How’s that for an SEO-juiced, clickbaity headline? Neither Tim nor Zac has watched Netflix’s popular Making a Murderer docuseries, but they were closely involved in the production of the True Crime Issue of D Magazine. On today’s podcast, there’s no guest. Just a deep dive behind the scenes of how Michael J. Mooney’s story “My Brother, the Murderer” came to be.
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First, the show notes:
1. Had Zac wanted to extend his silent streak, he could have made use of the automated ticket kiosks available just inside the doors of the Angelika Film Center’s lobby.
2. The Trinity Forest Golf Club is being built by the nonprofit Company of Trinity Forest Golfers.
3. Hal Barker’s brother is Ted Barker.
4. As of this morning, the Dallas Mavericks have played 36 games of their 82-game season.
5. You can find the Longform podcast on iTunes or here. Mooney’s episode isn’t posted yet. I’m pretty sure they don’t record it in a bar on $20 microphones. I asked Mooney how it went. His response: “We somehow slipped into an extended crime and barbecue metaphor that went on way too long.”
6. This is what Mike Mooney looks like:
Scratch that. It’s usually more like this:
And women are strangely drawn to his hair:
7. This is actor Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz:
8. “My Brother, the Murderer” was published in the January 2016 issue of D Magazine (on newsstands now.) It’s a followup to a June 1975 story, “Who Killed Beverly Jean Hope?”
9. $25,000 in 1970 is like $152,922.68 today.
10. Columbo, played by Peter Falk, was known for his unique investigative style, in which he gave the impression of being scatterbrained, sometimes even inept, but always came back to ask the murder suspect “just one more thing” that proved he was actually a devastatingly sharp detective. While too young to have seen the show’s initial run in the 1970s, it’s indeed surprising that Mooney never caught any of its revival as a series of TV movies in the 1990s.
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11. Ron Corning is the morning anchor for WFAA Channel 8. There’s no word yet on what he made of Tim’s declaration of love, or why he tried to FaceTime with Zac.
Now, on to the show:
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