LISTEN: Holy City Sinner Radio Episode 44 featuring Emmy Award–winning Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, and Author Mark Olshaker

The 44th episode of Holy City Sinner Radio, this website’s companion podcast, is now live on multiple streaming platforms. This week’s guest is Mark Olshaker, an Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and author of twelve nonfiction books and five novels.

His books with famed criminal profiler John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages.  On this episode, we’ll mostly be discussing his book, When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town, which recounts the horrific story of Shari Smith who was kidnapped from the driveway of her family’s Lexington County home in 1985. Her abductor then made repeated phone calls to her family taunting her mother and sister. Sadly, Smith was found dead days later. The book details the crime and the work of police, the FBI, and Shari’s family to find her murderer and bring him to justice.

You can listen to the episode via your preferred service below:

• Apple Podcasts
• Google Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube (see below)

Episode references:

• FBI Profiler John Douglas Recounts South Carolina Murder Investigation in “When a Killer Calls” (HCS)
• Video: NOVA – “Mind of a Serial Killer” (YouTube)
• Mindhunter (Netflix)
• Einstein’s Brain by Mark Olshaker (Amazon)
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (Amazon)
• Grace So Amazing: A True Story of God’s Grace in the Midst of Life-Shattering Tragedy by Dawn Smith Jordan (Amazon)
• The Rose of Shari by Hilda Cartrette Smith (Amazon)
• M’naughten rule (Cornell)
• “Policeman at the elbow” Test aka the irresistible impulse defense (Wikipedia)
• Victim Impact Statement (The U.S. Department of Justice)
• Dawn Smith Jordan Ministries

The show’s artwork was created by Grace Lancaster-Goguen (glancastergoguen@gmail.com). The episode’s music is by Tyler Boone.  The show is produced by Lindsay Collins from LMC Soundsystem and the popular local podcast, EffinBRadio.
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