The meta-motivated media-saturated too scripted for tv Idaho student murders dragged your lofty co-hosts out of the higher dimension of history and into a bout of manic social analysis and 'mindhunting'.

After analyzing the evidence in the pretty straightforward case, we talk about the True Crime "community", it's explosion and "Power of Nightmares" function, and how it seemed to shape the (alleged) murderer's mind as he scripted himself a crackpot mission: first as would-be Profiler, then as slasher-movie-killer in an anomic and antisocial landscape.

Your humble detectives then turn to musing on James Ellroy, the late Mike Davis, and how detective fiction, even with its contrived plots and mysteries, might give people a clearer picture of the world they live in and maybe even how to change it.

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