Friday we are getting a new Netflix true crime doc on the case of the 2022 murder of pro cyclist Moriah Wilson. From the producers of Free Solo and the director of that one Lance Armstrong doc a couple years ago. I saw a Dateline or 20/20 on this case a few years ago.
Listened to the last 2 eps of Crime Junkie and one key aspect is that the guys wife died under suspicious circumstances. The husband had a secret child and the wife finally confronted him and he’s just gaslighting her and talking about how much of a mistake he made and how he doesn’t want to deal with the kid. Wanted an abortion. The wife secretly recorded it and crime junkie released it and all I can think about is how it must suck for the secret kid to be able to hear about how much his dad wanted to abort him and doesn’t care about him
On Friday I worked with the guy that was the pool photographer for the D4vid arraignment. So any pictures you see of the hearing are his. He was telling us something crazy stories about being a photojournalists in LA since the '80s. Said when he was covering the Menendez Brothers trial they kept talking to him and trying to make friends since they were the same age. Told us about the countless times he's been shot by less than lethal rounds by the cops and how the mounted units have spikes on their boots that they paint black so they can kick people. Really rad dude.
I know people always talk about Thin Blue Line as the genre defining true crime doc, but a lot of credit needs to go to Paradise Lost. Absolutely essential doc for any fan of the true crime genre
Updates on the Kristin Smart case (recommend this podcast for anyone who hasn't listened). Later this month will be 30 years since she went missing.
I guess the SC Supreme Court found that one of the court clerks committed jury interference that tainted the original trial, so now there is going to be a retrial.
Didn't really know much about the Murdaugh case before this so I watched some stuff. One thing that bothers me about this case is that the guy is going to spend the rest of his life in prison for financial crimes he admitted to regardless, and he's still adamant he didn't kill his wife and son. That seems a bit weird, like if you knew that you did it but were still going to die in prison regardless if you beat the case or not why even still fight it? We know he lied about his alib to the cops, we know he was there around the time it happened, but the physical evidence showing him as the trigger puller is pretty weak. I have a gut feeling something fishier is going on.