirit and freedom from work.

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Tension

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