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Oct 13, 2021Liked by Best Evidence

Leona Helmsley, unless there's something in the works I don't know about

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Oct 13, 2021Liked by Best Evidence

I don’t know how ubiquitous it was outside of Southeastern PA, but the Main Line schoolteacher murder that Wambaugh wrote about in Echoes in the Darkness is so bats**t insane that I really need a docuseries on it. It’s got something for everyone: sexual affairs, financial grift, a pervert school principal, the most outrageous lies that you can’t believe anyone ever fell for, and the murder, which is almost anticlimactic compared to all the scheming and fabulism. That book is gripping!

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Though I was sick of it at the time, I feel like the Chandra Levy case is due for a new examination. It’s still technically unsolved, raises lots of questions about young women in DC and Congressional corruption, and has the advantage of everyone remembering it happened, and having no idea what the resolution was.

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I just realized I forgot to note mine: Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek. Not least because the books about the case are uniformly disastrous as reading experiences. - SDB

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