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6 days ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
A couple weeks back, my esteemed colleague Kevin Smokler (pre-order his book!) and I got to talking about Sidney Lumet: our favorite films of his, how he’s great with actors and crap at pacing, and whether, as Kevin put it, “shit ever works out in his movies?”I looked it up before responding, and: shit really kind of doesn’t ever work out in a Lumet joint, but the number of times that’s because it’s a real-life corruption case made me realize, hey, I should BET-CRP Lumet.
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1 week ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
Read-Handed is our occasional feature updating you on true-crime books, listens, research etc. that we’re in the middle of right now. We hope you’ll add YOUR recent reads — whether you dug the book or DNF’d it partway through — and what you’re looking forward to, too. what’s up at Exhibit B. BooksThe shop’s current featured author is John Glatt, whose work we’ve covered in the past; those books are 20% off. So-called “plus-ones” — books I have more than one copy of — are also 20% off.
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2 weeks ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
The crimeThe murders of seven women (and very possibly dozens more) on Long Island by alleged serial predator Rex Heuermann; the fact that it took Suffolk County law enforcement a decade and a half to crack a case for which they’d had much of the evidence in hand for some time. The storyAs you can see, it took me most of the week to finish Netflix’s Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, the three-part return to the Gilgo Beach case by director Liz Garbus.
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1 month ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
The crimeBroadly, the murders committed by the so-called Happy Face Killer, Keith Jesperson. More narrowly, the criminal-justice system’s inability and/or unwillingness to reverse itself, and the true-crime industry’s ravenous appetite for packageable content.
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1 month ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
The crimeThe October 2021 involuntary manslaughter of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, when a gun handled by the film’s star, Alec Baldwin, discharged a live round that hit Hutchins and director Joel Souza.
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1 month ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
Read-Handed is our occasional feature updating you on true-crime books, listens, research etc. that we’re in the middle of right now. We hope you’ll add YOUR recent reads — whether you dug the book or DNF’d it partway through — and what you’re looking forward to, too. The shop’s current featured author is Joseph Wambaugh, who passed 10 days ago; those books (and a couple magazines featuring his work) are 20% off.
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1 month ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
It’s a bit of an odd feeling to embark on a Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage when the subject is not just recently deceased, but the object himself of an investigation. But while I was bemoaning the loss yesterday of Gene Hackman, who died recently at 95 years of age, I also happened to be processing a book on Bonnie and Clyde, and it got me thinking about Hackman’s genre c.v. The change-agent film from the late ’60s is on it, of course…but what else is on it?
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1 month ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
The crimeAllegedly, distribution of ketamine resulting in death – specifically, the death of Friends star Matthew Perry in October of 2023. The storyIt’s no surprise that Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy is on Peacock; the same corporation that owns the streamer owns the network that aired Friends. It’s also no surprise that Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy isn’t very good, but if you did have it in mind to check it out, let me tell you unequivocally not to bother.
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1 month ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
Welcome back to Pairings, a feature in which we suggest reading, viewing, or listening related to a true-crime property. Have a book, show, or podcast you’d like us to pair? Email us at editorial at bestevidence dot fyi, or call or text us at 919-75-CRIME; if you have pairing recommendations for today’s main course, we’d love to hear them in the comments. PBS’s Secrets Of The Dead, now in its twenty-second season, isn’t a must-watch for me, generally.
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2 months ago | 
realityblurred.com | Sarah D. Bunting
Read-Handed is our occasional feature updating you on true-crime books, listens, research etc. that we’re in the middle of right now. We hope you’ll add YOUR recent reads — whether you dug the book or DNF’d it partway through — and what you’re looking forward to, too. The shop’s current featured author is Don Davis; those books are 20% off through the weekend. Like a more midcentury flavor? Next up is Ovid Demaris.
