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We’ve both been doing a lot of hiking lately, and given the kind of people we are, that obviously raises an important question: What are the various ways in which you can die while on a hike?
Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the story of the town that murdered a man
[18:30] CoRri is causing mass psychogenic illness and we don’t know if there are giraffes in Sri Lanka
[25:30] State of the Pod: We talk about exploitative true crime podcasts and whether we actually are one
[35:30] We discuss blackface and the limits of punching up in media
[43:20] Check out our book club and don’t forget to get your hands on a copy of Blood Vessel for our September 4th watch-along
[47:30] We watched Till Death this week. It prompts a conversation about the no-cell-phone trope in movies
[56:00] We talk about the many ways you can die while hiking, from serial killers to carbon monoxide
Stuff we referenced:
- 60 Minutes Special Report (1981) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdnASKDjue8
- Is the killing of Ken Rex McElroy one of the craziest cold case files ever? – https://filmdaily.co/news/ken-rex-mcelroy-cold-case/
- Why Did an Entire Town Fail to Report a Murder? | Ken McElroy Case Analysis – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK7-QGzSMXw
- Bully’s Death Unsolved Five Years Later Despite Dozens of Witnesses – https://apnews.com/article/5837e9aab5ab5f891b4c74037fb1b399
- Bully’s murder remains a secret in Missouri town for 40 years – https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-town-keeps-bullys-murder-a-secret-for-40-years
- Remote hiking area where Northern California family was found dead treated as a hazmat site – https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Remote-hiking-area-where-Northern-California-16395803.php
- Killer says female hiker fought him to the end – https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23769881
- ‘Do not hike alone’: For 21 months, the Trailside Killer terrorized Bay Area’s outdoors – https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/Trailside-killer-mount-tam-point-reyes-15648720.php
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