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I updated the big giant enormous list of true crime podcasts at truecrimereview.net/the-list. There are more than 100 true crime podcasts on that list, and it’s growing all the time. Which leads me to…

Podcast Recommendation
There’s no excuse for me not to tell you about a new podcast on every episode I do, considering I could do a recommendation every week for almost two and a half years without repeating myself.
Sooo this week I’m recommending you add Curiosity Kills (RSS link) to your listening rotation. Two intelligent, irreverent, funny women taking advantage of the acoustic enclosure of an automobile to record great conversations about true crime. The Facebook fan group is also awesome so consider joining that, too.
It’s a closed group but that’s just for the privacy of the members (aka so your friends and family on’t know you study murder). They’ll let you in with the quickness, just ask.
Now for the News.

News
The Murder of Gordon Semple
50-year-old Stefano Brizzi is on trial for the murder of 59-year-old Metropolitan Police Constable Gordon Semple, whom he met through the gay dating app Grindr. Brizzi is accused of strangling Semple to death before attempting to dispose of, and possible eat, the victim’s body.
BBC News reports Semple’s DNA was located on a blender blade, a cooking pot and other kitchen items. Authorities found bite marks on a bone fragment retrieved from Brizzi’s kitchen trash can.
Police discovered the gruesome scene on April 7, 2016 following complaints by neighbors of a revolting smell. The prosecutor said during the trial, which is ongoing, that responding officers found “bottles of chemicals scattered in the hall and “blue-green liquid” in the bath with “flesh-coloured globules floating in the water.”
Brizzi says he did not intentionally kill Semple, instead telling authorities his death was accidental, as a result of a “sex game gone wrong.” But I find it hard to believe someone who can say the following about someone would pass up the opportunity to kill:
As you can see, this man was a very big man and all I have left is two buckets.
Follow the BBC’s coverage of the ongoing trial by searching “BBC gordon semple” on your search engine of choice.
Words from Semple’s family and friends on his death, as published by KentNews.co.uk:
In a statement, Pc Semple’s brother, Ronnie Semple, said: “On behalf of Gordon’s partner Gary, my wife Maureen, Gordon’s nephew Paul, niece Kerry and I, I would like to thank everyone for their kind thoughts during the past dreadful week. It has been a terrible time for us all, especially Gary.”
He added: “Gordon will be sadly missed by all of his immediate family, his colleagues in the Met Police, former Bank of Scotland colleagues in Inverness and London, friends from his ‘Tartan Army’ days, but most of all the hardest loss is for Gary at this time.
“Gordon was a much-loved partner, brother, brother-in-law, uncle and cousin, and our world will be a worse place without him.”
Friends remembered Pc Semple as a “great chara