For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #121
In case you needed another email today
Reporting from inside the snow globe that is the prairie tundra, where I keep reminding myself, “three more weeks” to sustain my will to live. I have been saying it for the last three weeks, but it’s going to be ok… right?
This week, our paid subscribers got a Some Lawyer original with The $91 million dollar word. A worker falls from a scaffold. Investigators latch onto one convenient explanation. Even when the evidence contradicts it, they refuse to let it go. Eleven years later, that “fact” costs a whole lot. Read the whole thing by unlocking a paid subscription today.
In everyone’s inbox, we looked back at a classic Justin adventure with Bad Religion, Bad Checks & the Canadian Football League. A bounced check, a small-town interrogation room, and a suspect who casually admits he’s a former NFL player, a federal witness, and a serial killer working for a violent religious cult. This is the strange, winding story of how a $66 check in California ricocheted all the way to Saskatchewan.
Also in paid inboxes this morning was High Spirits Volume 11. Kennedy walks the audience through the case of Lindsay Clancy to discuss filicide, and disproportionate media coverage that ignores women’s issues and people of colour. Don’t feel like becoming a paid subscriber? You can redeem a single-use code to unlock paid content.
What Justin Recommends
Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender and The Press
From the inside cover: “The period 1870-1958 was revolutionary in the lives of women. Society’s shifting perceptions of women and their role were apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men analyzes eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder in this period to identify the intersections of media, law, and gender in California.” This book is an infuriating, enlightening and heartbreaking, historical journey through the lens of California’s press, courts and law enforcement. Women still, many years later have to deal with not only their crimes, but their appearance, their stature, their weight, their speech. If there’s something to judge women by, you’ll find an example in this book.