Ep. 203 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime Special Edition Serves Up “Last Call: When A Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York – Episodes 1 and 2”

Some murders happen twice in a row. First comes the killing, then comes the erasure of the victim by the very institutions equipped to find the perpetrator.  Christopher and Eric mark the tragic anniversary of the brutal slaying of Billy Newton, whose decades old murder was solved thanks in part to the attention brought to it by this podcast, by serving up the first two episodes of a landmark HBO documentary LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK. As the dismembered bodies of two queer men turn up outside New York City in the early 90's, the similarities between their stories feel starkly alike — victims who struggled with homophobia and shame, a media that refused to see them as full-fledged humans. Your hosts share their own heartbreaking and disturbing experience of watching Billy's story get erased by supposed allies once again. It's all build up for their next episode, in which the shocking twists at the end of LAST CALL leave Christopher and Eric breathless.