Murder Made Fiction
A podcast that analyzes fictionalized adaptations of true crimes. Hosted by Jenn Adams and Joe Lipsett. Part of the Bloody FM podcast network.
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May 26, 2026 • 37 mins
In twelve seasons of his anthology show, Ryan Murphy has tackled his share of true crime. To conclude our coverage of the murder of Elizabeth Short, we’re revisiting a pair of episodes featuring Mena Suvari as the famous young woman: Murder House - S1 Episode 9: “Spooky Little Girl” and Apocalypse - S8 Episode 6: “Return to Murder House.”
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May 19, 2026 • 48 mins
Joe and Jenn have reached the most mainstream fictionalized depiction of Elizabeth Short's murder: Brian De Palma's 2006 title, The Black Dahlia.
Criticized for its poor casting and convoluted narrative, the film is reminiscent of several other crime entries, notably L.A. Confidential. Despite this (and the 2 hour runtime), the cast is hot, Hilary Swank and Fiona Shaw are having a blast, and that fountain scene is pretty amazing!
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May 12, 2026 • 39 mins
Ulu Grosbard’s True Confessions is a star-studded neo-noire following Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro as brothers caught in the corruption of post-WWII LA. But how does it fare as a Black Dahlia text? Does it present a faithful or sensitive version of the tragic murder of Elizabeth Short?
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May 8, 2026 • 4 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 2 of the Netflix limited series, Unbelievable (2019)
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May 5, 2026 • 44 mins
Our coverage of The Black Dahlia kicks off with the 1975 made-for-TV movie, Who Is The Black Dahlia?
Director Joseph Pevney and screenwriter Robert W. Lenski's film presents Elizabeth Short as an aimless, unknowable figure (possibly even to herself).
As played by Lucie Arnaz, the movie is well researched and actually gives Short much more screen time than we expected, but it doesn't entirely satisfy. As a kick off, this is solid,...
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Jenn and Joe sat down with non-fiction author William J. Mann to discuss his recent novel, Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood, which acts as the source material for our episodes all month long.
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May 1, 2026 • 21 mins
This month, we’re covering films based on one of the most famous unsolved crimes in American history. To kick things off, Jenn and Joe discuss the gruesome murder of Elizabeth Short and the many salacious rumors that rose in its wake.
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April 28, 2026 • 48 mins
Due to a technical snafu, we're unable to release our episode on Bad Education, so accept our apologies with an episode on Brad Parker's delightfully silly B-movie Chernobyl Diaries (2012), which we programmed as part of our Chernobyl coverage on Patreon.
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April 21, 2026 • 55 mins
Week three of 'Whistleblower' month looks at Todd Haynes' 2019 film, Dark Waters (2019), adapted from the New York Times article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare."
Starring a fantastic Mark Ruffalo, the film follows Rob Billott a lawyer who takes on DuPont chemicals for polluting the water in West Virginia.
Topics include: the long drawn out legal battle; character actors Bill Camp and Mare Winningham; and misusi...
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April 14, 2026 • 55 mins
Our coverage of whistleblowers continues with Erin Brockovich, a biopic turned true crime drama about a single mother of three who uncovers a devastating environmental crime. Steven Soderbergh’s crowd-pleaser infuses life into what is essentially a story about documents while adding courtroom intrigue to a case settled without going to trial.
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April 7, 2026 • 52 mins
On Nov 13, 1974, the body of Karen Silkwood was discovered in her rear-ended car in a ditch in Crescent, Oklahoma.
Mike Nichols' Oscar-nominated 1983 film looks at the events preceding her death as Karen became the first woman ever elected to a Kerr-McGee bargaining committee, her increasing activism, and her attempts to sound the alarm on faulty nuclear rods before her death.
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April 1, 2026 • 22 mins
In the early morning hours of 26 April 1986, the fourth RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, exposing the Soviet Union to massive levels of radioactivity. The resulting cleanup would take nearly a year and wind up claiming thousands of lives. Meanwhile, scientists scrambled to understand exactly what went wrong and how to prevent Earth’s worst manmade disaster from happening again. Jenn walks Joe through the harrowing...
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March 31, 2026 • 60 mins
Jenn and Joe are ready to wrap up a month of Jack the Ripper texts with arguably the most famous title to date: The Hughes Brothers' From Hell (2001).
This adaptation of the Alan Moore comic is 2+ hours long, stars Johnny Depp and Heather Graham (doing questionable accents) and has plenty of stylish green and red lighting.
Plus: a fantastic turn by Ian Holm; cries of salacious gore from critics of the time; a revisionist ending; ...
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March 24, 2026 • 44 mins
For our second last week of Jack the Ripper texts, we're checking out made-for-TV movie The Ripper (1997)
Starring Patrick Bergin, Gabrielle Anwar, and MVP Samuel West, this version of the story dispenses with the mystery and identifies The Ripper ~22 minutes in.
Plus: prioritizing the romance over the investigation, Bergin as a good guy, queer coding, and why we can tell this was helmed by a female director (Janet Meyers).
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March 20, 2026 • 4 mins
Here's a sneak peek at our all new Patreon episode on Episode 6 of The Terror, "A Mercy" which features a fiery carnival.
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March 19, 2026 • 35 mins
Michael Caine wraps up the case in episode two of Jack the Ripper (1988). A gruesome package sent to the media contains a pivotal clue that allows our fearless detectives to identify Jack the Ripper from a bevy of suspects.
But will the world learn the identity of the notorious killer or will the truth stay buried for 100 years?
Topics include: poverty in 19th century London and surprising connections to current events.
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March 17, 2026 • 43 mins
Our discussion of Jack the Ripper continues with the first of a two episode TV miniseries Jack the Ripper (1988) starring Michael Caine and Jane Seymour.
This lavish $11M series was broadcast in both the UK and the US to (allegedly) big ratings, but it's the sprawling focus on the daily life in Whitechapel that has us hooked.
Topics include: the many, many male suspects; beakers of milk; a desire for The Muppets; and the role of ...
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March 10, 2026 • 34 mins
We’re continuing our coverage of Jack the Ripper with Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 adaptation. Jack Palance stars as a mysterious lodger who may be connected to a series of gruesome murders plaguing 1888 London.
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> Joe: @bstolemyremote
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March 5, 2026 • 39 mins
Our first fictionalized adaptation of Jack the Ripper is an early Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).
In the film, a landlord couple begin to suspect that their new tenant (played by gay musical composer Ivor Novello) is The Avenger, a serial killer of blonde women, who may have his sights set on their daughter Daisy.
Topics include: appreciating black & white silent movies; German Expressionism; ...
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March 3, 2026 • 35 mins
We’re going all the way back to the 19th century to the foundations of the true crime genre. Jack the Ripper terrorized the residents of Whitechapel, London, leaving butchered bodies in the street before disappearing into the night. Carole Peters’s docuseries episode chronicles this disturbing case and its wide variety of suspected killers.
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