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 …
Everybody knows that if you chose a life in the armed forces, you are going to need to be ready to face some serious situations, ones that could end up with you losing your life. Joining up is never an option that should be taken lightly given all the risk that are part and parcel …
Continue reading Death at Deepcut: A True Crime Podcast About Crime in the British Army
It is in the public interest to get to the bottom of what happened during the investigation and trial. In a country who's government has declared it wants to be the "best country in the world for children to grow up," we appear to have easily forgotten who is a child, when their rights don't fit the narrative we have chosen, before all the evidence is in.
Genre cross-overs in most entertainment can work incredibly well, such as horror comedy. The reason that this works so well is that is that horror and comedy are two sides of the same coin, they both rely on the unexpected for their big pay off, and so mould well together. Not so much true crime and romance. Sure there are couples in true crime, Bonnie and Clyde, Starkweath and Fugate who Natural Born Killer's Micky and Mallory was based on, and later Iain Brady and Myra Hindley. While there are a few big names, couples where both are active in a crime tend to be the exception rather than the rule, but even more rare are couples where one is a criminal, and the other is a serving police officer.
