Podcast: what is up my murder munchies, todays episode we are visiting a gnarly case about a Jane Doe who was found headless in a recycling bin. Before we start the show, I would like to thank our sponsor simplysafe for making home security system that blow the competition out of the water!
lol I remember in high school being told serial killers are white men because they fit a certain complex psychological profile and are more educated.
Yeah or maybe pigs are racist and aren't investigating the well spoken white guy, because he's some middle class white guy, so he has more time to commit crimes.
That reminds me of the "missing rich young white woman" thing that used to be most of Fox News' airtime before 9/11. :cap-think:
There's libs that believe in universal healthcare and also libs that think hospitals should be allowed to bill the descendants of a patient with interest
Isn't there like a subgenre where they focus on exonerating people who were obviously wrongfully convicted? I'm still not gonna listen, because I don't enjoy hearing details about murders for any reason, but morally I think I can stand that.
some motherfucker gonna break into my house, ill get spooked, and impale myself on my pit of 40 katanas by accident
Point me to a leftist true crime podcast or youtube channel and I will watch/listen. I find true crime fascinating but all of these content creators just focus on the gory details and not on the motives and how capitalism and it's society plays into it all at the macro level.
LPotL is frequently good about focusing on how the pigs are incompetent. That's something else that separates them from other true crime.
They also make sure to point out what losers all the notorious killers are. At no point are they glorified or hyped up
TrueAnon and Ghost Stories for the End of the World are kind of true crime podcasts, with that crime being "state crimes against democracy."
It's called Well There's Your Problem, and it's about the worst kind of murder - social murder.
Unfortunately they've been phoning it in for a long time. But like 50 of them are good, that's a big archive.
Yeah, an occasional well-researched episode would be good. Or just more guests, so they can leech off of the knowledge of people who know WTF they're talking about. The train scheduling one they did recently was alright (though for my tastes it could've gone deeper into the technical details).
The general riffing ones tend to be better, but they also did one on something I know a bit about (medieval siege warfare) and it was just a clusterfuck of pop culture based misconceptions, so it makes me worry they really don't know what they're talking about during a lot of them.
Yeah, they did. They talked over her a lot, but she also didn't really correct anything.
They don't always phone it in, but some are a little dull. I'm really hoping they do some episodes on early rail disasters, like pre-1860. Those were some wild times, before stuff like "signals" "brakes" and "labor rights" existed. Early trains were just little pipe bombs on wheels dragging a bunch of wagons with train wheels behind them.
Wtyp might be the worst podcast I've ever opened. Someone a million years ago here linked their episode on 9/11 and it was pretty cool, so I expected the entire show to be like that. I tried like 10 more episodes and there was exactly one which was tolerable, that being the one about zeppelins. The rest were the most unfocused, unfunny, unpleasant conversations I've ever heard.
This was a one off series, but maybe checkout Believe Her.
It’s a podcast documenting the story of Nikki Addimondo, who was put in prison for murder because she killed her abusive husband.
It’s not explicitly leftist, but it’s a pretty big critique of our criminal justice system. It’s definitely not like “oooh let’s get in the mind of a killer.”
Also would recommend I Am A Killer on Netflix, which is a docuseries where they interview prisoners and about their history and the murder and then also talk to family members, detectives, victims’ family, etc.
It ends up very humanizing for the most part. I think it’s a show where people affirm their own beliefs though. The subreddit paints it a lot as “first you get the killers’ story and you feel sympathetic, then you get the truth from the cops and victims’ families.” This happens on some episodes, but I feel like the prisoners usually seem credible and accountable.
How about you don’t find it fascinating, how about you stop fantasizing over the murder of innocent people and start viewing that interest as wrong thoughts?
Yeah this is a new account that is constantly trying to start struggle sessions. I give it a week before @themagicschoolbus is banned.
Any one else think that JCS Criminal Psychology youtube channel is kinda sus? It's been really popular it seems, the youtube algorithm practically spams it into my recommended feed whenever I watch anything even tangentially related to true crime
I've only seen a couple videos so maybe I'm off base. But I've gotten the impression that the idea that "criminal psychology" exists at all is pseudoscience quack shit. It's really unnerving to me how the guy analyzes interrogations involving a clearly nervous suspect and tries to paint a picture of their character and whether they're guilty or not based on subtle, seemingly meaningless facial expressions and mannerisms.
JCS criminal psychology crao is hilarious but also dangerous. "The cop does the flingle flangle, this gets the suspect to shit their pants on command revealing the location of the murder weapon"
Rip when people absorb that crap as fact and start using it on random people they know.
I miss old TrueCrime content from the early 2010's. They were these somewhat shady Youtube channels that had minimal background noise and just read the case as it was before ending. Now you try to listen to a simple podcast where they do the "HEY KIDS" approach and it just sounds tacky.
Also why are women so obsessed with TrueCrime? The biggest fans of this stuff that I've met have all been women.
There’s something that feels very Freudian about straight cis white women in the first world (one of the safest demographics of people in the world) being obsessed with true crime.
I suspect it's some variety of "misery tourism" where for just a moment in safe conditions they can experience a vicarious hint of what it's like to be in worse conditions on their own terms.
The English Empire had a prolonged fad of murder mysteries in the imperial core when the empire itself was mass murdering across several continents for treats. :ukkk:
