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“The journalists involved in this podcast are very light on sources, relying most heavily on interviewing police and police materials. Since the police in this case have been notoriously tight-lipped and reluctant to release any details, that leaves for very thin material spread out over way too many episodes. Worse, the hosts are incredibly eager to back up police narratives and justifications. The police themselves all but admit that there is overwhelming evidence, but that they are ill-equipped to solve a murder that does not involve obvious suspects. The hosts offer no criticisms or pushbacks. Beyond that, several times they often flirt with suggesting broad deteriorations of privacy rights and civil liberties to facilitate dragnets and search warrants without probable cause, rather than ask the obvious question: shouldn't competent detectives, with photos, video, and audio of the killer, in a small town, be able to solve this without these extreme measures?
As a podcast, even without ethical questions or objections to journalistic methods, the thing just drags on and on with few compelling breakthroughs. Most of the podcast is the two hosts giving basic and common sense play by plays of city and police press conferences. Episodes promoted as shocking breakthroughs (like 5) end up being nothing at all.
This is a tragic story, and the investigation could be pushed harder by serious, critical journalists. But we don't get any of that here.”Read full review »
MLucanus via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/22/23
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“This podcast is just a nonstop constant replaying of teenage girls, friends and family, of these two poor victims telling first hand their grief. “How did you feel when you heard this? How did the grown ups around you Zach?” Literally — two hours in and I actually have no idea what happened to...”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
02/05/20
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“The music played during the part of the story when the grandfather is describing finding his granddaughters body is so bizarre and unfitting!”
naomie.zao via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/05/20
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“This podcast as a lot of interviews and a lot of talking but doesn’t say anything. Still don’t even know what the cause of death is. Feels like a PG rated true crime podcast. There are much better and tighter tellings of this case available with True Crime Garage, Crime Junkie, etc”
CaptainChaz via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/05/20
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