80s True Crime: Garfield's Nine Lives

1980s Now

Will, Ray and Kat discuss current 1980s news including a changes to upcoming 1980s sequel release dates and a Dungeon Master who makes $125/hour to run an RPG campaign. Then, Will shares a true "crime" story that began in the 1980s and was only solved in 2018.

Listen to our first "true crime" story here: https://bit.ly/3AeR66U.

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True "Crime" Bibliography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis_(cartoonist)

https://www.pgpedia.com/t/tyco-toys

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-have-garfield-phones-been-washing-ashore-france-30-years-180971835/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/world/europe/garfield-phones-france.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2012/05/telephone_design_a_brief_history_photos_.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553

https://www.insider.com/mystery-garfield-phones-french-beach-solved-2019-3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/29/decades-garfield-telephones-kept-washing-ashore-france-now-mystery-has-been-solved/?wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Dnkcw2kjg