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BREAKING NEWS: Adjournment to Spring and a Second Podcast Season

Links to all of CRIME STORY'S coverage of the Robert Durst trial are here. Below is the transcript of a special Breaking News bonus episode of the podcast Jury Duty: The Trial of Robert Durst. NARRATION This is a special breaking news episode of Jury Duty: The Trial of Robert Durst. I am your host, Kary Antholis. When we started this podcast, we told you that we were going to be doing something groundbreaking. We said that instead of telling you the narrative behind a major trial after it’s finished we’re going to present the stories surrounding Durst’s trial for the murder...

Episode 3: Pine Barrens

Links to all of CRIME STORY'S coverage of the Robert Durst trial are here. Episode 3: Pine Barrens Episode Synopsis After his wife Kathie's disappearance, Robert Durst travelled to New Jersey, argues Deputy DA John Lewin. The prosecutor tells the jury that Durst made a series of collect calls from an area of the state near the Pine Barrens, a notorious Mafia burial ground made famous by the HBO series The Sopranos. You can listen now by clicking on the embedded player above or on your preferred platform below. Apple PodcastsSpotify Castbox - Podcast Player Acast Please SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW, LISTEN, SHARE and RATE the podcast on your...

Episode 198: Interview: Jason Flom, on the Injustice of the Rafay Murder Convictions – Part 2 (with Amanda Knox)

The Rafay Murders: An Interview with Jason Flom (Part Two) By Amanda Knox with Christopher Robinson This is Part Two of The Rafay Murders: An Interview with Jason Flom. Please find Part One here. Jason Flom  I've gotten to know him speaking to him over the phone, and I'm very taken by his calm and gentle spirit and demeanor. He's a thoughtful guy. He's a very smart guy. He is a person who has been through a type of hell that very, very few people in the world can even imagine. A lot of people have lost their families, but to be...

Episode 197: Interview: Jason Flom, on the Injustice of the Rafay Murder Convictions – Part 1 (with Amanda Knox)

The Rafay Murders: An Interview with Jason Flom (Part One) Back in Capanne prison, I was lucky to receive daily correspondence from family, friends, and strangers alike. Not all of it was good; I got used to throwing out the death threats, marriage proposals, and images of my face photoshopped onto pornography. I received a number of letters from other inmates, too, almost always male, and they began in the (what I learned to be) typical way: “My name is ___. I’m 5’11’, 185 lbs, athletic build, brown hair, brown eyes.” In Italy, inter-prison courtship was as popular a pastime...

Episode 196: COVID-19 in Prison: Week by Week — Part 10

CRIME STORY’S Sean Smith continues his weekly analysis of the news stories aggregated in CRIME STORY DAILY related to COVID-19 and our carceral system. By reconsidering early reporting on the crisis in the light of subsequent developments, CRIME STORY hopes to point out trends in the narrative of COVID-19 and the prisons. You can find links to each of Sean’s analysis pieces here. This article covers the week beginning May 17. WEEK 10 (May 17-23)  On Monday, May 18, President Donald Trump announced that he had been taking daily doses of hydroxychloroquine for more than a week. In a CNN interview later that...

Episode 2: A History of Violence

Links to all of CRIME STORY'S coverage of the Robert Durst trial are here. Episode 2: A History of Violence Episode Synopsis Robert Durst tried to control his wife Kathie through violence, and that violence escalated until the day that Kathie Durst disappeared. "That is what the evidence will show," prosecutor John Lewin tells the jury in Durst's trial for the murder of his friend Susan Berman. In episode two of the podcast, Lewin continues his opening statement by asserting that Durst enlisted Berman to do "something for Bobby" that would make Berman a "loose end" that Durst felt compelled to "clean...