Consuming Crime

Consuming Crime is a true crime show in which Jules retells cases that have been the subject of documentaries on streaming services. Episodes in this run start with the same breezy 'welcome to or welcome back to' greeting. Most sign off by thanking listeners for consuming crime with the host. Joe Kenda is the recurring figure. Jules has covered both American Detective and Homicide Hunter, Discovery+ series built around the lieutenant, with titles like 'Homicide Hunter with Joe Kenda: Into Thin Air' and 'A Night at the Pub - The Return of Homicide Hunter'. The retellings dwell on how investigations turn. In one, a suspect waives his right to a lawyer and then fails a polygraph. The other detectives start celebrating, but Kenda insists the man did not do it. For 'Into Thin Air', Jules plays the documentary's opening preview, about a young mother who vanishes on a cold winter night, and warns that the practice will stop if copyright becomes a problem. Away from Kenda, the titles take in some very well-known cases. In 'The Case of JonBenet Ramsey', Jules thinks aloud about whether five days allowed enough time for an autopsy before the funeral. The same episode goes back over a CNN interview given after the funeral that, as Jules tells it, rubbed people the wrong way. 'Gypsy Rose Blanchard: Case & Current News' takes in a Hurricane Katrina relocation and a neurologist's suspicion of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, then turns to the host's view of Gypsy's life after prison. 'River of Blood' follows police as they question a woman in Colorado about a borrowed car after the death of a man named Ron. 'Onision: In Real Life' includes a detour to explain To Catch a Predator, right down to Chris Hansen producing a folder of message screenshots. Detours like that are part of how the show works. Jules breaks off mid-case to grab soup, and after a complaint about the dog appearing on camera, answers it by setting up a dog cam for the video version. The host is also candid about what the genre costs, saying that covering true crime is draining and has brought on more paranoia. The delivery is casual and unpolished, with filler words and false starts left in. It is less a produced companion to the documentaries and more like hearing someone talk through what they watched. The housekeeping sits at the edges: requests to like and subscribe, a Patreon with bonus episodes, and a separate pop culture podcast the host also makes. For someone who has seen Homicide Hunter, or plans to, it offers a relaxed second pass over the same cases.