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The Night Life
Chris pulls up to the parking lot at his favorite diner after dealing with a rough night with a job. It's a 24/7 diner with a 1950's aesthetic, but not a lot of people are there during the day, but at night, it becomes Chris' confessional booth in kind of a funny way. Not a lot of people can describe Chris, but if anyone could, they'd say he reminds them of a regular guy. Someone who doesn't have an ounce of an actor's likeness in him. The waitresses know him by name, and so does the manager of the place. They just hired a new waitress there, Gwen. If someone were to describe her, they'd say she looks like Alison Brie from Community and GLOW. She's a college graduate who has nothing going on for her. She lives alone, has no kids, and she doesn't have a pet to keep her company. The night may get a little interesting for these two lost individuals.
By Don Anderson II5 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'London Kills'
My wife and I binge-watched another two-season U.K. offering from Acorn TV: London Kills. It's been billed as akin to Criminal Minds and Castle, but, episode for episode (five per-season for this mini-series), I liked it better than either of those fine shows. How's that for praise?
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in Criminal
Review of 'Striking Out'
My wife and I binged the two seasons of Striking Out, originally (in 2017-2018) on Irish TV, now on Acorn via Amazon Prime. The show only ran two seasons, and there's apparently no prospect for a third season, which is a shame, because the two seasons were quite good, and the second season ended on an unexpected turn of events.
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in Criminal
JEFFREY EPSTEIN / GHISLAINE MAXWELL PART 2, MY JOURNEY TO AWAKENING, AND ADVICE FOR NEW TRUTH SEEKERS
Blessings and welcome to Breaking The Matrix Podcast, where no topic is off limits, no matter how controversial. The goal is to foster independent critical thinking and question the status quo of the corrupt criminal power structure. Call me MorpheuX (pronounced ‘Morfy-X’), I’ll be your humble guide down this strange rabbit hole to breaking the matrix together.
By BreakingTheMatrix /Morphy.X5 years ago in Criminal
A Filmmaker’s Review: “Unabomber: In His Own Words” (Netflix, 2020)
I am pretty sure that anyone who hears the term ‘Unabomber’ has this weird chill that goes down them. You don’t really know why you have a certain chill but it’s there. It’s not really because of the man himself but more about the strangeness surrounding his situation - especially the odd three years he spent under the influence of a psychologist at Harvard University, apparently subjected to CIA style mind-altering torture techniques. Though the man himself maintains it did not change him, is it really that or is that just what he believes? This documentary investigates the years between 1978 and 1995 in which a Mathematics PhD killed three people and injured more than twenty by sending homemade bombs in the post to key locations, concentrating on the urgency for his capture and how ultimately - he was found. It is an incredible look into the life of a man who, since his capture, was shrouded in so much mystery that you practically could not learn anything about him apart from his stubbornly academic manifesto. In this documentary we also get to see his brother, his sister-in-law, a woman who interviewed him after he sent for her by name. We get to see that from the very start of his life there is a sense of withdrawal because of his vast intellect. This intellect that becomes used and abused by the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Criminal
Online Banking
Online banking? Fredrick ran through the backstreets in a vain effort to put distance between himself and his pursuers. He had been completely unaware that his online activities had come to the attention of his. Working as an accountant for a law firm that handles accounts of some quite shady individuals meant transferring large sums of cash to different parts of the world, so frequently that it was hard to pin down the location of the funds before they had been whisked away somewhere else - to be returned a later date into the original account holders bank account, clean and untraceable. With such vast sums of money being laundered he thought it would be relatively easy to steal a couple of hundred thousand dollars once in a while. And they didn’t, but then he got greedy.
By Russell Bloxham5 years ago in Criminal
Topophilia
His tool box was a rusted chrome, but he lifted it with ease. It would make most men jealous, the way he was loading the objects around him in his van with haste like he was stocking pillows. It might look easy to you, but a man still needs to hydrate. Taking a small break and a drink, something happens. For the first time since he moved in several months ago, the sound of a door catches his attention.
By Brian Pomphrey5 years ago in Criminal
The Book Keepers
Before all of this Chaos nonsense, I did my duty as a beat cop running tickets for Hermes. Olympus wasn't just any city; it was "the city". If you're some shmuck who lucked up and got in good with the Gods, you kept your head the fuck down, you did your work, and that's it. Whatever you saw happen in Olympus, you didn't. Especially if had anything to do with the Mayor's family. Lucky for us, Mayor Zeus's biggest scandal were his sons: Ares and his mistress Aphrodite, Apollo and his sister Artemis. Artemis ended up like me, working for Hades, the police chief. It wasn't about getting the cozy job for me; I had something to prove. Coming from a long line of monsters; mobsters and killers alike, all out looking for something to prove to Olympus. The South Mafia, an organized crime ring consisting of the Shades on Spades, The Giant Gang, and the Heca Cartel. My mother got involved with the leader of the whole thing; Typhon. Had a woman take me in after Giants took back the territory. I was eleven and at school when they came to the house and filled it with more holes than the heads of hydras. Mother was caught in the crossfire.
By Adrian Chambliss5 years ago in Criminal
The prison service and the social harm perspective continued...
In the first part of this article previously published, I explained the beginning of the prison service and the intentions of its use. I also raised the social harm perspective as an alternative to the retribution currently in use.
By Janine S White5 years ago in Criminal
