3.0

While I do enjoy the podcast from these guys, I expected more from the book. It did not fully deliver in the way I had hoped. On one side, the chapters and cases are extremely informational and very well put together. To learn something new about some of these serial killers when their stories saturate the markets is a good thing. I would like to see these guys take on LESS notorious crimes but with people just as evil and methodical. I would have been fine with just the normal narrative flow. BUT... this book is playing on their podcast some and so the audio version is just loaded with loud and obnoxious interjections with ridiculous commentary and jokes that are not funny because you can tell they are 100000% canned, planted, and staged. You can't have one person reading all calmly, matter-of-fact, and with the intent on educating us while the other two seem drunk, obtuse, and have a tone that totally contradicts the main story while seeming organic. The audio just did not work for me here. I would rather have read this one - but even then, I feel like these guys should just stick to podcasts as their medium. They can do that well - why rock the boat and muddy the waters? 3 stars here!