My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

There's actually a picture book written about this story with help from my grandparents called the scrimshaw ring.

You can probably find it on Amazon.

the main sources that Maren used for this story today are the book KILLDOZER, The True Story of the Colorado Bulldozer Rampage, by author Patrick Brower, and a 2020 documentary called Tread.

And the sources are The New Yorker, an article called Trial by Fire by David Gran and Wikipedia.

And then there's a, there's kind of a backlash because there was a, there was a prison informant that he shared a cell with who's now, who, who testified that this, this Cameron Willingham guy, uh, confessed to the murders, but now it's coming that he actually had been like paid with money and less jail time to testify.

I have a hard time when like in this article that I was reading, it's not in the New Yorker, it's called Trial by Fire.

I mean, the idea that the state bar accused the prosecutor, they went through the whole thing and then they were like, no, he's not guilty or that didn't happen.

There's a 2010 documentary called Death by Fire from Frontline that I highly recommend that tells the story and it's just this hole you could fall into finding out more info about the case.

And they go out to start interviewing the families. It shows how Truman Capote wrote that book. It's such a good movie.

That was, uh, what's his face? Philip Seymour Hoffman did one version and then there was an, so there was one with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Um, and there was another one with Sandra Bullock and Toby McGuire. No British Toby, British Toby. Stephen's going to find it once he's done grooming his mustache. David Toby Keith.

Oh, Toby Jones.

No, no, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. But he's such a good actor. He's in everything.

Okay. And then that, oh, infamous is the name of the biopic from 2006. But then there's also the, the, the Philip Seymour Hoffman one, which is give it a look. It's good. I liked it.

Oliver Twist. Yeah. Great Expectations. My favorite. And a Christmas Herald.

Given that Night of the Twisters was mandatory and thrilling reading for all young adult literature classes in Nebraska...

I had a well-loved copy that I decided to send to Devon Sawa with a note and of course a very cringy photo of 14-year-old me.

a semi fictionalized award-winning book written by Ivy Ruckman came out in 1984.

if you haven't listened to The Debutante by john ronson you absolutely have to it's one of the most unbelievable stories that you will ever hear

the main source used in this story today is the writing of journalist Robert Kolker, who has reported extensively on this case. He actually published a book about it called Lost Girls.

And then I was like, I need a break from this right now. And so I started the book that you recommended, 'Say Nothing' by Patrick Radden Keefe about the troubles in Ireland, the fucking civil war that's been raging or had raged for a century.

the book Betrayal written by Tim Weiner,

the Wallace case was completely unrivaled when it comes to murder mysteries.

the Wallace case is unbeatable. It will always be unbeatable.

The Blind Side

Do you know that when I was little, I checked out like eight Encyclopedia Brown books and then I didn't return them and I knew they were overdue and then I just put them in the back of my closet and never told anybody.

And they stayed there for months. And my mom's like, what was the plan here? Like, why wouldn't you just tell me and we would go to the library?

Yes. Young enough to not understand the fines.

But also, I think it's a good reflection of how my sister and I were often left to our own devices to fix things that were actually adult level problems.

Yes. A real smart boy that just kind of knew trivia stuff. And that would help him solve mysteries around town.

I'm Catherine Ramsland. I'm a professor of forensic psychology and the author of Confession of a Serial Killer, what I call a guided autobiography of Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer.

Through jailhouse visits, telephone calls and written correspondence, Catherine Ramsland worked with Rader himself to analyze the layers of his psyche.

Using his drawings, letters, interviews and Rader's unique codes, she presents in meticulous detail the childhood roots and development of one man's motivation to stalk, torture and kill.

On April 20th, 2019, a writer named Matthew McGough released a nearly 600 page book detailing the case of Sherry Rasmussen's murder entitled The Lazarus Files, A Cold Case Investigation.

We know that in the mid 1930s, May self publishes a book called The Origin of God.

He's written a book detailing Eunice's triumphs called Invisible, the Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster which was published in 2018.

I am now remembering someone sent me that book, Stephen L. Carter's book, Invisible.

While there have been books written and movies made about Jan's experiences, he felt none had truly captured the key to his survival so Tor himself set out to write a book of his own called Defiant Courage.

My intention was to honor all of his helpers because that's what Jan would have wanted.