Welcome back to Death by Champagne, the podcast here to keep you up at night! Here to bring you part two of our book series covering Rachel Monroe’s Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. This week we dive into the victim section of this book, highlighting cases that include Sharon Tate’s death and one women, two decades later, who immersed herself into the crimes that took place at Ceilo Drive. We contemplate the motives of not only ourselves, but others who insert their grief and empathy towards someone they didn’t even know. We also take a step into the latest true crime doc to hit Netflix Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.

This episode contains foul language, discussions about murder, rape, and women’s role in true crime. We’ll do our best to stay on track, but the bottles are popped!

Sources

Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe
Dead Girls, Alice Bolin
‘McFadden, sought in Sage Smith homicide, declared missing’ Tyler Hammel, The Daily Progress, June 2019
Wikipedia Pages for Hannah Graham and Morgan Dana Harrington
Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel
‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ Threatens to Fall Down Its Own Rabbit Hole: TV Review, Caroline Framke, Variety, Feb 9, 2021
Interview with Joe Berlinger: “Netflix's Cecil Hotel Doc Attempts to Find Out What Happened to Elisa Lam”, Jelisa Castrodale, Vice, Feb 10, 2021
Interview with Joe Berlinger: “Netflix's Cecil Hotel docuseries director explains why respecting Elisa Lam's story was of utmost importance”, Rosy Cordero, EW, Feb 10, 2021
“The unethical mess of 'The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,' Netflix's most popular true crime show”, Katie Dowd, SFGate, Feb 14, 2021
“How ‘The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ Misses the Real Story of Elisa Lam”, EJ Dickson, Rolling Stone, Feb 25, 2021
“Why Internet Sleuths Are Still Obsessed With Elisa Lam’s Death”, Alessa Dominguez, Buzzfeed, Feb 12, 2021
“Netflix's Cecil Hotel documentary is a dangerous, bloated mess”, Mark Serrels, Cnet, Feb 23, 2021
“Column: Black people make up 8% of L.A. population and 34% of its homeless. That’s unacceptable”, Steve Lopez, LA Times, June 13, 2020

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