(Edited below to add my disappointment) RIVETING! Excellent Podcast!
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“I wrote my effusive review before the enormous letdown & disappointment of the last 2 episodes. I felt & still feel robbed! What happened Dana? You simply ended the podcast at the point when you’d initially promised you’d thoroughly examine it! Because I’d previously read EVERY WORD of the 1st Appeal & was STUNNED that not only was the extremely lengthy trial barely covered - all the legal issues, the details - everything which made this case & the people involved (yes, real people!) so compelling— the Appeal also was glossed over in a few, inadequate, dumbed-down sentences. All the detail I’d been looking forward to? After so many compelling episodes- WHY did you stop? We are missing vital analysis. After months,this is still bothering me. And yes, when all of a sudden you ended the podcast precisely when your listeners needed to hear details & examination - you just - stopped! I really couldn’t believe it - WHERE are the trial & appellate episodes in detail? Your listeners aren’t dumb! A well-reasoned reporting & analysis of this case was the entire reason I subscribed in the first place. (Obviously I unsubscribed months ago). I’m now taking off just one star only because I’d been so consumed with the other episodes. This is essentially half or two-thirds of a podcast. There is so more you could have accomplished with this. Perhaps personal issues during this time of Covid - or your production company - resulted in you having to cut out additional planned episodes. I’m trying to be charitable. You never truly discussed Santa Barbara (where this case was tried) - & the persons involved in Santa Barbara. If you are ever interested or able to FINISH the podcast, I will listen. I’m ‘only’ out $5 - AND my intellectual interest in the case. I kept researching the issues raised on my own. … Yes, I still do strongly like the first episodes with the following caveat: they need to be listened to with headphones, & in a day or so. All at once I mean, & with the knowledge that the Trial & first Appeal are going to be metaphorically drowning, drifting out to sea. It’s not that I’m feeling you “betrayed” anyone, as I don’t know what your mutual understanding or agreement was with his daughters. They were so young, sadly. Also young were his wives, & stepson so…Please consider FINISHING this! Since you write for The New Yorker, you have the intellect & the ability. … So ok, not that anyone is still reading - but I’m leaving in my first review: I would give this 10 stars if I could. Immersive, intriguing, & I’m compulsively listening over & over to every word, every detail. Back then, in Santa Barbara, I recall my parents (& the entire town) feeling the chill of Verna & Douglas’s horrible deaths. Jean’s death too. THIS is THE CASE which has long haunted me with its darkness. I hope Dana Goodyear, a talented writer, will also publish a New Yorker article - a long one. The production’s sound - the music, her interviews, archival interviews, all interspersed with ocean waves - is first rate. I’ve gone on to read & study the entire appeal- which was rigorously upheld, but with an interesting dissent. I’m so eager to learn more about this case which everyone here was talking about, & which I have always needed to understand. The latest episode, in which John laments the loss of Dougie, his childhood friend, will break your heart.”
JenniferPerie via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/11/22
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“These podcasts have got to stop including Cece Woods 🤦🏻♀️ or at least not when she’s been drinking. Good lord.... Obnoxious!!”
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03/24/21
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“This reporter, story does not draw you in , in anyway. She’s so monotone. Not impressed”
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United States of America ·
03/29/21
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