Author: Ace

Description: On February 3rd, 2023, a train carrying various kinds of toxic chemicals derailed and caught fire in East Palestine. Almost three years later, after many delays, the victims of this tragedy are finally getting their settlement money, and it's turning out to be less than expected.

Content warnings include references to animal death, cancer, and death due to cancer.

Special thanks to Pixabay.com for their library of royalty free music!

Sources and Transcript: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:49989eed-c650-4046-a9a0-12500f6f8bab

Author: Killian Snitzer

Description: In America, the professional criminal has a certain amount of mystique and legend that follows them throughout history. Many criminals today would even be willing to compare themselves to the legendary crimes of old, but why is there no “Billy the Kid 2”?. When it comes to the world of organized, or professional, crime and those that make a living from it, what has caused them to change their ways, and perhaps, shift that focus to other opportunities?

Sources and Transcript: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:9ba365a6-535b-4921-b3dc-dc7969e8aabe

Author: Willa Sabelko

Description: In the Netflix documentary, The Perfect Neighbor, police bodycam footage is pieced together to reveal a true story exposing the flaws of stand-your-ground laws. Disputes between neighbors escalate and eventually lead to a white woman, Susan Lorincz, shooting through her locked door, hitting Ajike “AJ” Owens, a black mother of four, in the chest, killing her, and following the trend of using stand your ground laws to justify violence against unarmed black people.

Sources and Transcript: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:7f86830d-7c42-4d7d-8da7-a95065c2d75b

Author: Alex Pugh

Description: Alex takes a wider perspective on true crime, its fixation on violent crime, and how the good that fixation brings can be shifted towards the resolving of less grisly, but increasingly more dangerous, crime.

Sources: Perchtold-Stefan, C., Rominger, C., Ceh, S., Sattler, K., Veit, S.-V., & Fink, A. (2025). Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime. British Journal of Psychology, 00, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70038

Research, Edison. “The True Crime Consumer Report by Edison Research and Audiochuck .” Edison Research at SSRS, 28 Jan. 2025, www.edisonresearch.com/the-true-crime-consumer-report-by-edison-research-and-audiochuck/.

Flesh Simulator. “The Building between Six and Eight | FLESH SIMULATOR.” YouTube, YouTube, 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOZToel_368.

Transcript: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:4e634786-5922-4a85-a281-b52017a61bf6

Author: Julia

Description: In the 1990s Anne Marie Fahey unfortunately met her end. What started as an office affair snowballed into a relationship fueled by his control and jealousy, sadly Fahey would never make it out and the only person to blame is Thomas Capano. Host Julia will take you deeper into this case on Narrative Noir.

Sources and Transcript: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:78c6a2e5-4dea-4cfe-a88e-8b20a9d3342e

Author: Graffic

Description: As true crime media grows more popular, so too do different trends in it. Among these trends that have developed is a rise in true crime media that is directly disrespectful to the topics being covered. This episode analyzes this rise in disrespect towards the victims of these crimes that can be seen in makeup true crime, mukbang true crime, and podcasts that are generally insulting to the victims.

Content warnings: mentioned child death, mention of John Wayne Gacy and his crimes (murder, sexual assault), mentioned murders

Referenced Morbid episodes:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3aBAPI9KQqfcViEtgOlYIB?si=sV7xu0M_S0ehqwPV

zbAFTA, https://open.spotify.com/episode/1N377lu9uZaoEh4YjykcqF,

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2FSssCR5kjeel0knshLdQO,

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BbMAnFNrQdzMwKfnrlLVz

Music used:

https://pixabay.com/music/electronic-kim-lightyear-drowning-218992/

https://pixabay.com/music/ambient-down-the-water-no-strings-crime-dark-investigation-

music-326434/

https://pixabay.com/music/mystery-dark-ambient-background-505385/

Script: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:b831a44f-147f-47ee-9e7d-dd14af7ce09b

Author: Mae

Description: Media outlets often oversensationalize acts of true crime to garner extra attention, but can lead to media hype amongst the youth, in which they compete in committing heinous transgressions to gain notoriety.

Join Mae on this episode of Narrative Noir in diving deep into how the media’s sensationalism of violence has created morbid competitiveness among some youth leading to copycat killings.

Trigger Warnings: school shootings, death, violence

Sources and Script: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:42e1f6f7-2346-44d3-bff7-7ebdcba9b668

Written, Recorded and Edited By: Collette McElroy

Description: Driscoll, Garland and Culkin. Three child stars whose lives were permanently altered because of a string of life choices; a look into how the industry and media treats child stars.

Content Warnings: Discussion of drugs, unhealthy eating/dieting, assault, abuse and abortions, stay safe and listener discretion is advised.

Sources and Transcript: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:c9a6707e-7344-4158-9c33-379054358be7