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Welcome to the end of an era. We want to let you know that with Friday’s final episode of Season 8 of Jury Duty, we are suspending publication of CrimeStory.com and the Jury Duty podcast, as well as this newsletter, to focus our energies on other endeavors. These new initiatives are only possible because of the work we’ve done here at Crime Story.  Shadow of Hope One of those new endeavors is a podcast produced by our sister company, Pleasant Run Productions. “Shadow of Hope” explores the history of the People of Hope, a Catholic Covenant Community. At their peak in the 1980s, the People of Hope...

In Alex Testifies —  Part 5 — “I Took Money That Was Not Mine” we continue our review of the cross-examination of the defendant in this trial, Alex Murdaugh. Prosecutor Creighton Waters seeks to get the defendant to acknowledge that his deceitful and larcenous behavior towards his clients was conscious and pre-meditated.  Crime Story Media has begun to migrate content from the CrimeStory.com website to our Patreon.  For more of Crime Story and Jury Duty — including ad-free episodes of the upcoming season; Kary Antholis’s Storyteller Interviews with ground-breaking, award-winning storytellers like David Simon and George Pelecanos; and all of our Amanda Knox Project opinion pieces and...

Crime Story Media's Night Raid was nominated for an Ambie Award for Best Idie Podcast Host last week, as announced by the Podcast Academy. Host Molly Miller, who also reported and produced the podcast series, received the nomination. Night Raid tells the story of a chaotic 2014 SWAT raid on a home in San Gabriel that resulted in the death of Pomona Police Officer Shaun Diamond and the incarceration of David Martinez. Night Raid was produced by Crime Story in partnership with eOne, LAist 89.3,  Los Angeles’ number one NPR station and podcast company Acast. Here is a link to the first...

The Apple TV+ limited series Black Bird, produced by Crime Story Media and Kary Antholis, received four Emmy nominations last week. Taron Egerton was nominated for Best Actor in a Limited Series for his performance as Jimmy Keene. Paul Walter Hauser and the late Ray Liotta were nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for their performances as Larry Hall and Big Jim Keene respectively, and Natalie Kingston was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries. You can read more about Ray's nomination here. And you can see all the nominees here. And you can see all of Black...

The Apple TV+ Limited Series Black Bird, produced by Crime Story Media and its founder/publisher Kary Antholis, was nominated for awards by the Television Critics Association and by the Edinburgh TV Festival. The six part drama was nominated in International Drama category of the Edinburgh TV Awards and in the Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries or Specials category by the TCA. The Edinburgh TV Awards will be held at the EICC on Thursday 24th August. TCA Award winners will be announced on Aug. 7.

DELANO, CALIF. (CrimeStory.com) On June 13, 2023 David Martinez. the man who was acquitted twice for the murder of Pomona SWAT officer Shaun Diamond and subsequently pleaded “no contest” to charges of manslaughter and assault on a police officer, was released from North Kern State Prison on parole after spending over eight and a half years in jail and prison. David’s son, David Martinez, Jr. and his defense attorney, Brady Sullivan, picked him up and took him home.The story of Diamond’s tragic death and Martinez’s journey through the criminal legal process is the subject of Night Raid, an 8-part...