(Part 2) Best products from r/serialpodcast

So you expect Gov. Hogan to run Maryland's Twitter feed?

Do you really think the State of Maryland is wasting money on a PR campaign for a PCR proceeding? Maybe I'd agree with you if there was a pro-guilt podcast, or a celebrity taking up the banner for Hae's family, or even Hae's family taking an active part in the media surrounding the case. None of that is happening.

On the other hand, we have TV shows in which Adnan's defense team and advocates were interviewed, but the State's weren't (http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/adnan-syed-innocent-or-guilty/).

We have TV segments in which Adnan's defense team and advocates are interviewed (http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/the-docket-serial-special-part-ii-422338627656).

We have Adnan's alibi witness going on television shows (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/twist-adnan-syed-serial-murder-trial-41610902).

We have two books discussing Adnan's innocence (https://www.amazon.com/Adnans-Story-Search-Justice-Serial/dp/1250087104 and https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Serial-Alibi-McClain-Chapman/dp/1682611582/).

And I haven't even reiterated the things I mentioned earlier in this thread. Take a look at all that, and tell me which side appears to be using the media in this case.

I grew up a couple of towns over from Woodlawn. Hot fries in this context are definitely not fresh hot fries. They're these: http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Capp-Fries-3-5-Ounce-Bags/dp/B000CQE3JQ

Yeah, then go read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.

If you want another mind-bending unsolved true-crime story to get completely obsessed with, start digging into the Golden State Killer:
http://www.lamag.com/features/in-the-footsteps-of-a-killer/
Terrifying serial killer/rapist in California in the 1970s-1990s, presumed still alive but never caught, and you can listen to his voice messages and read his notes and maps, etc.
No podcast (yet) but a huge obsessive online community trying to solve the case, a book, another book coming out soon, written Michelle Macnamara (a superb writer who happens to be the wife of comedian Patton Oswalt)

Vault of articles and clues at LA Magazine:
http://www.lamag.com/tag/golden-state-killer/

Michelle's True Crime blog:
http://www.truecrimediary.com/

Terrifying book by detective who worked the case:
http://www.amazon.com/Sudden-Terror-Larry-Crompton/dp/1452052417

Maybe we can harness Reddit to solve this case, too!

While I agree with this, they are very seldom sucessfull at maintaining relationships. Check out The Psychopath Test. They "collect" people around them in order to use them for some purpose. Eventually someone figures out they are being used and they reject the Psychopath. Adnan really comes off as just a genuinely nice guy; otherwise he would probably instinctively try to use Sarah as a way to get a new appeal, but he does not give this impression at all.

Stuff You Missed in History Class.

Also: many libraries offer free audiobook downloads. I quite enjoyed listening to The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, a true story about a murder in Victorian England.

Reminds me of a huge 5 hour long TV "trial" of Harvey Oswald in the mid-1980's. It was a fairly big deal at the time. Really confusing testimony and evidence, zig-zag bullets etc. The 12 "jurors" (not sure how they were selected), in the end, found him guilty.

Check out The Fall's "Oswald Defense Lawyer" which recounts the show.

http://www.amazon.com/On-Trial-Lee-Harvey-Oswald/dp/B001CDLASU

If you want to know what got me into Bayes, it's Richard Carrier and his methodology for proving that Jesus never existed ;)

Read away!

Maybe this

http://www.amazon.com/If-Did-It-Confessions-Killer/dp/0825305934

I think we already did.

Yup.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805080759?pc_redir=1414525447&robot_redir=1

http://www.amazon.com/Improving-Your-Memory-For-Dummies/dp/0764554352

Sheesh...Toast is a name for the color of nylon stockings, folks.

http://www.amazon.com/Danskin-Womens-Shimmery-Footed-Tight/dp/B001U88UF8

Ah, you're referring to a statement she corrected.

In any event, Justin Brown is not taking advice from Rabia or you. He's making indisputably savvy strategic decisions without assistance from Internet randos.
In any event,

Maybe there's something to being separated by the Atlantic. I'm not really interested in other American experiences with GWOT, but I read Sniper One to see what some of you guys have been up to over there.

Highly recommend the book Indefensible by David Feige for those interested in these issues. Not a flawless book but brings up many important issues in a very accessible way. http://www.amazon.com/Indefensible-Lawyers-Journey-Inferno-American/dp/031615623X

The author is also chairman of a fund that helps poor defendants make bail. Which might not sound like a big deal, but it is something that allows poor defendants one of the main advantages of wealthier defendants in being able to fight their cases from a position of freedom rather than from a jail cell. The inability to make bail influences many, many people in the decision to take plea deals rather than fight charges.
http://davidfeige.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-bronx-freedom-fund-six-months-in.html

Paris Hilton's dog is an author. And Michael Jackson's monkey doesn't even cite a ghostwriter on the cover.

I think you're disingenuously overestimating to what modern, non-academic authorship implies. People are given book deals not because they're grammar police, but because they have something other people may pay to hear. Sometimes that is Snooki's attempts at erotica, sci fi written by models. But the requirement for modern, pop authorship isn't literacy or even writing ability, a publishing house can provide ghostwriters and editors to fake those.

They can't fake a brand.

Try this one about the Kitty Genovese murder revisted. Amazing book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393239284/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/190-5264730-7539544

> WM3 got convicted on satanic panic type stuff.

I will start out by saying I'm on the fence about the WM3. But Damien Echols did practice witchcraft — and was certifiably mentally ill and dangerous. He probably still is.

The satanic panic stuff got people's attention at the time — and has since become all anyone remembers. The truth is that there was a lot of evidence against these three — including numerous confessions from Jessie Misskelley. He didn't just confess to the police. He continued to confess every chance he got — including in front of his lawyer, who was begging him to shut up.

If you really want a good book about this case, you should read Blood of Innocents. It is not biased. The book is out of print, but used copies can still be found.

...as long as people are willing to spend $23 on Rabia's book - http://www.amazon.com/Adnans-Story-Murder-Justice-Captivated/dp/1250087104 - it's worth all the insanity. It's just business.