The name is a little glib, but A&E's Kids Behind Bars: Life Or Parole looks at the Supreme Court decision that forced the resentencing of juveniles given life without parole as teenagers, and Piper is back to look at the eight-episode series: the incarcerated "former kids" it chooses to focus on, the way each story is built, the perspectives of law enforcement and victims' families, and the conversation we need to keep having about the role of racial bias in sentencing practices.
Later, we looked at a better-than-average (but still kind of bad) A Crime To Remember that focused on the murder of Roseann Quinn, whose death heavily inspired Looking For Mr. Goodbar, both book and film. Half-decent re-enactments and A-plus talking-head interviewees (including the late Michelle McNamara) meant I enjoyed it, but Piper wasn't crazy about it -- and was it trying to have it both ways in terms of commenting on the sexism and victim-blaming of the time? Plus, who's going to play us in the docuseries of this podcast, Joe Berlinger's twisted knickers, and more in The Blotter Presents, Episode 094.
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SHOW NOTES
Special Guest: Piper Weiss.
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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