Episode description
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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