True Crime, Fake Homicide: The Onion's 'A Very Fatal Murder' Podcast
A postindustrial small town in Nebraska. A young girl killed. A New York host who is "kind of a sociopath." It's all in the satirical news agency's take on serial audio storytelling.
by Audie Cornish
Apr 05, 2018
3 minutes
David Pascall is in search of the perfect murder — a murder so beautiful, so moving that it could be the subject of his new podcast for OPR. That would be Onion Public Radio. He narrates:
I know that this is the most compelling murder in America. I know that the victim was a supple young girl in the prime of her life. And I know that she was killed by simultaneous gunshot-stabbing-strangling-drowning.
With satirizes all those true-crime podcasts that many of us have come to know and binge: , , .
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