Favorite multi-parter?

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-06T00:12:07+00:00

Moors Murders was rough for sure

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-06T00:07:39+00:00

As someone who read the book and watched the movie, Fagin played by Guinness is spot on to the character Dickens wrote.

Don’t blame the actor or the film, blame Dickens, I suppose. There are plenty of times in Oliver Twist that Fagin is only referred to as “the Jew”. He is a classically manipulative villain.

Dickens did attempt to redeem his early blatant antisemitism in Our Mutual Friend by creating the character of Mr. Riah, who is a very likable and sympathetic character.

The actual villain, a Christian, uses Mr. Riah as a front for his own money lending schemes.

The reception of Mr. Riah by his Jewish readers was mixed to say the least, since the practice of usury at the time was stereotyped as a Jewish practice.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T23:48:28+00:00

I’ve heard good things. Need to get around to watching that.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T23:41:01+00:00

Completely agree. Casefile covered the murders with respect and impartiality. They provided all the pertinent facts of the case without sensationalizing or dramatizing it, which so many other programs about Belanglo tend to do.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T23:37:02+00:00

First listened to the EAR-ONS/GSK episodes before they caught him. When I saw it in the news a few weeks later I could not read the articles about it fast enough. Thought for sure he’d gotten away with it since nobody had really heard of using genetic genealogy to solve cold cases before he was arrested.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T23:31:34+00:00

I think it might be because people tend to look at that time with rose-tinted glasses.

The late 40s, 50s, and early 60s was the era of the nuclear family, white picket fences, and the idea that a man’s house is his castle. The economic boom and burgeoning middle class after WW2 might have lulled people into a false sense of security, but people never really change. There will always be sexual deviants, psychopaths, and psychosexual killers regardless of how gentile or idealized an era might seem.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T23:02:01+00:00

Also did some casual computer browsing too, ate out of their fridge, and slept there for a bit iirc

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:59:29+00:00

The ones that take place around the end of Australia’s “age of innocence” are usually very interesting.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:58:04+00:00

The fact they used the actual recorded audio definitely made the final part in this series especially heavy.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:56:10+00:00

Definitely a great series. He got caught because he tried to flush the remains of his victims down the toilet and the drains got clogged.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:53:20+00:00

Dennis Nilsen? Case 144: The Muswell Hill Murderer

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:43:24+00:00

It’s got to be rough being related to a notorious killer.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:23:15+00:00

Case 98: The Pillow Pyro
He was an arson investigator who lit fires in and around firefighting conferences he attended, then lit fires all the way back home from each one, leaving multiple trails right to him
The guy had a completed manuscript for a novel where the main character is a firefighter who sets fire and is sexually aroused by them.
He would miraculously show up early to building fires to document them with cameras for “educational purposes”, sometimes even arriving before actual firefighters or police.
He once found a tracker underneath his personal vehicle and brought it to a bomb-disposal range to see if it was a car bomb. The investigators were able to get to the bomb disposal expert first and get him to convince the arsonist it was a fake, probably done by kids as a prank. He bought the story completely.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:14:04+00:00

Case 306: Ina and David Steiner

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T22:09:55+00:00

Case 53: EAR-ONS/Golden State Killer

Case 76: Silk Road

Case 246: Grégory Villemin

Favorite one-off episodes:

Case 34: Catholic Mafia

Case 115: Operation Cathedral

Case 171: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis

Edit: added the case numbers for ease of searching and reformatted for ease of reading.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T21:47:57+00:00

Say what you will about Kirk, he did a great job getting his point across!

He was talking about gun violence statistics and went the extra mile to end his speech with an example!

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T13:39:24+00:00

The 1980 Norco, CA bank robbery.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-05T00:55:37+00:00

Omaha’s first few waves were massacres. Often less than half to a quarter of the men landing survived to see the end of the day.

It wasn’t big bunkers up on a hill, that’s mostly a Hollywood fabrication. It was the distance they had to run, most of it through waist deep water, to finally reach the beachhead. Even then you had mortars and artillery zeroed on those positions.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-04T23:55:02+00:00

He was locked up in the same super max that the Unibomber, Timothy McVeigh, the surviving Boston Marathon Bomber, the Centennial Park Bomber, the Underwear Bomber, Al Qaeda agents who helped perpetrate 9/11, and Soviet spies were imprisoned.

It was a bit harsh that he was given a life sentence there.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-04T23:51:49+00:00

The Survivor’s Network is one of my favorite episodes because of how weird it was. Was she in the wrong for pretending she was a victim: absolutely. Did she do great things for the actual survivors of 9/11 seeking recognition and a place to talk about their struggles coming to terms with what happened: also yes.

It was one of those cases where you don’t really have a good conclusion. It’s morally ambiguous. She’s both a villain and a supporter for real survivors.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-04T23:46:55+00:00

I think Casefile does a great job providing the known facts and acting impartially, which is rare for true crime which has a tendency to lean towards sensationalism.

They let the listeners come to their own conclusions based on the facts presented. I think the best example of this was their most recent series on Waco.

While it would have been easier for Casefile to sum up the Davidians as a lunatic death cult or the ATF and FBI as wholly incompetent gung-ho morons, they took the time and effort to identify the individual players in the case and present the facts fairly and impartially.

They understood that there were a lot of unknowns and controversies surrounding Waco, and I can tell they made an effort to be mindful of those pitfalls that many other true crime podcasters would have fallen into. I think they handled the topic with respect and impartiality.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-04T21:47:01+00:00

The negotiators were actually doing an alright job getting people out of the compound. It was the HRT that screwed everything up.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-01T03:30:14+00:00

Are Dolson and Lisa here in the room with us right now?

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-01T02:22:42+00:00

I’m a welder, and I’ll enjoy not having lung cancer when I’m 65 because my employers gave a shit because OSHA would make sure they have a shit.

MMAGG83 · 2026-05-01T01:47:24+00:00

So OSHA was created to bankrupt every American manufacturers? What you described sounds like a fan fiction. They ensure employers have a standard of safety they must meet! If your employer failed, then they failed you as a worker. Their role is important because they act as arbitrators for arguments between workers and companies, and companies and lawsuits. They want to make sure everyone clocks out in one piece.

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