Episode 23: True Crime Part Two

This episode was recorded on February 29, 2024 and posted on April 6, 2024.

Content Warning: Light vulgarity, mentions of violent crime cases including gun violence, sexual assault and murder.

Introduction

• Welcome to No Bodies Episode 23
• Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
• Welcome back Ted & JJ of Conspiring to Argue
• Today’s Topic: True Crime

Film Discussions

• Femme Lens
  • Karla (2006)
  • Charlie Says (2018)
• Extreme Retellings
  • An American Crime (2007) & The Girl Next Door (2007)
  • The Untold Story (1993)
  • 22 July (2018)
  • Concrete (2004)

Worst & Best Representations of True Crime Adaptations

Spoilers ahead!

Worst

• The Untold Story (1993) &  Karla (2006) - JJ

Best

• Zodiac (2007) - JJ
• Mindhunter (2017) - JJ & Suzie
• In Cold Blood (1967) - Ted

Suzie’s Deep Cuts

Includes films with under 5k ratings on IMDB. 

• Mister Organ (2022)
• Tread (2019)
• Candy (2022)

True Crime Documentary Recommendations

Lonely’s List

• Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022)
• House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (2021)
• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
• Children of God (1999)
• Sins of Our Mother (2022)
• Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)
• Child of Rage (1992)

Suzie’s List

• American Nightmare (2024)
• Escaping Twin Flames (2023)
• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

Closing Thoughts

• Make a final case for true crime. For it or against it?

Thank you to our guests!

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