{"id":24322,"date":"2025-12-12T11:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/hot-snakes-media-partners-with-websleuths-for-true-crime-slate\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:26:43","slug":"hot-snakes-media-partners-with-websleuths-for-true-crime-slate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/hot-snakes-media-partners-with-websleuths-for-true-crime-slate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Snakes Media Partners with Websleuths for True-Crime Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Snakes Media has partnered with Websleuths, the internet\u2019s largest and longest-running online community dedicated to solving real-world crime and missing persons cases, across a slate of projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur shows have always been driven by curiosity and hard questions, and Websleuths brings an entire community that thinks the same way,\u201d said Shannon Evangelista, co-founder of Hot Snakes Media. \u201cThis partnership gives us a front-row seat to cases that haven\u2019t hit the mainstream yet. 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