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New York Times bestselling novelists Christopher Rice (The Burning Girl Series) and Eric Shaw Quinn (The Write Murder Mysteries) return to their studio on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip for an all new podcast that’s all talk. Join them for their trademark blend of humor, irreverence and passionate opinion as they dish on some of the most popular true crime TV shows of the moment in their recurring, special feature “Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club”. (A production of TDPS, the same network that brought you the comedy/variety and celebrity interview filled fun of The Dinner Party Show.)
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Hot Dateline Month has delivered sultry swaying palms and bleak Montana highways. Now it's time to head to an affluent Midwestern suburb where — wait for it! — a seemingly idyllic marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. You know it's going to be a doozy when the narration begins by describing the episode as "One of the strangest stories we've ever had on DATELINE." Enter episode 4 of season 29, entitled "Sex, Lies And Murder" where you'll meet Jane and Bob Bashara, the couple who has it all — including a semi-secret BDSM dungeon Bob keeps in the basement of one of his rental properties. And does this case hinge on the ick-factor-disapproval of suburban sensibilities? On this particular question, Christopher and Eric aren't sure they agree.
Hot Dateline Month continues with this breakneck chase down the long dark highway of mental illness. Episode 16 of season 31, entitled "On A Dark, Deserted Highway", begins decades before the terrifying police pursuit that gives this episode its name. It’s the dark saga of a tormented man whose twisted actions towards his wives and loved ones should have resulted in his confinement and treatment years before he went on a deadly shooting spree and high speed chase on a peaceful Montana night. How does one man end up turning against the very system that allowed his crimes to go unchecked for years? That's the question Christopher and Eric wrestle with in this truly disturbing installment of one of their favorite true crime shows.
Welcome to Hot Dateline Month in which your hosts Christopher and Eric celebrate the iconic, storied and always reliable true crime phenomenon that started their obsession with the genre. And what better way to kick off this tribute than with the GAYEST DATELINE EVER. (That's not what NBC called it, of course.) Impeccably dressed fine arts dealers and terribly twinky con men collide under the scorching Palm Springs sun in the 3,675th episode of the 329th season of DATELINE. (Just kidding. It's actually episode 3 of season 34, so we're not that far off.) "The Prince, The Whiz Kid and the Millionaire" has all the ingredients of a novel written by your hosts poolside after one box of bon bons too many.
Christopher and Eric are throwing a massive wrap party for one of the most exhausting and exhilarating years they've ever lived. No kidding. With ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION having been a glowing success in New Orleans on November 1st, and the sparkling film version now available for your free home viewing at AnneRice.com, they're taking time to celebrate some of the films, TV shows and books they didn't write in the previous year, but loved none the less. Care for a handsome British detective anyone? No doubt, several made the list.
You failed us, Party People. We begged and we pleaded and we cried for you to bring us a potential true crime Christmastime story that wasn't another family massacre, and here we are again — and in a tranquil town named for a pretty flower, no less. Ho ho help, it's time for Christopher and Eric to serve up the second episode ever of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, entitled "Christmas Carnage In Carnation". "No one loves Christmas more than sixty-year old Wayne Anderson and his sixty-one-year old wife Judy"… Well, as we all know on HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, that's their first mistake. What other diabolical events turn this woodsy spread of sheds and trailers into a scene out of a horror movie? On this fateful Christmas Eve night, holy hell is more like it. Get ready for another Crueltide Carol!
Welcome to Crueltide Carols! Tick, tock. Tick, tock. No, it's not the sound of time running out as you rush to get your holiday shopping done. An altogether different race against the clock drives this episode of one of Christopher and Eric's favorite True Crime TV Club offerings, A CRIME TO REMEMBER. In season 5, episode 4, entitled "Coffin For Christmas", we travel to the humid deep South in the 1960's for a tale of twisted love and devious kidnappings at holiday time. Every now and then, your hosts run across a case that seems to have inspired countless movies and episodes of scripted television, and this one fits the bill. On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, we hope this victim gets the freedom (and the oxygen) she desperately needs.
Thanksgiving Beasts lives up to its name with this stomach-churning conclusion. Meet Omaima Nelson. Now that you've met her, run like hell. And don't go in her kitchen for any reason — especially on Thanksgiving. Was she a long suffering abuse victim who finally snapped — as the title of this true crime TV series suggests? Or was she a cool and calculating predator with a taste for human flesh – and cold cash? Perhaps the biggest question is how Christopher and Eric have gone this many years without ever serving up an episode of true crime TV staple SNAPPED. Here's episode season 14, episode 2, entitled "Omaima Nelson". Now, can someone please recommend a Thanksgiving jewel heist for next year because oh my god.
Time to meet some more Thanksgiving Beasts. Welcome to East Hartford, Connecticut, home to some of the worst “recincrapments” we've ever seen in a true crime TV special and also some armless lizards and inexplicably decapitated fish. We're not kidding. It's all on offer in episode 7 of season 6 of BLOOD RELATIVES, entitled "Thanksgiving Day Charade". We're not sure what the charade is here except for bad wigs and questionable set dressing and some of the worst reenactments we've ever seen. But like so many of our Thanksgiving themed true crime specials, this one does for Turkey Day what JAWS did for the beach. Also, did we mention the lizard?
They did it. After years of cross-country filmmaking, archival preservation, set decorating, musical selections and countless Zoom meetings (so, so many Zoom meetings), Christopher and Eric presented ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION to a live audience in New Orleans. To celebrate the release of the event's film version on AnneRice.com, they're bringing you a special episode they recorded in New Orleans the day after the event when the memories and the emotions were fresh and the celebratory beignets were on their way up to their hotel room.
Welcome to Thanksgiving Beasts, when the world of true crime TV sets out to ruin one of America's most popular holidays. When a handsome, well-liked young bartender is shot execution style on a desolate Maryland road the night before Thanksgiving, his community reels, the cops go searching for suspects…and then everything goes as cold as Thanksgiving leftovers. But when the leads finally start pouring in years later, they're delivered by a markedly different cast of characters than the one presented by episode 11 of season 8 of the show NIGHTMARE NEXT DOOR, entitled "Thanksgiving Tragedy". It's not the first time we've caught a "non-fiction" show in the act of departing from the facts of the "true crime" it claims to cover. But fictional characters? This is True Crime TV Club! Join us as we ask if the facts were changed to protect the innocent? The guilty? The victim?
In which we mark the 35th anniversary of the brutal murder of young gay man named Billy Newton, which was finally solved two years ago thanks to the persistence of a group of determined amateur detectives, Christopher and Eric included. But the case would never have been fully closed if it not for the tireless, diligent work of this episode's special returning guest, Clark Williams. And guess what? He's done it again. With a completely different case in a completely different part of the country. "The Clark Williams Method" has brought healing and justice to another long suffering family, and Clark is back to tell us how. Also, we announce a special change in how we plan to celebrate Billy's memory in the years ahead.
The big weekend has arrived. Christopher and Eric are in New Orleans presenting ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION, a gorgeous tribute to our dearly departed Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice to #AnneFans who are lucky enough to be there in person. To mark the occasion, here is an hors d’oeuvre to tide you over till the web cast of the event premieres on AnneRice.com. They've put together an all new collection of some of their greatest interviews with our beloved Lady Anne. So, if you couldn't make it to New Orleans for the celebration, you can celebrate at home with this special episode. And stay tuned for the free film version of our big event, which should post to AnneRice.com in just a few weeks!
You've met Lestat. Now it's time to meet Sabine, the sure-to-be-iconic vampire heroine of #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab's "love letter to Anne Rice", BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL. Christopher and Eric welcome the beloved dark fantasy author to their latest AnneCast. Not only do they discuss the moving peer tribute she contributed to the documentary film for ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION, they talk about writing into the darkness, "stress testing" supernatural worlds and the changing faces of queerness in speculative fiction. It's a conversation as riveting as any of Victoria's many bestselling novels. Unfortunately, the author's beloved cat did not make an appearance. Listen to find out why.
Christopher and Eric bring Social Media Mayhem Month to a shattering close with this excruciating Netflix documentary about one woman's descent into longing and deception. SWEET BOBBY: MY CATFISH NIGHTMARE takes us across the pond to the UK where marketing executive and radio host Kirat Assi finds herself captivated and romanced by a man who can never quite make the time to see her in person. A murder attempt, witness protection, a series of strokes – the list of excuses for why handsome Bobby Jindu can't manage to propose marriage in person grows longer and more outlandish by the day, week, month, year. When the truth arrives during a desperate confrontation, a family is divided, and the limits of the British criminal justice system are laid bare.
Social Media Mayhem Month continues with the crime that grabbed national headlines during the COVID pandemic even though it had nothing to do with masking or vaxxing. A frustrated Christopher and Eric serve up all three episodes of the Netflix true crime documentary series AMERICAN MURDER: GABBY PETITO, a show that uses bodycam footage and Gabby’s own YouTubery to dubious result as they retell this tragic tale. The stark differences between the victim's social media profile and her real life are laid bare, but the larger questions about how these two young souls got lost in the wilderness of their relationship never seem to get asked.
Even people who aren't fans of true crime documentaries can't stop talking about this mind blowing true crime documentary. To kick off Social Media Mayhem Month, Christopher and Eric serve up UNKNOWN NUMBER: THE HIGH SCHOOL CATFISH. In this small Michigan town, high school sports are king, Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny are the adorable couple everyone admires (and envies), and someone is using the anonymity of the internet to introduce chaos and fear into this tight knit community. When the hateful text messages start arriving one after the other, no one can pinpoint their source. Relationships are ruined. School officials are flummoxed. False accusations are waged. Once revealed, the author's identity sends out shockwaves more damaging than any string of words.
1The countdown to ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION continues. Your hosts continue to celebrate the incredible authors who generously offered our Premiere Party Person, Lady Anne, their peer tributes for the event's emotional documentary films celebrating her life and legacy. J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood novels are a global phenomenon, and the basis for a hit new television series, but their author is also one of Christopher's closest friends. Find out what happens when she meets Eric for the first time and the two are allowed to compare Christopher notes. The result is a rousing conversation about the incredible impact Anne's novels had on the iconic writer who brought vampires into the realm of romance fiction.
Nostalgia Month continues as Christopher and Eric celebrate crossing the 300 episode mark. To enshrine the occasion, they're serving up another one of their favorite series, VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, and another trip back in time. In episode four of season three, they head to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1981, where the brutal murder of a devoted cop's (ex) wife sets off an international saga of frame ups, jail breaks and drug busts that have less to do with the war on drugs and more to do with a war on truth. Also, watch out for a cop they call Disco. "Was Bambi Framed?". That's the title of today's true crime serving. Christopher and Eric have thoughts, but they also want to hear yours.
It's widely acknowledged that art and madness often go hand in hand. Blend in some incompetent police work and you've got a crime they'll still be talking about in the next century. We sure are. Nostalgia Month continues as Christopher and Eric celebrate crossing 300 episodes. A CRIME TO REMEMBER has always been one their favorite series, and episode three of season four, entitled "Such A Pretty Face" is both riveting and surprising. Travel back in time to depression era America, where modeling was a disgraceful profession, strange men renting your spare bedroom was a regular occurrence, and the police felt free to beat the crap out of you until you confessed to whatever crime they were investigating at the time. You know, the good old days when things were still apparently so great.
Welcome to Nostalgia Month! Christopher and Eric celebrate their 300th episode by reminiscing about their favorite episodes past. But don't worry. It's not one of those punch-the-clock clip shows they threw together just to fill time. Those will come later in the year, when the jaw aches from all their yammering set in. They're also diving into another episode of THE PLAYBOY MURDERS, specifically the first episode of its second season, entitled "Double Trouble". Is Hugh Hefner's legacy getting the Me Too reckoning it deserves? Or should the blame for this sordid tale lie squarely at the manicured feet of one banished bunny and her wayward jewelry collection? One thing's for sure – never agree to an afterhours meeting in an alley in North Hollywood. We don't care what you're selling.
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