Are there any non-sensationalistic and non-speculative true crime stuff like that you like?...
- tv series
- podcasts
- etc
It's a genre I'm interested in but 95% of the time I don't like stuff. Audiences want endless salacious, sensationalistic, and purely speculative details. I don't want any of that stuff.
The only thing I've ever watched or listened to that I've liked was the Forensic Files.
Forensic Files (TV Series 1996-2011)
A series featuring detailed accounts on how notable crimes and diseases were solved through forensic science.
I ended up downloading all seasons off TPB. But I had stop watching after season 7. I deleted the rest of the episodes unwatched.
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As well done as it was - it was relentlessly bleak. I took breaks lasting months but episodes were still too depressing.
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The narrator was Peter Thomas. When I was young he was the voice of PBS to me. He seemed to narrate everything PBS did. I never thought I'd get sick of his voice but, man, did I ever. Too much of anything can get to you.
If there's a Forensic Files-like podcast with at least some lighthearted stuff as a break from the depressing stuff - that might be perfect for me.
I keep coming back again to the extremely strange, chilling and pathetic story of a very wealthy and repressed corporate accountant named John List, who
spoiler/cw
Shot his wife, mother and three teenage children one day in a premeditated spree in 1971
for a host of insane reactionary reasons, mostly related to wealth and status. It is, as the hosts point out, an extremely American tragedy. There was just too much going on psychologically for me to hope to summarize here, but one interesting fact is that he was the first guy to do the "put on a suit and tie every day and just sit at the train station for 8 hours so your family and neighbors don't find out you lost your job" thing. Actually, he also put on a suit and tie just to mow his lawn. His many dysfunctions, too numerous to list here, are a perfect example of the self-destructive consequences of fully identifying with the fucked up Calvinistic anti-morality of capitalism. He was a true believer, and he did what he did in part because he believed his family had failed to live up to those standards. He was the Ur-1960s Suburban Fascist.
I don't know what podcast app people use, so I'll just drop an old fashioned YouTube link: https://youtu.be/5tMWtgHpnG4l