653: Crime Scene

653: Crime Scene

Update: 2024-02-1813
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Every crime scene hides a story. In this week's show, we hear about crime scenes and the stories they tell.

  • Medical Examiner D.J. Drakovic, in Pontiac Michigan, explains how every crime scene is like a novel. (5 minutes)
  • Act One: Reporter Nancy Updike spends two days with Neal Smither, who cleans up crime scenes for a living, and comes away wanting to open his Los Angeles franchise, despite the gore — or maybe because of it. (12 minutes)
  • Act Two: Actor Matt Malloy reads a short story by Aimee Bender, from her book “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt," about what can be and cannot be recovered from a crime scene, or from anywhere. (12 minutes)
  • Act Three: Sometimes criminals return to the scene of their misdeeds — to try to make things right, to try to undo the past. Katie Davis reports on her neighbor Bobby, who returned to the scene where he robbed people and conned people. This time, he came to coach little league. (22 minutes)

Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org

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ladan

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Feb 29th
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Liberalism is a Mental Disorder

Joe Briben' stopped every single effective policy aimed at keeping illegal aliens out of the country the second he was installed because it was "against Trump". Now he and the rest of the filthy demoncrap fascists are trying to tell you that it's President Trump's fault that 10 million illegals flooded the country. Do not allow yourself to be gaslit.

Feb 25th
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ID3472205

Alejandro Mayorkas: "the border is secure". Kackala Harris: "the border is secure". Joe Briben': "the only reason why the border isn't secure is because of Donald Trump". You can't make this stuff up, folks.

Feb 23rd
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