“This is a moderately interesting podcast that was about 2-3 episodes too long. At one point in episode 5 I thought my phone accidentally started playing a past episode because the host was repeating information verbatim for over a paragraph. Give your audience a little more credit for being able to retain information given in a previous episode.
The producers of this were incredibly irresponsible by playing live footage (sound) of an actual killing and the subjects subsequent demise. Maybe they think we’re all desensitized by murder based on Films & TV of today, but there’s a HUGE difference between an actor portraying a death and listening to an actual real human take his final gasps of air. Incredibly irresponsible and very triggering for people who would never expect Dateline to be so callous and benefit from something so horrendous. I’m still in shock the producers did not give the audience a warning, not only did they play the actual murder, the producers repeated it more than once. Gross and completely unnecessary to tell the story. Sensationalistic producing at its absolute worst. Dateline should be ashamed of this and Keith Morrison should have refused to allow this into the podcast.
Finally, the ending is dissatisfying-this time not productions fault but because of the ineptitude of small town prosecutors that just let things go. Not only should this girl be in prison for life, her mother should be as well. Sick people.
Nothing about this podcast was great. I wish I had listened to my gut and turned this off after the first boring chapter.”
CharmaineLove via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/19/22