The pages of history are not often graced with the names of young women. It tends to be the kings, the knights and the priests who still live in the collective conciousness, even thousands of years after they have died. We often know they are married, but sometimes we don't even know the names of …
Continue reading Believable the CoCo Goodman Story: A True Crime Podcast About Fraud.
Across the cultures that have emerged from the proto Indo-European and the Indo-European people we can find similarities, which speak to an unrecorded time in history which serves as a foundation for many languages and myths right up to the modern day. We know little of these people, even their homeland is in dispute, but …
Note the water tower (it comes up later) In the world of crime it is true that cases that get the most attention are most likely to get solved. They will have more person power, the public will be more likely to have their memories jogged and contact investigators when they have information that could …
Continue reading Crime in Culture: The King Road Killings, In Cold Blood, Bundy and Bryan Kohberger.
There are some emotions, some cognative processess which different cultures don't do well with. It's nobodies fault. Something happened, probably at a formative point in the culture which meant that whatever feeling or opinion was under examination, would not again be the choice of that group of people. Many cultures which have western christianity as …
Continue reading Shadow of Doubt: An Australian True Crime Podcast About Familial Abuse
In the late 70s Margaret Thatcher was begining to develop one of the most well known tennants of Thatcherisim the often quoted "there is not such thing as society," which like many quotes, think Marx and religion being the opium of the massess, has become unmoored from it's context. However the impact of the quote …
Continue reading Crime In Culture: The White House Farm Murders
We all know that periods of time get names. There are the decades like the roaring 20's or the great depression in America's 1930s. Artistic styles are also name periods of creation baroque, rococo. There may be more scientific namings, covering great swathes of time in geology before humans even graced the planet, or …
There are some people who become much more than who they were as a phsyical living, breathing, person. Instead they appear to grow into something bigger, and symbolise something greater than who they ever were in life. One example of such is King Arthur. Originally a pagan war lord of the Britons, he has …
Continue reading Crime in Culture: Podcasts about the Black Dahlia
There are many different ways to look at truecrime. One can chose to take a feminist perspective, or look at it through the lens of any of the professionals surrounding a case, the police, the psycologists, the lawyers, the press. Sometimes the lens of those who were victims, or their families. It's fair to say …
Continue reading The Letter – A True Crime Podcast About Forgiveness
We all have an identity, it is what makes us who we are as individuals. It can be made up of a combination of physical traits, personal traits, style, attitudes, but it can also be found lodged in the small things we do which often go unnoticed by others. It is not fixed and it …
Continue reading I Am Not Nicholas: A True Crime Podcast About Identity and the Rossi/Knight case.
There are moments in every narrative genre where a story comes along and through a magic combination of craft, skill, charctors and plotting that transcends the genre itself, and becomes more than it's parts and tells us something vital and compelling about ourselves and wider humanity. It is exactly this that happenes in the new …
