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[Gef Mongoose]

With point 2, I think you're on the right track. While there's an element of that, you'll also notice that they're for huge government overreach. Like, "How was this jealous boyfriend who yelled at her at a work party not under 24/7 police surveillance?? He was obviously going to kill her a year later!"

They have no respect for due process of law, the Constitution, or really anything. This style of thinking is what led us to invade Iraq.

I was thinking specifically of My Favorite Murder. To be honest, I have only ever consistently listened to three true crime podcasts. LPOTL and True Crime Garage (another underrated recommendation) are the only two that I listen to now. I never heard MFM get that bad on the government overreach stuff. But I’m not denying it on other podcasts.

 

[Kled]

OHHHHH BOOOOOOY THIS THREAD IS GONNA BE GOOD.

I love True Crime. I listen to mostly (99%) TC podcasts because its interesting to me and I enjoy leaning new things or catching things I miss. Granted im tired of the big 7 or so serial killers but I keep it as bg noise. The programs I listen to are 'True Crime Guys', 'Southern Fried True Crime', 'True Crime All The Time', 'This is Monsters', and 'Dateline'. Honorable mention is 'Forensic Files'. All of them are very good, some almost 2 hours some about 15 minutes. Its weird but the psychological aspects and how fucked up these people are fascinates me. Can't get into LPotL because they talk and tangent too much but I do agree that they got pozzed hard after 2016. Crime Junkies and Morbid too jfc.

With randos trying to help solve cold cases i dont mind it in spirit or theory. Its good to want to help a family or the police solve something but 9 times out of 10 it goes horribly wrong or it actively hinders the investigation. Another that gets me are PD losing ebidence or case files after so many years. Theres a case thats still active around the DC area where someone was going around killing black girls in the 70s/80s and they trashed all of the evidence from that case due to an "accident". If anyone knows the name of that case please let me know. I'll browse twitter for some takes later on if there are any good ones.

To slightly tangent, were there any serial killers where you all live? State, country, etc. Im totally not a glowie just curious.

 

[Chongqing]

I was thinking specifically of My Favorite Murder.

What a distasteful name for a true crime podcast. They might as well call it, "Profiting from Tragic Death and Hoping Your Family is Next."

Also, I hate how the women on the show excessively use the word, "shit," (as in, for example, "I love that kind of shit,") and now when any woman says it all the time I get really turned off, because it specifically reminds me of those two weirdos who glamorize crime.

I could be misremembering, but isn't that the podcast where one of the female cohosts had an older male relative who was in law enforcement and his job was to investigate CP so he had to watch child sex abuse material? And just by way of being a male who wasn't a pedo, he was considered by her to be a genius?

In the mind of a true crime fan, there are so many nuggets of insane things that they view as reality. The feminist trope that all men are pedophilic rape monsters is one I picked up on listening to them for just one episode.

Now that I'm this far into writing this, yes, I agree, it's weird I have this strong of an opinion about them.

 

[choccy milk]

I tried listening to the first episode of MFM a while ago after several recommendations. A few minutes into the first episode the hosts (the most smug yuppie bitches on the planet) started saying some shit like "all southern people are intolerant. That's just a fact, we say the truth on here, so stop listening now if you can't handle the truth!" and I was out. Even if I wasn't from the south, I can't stand cheap digs like that, especially not from two middle-aged white women.

 

[Kled]

Even if I wasn't from the south, I can't stand cheap digs like that, especially not from two middle-aged white women.

I've noticed that when its women hosts they tend to talk way too much and take way too much time getting tot he point. I think it was Morbid with the female hosts and it took them about 5 or so minutes just to get to the episode's topic (Fatty Arbuckle). Needless to say, that was the last time I checked them out as well. Patreon shilling and the whole correct terminology for prostitutes and disclaimers. I don't mind listening to people read out donators or the like if they at least have charisma or are nice to listen to.

Looking to relax and de-stress? Why not listen to some true crime ASMR - nothing is more comforting and soothing than hearing about horrific acts committed against innocent, real people, amirite? Jesus Christ.

When can I expect the Jonestown Death Tape ASMR to show up?

Looking on r/truecrime for some interesting comments and ran into a thread on Bruce Pardo. Bruce Pardo was a narcissistic sociopath who shot up his second ex-wife's family's home on Christmas Day dressed as Santa. He then doused the home with gasoline (or some different fuel) and set it on fire but in the process burned himself. The burns were apparently so bad that the suit itself had been grafted onto his skin. He drove to his brother's house and then shot himself in the head.

There are more details but right now the ones you need to focus on are that he was a narcissist and controlling. The wife divorced him because of how controlling he was. Here is the Murderpedia page on him for more details. This is Monsters also goes into details as well

 

[Crex Crex]

What a distasteful name for a true crime podcast. They might as well call it, "Profiting from Tragic Death and Hoping Your Family is Next."

Also, I hate how the women on the show excessively use the word, "shit," (as in, for example, "I love that kind of shit,")

Because nothing on earth is cooler than someone getting stabbed 90 times, hacked apart with a machete and then cannibalized. Greatest shit in the world, obsessing over it and having "favourites" is totally normal.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

My favourite murder is none of them. Fucking winemom losers. Hope they die of liver failure.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

Because nothing on earth is cooler than someone getting stabbed 90 times, hacked apart with a machete and then cannibalized. Greatest shit in the world, obsessing over it and having "favourites" is totally normal.

To add on to it, I just remembered that in the first episode of their podcast, they went over their personal “favorite murders”. One of the host’s was Jon Benet Ramsey. And then they proceeded to talk and laugh about it in their “stuck in the 80’s, California valley girl” voices.

 

[74164978231]

I'm pretty sure she's offering discounted services with a blanket film/photo permission so, it may be tasteless but it's not a big deal. those services are expensive and it's human remains without name or identification so it's less bad than it could be.

people may also get tidier about their suicides if they're seeing her videos, too, and that can only be a good thing. she's gross as a person but the visibility of what a death scene is like may end up serving a purpose.

Only in our fucked up clown world is this woman making bank off the final supreme acts of human misery a good thing in anyway.

Looking to relax and de-stress? Why not listen to some true crime ASMR - nothing is more comforting and soothing than hearing about horrific acts committed against innocent, real people, amirite? Jesus Christ.

Im still undecided if ASMR degens are worse than feet people.

 

[cuddle striker]

Only in our fucked up clown world is this woman making bank off the final supreme acts of human misery a good thing in anyway.

Im still undecided if ASMR degens are worse than feet people.

lessons she should teach you:

kill yourself in the bathtub. close the shower curtain completely. do not use ammo that can penetrate your tub. angle the shot downward into the tub, put a thick towel over your face to prevent spray as much as possible.

do not kill yourself in a bedroom or a room with many wood surfaces or textiles. drywall has to get removed sometimes during these cleanups. you don't want that

police are not good at solving crimes, but the general public is even worse.

 

[Totallyunknown]

I enjoyed earlier podcasts and still listen to Last Podcast on the Left - because they don't just cover crime, nor is it nine hundred hours of gruesome detailed murders and rapes with some sympathetic tone over it.

I don't like the shift from focusing on the killers to the victims as I believe this community has a psychological interest, and frankly, anyone can be a victim. But only a few people commit actual murders. So big long stories about the victims personal life interspersed with awful details of how they ended is not for me but I understand wanting to honor the victim who's life was cut short as well. It just doesn't make good content, IMO.

There is a line though, because too much focus becomes an idolization. So I'm okay with comedy at the killers expense to remove any pretense of these people being something "cool".

I also like programs like 48 Hours or Forensic Files, which is true crime content without a lot of frills. For me, I like mysteries and what comes next and the steps of how it's solved. I think there's a lot of people in my perspective of it as well and that's probably what leads to the thrill of solving it yourself - which I don't participate in because I'm not stupid.

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

I enjoyed earlier podcasts and still listen to Last Podcast on the Left - because they don't just cover crime, nor is it nine hundred hours of gruesome detailed murders and rapes with some sympathetic tone over it.

I like it mostly because they make fun of the killers and don't put them into a "Oh, they're so scary and frightening" light. In my opinion, the best thing you can do is laugh and make fun of those people and don't give them any respect.

 

[Red flag]

There's a channel called True 911 Calls and for the most part it's ok, they give a little background before and a brief conclusion after the recording. But what really rubs me the wrong way is that at the end they ask the audience to comment which 911 call was their favourite.

Wtf kind of request is that and wtf do they expect people to say?

"Omg I love your channel, my favourite was when the little girl was crying in the background of her mom getting stabbed to death. Keep it up!"

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

There's a channel called True 911 Calls and for the most part it's ok, they give a little background before and a brief conclusion after the recording. But what really rubs me the wrong way is that at the end they ask the audience to comment which 911 call was their favourite.

Wtf kind of request is that and wtf do they expect people to say?

"Omg I love your channel, my favourite was when the little girl was crying in the background of her mom getting stabbed to death. Keep it up!"

Speaking of that, isn't there a podcast that plays very gruesome recordings? I believe it's Sword and Scale. I heard of one person having to stop driving and vomit on the side of the road due to one recording.

 

[Red flag]

Speaking of that, isn't there a podcast that plays very gruesome recordings? I believe it's Sword and Scale. I heard of one person having to stop driving and vomit on the side of the road due to one recording.

I'm actually binging that right now, up to episode 119 and haven't encountered anything gruesome just yet. I did skip over a few episodes of cases I've already heard of in detail though, so maybe I missed it.

Sword and scale had a bizarre troon (Skater) come on the show to defend Randy Stair and this sparked some very dumb drama.

Not up to date on the whole sword and scale cancellation lore.

 

[Android raptor]

I like it mostly because they make fun of the killers and don't put them into a "Oh, they're so scary and frightening" light. In my opinion, the best thing you can do is laugh and make fun of those people and don't give them any respect.

Tbh a lot of infamous murderers are cows, especially mass shooters. Everyone should mock them as mercilessly as possible.

 

[Autistic Asparagus]

I’m glad there is a thread on this now. I have two things to share.
The first is some dumbass podcast reviewer claiming Michelle McNamara (Patton Oswald’s fat dead wife) and web sleuths are the reason the Golden state killer case got solved. Despite the fact that Michelle wrote an entire fucking book recapping the murders and never once even came up with a viable suspect, let alone mentioned the actual killer. Also, the case was solved through genetic genealogy, not by wine moms speculating about the case on Facebook.

The second being one of the most brain dead “theories” about Does I’ve ever seen

 

[Kung Pow Cream]

I’m glad there is a thread on this now. I have two things to share.
The first is some dumbass podcast reviewer claiming Michelle McNamara (Patton Oswald’s fat dead wife) and web sleuths are the reason the Golden state killer case got solved. Despite the fact that Michelle wrote an entire fucking book recapping the murders and never once even came up with a viable suspect, let alone mentioned the actual killer. Also, the case was solved through genetic genealogy, not by wine moms speculating about the case on Facebook.

The second being one of the most brain dead “theories” about Does I’ve ever seen

I'm suddenly imagining someone playing musical chairs with someone's teeth and they're just shuffled randomly around like a deck of cards.

 

[Autistic Asparagus]

Since that god awful podcast Morbid was mentioned, I should tell you about the awful episode they did on Kendrick Johnson “case.”

Case is in quotes because there is no case as it has been ruled an accident by 3-4 different agencies/groups including the NAACP.

Kendrick Johnson was a black teenager at a high school where they weren’t allowed to use lockers because of vandalism. He put his gym shoes in a rolled up gym mat for storage as a lot of kids did in that school. Unfortunately he decided to reach through the gym mat to grab them instead of picking it up. He suffocated to death.
There was video of two white teenagers leaving the gym shortly after they believe the accident happened. These kids were harassed and called white supremacist murderers. One of the kid’s father worked for the FBI so the family and public were insistent that the Father colluded with local police to cover up the crime.

The family won’t accept the fact it was an accident and keeps trying to sue everyone to make them investigate it AGAIN. Probably due to predatory lawyers trying to get pay days out of them and the media. Benjiman Crump was involved with the family at one point so that should tell you how they tried to play racial tensions up for it.

Morbid’s episode played into all these rumors and speculation ignoring all the evidence and blamed white supremacy for it.

 

[Colonel Gaddafi]

Just binged the thread, excellent content so far.

I noticed Spaulding Decon in the OP, boy howdy, I haven’t thought about them in a while. I remember first stumbling upon that rabbit hole a few years back. I’m not really sure why they came up in my recommendations, but (minor PL) I am good friends with a former funeral director, and I was almost hired as a mortuary apprentice in my gap year at uni, so I have a passing interest in this morbidity. I remember feeling that, while the actual clean-up was professionally done, the videos were exceptionally exploitative. For example, you had them constantly pointing out and holding up scalps and skin slippage like trophies, playing with maggots (getting them to race each other), riffling through the deceased person’s belongings…The latter of which got them in hot water recently, as their cleaners where showing off a dead person’s sex toy collection to the camera for giggles. They issued an apology statement, but having watched their channel off and on for years, I can attest that it wasn’t the first time. It always struck me as particularly disturbing with the suicides and/or unattended deaths of the elderly. There was something uniquely sad about someone dying old and alone, or by your own hand in bed holding a childhood teddy, only to melt into the floor, because you had no one but a landlord to check in on you. Then these goofs show up to film it all for YouTube clout.

The only good I saw was the suicidal people in the comments section saying that it was discouraging to them.