Review of Back to Bardstown - Fascinating story, questionable

Fascinating story, questionable storytelling choices near the end of the podcast

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“The facts of this case—fire chief’s wife seemingly killed in fire— sound more like a novel than a true crime story, making it perfect for a podcast. The first several episodes of this podcast expertly presented the extraordinary facts of this case, giving the listener the necessary bits of information in a pace and sequence that enhanced the story. The producers also used interesting content to tell the story, such as dash cam audio from the fire chief’s vehicle when he was responding to the scene. However, it feels like the producers ran out of content near the end. One of the last episodes is pretty much just a recorded conversation between the victim’s family and law enforcement, a recording that didn’t reveal that much about the case and made my ears bleed. If producers felt that the recording was really that important to the story, they should have edited it down. I think the feelings and opinions of a victim’s friends and family should be valued, but this podcast has too much content from the victim’s family and friends saying the same things (often speculative things, at that) over and over and over again. They could have cut that content in half (at least) and accomplished the same objective of giving a voice to the victim’s loved ones. Cut some of that content and maybe a couple of episodes and this podcast may have been five-star material.”

marmalade57 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 07/06/21

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Scamp0110 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/10/19

My hometown- still get the chills

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“I was bummed when the newest episode wasn’t out. I’m from Bardstown and still get chills hearing the stories. Told very well so far!”

ashleyjenks via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/03/19

Wow