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“If I could give 2.5 stars I would but I can’t so I rounded up to 3 because the story was well told and was made to seem more compelling at times than it actually was.
However, the podcast is super thin on evidence and incredibly lopsided with speculation. Dorothy has an extreme dislike for Susanne and that bias clouds the actual information that is presented in this podcast. I don’t feel that there was enough third party validation of information in this podcast. It leans so heavily on Dorothy’s feelings that it taints the whole thing.
When Dorothy accuses Susanne of being a psychopath I had to roll my eyes. If that portion had come earlier in the podcast I would have stopped listening but this is very late in the story and I was invested because of the amount of time I had already put into following this story. Dorothy presents her credentials to be able to answer the psychopathy checklist about Susanne but none of that actually matters because of her bias. She cannot possibly answer those questions and rate Susanne accurately because if that bias.
In addition to being light on actual information and relying way too much on speculation this podcast makes a lot of assumptions about a man who is dead and can no longer speak for himself (David) and I am apt to agree with his sister, Donna, when she says she thinks Dorothy lead him on when he was lonely. I think Dorothy is so singularly focused that she was willing to do anything to get what she wanted.
Dorothy is convinced that her uncle Vern is this incredibly benevolent figure but I think like all human’s he was complicated. He seems to have been a figure of good & stability in her life when it was often not good or stable at home with her parents; but then he sort of turns away from his daughter in her teens. So he was clearly a complex person. Dorothy finds it easy to place all of the blame for Vern’s abandonment of his daughter on Susanne and her manipulation; and that could well be part of it but also Vern was very much an adult. He made the decision to leave his 15 year old daughter alone in a hotel room in Madison, a place she was unfamiliar with, when he was supposed to be spending the time with her. Dorothy says that Susanne said once she was withholding sex from Vern until he did what she wanted; Dorothy has no idea what that means or what Susanne wanted but she somehow makes it line up with when he made changes to his life insurance and his will. It seems very convenient for this to be the case; but even if it is the case… Vern clearly chose sex with his wife over keeping his daughter in the will. Is that manipulative on Susanne’s part if she did do that… sure but ultimately it’s sex and Vern chose that. He did that as an adult.
I think this podcast had real potential to be super compelling and tell a complex story; but they didn’t do enough investigating on their own. They rely on Dorothy’s stories and get book to tell the story and I don’t think it quite hits the mark because if that.”
Kacibelle via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/27/21
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“Interesting story but wow the ad breaks are horrible and so unconvincing ...annoying.”
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“Loved the voice over actors. Entertaining and intriguing!”
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United States of America ·
03/20/21
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