I had this idea to do a crime themed radio show for some time now, since the #Hardboiled course almost a year ago. There’s a lot of fodder out there, from murder ballads to ganster rap to bizarre compilation albums. But having just worked my way through The Stranger Beside Me and with #TrueCrime coming up, I figured now was the time.
I had to start with RevCo’s Gila Copter (YouTube) for the “prime time victim show” lines. Ted, Just Admit It (YouTube) was a natural, of course. Springsteen’s Nebraska (YouTube), based on Charles Starkweather’s misadventures was next, followed by Richard Speck by hometown heroes The Chesterfield Kings. (Wikipedia didn’t make the connection between the two, so I’ll have to do something about that.) I finished with Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy (YouTube), a little fictional murder to lighten the mood.
Whether I have any future as an amateur DJ is questionable. I think the sound came out OK, but the songs are a little jarring in juxtaposition. I had never tried to put anything on ds106radio before, but I managed to get it on without breaking anything thanks to Cogdog’s directions.

About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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You’re a sick man. What exactly is this crazy True Crime class you are teaching. Sounds like a satanic cult!
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