THE RESIDENTS’ RIVER OF CRIME is a character driven podcast
series of 20 shows, based on the time honored concept of
TRUE CRIME. Rooted in 1940’s style radio drama, THE RIVER
OF CRIME not only updates the original form with modern
production values, but also heavily leans on a distinctive
soundtrack as one of its primary dramatic devices. A modern
day DRAGNET, the series follows the reminisces of its
unseen narrator as he discloses a lifelong obsession with
wickedness and vice. But, as opposed to the ironic and
terse Joe Friday, a classic crime solver, THE RIVER OF
CRIME’S narrator is a crime collector.
After an early fascination with the electric chair, the
series’ protagonist soon finds himself completely absorbed
by the idea of crime and criminals, and each episode
unfolds as a personal recollection, a memory of some
unlawful event that has affected his life. Within the
series these events are recreated as drama, interviews and
narration, interrupted and supported by a strong musical
score.
Not unlike a butterfly or stamp collector, the narrator
initially feels a controlled distance from his subjects,
gleaning tidbits of information from every possible source,
while filling countless notebooks with newspaper clippings,
thoughts and personal observations - life is an endless
collection of the odd and unlawful. For him crime has
become the artform of the sociopath, a curious combination
of creativity and antisocial behavior ...and he is its
curator.
But then one day, everything changes and, unexpectedly, a
crime comes to him ...then another ...and another. At first
he’s charmed by this turn of events, and while he continues
to pursue his own unlawful interests, one crime after
another seemingly falls into his lap. But, as the frequency
of these events grows more rapid, so does their danger, as
well as their proximity to the storyteller, whose touch
with reality appears more fleeting with each close
encounter.
Adrift in a sinking ship, he’s lost on THE RIVER OF CRIME.