Episodes
Published 04/11/22
The Clearing introduces Crime Show, a new podcast from Gimlet that features stories of crimes, told by the people who lived them. In this episode, a social worker doesn’t hear from a client that she had placed at a boarding house. When she investigates, she discovers that her client isn’t the only one who is missing. To listen to more episodes of Crime Show, head to http://gimlet.media/crime-show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 06/09/21
It’s 1987, and the Chippendales dancers are packing nightclubs across America with their sold-out male exotic dance shows. As crowds of women scream for the mullets, the spandex, and the tans … a shocking event about to change the course of the brand and its booming business forever.  This is a sneak peek of Episode 1 of Welcome to Your Fantasy. To hear full episodes, every week, follow and listen for free at spoti.fi/WelcomeToYourFantasy.
Published 02/10/21
From The Clearing host Josh Dean comes a new show about one of the most incredible and baffling true crime stories in recent memory. For the past year, Dean, along with National Magazine Award winning journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis, has been unraveling the so-called Hollywood Con Queen scam—which has baited hundreds of Hollywood gig workers into flying to Indonesia for a movie project that doesn't exist. Listen to an extended clip from the show here, and then join them on the hunt for the...
Published 10/09/20
From the producers of The Clearing comes a new show about a very different kind of crime. Pineapple Street Studios and BuzzFeed News have teamed up to bring you this five-part series investigating how the most powerful banks in the world can facilitate the worst of humanity – terrorism, human trafficking, the drug trade – all in plain sight of the government. The next episode of Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files is available right now wherever you listen to The Clearing.
Published 09/24/20
It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall just fell. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. And the soundtrack to the revolution is one of the best selling songs of all time, the metal ballad “Wind of Change,” by the Scorpions. Decades later, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumor: the song wasn’t written by the Scorpions. It was written by the CIA. This is his journey to find the truth. Wind of Change is an Original Series from Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify.
Published 05/18/20
When John Quinney was ten years old, he took the stand to testify against his own father. He had come to believe that his dad Melvin was the murderous leader of a satanic cult. It would be decades before John would learn that his family was just one of many swept up in a panic that gripped America in the 1980s—one in which hundreds of people were accused of taking part in underground satanic cults that sacrificed infants and sexually abused children. By the time the panic had subsided, scores...
Published 02/25/20
On a farm in Wisconsin, April sees some good.
Published 08/29/19
April finds a connection in Akron, OH.
Published 08/22/19
How to solve a murder and why you probably won’t. 
Published 08/15/19
What else could Ed Edwards have done?
Published 08/08/19
Confronting the myth of Ed Edwards.
Published 08/01/19
How one murder case turned into three. 
Published 07/25/19
Who the hell was Edward Wayne Edwards anyway?
Published 07/18/19
April reads a news story and everything changes. 
Published 07/18/19
Listen to the first two episodes of The Clearing starting July 18. When April Balascio was 40 years old, something she’d feared for decades was finally proven true. Her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, really was a murderer. The Clearing is about what came after April called a detective in 2009 to tell him about her suspicions — a call that led to her father’s arrest and eventual conviction on multiple murders — and tracks the emotional journey as she and host Josh Dean dig back into her...
Published 07/17/19
When April Balascio was 40 years old, something she’d feared for decades was finally proven true. Her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, really was a murderer. The Clearing is about what came after April called a detective in 2009 to tell him about her suspicions — a call that led to her father’s arrest and eventual conviction on multiple murders — and tracks the emotional journey as she and host Josh Dean dig back into her childhood, unravel the truth of her father’s life, and overturn a viral...
Published 07/03/19