138: A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy and American Animals

A new hour-long documentary confronts the deaths of Jen and Sarah Hart and their six adopted children in A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy -- but did this doc need to exist? And does it do anything the Broken Harts podcast didn't? Later, we'll talk about a docu-nactment hybrid, American Animals, from the director of The Imposter, and whether this genre-buster works where the Transy book heist did not. (Uh, spoiler.) No free hugs here, folks; it's The Blotter Presents, Episode 139.

SHOW NOTES

• A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy on Amazon
• The Broken Harts podcast
• My Blotter Brief on same, and Eve's write-up
• Bello Collective's Nafari Vanaski on the difficulties more broadly of reporting this particular story
• American Animals on HBOGo
• VF's "Transy Book Heist" piece from 2007 
• The Imposter
• Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean
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