“After listening to the first episode & realizing that I was unaware of the case involving Catherine Boggle & her role in the disappearance of her 2 young children, I googled her & found she had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia prior to Sept. 2014 (when the incident occurred.) I was surprised that this hadn’t been mentioned by Sarah Treleaven in the episode I had just heard; instead, she was compared to Lori Vallow, whom Treleaven had profiled in a different podcast.
After an introduction by Treleaven, It is Troy Turner, the children’s father, whose voice is heard most in the first ep. & his audio is interspersed w/ audio of Boggle’s mother also discussing her background including a quick mention of a bipolar diagnosis when Boggle was a teenager. I was a bit shocked that a “journalist” like Treleaven would fail to mention that Boggle was diagnosed w/ paranoid schizophrenia while she was in high school & that continued to be her diagnosis when she was hospitalized in 2013. This is info is in news reports & court record easily found by a Google search.
I didn’t want to judge the whole podcast by the first ep so I listened to the second & third as well only to find this one-sided, sensationalist narrative continued though there was a single bit of audio from a professor who pushed back a bit. It perpetrated the harmful stereotype that some mentally ill people who commit crimes are malingering (faking it) so that they can be hospitalized instead of going to prison.”
kAtie5123 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/17/23