My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Well, Dr. Jeffrey McDonald is the one who Fatal Vision is about and who is also the one who the Errol Morris new novel that's basically a refuting Fatal Vision is about.

Fatal Vision was basically Joe McGinnis making friends with Jeffrey McDonald and then being like, here's how he did it.

And then when like in Errol Morris's book, which I just got a book on tape of, um, they basically break down how it was just super mishandled.

Well, this is Sam Shepard. Sam Shepard's the one.

Dr. Jeffrey McDonald is the one who Fatal Vision is about and who is also the one who the Errol Morris new novel that's basically a refuting Fatal Vision is about.

Fatal Vision was basically Joe McGinnis making friends with Jeffrey McDonald and then being like, here's how he did it.

So don't read that and we're back

...there was something I was reading and it was that theory and maybe this was a dramatized version but it was like the theory that they took her to a place to murder her and torture her because clearly she was tortured.

...I've read a lot of his books up into a point where they like got to silly, right? We're like the vernacular. We're just too like beat poet. Yes.

...But before that, I fucking loved his books and I read all of them. They're great.

...it's still a good. This is a good program to watch by yourself and...

don't read that and we're back

It's based on his on James L. Rice book The Black Dahlia which is a really good book movie was stupid but I liked the book a lot yeah

I didn't know Henry Winkler had a children's book series.

I didn't either.

My brother hated reading but related to this book so much because according to my brother, they made him feel included despite his learning disorder.

He also made sure I read The Gift of Fear, which is a book I recommend everyone read at some point.

It's called 'The Future' by Naomi Alderman. And it is a, right now in the middle, it's a pre-apocalyptic strong female techie girl leads and the apocalypse is coming. There's fucking tech billionaires that you hate.

It's just like this adventure leading up to the apocalypse. It's like really exciting. It's so good. I love the characters. I highly recommend it.

According to sources he Jeffrey was severely abused as a child and he was a loner throughout high school But as he grew into adulthood, he became a religious fanatic He was excellent memorizing verses in the Bible and the Church of Mormon book, yeah The book of Mormon

It's called The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

It's like a famous classic self-help book.

It's essentially like, be here now and right now is the only thing that actually exists.

So everything else that you're manifesting or remembering or worrying about doesn't exist.

And you have to, and you have now, that's it.

If you've ever seen a Boston gangster movie or whatever about like South Boston, like Southie, which we all have, it's Clinton's like the sort of like small town version of Southie.

And to prove that the Stephen King series, Castle Rock, which was, that was filmed in Clinton the first season.

Tim, did you guys see it?

That's the street I grew up on, that street.

Like where the whole finale takes place is literally the exact spot I got drunk for the first time in my life at on the train track.

That whole thing of like the body, you know, the book, The Body Keeps the Score where it's like a whole different situation is happening physically.

It's called FantasticLand and it's by Mike Bokovin.

Bokovin?

Bokovin. Bokovin.

B-O-C-K-O-V-E-N.

I highly recommend not listening right before bed.

Coming up on Wicked Words, I talked to prolific crime writer, Patricia Cornwell, about her book, Portrait of a Killer, Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, where she re-examines the evidence, documents, and records surrounding this infamous Victorian era case.

Veteran journalist, Raina Peterson, tells me her story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who tiptoed through the homes of Dallas police officers and took the lives of thousands of people in the homes of Dallas' high society during the swinging 60s.

Her 2024 book, The King of Diamonds, investigates how this thief eluded police and the FBI for more than a decade.

As I put the iron down, a book caught my eye, The Complete Language of Flowers.

before the killings, I was a carefree kid oblivious to the dangers lurking behind my safe middle-class suburban neighborhood.

after absorbing every detail of the book, I knew I wanted to be a detective just like Bob Keppel. I wanted to catch men like Ted Bundy and Anne Rule's book inspired the course of my life to come.

I remembered hearing about Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act a way of being

and so I went on Audible downloaded it and suddenly just doing household chores also involved me opening up my mind about the creative process and what it takes to be involved in it

there's lots of different ways to pass the time it felt very enriching that this is the way I chose to do it

Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox.

The Mystery of the Parsi Lawyer written by Shrabani Basu.

We chose Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, a total classic.

It seems like one of those family secrets that no one really wanted to talk about.

I only acted in what I believe to be in defense of my home and my family.

I do not feel that I should suffer for it, which I know that I must do unless you interfere on my behalf.

They would have just taken George out and hung him.

if George Denning is convicted at Franklin, the governor ought to pardon him without a day's delay.

A lot of low down scamps fell out with him and went to his house after a night to whip him and run him out of the county.

He performed the praiseworthy act of killing one of them.

Denning ought to be given 40 acres of land and a mule for his action in protecting himself and his family.

that George begins speaking out about the injustice he had endured, even telling a local newspaper that he intended to file a damage suit against the men who burned his house.

black residents had trouble getting legal representation.

Lawyers weren't interested in taking on civil cases that didn't offer the possibility of big payouts.

And it was often hard for black litigants to pay lawyers fees.

Another deterrent was the constant threat of violence against white lawyers who would dare represent black citizens suing whites.

there was a great rejoicing in hell this morning when men of intelligence, the two lawyers who have spoken for the defendants in this case argue that a man may be murdered or driven from his home and his family by any self constituted mob that may elect to take his life and destroy his property.

All the demons smiled and applauded.

Well may we in view of the brutality towards this man and his wife and children as detailed from the witnesses cry out, is God dead?

that night exists as a signpost in Anthony's lineage, a historic marker he can point to as a moment that helped create him three generations before.

If things had gone differently that night, if George Denning had failed to grab his rifle or hadn't taken a bullet in the head or hadn't mustered the courage to squeeze the trigger, Anthony Denning might not have been born.

Some of this falls down to us. We've been fighters. I feel like we were raised off of the things that he went through to stand up and have courage and face the things that come your way.

I have a very strong feeling that my son is still alive and is being held by someone from another world.

if a UFO came I would love to go with it but I'll never go without you.