Season 1

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/billy-jensen-murder-squad-misconduct-allegation-investigation-1384950/

https://jamesrenner.com/the-whisper-network/#:~:text=A%20woman%20who%20worked%20on,at%20a%20company%20Halloween%20party.

Book: "Chase Darkness with Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders"

• https://www.amazon.com/Chase-Darkness-Me-True-Crime/dp/1492685852
• Jensen, Billy. Chase Darkness with Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders. Sourcebooks, 2019.

Podcast: "The Murder Squad" …

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Some of the most disturbing details came from her final days. In the Bahamas, she had been photographed with a local politician, the immigration minister, fueling rumors of influence and favoritism. Her mansion there contained an open refrigerator filled with diet products, injectable vitamins, and bottles of methadone. The drugs followed her everywhere, from Los Angeles to Nassau to Florida. Each bottle seemed to carry someone else’s name.

Even her funeral was a contest. In the Bahamas, where she was buried beside her son, old enemies stood side by side with lovers and lawyers. Cameras filmed every moment. Her daughter’s paternity was finally confirmed: Larry Birkhead was the father. He would raise the child far from the cameras that had devoured her mother. …

1. The 1973 DOJ Lawsuit Against Trump for Housing Discrimination

• United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc. (Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse) https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342

• NPR - Decades-Old Housing Discrimination Case Plagues Donald Trump https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case

• Politico - FBI releases files on 1970s race discrimination probe into Trump Management https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067

• Washington Post - Trump and the Central Park Five: the racial injustice that won’t die…

Robert Blake (actor) overview with detailed “Murder of Bonny Lee Bakley” sectionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blake_%28actor%29 Wikipedia

Bonny Lee Bakley – background on the victim and details of the killing and trialshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonny_Lee_Bakley Wikipedia

List of unsolved murders 2000–present – entry summarizing Bakley’s killing and Blake’s criminal and civil caseshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_murders_%282000%E2%80%93present%29 Wikipedia

Actor Robert Blake acquitted of wife’s murder – History.com case summary and timelinehttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-16/robert-blake-acquitted-of-wifes-murder…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spector

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phil-Spector

https://www.biography.com/musicians/phil-spector

https://philspector.com/phil-spector-biography/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-20/music-producer-phil-spector-indicted-for-murder-of-actress

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/phil-spector-famed-music-producer-and-murderer-dies-at-81

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/music-producer-phil-spector-convicted…

Tagline: The Intelligence is Artificial, but the Crime is Real.

On November 29, 1981, actress Natalie Wood was found drowned off the coast of Catalina Island near a yacht named Splendour. She was 43 years old. The official ruling at the time was accidental drowning. For decades, that explanation stood largely unchallenged in the public imagination.

This episode of AI True Crime reexamines Natalie Wood’s death through documented…

This is AI True Crime, and tonight, we start our three-part investigation of the murder of William Deane Tanner, better known to history as William Desmond Taylor.

On February 2, 1922, one of the most respected figures in early Hollywood was found dead in his Los Angeles bungalow. William Desmond Taylor, a successful film director known for his discipline, intelligence, and moral seriousness, had been shot in the back. No arrest was ever made. No one was charged. More than a century later, the murder remains officially unsolved. …

Episode focus:This episode examines the principal suspects and theories advanced in the William Desmond Taylor murder from 1922 to the present, with attention to how and why certain individuals became focal points while others were insulated from scrutiny.

Subjects covered:

• Edward Sands and the role of absence in suspect construction

• Mary Miles Minter, her correspondence with Taylor, and the press reaction

• Charlotte Shelby’s proximity to Taylor, access to firearms, and inconsistent statements

• How early LAPD investigative priorities shifted under studio and political pressure …

Episode focus:This episode addresses how the Taylor murder was transformed from an active investigation into a permanent cultural mystery, and how media portrayals, secondary scholarship, and narrative-driven interpretations reshaped public understanding of the case.

Subjects covered:

• Early tabloid framing and the shift from investigation to scandal

• The emergence of “Taylorology” as a speculative genre

• Repeated media adaptations and fictionalizations

• The role of Cast of Killers in popularizing a narrative resolution …