A new season of the “Crime Beat” podcast is afoot.
On Thursday, Oct. 10, the second season of the deep-dive narrative crime series will be available on AppleCoreMedia, iTunes, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. “Crime Beat,” Season 2 is called “Mom vs. Murderer.”
In the winter of 1994, 20-year-old Southern California honor student Cathy Torrez was found stabbed to death in the trunk of her car.
This season of “Crime Beat” will focus on Mary Bennett – Torrez’s mother – and her two-plus decade pursuit of justice. “Crime Beat” is hosted by journalist Keith Sharon, who works for the Southern California News Group and wrote two screenplays that became Hollywood movies. The first was “Showtime” with Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy. The second was “Finding Steve McQueen,” starring Forest Whitaker, Travis Fimmel and Rachael Taylor.
Season 1 of “Crime Beat,” which went in-depth into the story behind the McQueen script, was called “Stealing…
