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Good true crime podcasts? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 week ago by REgon@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Yeah yeah treats, slop, fascism and so on. I like true crime, if you've got an issue then come to evergreen terrace 742 and we can talk about it.

Anyway I used to love Last Podcast on The Left, but they've lost the sauce. I enjoyed them for the fact they seemed to do a lot of research, but aloof treatment of the subject matter (making "gold star episodes" for especially gory stuff 🤮) and also, somehow, wanting to do the "scary and serious" type voice... It's shit.

I'd love some recommendations for True Crime podcasts that:

  • Treat the victims with respect.
  • Don't give the perpetrators mythological gravitas
  • Do deep research
  • Are entertaining
  • Aren't trying to make me believe the world is out to get me so Ill buy their home alarm system.

By entertainment I don't mean funny. I just mean it provides you with whatever it is you expect to get out of listening to a good podcast.

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[–] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

This one is very niche but Hallie Rubenhold's Bad Women is about the 5 victims of Jack the Ripper, based on her book The Five. Unlike every other Jack the Ripper podcast/researcher, she went out of her way to research the five victims, who they were, and what put them where they were that night. She set out to push back on this narrative that all five were just prostitutes who "deserved it" somehow, that each of them were people with lives

She also talks about all the misogynistic hate she gets from the "Ripperologist" community about her work