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winepresswrath · 1 month ago

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Finished the Double, watched the first episode of Severance Season Two (I missed you all so much and whatever is going on with Helly/Helena has me pacing in the living room. True love the friend group. They literally had to invent love from scratch with only the aid and guidance of a bad self help book. Milchick!!!!!!) and also watched Blackbird, which was excellent but did leave me googling the real case and uh I think the FBI might have colluded with the real James Keene. Of course it's very possible that either the confession was legit or they did frame him but he was guilty anyway, but: jailhouse informant is mysteriously thrown in solitary for two weeks right after he blows his cover, his handlers "can't find him," no one can explain why or how this happened decades later, and it turns out that right before he he was thrown in solitary he'd gotten a full confession out of the guy but oops they still can't find the bodies and the case leans heavily on him coming up with details of the crimes only the cops and killer had access to? not great.

#press says severance #cw: serial killers #cw: csa #the thing is larry does appear to be a predator and he's definitely a serial confessor. but sincerely thinking he's guilty #further incentivizes everyone involved to lie #and if other people were out there committing some of those crimes it's a real boon to them #perhaps this is just the alarm bells that ring every time i hear about jailhouse informants but like. they're notoriously unreliable #for a reason. and this guy wanted to get home to his sick father really badly even before he was disappeared for two weeks #and i don't know. i think it is bad to frame people. it perverts the course of justice

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