Oh, you like podcasts?
Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Thetrue-crime podcast universeis ever expanding.
Were here to make it a bit smaller and a bit more manageable.
Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists will pick their favorites.
Three words: the Twinkie defense.
(I didnt.)
Hosts Audrey Gordon (a.k.a.
It begins with the infamous murder of Harvey Milk by his former Board of Supervisors colleague Dan White.
In court, Whites lawyers argued diminished capacity due to depression, evidenced by Whites uncharacteristic junk-food eating.
(He was ultimately convicted of manslaughter.)
Satirist Paul Krassner then picked up the thread, dubbing the lawyers reasoning as the Twinkie defense.
This leader is deeply flawed, yet hailed as flawless by his followers.
Be warned: You might find this weeks history lesson feels disturbingly timely.
Kristy Puchko
Friday, November 13
Murderish, The Abduction of Frank Sinatra Jr.
However, even after returning home to his mother, the damage to Frank Sinatra Jr. was not done.
You mightthinkyou know the truth of this celebrity scandal.
As a result, the Brights were no longer allowed to be alone with either child.
Did any of this make sense, or was CPS still reeling after amurderthey could have prevented?
What happens when an organization thats supposed to protect children gets it wrong again?
And, despite its many shortcomings, it still holds mighty sway in a court of law even today.
But just how critical of eyewitness testimony should we be?
And her answer may leave you second-guessing everything youthinkyouve ever seen.
you’re free to go in there and edit it but so can other people.
(Major yikes, right?)
To his community of the Fox Lake, Illinois, Joe Gliniewicz was a hero.
Still,A Few Bad Applesisnt all about bad news.
By the end, he killed 22 people, injured three, and set fires in 16 different places.
Jenni Miller
Tags:
