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“I’ve enjoyed most of the podcasts on The Binge and assumed this would’ve been the same. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I can understand a young journalist making mistakes. But decades later, that same journalist sits with men who describe that same serial killer as “a great guy to talk to” and says nothing. His leering delivery sounds like he’s on TMZ. But it’s the exploitation of Donna, the killer’s daughter, that is truly gross.
There are ways to interview victims. It’s not going thru their personal effects while you’re in the car, sounding accusatory when discussing Donna sending her dad a Valentine when she was a CHILD, and making her relive and recite her father’s sick fantasies about her.
This journalist was harder on the daughter of a serial killer than he was on the serial
Killer or any of the officials who surrounded him. (Not a single follow up question to a medical examiner who performed an autopsy on the burial site in the middle of the woods??)
The whole podcast feels like the journalist feels like he made a mistake with his original reporting in the 70s. But instead of doing any real introspection, he just looks for ways that he can be positioned as the good guy. This might have been good if there was someone pushing back instead of whatever this is.”
Nina the slackmistress via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/05/24
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“I can’t think of anything I’d consider good about this podcast. The writer uses the excuse of being young in the beginning but I didn’t understand his excuse for the rest. The gross details he put the killers daughter through. That Poor woman! Nobody felt any sympathy for her. But boy, everyone...”Read full review »
StinaMasFina via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/14/24
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“They give you 2 episodes for free to hook you, then put the rest behind a paywall. I won’t even bother listening to any of it now. Not even to see if it’s worth it.
I’m happy to support podcasters, but tricks like this have me running for the door. Either give people the whole series for free or...”Read full review »
Jo D38 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/28/24
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“I really just did not like this podcast at all and I hate that I am constantly hearing ads for it that remind me of the time I wasted on it. This guy claims to be friends with a serial killer just to say at the end that he wishes he never called him a friend… but they weren’t ever friends… He...”Read full review »
Stiener39 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/14/24
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