What a Murder Says About a Life

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. J. Warner Wallace joins in to discuss his new book The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life.

The conversation is embedded below. For your long-term convenience, follow us on SoundCloud or subscribe via Apple PodcastsSpotify, or Stitcher.


Image by Jakub Schikaneder, provided by Wikimedia Commons, licensed via the public domain. Image cropped.
Мusic by Jack Bauerlein. 

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