Episode description
Episode 22: True Crime Part One
This episode was recorded on February 29, 2024 and posted on March 23, 2024.
Content Warning: Light vulgarity, mentions of violent crime cases including sexual assault and murder.
Introduction
- Welcome to No Bodies Episode 22
- Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
- Introductions to our guests Ted & JJ of Conspiring to Argue
- Today’s Topic: True Crime
Defining True Crime
- What is true crime?
- Discussing the obsession with & the ethics of consuming true crime
This Week’s Coroner’s Report
- What is your relationship with true crime? Is consuming true crime content ethical?
Film Discussion
- Iconic Horror Films Based on True Crime Cases
- Manhunter (1986) & Silence of the Lambs (1991) based on Alfredo Balli Trevino
- Texas Chainsaw (1974) based on Elmer Wayne Henley & Ed Gein
- Serial Killers
- Cropsey (2009)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- Zodiac (2007)
- My Friend Dahmer (2017)
- Horrifying Incidents
- Elephant (2003)
- Compliance (2012)
Thank you to our guest!
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- Ted & JJ on Instagram at @conspiringtoargue.
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Sources
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The true crime genre is popular, but is it ethical? (2023, August 28). Journalism and Communication. https://journalism.uoregon.edu/news/true-crime-genre-ethics
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