Michael J. Mooney is a staff writer at D Magazine and the author of The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle.

“There are some elements of crime stories that are so absurd that it’s funny, and so working on the “How Not to Get Away With Murder” story, it was actually really funny thinking about it for a long time. Until I met Nancy Howard, the woman who was shot in the face and has one eye now. This is her entire life, and it was destroyed. This is not a crime story to her, it’s her life.”

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Show Notes:

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[5:00] "The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever" (D Magazine • Jul 2012)

[10:00] "The Real Girlfriend Experience" (New Times • Sep 2008)

[17:00] "The New Glenn Beck" (D Magazine • Nov 2014)

[23:00] "The Day Kennedy Died" (D Magazine • Nov 2008)

[32:00] "How Not to Get Away With Murder" (D Magazine • Dec 2014)

[33:00] "When Lois Pearson Started Fighting Back" (D Magazine • Jun 2012)

[37:00] "The Legend of Chris Kyle" (D Magazine • Apr 2013)

[42:00] "In the Crosshairs" (Nicholas Schmidle • The New Yorker • Jun 2013)

[44:00] "Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal" (GQ • Jun 2011)

[44:00] "The Kid Who Wasn’t There" (Wright Thompson • ESPN • Apr 2012)

[44:00] Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer • Anchor Books • 1997)

[44:30] "Trial By Fire" (David Grann • The New Yorker • Sep 2009)

[50:35] "My Brother, the Murderer" (D Magazine • Jan 2016)

[54:44] "Michael J. Mooney Interview: Unseen Lives" (Andrea Pitzer • Nieman Storyboard • Aug 2009)

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