Crime Scenes: A True Crime Movie Podcast - Episode 1: Bernie

Episode 1: Bernie

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01/16/21 • 71 min

Crime Scenes: A True Crime Movie Podcast

Welcome to Crime Scenes: A True Crime Movie Podcast! The show is hosted by us, Bolton Harris and Grace Baehren, two movie buffs, true crime addicts, former lawyers, and friends since college!!
Each week we recap a movie based on a true crime while also discussing additional facts about the real events gathered from our own research.
We promise to keep the banter fun, the stories interesting, and that there will never be a dull moment!
In Episode 1 Bolton and Grace recap the 2011 movie Bernie and discuss the facts of the true crime story that the movie is based on.
Bernie tells the story of the 1996 murder of Marjorie Nugent by Bernie Tiede in the small Texas town of Carthage. The film stars Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, and Shirley MacLaine. It was directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth. The movie is based on Hollandsworth's January 1998 article, "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas," published in Texas Monthly magazine.
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Bernie, 2011
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48 hours episode on this case called “The Mortician, The Murder, and The Movie released October 1st 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-the-mortician-the-murder-the-movie/
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Episode 2: The Bling Ring

In Episode 2, Bolton and Grace recap the 2013 movie, The Bling Ring, and discuss the facts of the true crime story that the movie is based on.
Between October 2008 through November 2009, several celebrities living around Hollywood, California were burglarized. Most people were shocked to find out the burglars were teenagers/young adults from a nearby wealthy neighborhood. Nancy Jo Sales covered the story in her March 2010 Vanity Fair article, "The Suspects Wore Louboutins." In writing this article, Sales spoke at length to some of the young suspects, as well as the lead investigator on the case. This article serves as the basis for the 2013 movie, The Bling Ring, directed by Sofia Coppola.
Sources:
The Bling Ring (2013)
Sales, Nancy Jo. “THE SUSPECTS WORE LOUBOUTINS: Vanity Fair: March 2010.” Vanity Fair | The Complete Archive, Vanity Fair, 1 Mar. 2010.
The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Hollywood and Shocked the World, Nancy Jo Sales, 2013
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"Page 4: Bling Ring Behind Celebrity Hollywood Burglaries, Cops Say". ABC News. 2010-03-04.
Allen, Nick (2010-05-11). "Hollywood 'Bling Ring' burglar jailed". The Daily Telegraph. London.
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Blankstein, Andrew; Winton, Richard (2009-10-29). "Bling Ring Suspects — More celebrities targeted by alleged 'bling ring'". Los Angeles Times.
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