My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It's a book that I've been reading for the past year or so. And it's called The Devil's Advice.

I am reading this book on this basically the same thing called Daughter Detox about, you know, mothers and how to get get over them.

Georgia congrats on a couple of days of not drinking my fucking her way this week is that after hearing Georgia talk about This Naked Mind in January, which is a great book I'm listening to again about getting sober and this woman's incredible journey.

he recently wrote a book cause right after all this stuff happened to him, he kind of wrote everything down. It was like his side of the story, because of course he had a horrible time in Tucson.

he titled it, I squealer, which is kind of a hilarious title.

at the table next to us was somebody I recognized had gone to prison. He was this big dude. And I thought, Oh my God, I'm in trouble. He shot a couple of balls and said, how you doing Richard? And he was friendly as hell.

So here was somebody who was in prison and lived by a strict, you don't squeal code. And he recognized the difference between squealing on somebody for stealing a candy bar and squealing on somebody who was out there killing girls.

Then he says once he was playing pool with his brother at a bowling alley on south Alvernon way. And he says, quote, at the table next to us was somebody I recognized had gone to prison.

I'm an English professor at LSU and just read, where are you going? Where have you been? Which is a short story by Joyce, Joyce Carol Oates.

I highly recommend, especially if you like great writing the Joyce Carol Oates short story, where are you going? Where have you been?

which she basically read about these cases and ended up writing a fictionalized version.

But like, that's what that short story is about. And it's award winning.

And that is the basically the very rudimentary story of the Pied Piper of Tucson.

Auntie Donahue Canada's sweetheart Auntie Donahue her book is called Nobody Cares. Get that if you haven't already and she's on Stevens podcast talking about her cat Barry Gibbs

So now I downloaded her book because she of course became a writer, which is part of the narrative called The Child Finder.

And I'm just completely immeshed. I'm so into it. And that's her second book, The Child Finder. She's written a couple books.

But aside from that, there's really the articles are really short. There's not a ton of stuff. There's not a ton of podcasts like episodes about it, but it's fucking bananas.

So I'm listening to this book called The Unquiet Dead by, um, asthma is a hana Khan. I'm sure I said that wrong.

It is gorgeous. It's a detective kind of who done it.

That's like the basics of it, but it takes place in Canada and they are trying to solve the death of this person.

Did he kill himself? Did he get killed? But the person turns out to maybe be a war criminal from the Bosnian war.

And so it keeps, which I didn't know anything about. And so this book is like super, um, what's it called? Historical fiction.

I'm listening to this book called The Unquiet Dead by Asma Zahanat Khan.

It's a detective kind of who done it, that's like the basics of it, but it takes place in Canada and they are trying to solve the death of this person. Did he kill himself? Did he get killed? But the person turns out to maybe be a war criminal from the Bosnian War.

This book is super historical fiction. It keeps telling me all these things about Sarajevo, the fall of Sarajevo and the Bosnian War from the 90s.

I had no idea that it's so beautifully heart-wrenchingly written. It's incredible. I'm obsessed with it.

It's like a perfect true crime book, but also you learn something.

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon, the book about it.

Mexican as a community, have a blood thirst and a biological predisposition to crime and killing because of the culture of human sacrifice practiced by their Aztec fucking ancestors.

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon, Zoot Suits, Race and Riot in Wartime LA by Eduardo Abringan Pagan.

these youths refuse to accept the racialized norms of segregated America with their flashy ensembles, distinct slang, extra cash generated by a booming war economy and rebellious attitude. Pachucos and pachucas participated in a spectacular subculture and threatened the social order by visibly occupying spaces, public spaces.

Becoming Nobody, which is the essential Ram Dass collection.

Becoming Nobody, it's such a good audio book.

Because also it's kind of a play on words as you'll see soon...the book that was written about this is named 'Bitter Almonds'.

She wrote a book about her experiences called The Grim Sleeper, The Lost Women of South Central, which was published in 2017.

He says that the authorities, of course, ruined the crime scene. Quote, they didn't secure it and people were walking all over the place, reporters and photographers and cops leaving footprints and dropping cigarette butts.

They called it White Christmas, Bloody Christmas.

They originally published 5,000 copies, immediately sold out of all 5,000. So then they published, I think 10,000 more, 10 or 15,000 more also all sold out.

The book is now out of print, but you can get it on Amazon for $165.

the book that a lot of this information is from is called Bitter Blood by Jerry Bloodsoe and he's the one who like coined the name of it.