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Crime Writers On...

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Crime Writers On… is the original true‑crime review podcast hosted by Rebecca Lavoie and featuring Kevin Flynn, Lara Bricker and Toby Ball. Each week the panel reviews true‑crime podcasts, documentaries, TV shows, and films, diving into journalism, storytelling, pop culture, and the biggest crime stories in media. Plus: the Crime of the Week. Show website: crimewriterson.com Follow the show on X: @crimewriterson Facebook: facebook.com/crimewritersonpodcast Email: crimewriterson@gmail.com

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01:05:51

Suspect and John of God

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2021/09/27

For years, the Brazilian faithful sought out psychic healer John of God, but the religious leader told young women their miracles were to be performed through other techniques. The Netflix import “John of God: The Crimes of a Spiritual Healer,” explores the case of a man who used his position to assault hundreds of women. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "JOHN OF GOD" GO TO 22:30 A murder in an apartment building left cops with two viable suspects, but not enough evidence for an arrest. Did they put

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01:03:09

Firebug and Laëtitia

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2021/09/20

Southern California officials were dealing with a string of seemingly unrelated arsons. Then a manuscript turned up with a fictional account of the fire setter. Is the book a veiled confession by the author whose identity stuns investigators? The podcast "Firebug" explores that question. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "FIREBUG" GO TO 26:00 When a teenager's scooter is found abandoned in the road, police begin a desperate search. The six-part French language series “Laëtitia,” now on HBO, focuses on

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01:13:51

9/12 and LuLaRich

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2021/09/13

The memories of what happened on September 11th are burned clearly into our minds, but what happened afterward is often fuzzy. In "9/12," from Pineapple Street Studios, Wondery, and Amazon Music, host Dan Taberski goes beyond the usual retrospectives, and looks at how 9/11 stopped being a day and became an idea. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "9/12" GO TO 35:00 While leggings company LuLaRoe earned billions, the money came not from consumers - but from the tens of thousands of sales women

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01:06:20

Only Murders in the Building and The Yellow Car

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2021/09/06

In 1989, daycare provider Effie Entezari was shot in the parking lot of her Vancouver, Washington apartment complex. KGW and VAULT Studio's "The Yellow Car" follows Pooneh Gray's quest to clear her father’s name, questioning the ballistics, and struggling to test DNA from an alternative suspect. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "THE YELLOW CAR" GO TO 26:19 When a resident in their expensive New York apartment dies under suspicious circumstances, a former TV cop, a washed-up Broadway producer, and a

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00:39:17

CWO Classic: Mommy Dead and Dearest

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2021/08/30

For the final CWO Classic rewind of the summer, we look back at the panel's May 2017 review of the HBO documentary about the case of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard, "Mommy Dead and Dearest."Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.: https://patreon.com/partnersincrimemedia For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at Patreon.Sign up for our newsletter at crimewriterson.com

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01:18:46

The White Lotus and Pray Away

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2021/08/23

With Toby away on vacation, the crime writers welcome actress and podcaster Janet Varney to the panel. The Netflix documentary “Pray Away” looks back at the early-adopters of conversion therapy and the advocates who believed in its efficacy...until they didn’t. The film also follows an evangelical who renounced his trans identity and is organizing a political movement for those who identify as “ex-gay.” FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "PRAY AWAY" GO TO 35:00 Who was killed during their stay at this

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00:39:56

CWO Classic: Accused

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2021/08/16

With the crime writers taking some more summer R&R, enjoy this classic rewind. Every once in a while, other podcast comes along and seems like the heir to "Serial." Few live up to the anticipation. Is it possible that the Cincinnati Enquirer's "Accused" podcast has replicated the secret sauce: a truly compelling murder mystery and the transparent, obsessive reporting which goes into the story? It sure is.Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more exclusive content, on Patreon.:

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01:14:15

Peacock's Dr. Death and No Place Like Home

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2021/08/09

In Oz, everyone wanted to get their hands on the ruby slippers. In Grand Rapids, someone did! The C13 Originals podcast “No Place Like Home” looks at the 2005 movie memorabilia heist and the hunt for the thieves. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "NO PLACE LIKE HOME" GO TO MINUTE 27:15 A pair of Dallas surgeons are alarmed by their new colleague. Dr. Christopher Duntsch leaves a trail of maimed, paralyzed, and dead patients - while hospital administrators look the other way. The Peacock Originals’

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00:25:11

CWO Classic: Dr. Death ☠

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2021/08/02

With the crime writers taking another week off, enjoy this rewind of a classic podcast review. From September 2018, the panel digs into the hit "Dr. Death" from Wondery. Billed as the successor to "Dirty John," reporter Laura Beil recalls the case of a doctor who performed a string of botched surgeries while the system was unable - or unwilling - to stop him. TO JUMP TO OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF DR. DEATH, FAST-FORWARD TO THE 25th MINUTE.Click here to get the Crime Writers On After Show, plus more

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01:14:52

Heist & Chameleon: High Rollers

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2021/07/26

In season two of Campside Media’s “Chameleon: High Rollers,” host Trevor Aaronson takes listeners inside the FBI’s ill-fated Operation Botox. The podcast promises a tale of love triangles, gun runners, exotic dancers, wrongful prosecutions, and a pair of agents having too much fun undercover in Sin City. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "CHAMELEON: HIGH ROLLERS" GO TO MINUTE 32. The Netflix series “Heist” looks at three colorful crimes perpetrated by somewhat ordinary people. Employing stylized

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00:38:42

CWO Classic: Finding Cleo

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2021/07/19

As the team moves to its biweekly summer schedule, enjoy this rewind of a classic CWO review. In season two of CBC’s Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo, Connie Walker searches for a Cree girl who vanished after being adopted into an American family. Will she skillfully tie the tale to the heartbreaking story of Canada's "Sixties Scoop"? What did the crime writers think of it? TO SKIP TO OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF FINDING CLEO, JUMP TO THE 34th MINUTE.Click here to get the Crime Writers On After

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01:09:07

Murder in Illinois and Murder By the Coast

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2021/07/12

Christopher Vaughn was convicted for the 2007 killings of his wife and children in the family minivan. The iHeart podcast "Murder in Illinois" looks into whether someone else was responsible and an innocent man is in prison. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "MURDER IN ILLINOIS" GO TO MINUTE 29:00 The killing of a teen in a Spanish seaside village and the prosecution of a family friend for the slaying gripped the country. Netflix's "Murder By the Coast" describes how a subsequent crime would rock two

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01:13:56

Un(re)solved and Sophie: A Murder in West Cork

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2021/07/05

It took an act of Congress to compel the FBI to reinvestigate more than 100 civil rights-era murders. From FRONTLINE PBS comes the podcast “Un(re)solved,” a look at the attempt to close open cases of racially-motivated killings from five decades ago. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "UN(RE)SOLVED" GO TO MINUTE 28:00 In 1996, a French tourist was murdered outside her Irish vacation home. Suspicion in the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier turned to a man already publicly involved in the investigation

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01:09:08

Alligator Candy and Day X

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2021/06/28

When journalist David Kushner was four-years-old, his older brother biked off to buy him his favorite gum. In "Alligator Candy" from UCP Audio, Kushner struggles to come to terms with the loss and the thought that his request led to tragedy. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "ALLIGATOR CANDY" GO TO MINUTE 28:15 The discovery of a handgun at an airport led authorities to a German soldier posing as a Syrian refugee and the possibility right-wing extremists had infiltrated the nation’s military. The New

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01:02:21

Do You Know Mordechai? And Lupin (season 2)

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2021/06/21

A stranger knocks on a woman's door and asks if she knows her ex-boyfriend, whom she learns was not who he said he was. In “Do You Know Mordechai” from UCP Audio and Antica Productions, host Kathleen Goldhar works on behalf of the bamboozled and brokenhearted to find a romantic con artist. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "DO YOU KNOW MORDECHAI" GO TO MINUTE 27:00 France’s favorite gentleman burglar is back in season two of Netflix's “Lupin.” Assane Diop employs disguises, high tech trickery, and

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01:14:56

The Vaping Fix and The Trials of Frank Carson

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2021/06/14

Defense attorney Frank Carson was a rough courtroom brawler, unafraid to accuse police and prosecutors of corruption to win cases. But the disappearance of a small-time thief led investigators to focus on Carson. Was the criminal attorney as violent as his clients...or was it a vendetta by cops and lawyers to bring down their pugnacious foe? FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "THE TRIALS OF FRANK CARSON" GO TO 30:00MINUTE. Two Stanford students proposed a safer way to give smokers their hit of nicotine

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01:05:11

Searching for Sheela and The Woman in the Window

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2021/06/07

After her reclaimed fame in "Wild Wild Country," former cult leader Ma Anand Sheela went on a book tour of India. Netflix's follow-up "Searching for Sheela" shows her greeted by fans and reporters, projecting an image of a woman both enlightened by her experience and unrepentant of her past. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "SEARCHING FOR SHEELA" GO TO THE 27:00 MINUTE MARK. An agoraphobic woman witnesses a crime across the street, but investigators believe the attack was a product of her medicated

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01:15:47

Exit Scam and Nail Bomber: Manhunt

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2021/05/31

The sudden death of Gerald Cotten left Bitcoin owners in the lurch, because no one else had the password that controlled the hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. In the “Exit Scam,” host Aaron Lammer asks did this missing Crypto-King take a fortune to his grave...or take it on the run? FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "EXIT SCAM" GO TO 35:30 A series of 1999 bombings rocked London’s Black and gay neighborhoods. Can a regular chap-turned-spy find the neo-Nazi behind the attacks? We’ll

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01:17:57

Philly D.A. and The Lazarus Heist

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2021/05/24

A North Korean cyber group made headlines when it hacked Sony Pictures, then stole a billion dollars from a Bangkok bank. The BBC World Service podcast “The Lazarus Heist” explains how the communist regime unleashed a gang of cybercriminals on the world. Are they in it for the thrill, for the politics, or for the money? FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "THE LAZARUS HEIST" GO TO 30:00 In 2017, Larry Krasner was swept into the Philadelphia DA’s Office on a platform of systemic criminal justice reform

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01:11:14

Mare of Easttown and Camp Hell: Anneewakee

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2021/05/17

It was founded on a curriculum of hard work, discipline, and emotional counseling for out-of-control adolescents. The iHeartRadio podcast “Camp Hell: Anneewakee” explores the sordid history of the Anneewakee Treatment Center, sold to parents as a solution for their children's problems, but was actually a breeding ground for sexual abuse. FOR OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEW OF "CAMP HELL: ANNEEWAKEE" GO TO 34:51 When a young mother is murdered, a small town detective's investigation threatens to upend her

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