Blotter Brief 9: Bag Man
In her first podcast, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow digs into the very dirty forgotten history of Nixon VP Spiro Agnew.
Blotter Brief 8: The Lost Tapes: Clinton Impeachment
Smithsonian Channel’s archival overview of Clinton’s high crimes and misdemeanors is solid, but perhaps superfluous.
Blotter Brief 7: Carruth
The Charlotte Observer’s look at the 1999 hit on Cherica Adams by her child’s father, Rae Carruth, makes an NFL-crime-podcast trifecta. Should you listen?
Blotter Brief 6: Taberski, Rudolf, And Judge On Making A Murderer
Netflix’s You Can’t Make This Up podcast roundtable on MAM Pt. 2 doesn’t quite work.
The Blotter Presents 073: Making A Murderer Part 2 And Karla
Eve Batey on the return of the Netflix show that gripped the nation in 2015, plus an incomprehensibly bad Bernardo/Homolka movie
Blotter Brief 5: POV’s Lindy Lou, Juror No. 2
From a July POV episode, one woman’s emotional battle with her decision to give a man the death penalty.
Blotter Brief 4: Steve McNair: Fall Of A Titan
Sports Illustrated wades into the NFL-adjacent crime-pod fray with Tim Rohan’s investigation of a 2009 murder-suicide.
Picking Out Of A Line-Up: Notorious Cases
Jill Stempel on five books about sensational cases to dig into…or leave for the next victim
Blotter Brief 3: Someone Knows Something, Season 5
The CBC cold-case podcast returns for a fifth (!) season, this one on the murder of Manitoba teenager Kerrie Ann Brown.
The Blotter Presents 072: The Sentence And This American Life
Toby Ball on the personal and affecting account of one family’s mandatory-sentencing ordeal, plus everything old is new again with a 1999 podcast.