The Dorks Deduction

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was a comic, director and writer in the silent film era and had a very promising career until a scandal broke out. Virginia Rappe passed away following a party that Arbuckle had hosted and somehow he ended up in the frame for her demise and he never fully recovered. Basically, down with tabloids.

Being from the UK and not knowing much about politics we thought we would be the most obvious people to discuss US politics. By that we mean we wanted a chance to bash Trump. Matt ruined it.

Clayton Miller passed away in 1990 and his official cause of death was alcohol consumption and hypothermia, but is that really the truth? For the last couple of decades rumours of foul play have surrounded his death, with some even believing that police were involved. Now it's time for us to get involved and figure out what happened the night of his death. This episode is not about a miller (occupation) or bread.

Leakin Park in Baltimore is home to so many murder victims that it's been described as "the city's largest unregistered graveyard". So why do murderers gravitate towards this park in particular? And what are the police doing about it?

The Jersey Devil is a dog-like creature with wings and legend has it the creature was cursed by it's human mother as she had already gone through pregnancy twelve times before. Clearly she hadn't heard of abstinence or birth control which would've saved a lot of people a lot of hassle. Since the Devils supposed birth he has been haunting the residents of New Jersey but is he actually real? Maybe Matt went back in time and gave birth to the thing.

Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake were both in the prime of their personal and professional lives until the early noughties. They then became abusive and untrusting towards others and this eventually led to their suicides in 2007. While alive they blamed Scientology for what happened to them which have led to rumours about foul play surrounding their deaths. So did Scientology ruin two other lives? Or was it just paranoia on their parts?

Everyone has probably heard the centuries old tale of Robin Hood, the terrible thief that robbed those poor and defenceless rich people, then gifted the earnings to filthy peasants. He was partial to arrows, the colour green, merry men and he attracted the ire of the Sheriff of Nottingham, but is he real or just a myth?

So this year the Academy awards/Oscars were marred in controversy due to the lack of diversity amongst their nominees. The Dorks Deduction decided to discuss this even though none of us pay attention to the Oscars and all of us probably unintentionally offend someone on a daily basis. This episode is destined to go well.

Elizabeth Canning disappeared on 01/01/1953 and reappeared almost a month later. She claimed that she was abducted and attempted to force her into prostitution, and her testimony alone was enough to convict Susannah Wells and Mary Squires. However the inconsistencies piled up and those convictions were overturned, so what really happened to her during that month away?

Due to the passing last month of Sir/Lord/King Alan Rickman's (he may not have been a Sir, Lord or a King but he was to us) we decided to do a Harry Potter episode! On the surface it may seem like another nostalgia episode but it's not, and you have to believe us because we said so. No jokes in this episode description, just love. Enjoy!