For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #36
From foul-mouthed friends to ghost towns, a week was had.
It has been a week, we’ll tell ya that.
Our foul-mouthed friend,
, wrote another biting post: Is That Your Real Name? She teaches us the importance of names, how they aren’t what we think they are and how careless people can be when using them, even in death. and made an appearance on the Layer 8 podcast, talking junk science, ghost town photography and diversity in investigations. You’ll also hear how Justin feels about investigations, putting people ‘at the keyboard’ with forensics and his general dismay at the lack of fair trials.The timing is interesting. In the same week, we also spent a significant amount of time coordinating with American law enforcement on CSAM artifacts that Permanent Record turned up in decades-old evidence.
We are victim-focused and human rights people first and we hope this interview shows that it is a complex, murky world in investigations and you can’t pick sides. You have to just simply do the work and speak to it.
What Justin Watched This Week
The Slow Hustle (HBO) - Baltimore Police Detective, Sean Suiter, was killed in 2017 when responding to a call with a follow officer. The details surrounding his death and his career begin to get murky as people realize that Suiter was set to testify the next day against the notorious Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force or GTTF. Suiter’s death was ruled both a suicide and homicide and to many remains unsolved and under suspicious circumstances. A very good documentary from very good journalists and documentarians.
What Kennedy Read
None of This Is True - Lisa Jewel
I either read books over the course of several months, or I devour them overnight. It's not always an indication of quality, but in this case, it was. I started this book at 7 pm and finished it at 6 am—enough said. A page-turner perfect for a summer weekend.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at a local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman, Josie. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. Birthday twins.
Days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she’d be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to make the podcast. But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left behind a terrible and terrifying legacy, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast.
Thank you to everyone who has subscribed, sent words of encouragement this week and for reading all the way down here.
— Much Love From The Bullshit Hunting Crew
Just finished None of This Is True. So good.