…we’d love to know: If you can only consume true-crime about/involving ONE metro area for the rest of your life, which metro area do you pick?
I will have to work through this alongside y’all, because the “home team” is very tempting, albeit a little Mob-heavy for some people’s taste, and even if I threw out NYC and went with Newark, or Camden, or some other “but wait so people just…do corruption like it’s clearing their throats?” Jersey municipality, there’s oodles to choose from.
But if you keep reading the thread above, you’ll see that that headline — which is not an April Fool’s joke, as Eve asked/I assumed — is in fact “the second drug trafficking story involving Metro Detroit and a submarine in the last year.” So the 313 is making an extremely solid argument to take it all in this theoretical true-crime Citydome.
That said, I ain’t betting against San Fran, Dallas, or New Orleans here. Where you got? — SDB
Oh wow, this is a great question! The first place that came to mind for me was Salt Lake City. Is this because I've been going down a deep Mark Hoffman rabbit hole as of late? Or because there is lots of bizarre and tangled crime stuff around Mormonism and its' various fringe offshoots? Perhaps I've got Jen Shah of Real Housewives recency bias? SLC has an interesting history because of Mormonism but also its status as the "Gateway to the West" which brought all kinds of prospectors and industrialists and their relative criminality.
Honorable mentions: Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles
I love this question! So, I grew up in Dallas and have lived most of my adult life in Nashville, so I wish I could pick one of those, but I think I'm going to have to be hopelessly unoriginal and choose LA. There's just so much to choose from! Serial killers! Cults! Plus, olden days Hollywood stuff, which I always enjoy.
For those mentioning Dallas, what crimes are you thinking of, besides JFK? Having grown up there, I think of Dallas as pretty dull--I feel like there must be something crazy I'm forgetting. . . . .
I submit my vote for Washington, DC! Not quite a city!Not yet a state! No one does corruption like Congress... we have so many recent crimes to choose from. insurrection! Interstate underage trafficking! Graft! Solicitation of election fraud? International... the list goes on. And a cult with prayer breakfast, to boot.
Well, I suppose there's no place like home, and we tally up double digit Baltimore crime stories daily. But when that gets too depressing, I really like Seattle crime tales. I guess it was all the Ann Rule books I was weaned on in the 80s and 90s.
I probably would also have chosen LA, but a nice second choice - and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned - is Philly (and surrounding environs). Lots of Teamster and just generally Mob-related crime, the hated Frank Rizzo as police chief leading a virtual army of bullies (nothing like sweeping with a broad brush, eh?), the MOVE crisis, Ira Einhorn, child killer Marie Noe, Gary Heidnik, Bill Cosby - not to mention that the first child kidnapping/ransom in the U.S. is supposed to have occurred on the Main Line. You could even add in Grace Kelly for a little spice. I think Philly kind of has it all in terms of crime. Prove me wrong, kids. You could read about this city for a long time without a fallow period.
I think I'm going for the home team and going for Cleveland. There's lots to unpack there.
Oh wow, this is a great question! The first place that came to mind for me was Salt Lake City. Is this because I've been going down a deep Mark Hoffman rabbit hole as of late? Or because there is lots of bizarre and tangled crime stuff around Mormonism and its' various fringe offshoots? Perhaps I've got Jen Shah of Real Housewives recency bias? SLC has an interesting history because of Mormonism but also its status as the "Gateway to the West" which brought all kinds of prospectors and industrialists and their relative criminality.
Honorable mentions: Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles
I love this question! So, I grew up in Dallas and have lived most of my adult life in Nashville, so I wish I could pick one of those, but I think I'm going to have to be hopelessly unoriginal and choose LA. There's just so much to choose from! Serial killers! Cults! Plus, olden days Hollywood stuff, which I always enjoy.
For those mentioning Dallas, what crimes are you thinking of, besides JFK? Having grown up there, I think of Dallas as pretty dull--I feel like there must be something crazy I'm forgetting. . . . .
Boston, NYC, Chicago
I submit my vote for Washington, DC! Not quite a city!Not yet a state! No one does corruption like Congress... we have so many recent crimes to choose from. insurrection! Interstate underage trafficking! Graft! Solicitation of election fraud? International... the list goes on. And a cult with prayer breakfast, to boot.
Well, I suppose there's no place like home, and we tally up double digit Baltimore crime stories daily. But when that gets too depressing, I really like Seattle crime tales. I guess it was all the Ann Rule books I was weaned on in the 80s and 90s.
I probably would also have chosen LA, but a nice second choice - and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned - is Philly (and surrounding environs). Lots of Teamster and just generally Mob-related crime, the hated Frank Rizzo as police chief leading a virtual army of bullies (nothing like sweeping with a broad brush, eh?), the MOVE crisis, Ira Einhorn, child killer Marie Noe, Gary Heidnik, Bill Cosby - not to mention that the first child kidnapping/ransom in the U.S. is supposed to have occurred on the Main Line. You could even add in Grace Kelly for a little spice. I think Philly kind of has it all in terms of crime. Prove me wrong, kids. You could read about this city for a long time without a fallow period.
Gosh, nobody picked any place in Florida! What about a seedy beach town??