Toby Ball and I liked Uncovered: The McMartin Family Trials well enough, but we still wished Oxygen were less whodunnit and more whydunnit in its coverage of this most famous of Satanic-panic cases -- how it got so big and lasted so long. We'll never know what really happened...so why not spend more time on why THIS was allowed to happen?
The second season of Bundyville gives us just the Frontline-ian perspective we craved, but without underlining its own conclusions. After investigating the rebellion of Cliven Bundy in its first season, Bundyville expands its scope in S02 to look at anti-government groups, white-supremacist code, Pacific-Northwestern crime sprees, and how they all connect to a seemingly random suicide bombing in Nevada. How domestic terrorists become radicalized, the ethics of undercover work, and why we wish host Leah Sottile had worn some body armor on location, in The Blotter Presents Episode 105.
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SHOW NOTES
Special Guest: Toby Ball.
Closing Statements
155: Most Wanted and While The City Sleeps
154: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and The Con
Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The House of Versace
153: Ann Rule's Sleeping With Danger and The Last Narc
152: Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia and The Perfect Murder S05E09
151: The Business Of Drugs and Summer Of Sam
150: Athlete A and American Greed S13.E06
149: I'll Be Gone In The Dark and Murder Made Me Famous
148: Miracle Fishing and Exhibit A
147: Belly Of The Beast, Coded Bias, and the Yasmin Neal interview
146: Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story and Woman On Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
145: Quiz and No Stone Unturned
Blotter Brief 43: Reed Redmond on Mobbed Up
144: Fake Heiress and Unsolved Mysteries S03.E10
143: A Confession and Let Him Have It
142: Stolen Babies and The Phoebe Judge Interview
141: Bad Education and Frontline's "Terror In Little Saigon"
140: True History Of The Kelly Gang and Catch & Kill
138: A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy and American Animals
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