The Microwave As a Murder Weapon: A Brief History - Bloomberg

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Americas+1 212 318 2000 EMEA+44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000 Listen 6:42 In episode seven of HBO's True Detective, Rust asks Marty why he stopped being a cop. It's 2012 in the show's world, and both men are years out of law enforcement; Rust is a long-haired boozer, Marty a bald and pot-bellied P.I. (A spoiler follows.) "Why'd you quit, Marty?" Rust says. "What's the real reason? What happened?" Considering what we know at this point in the show—all the horrors Marty and Rust have seen—I leaned in for the answer, figuring it would be exceptionally gruesome. Show writer Nic Pizzolatto did not disappoint. "Well, I saw something," Marty says. "Baby. Tweaker tried to dry the kid in a microwave. Saw that, what he'd done, thought, 'never again'." Pizzolatto isn't the first script writer to d

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Americas+1 212 318 2000 EMEA+44 20 7330 7500 Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000 Listen 6:42 In episode seven of HBO's True Detective, Rust asks Marty why he stopped being a cop. It's 2012 in the show's world, and both men are years out of law enforcement; Rust is a long-haired boozer, Marty a bald and pot-bellied P.I. (A spoiler follows.) "Why'd you quit, Marty?" Rust says. "What's the real reason? What happened