Recommendations on true crime books and even podcasts?
Recommendations on true crime books and even podcasts? Thanks in advance! ?
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Recommendations on true crime books and even podcasts? Thanks in advance! ?
Criminal is an excellent podcast.
I was going to recommend this. It’s a brilliant podcast
Following!
In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter
Mindhunter
Member of the family. The stranger beside me.
My Favorite Murder, Wine and Crime, Last Podcast on the Left
I haven’t heard of Wine & Crime, but I’m going to check it out!
@Samantha it’s 3 girls from Minnesota that drink wine while talking about crime. It’s really good
Sounds riiiight up my alley. I love wine, true crime, and lady friendship jams! 🙂
It’s not a true crime but the woman in cabin 10 was a great read. Murder mystery
In Cold Blood.
Nope
Devil in the White City!
https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/my-favorite-murder-karen-kilgariff-georgia-hardstark/id1074507850?mt=2
You either love it or hate it, I love this podcast!
Books: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule; I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, And The Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi. Those are some of my favorites.
Podcasts: MFM (as many people have recommended), Last Podcast on the Left, Serial (Season 1), S-Town (by the producers of Serial), and Sword & Scale (but only the first 50 or so episodes are good before the host becomes a dick!)
Loved S-Town!
Me too! Another podcast that’s good, but isn’t TRUE crime is called “Limetown”! Check it out! 🙂
Stay sexy, don’t get murdered ? (MFM reference)
YAS FELLOW MURDERINO!
LIMETOWN SEASON 2!!!!
@Eveline me too!! Love My Favorite Murder!
@Harriet My best friend of all time who is so so intelligent told me about Limetown and I almost didn’t have the heart to tell her it was fiction, lol. She was amazed that it was such a well done coverup!
Loved Serial season 1. I would love to know for 100% who did it.
Crippen by John Boyne
Podcast shittown
And That’s Why We Drink!
Samsies! <3
@Haelee secret group??
@Haelee yesss! Love the group!
And That’s Why We Drink is fun. It’s a true crime/paranormal podcast. @And
Up and Vanished!
Oh yes! Good rec!
@Samantha soooo good. as well as Atlanta Monster and season 2 of Up and Vanished just released first episode this Monday!
My favorite podcasts are Sword and Scale and Criminal!
DEATH IN THE CITY OF LIGHT: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King. A grisly, true story from the Second World War.
Is this the one where the serial killer is a doctor?
True crime all the time, in the dark and they walk among us are 3 of my favourite podcasts, I’d highly recommend these 3
Following!
Serial Season 1, Black Friday: Shattered and Sword and Scale are some of my favorites!
Joe Kenda has a new book and if you get the audio he reads it himself.
Sword and Scale, my personal fave. (Podcast)
Casefile is great! (Podcast)
BLOOD & IVY: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins. I saw Mr.Collins give an outstanding presentation about this book on BOOK TV last weekend.
Small town dick – podcast by Yeardley Smith (lisa simpson) and her friend and two detectives. LOVE it
The Road to Jonestown!
Podcasts – Small Town Murder and My Favorite Murder. Both are hosted by comedians, so they try to make you a little more comfortable with the gory details by cracking jokes.
I read “I’ll be gone in the dark” and book about Patty Hearst by Jeffery Toobin recently — both unusual perspectives. ?
For someone who followed the Patty Hearst story closely Jeffrey Toobin’s book, American Heiress, was a shocker. We were duped.
Is there anyone left who has not read Flowers of the Killer Moon by David Grann? Better hurry. Movie filming now. (Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio = should be great.) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29496076-killers-of-the-flower-moon?from_search=true
Coming here to say this! A must read!
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Casefile: True Crime Podcast
AMAZING!
books Columbine by Dave Cullen
Stranger Beside Me Ann Rule
Small Sacrifices Ann Rule
Unqualified But Forgiven! My autobiography!
Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family by Dick Kreck
I haven’t read it yet but my best friend has and she highly recommends it. It’s on my tbr list.
It’s about Denver’s Italian Mafia. I’ve read a lot on the family, just not this book. I’ve mainly read articles about them.
Podcast – Sword & Scale But you better have a strong stomach.
The Stranger in the Woods by Micheal Finkle. Minor crimes , but story of a man who lived in the woods for forty plus years and eluded the law and survived by breaking in cabins to steal food. He survived Maine winters in his self made hut. It’s fascinating and true.
Is it a stranger in the woods?
@Katie Yes, Katie, it’s The Stranger in the Woods. Sorry, my bad.
@Anne I’m picking it up from Barnes and noble tomorrow… excited for this read, it’s right up my alley!
Just read this for our book discussion group. Interesting, thought-provoking book.
Maybe not true but love the crime Noir
Journey into darkness is an amazing book
My favorite murder is a good pod cast. Who killed these girls is a good book.
My favorite murder is my favorite
I like it too, it’s funny and you find out about a lot of other podcasts through it.
I’ll be Gone in the Dark, by Michelle McNamara. The podcast Casefile True Crime(Case 53, broadcast in May-June 2017) deals with the crimes committed by the Golden State Killer, who was arrested in April.
I just picked up “Foreign Faction – Who Really Kidnapped JonBenet?” by the former lead investigator on the case, A. James Kolar. Looks interesting.
Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel.
Books: In Cold Blood, The Stranger Beside Me, Helter Skelter, Devil in White City, The Fact of a Body, American Fire, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Podcasts: Crime Town, My Favorite Murder, Criminal, True Crime Garage, Up and Vanished…
“The Executioner’s Song” by Norman Mailer. It ? is ? so ? long ? but so good.
My Favorite Murder (podcast), Last Podcast on the Left, Atlanta Monster (podcast)
Columbine. Dave Cullen
Carolyn pretty well covered it. I would add The Stranger Beside me by Ann Rule who knew Ted Bundy personally. Fatal Vision. Small Sacrifices. The Onion Field. The You Must Remember This podcast about the Manson murders.
Good list!
Any book by Ann Rule is good, in my opinion.
@Diana Agree!
Criminal is my favorite, hands down. It’s more than just murders, but criminal history with a bit of an academic slant. Love it.
Love true Crime Garage, MFM and last Podcast on the left. Also, The Cleaning of John Doe is an interesting twist to the true crime podcasts. And of course we have all left out Serial podcast. If you haven’t listened to that you must do that first. The story of Adnan Syed and the killing of Hae Min Lee
All of these…
I’ve just started listening to ‘Death in Ice Valley,’ a series from BBC World Service and Norwegian NRK about a 50-year old cold case. Its great: very atmospheric, some great twists so far, some Cold War-era intrigue…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h
New season of Up and Vanished jus started this week.
Patricia Cornwell and Stuart McBride are so amazing.
For those of you suggesting My Favorite Murder, I strongly suggest you try Small Town Murder, as well. A friend is a huge MFM fan and I turned her onto STM and she loves it.
Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song
Dirty John
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.
Podcast True Crime Garage
Dirty John- podcast
In cold Blood book by Truman Capote