Trueish Crime

It's pandemonium! And on this week's episode, we're talking about the Reefer Madness phenomenon that dominated the 20th century. We're breaking down the cult classic film and taking an in-depth look at the big-business, backed policies that gave marihuana such a negative connotation.Thanks for listening. Stay Safe!

On our first episode via zoom since we've all been in lockdown, we talk about the pop culture true crime events that are happening during the pandemic including Tiger King and a Van Gogh painting theft.  After that we go into the entertainment industry parallels between today and the 1918 Influenza epidemic. 

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On our first solo episode, we're talking about the golden age of Hollywood with the assassination attempts of Shirley Temple, Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne. 

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We're back! On today's episode, we talk about some of the high profile cases where the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons was blamed for violence and suicide. We talk about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert whose tragic story was turned into Tom Hanks first major film Mazes and Monsters. WE also talk about Patricia Pulling who after her son died, created BADD (Banning Dungeons and Dragons) who blamed the game on satan and even werewolves!

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Today we’re talking with special guest Jason Brennan (from Shite Talk: An Irish History Podcast) about Martin Cahill or the general, as dubbed by the media. From the early 1970s until his death in 1994, Cahill rose from house burglaries and hot dog vendor extortion up to major robbery including both a multimillion dollar gold and jewelry heist; and the art theft of some of the World’s most valuable paintings. 

After his assassination (While returning a VHS copy of Delta Force 3), there were many films and documentaries about his life and murder even though he was secretive with his notorious practice of hiding his face.

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Today we’re talking about the pretty insane story of the mysterious deaths of Kevin Spacey’s accusers in what can only be described as a conspiracy theorists wet dream.

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Animals have been harmed in films since the dawn of its invention. 

Leading up to next week’s episode about the film Cannibal Holocaust which notoriously killed several animals on camera, we are talking about other instances of animal cruelty in film including Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant, Luis Bunuel's Land Without Bread, Milo and Otis and a bunch of westerns.

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A few recent shady book happenings; New York Times fake bestseller Triggered by Donald Trump Jr and the sentencing of Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh for her Healthy Holly scandal got us interested in some other historical book scams including Clifford Irving's fake Howard Hughes biography and Go Ask Alice written by Anonymous.

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For our first episode of season 2 we wanted to start off the season with another Woody Harrelson movie that spread controversy in the 1990’s.

So today we’re talking about the series of bombings of New York City subway ticket booths that happened right after the release of the film Money Train and the politic battle that ensued.

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On this bonus episode recorded exactly 100 years to the day after the Axeman's last murder, we are talking about the letter supposedly written by The Axeman of New Orleans who claimed he would spare the lives of those who played Jazz music. We talk about the theories surrounding the letter and if the murderer was the actual writer?

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