I’ve been following this carefully produced slow-burn documentary show for all three seasons. Season two resulted in the overturning of Curtis flowers conviction by the US Supreme Court, something that rarely happens. Should be the norm, but isn’t. I can’t say enough about Madeleine’s courage and doggedness to get the complete story. And, she reports clearly so that it’s easy to follow the trail with her team. Spellbinding.

Words cannot express my emotions about anyone who feels we are all not the same we are humans and just want a roof over our head feed our children and survive That’s a very basic list

Your thoroughness never ceases to amaze me! I am looking forward to the day such reports will be done in regard to the atrocities Hamas is inflicting on Gazans and Israelis since October 7!

Disgusting journalism, I’ll some up the pod for you so you can save some time. S1: Cops bad, pedophiles misunderstood great humans. S2: Cops bad, all criminals are wrongly convicted. S3: United States veterans bad, all people of Iraq are all good even the terrorist.

These soldiers may not have been punished by the government, but they have to live with what what happened everyday. I read a comment that experts were not interviewed and that the reporting was a hack job. These journalists interviewed more people than I can count, many experts in their fields. This is a heartbreaking story for everyone involved.

Leave it to the New Yorker to finish their piece about a child being kidnapped, raped and murdered by trying to get the audience to feel bad about the consequences that follow a sex offender. They wasted an ENTIRE episode on how hard it is for a sex offender to find a place to live that is not too close to a school. Are we serious? This person is a convicted sex offender and we are supposed to feel bad that they can’t live too close to a school?

Very good reporting, thorough research and fact gathering. Clearly a multi-year effort. Makes me think about all the podcasts that will surely come out documenting the war crimes and atrocities committed by the IDF against Palestinians. It’s tragic that we are unable to prevent these atrocities, only document them after the fact. But the truth still matters.

I started this podcast on a whim because I wanted something to listen to on a road trip. I binged through the seasons and now recommend it to everyone for the phenomenal investigative reporting.

All three seasons constitute some of the best crime journalism in the podcast space. The sound design is excellent to boot.

What a superwoman. Thank you for treating the story with the tactfulness Jacob deserved.

This is a well done podcast with true journalism providing details and facts on a two sided story. The US propaganda sickens me and the recordings of US Marines saying don’t worry, you’ll get to kill somebody soon! Doesn’t exactly sound like somebody protecting my freedom. Any ways, great reporting, thank you!

It took me a bit to get past that nothing will beat season 2, and not everyone can get held accountable. But with their amazing hard work and all of our ears, we have heard the other side of a trial that should have happened in 2005. Or better yet, none of this should have ever happened. I’m so sorry for the families and all the lost lives. Thank you for illuminating this story. And shame on all the reviews that are calling this “liberal”. It’s just the truth and sometimes it’s good to wake up.

So painfully beautiful of a story. Impressed at the persistence of this team. I cried.

Season 3 was another amazing, albeit devastating season. I don’t think I’ll ever forget this story. I hope the excavation of the truth brings at least a little comfort to the families of the Iraqi victims.

I’ve never been so moved by a podcast and cried so hard while listening. The racism and hate in this world is so upsetting. Thank you to the hosts for giving me a perfect example of how people in high places use the law for evil. If the DA or investigator ever read this: how does it feel to be so bad at your job that the Supreme Court has to step in and fix your utter evil ignorance? I hope you never sleep well again.

It was like listening to a bad high school report. Terrible reporting from one side. No current experts interviewed with the exception of ones that would support the slanted view of the reporters. This type of “investigative reporting” is what causes our society to be more concerned for the offender instead of the victim. Trying to apply knowledge and skills current investigators have to a crime several decades old and saying the officials failed and painting them in such a negative light is insane. But hey! According to episode 6 if we play with our kids and eat ice cream and live happy lives…nothing bad will happen! Asinine ideology.

Overall, a well thought out and researched story that brings to light the often extreme shortcomings of law enforcement. Gives listeners information and insight into how their local law enforcement may be performing and how to go about researching and asking questions of your community and local LE so a tragedy like this does not happen again. My only comment or concern is when discussing sex offender registration it seems like the viewpoint is to end offender registration. At no point do they note how young the “teenage” girls were that the man was trying to meet up with. Well, how young were they? 13? 15? 18? I don’t think I can excuse that type of behavior because it makes the offenders life difficult. Women and children are consistently abused and murdered in this country and around the world because (mostly) men get away with it. If you’d like to research the causes of pedophilia and what can be done to stop it, please do. But, until then, vulnerable people, especially children, should be protected as much as possible.

She speaks in perky three second bursts like an eleven year old. Almost impossible to concentrate on the content.

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S** Offender Sympathizer Absolutely should keep every single sex offender on a lifetime registry. You people clearly haven't been affected by these vile people, and your sympathy will eventually affect you someday. The fact that you people are trying to sympathize with a guy that tried to meet up with UNDERAGE CHILDREN for s** is astonishing DO BETTER.

All parents all law enforcement all child involved need a listen. The country can get a look at ejaculation vs childhood. Women and children shouldn’t play second to perversion.

Seems like the bias of anything in the main city of Hunger Games (aka NYC ) is consistently focused on hit piece journalism against men, military, christians, whites.————- You will never see Madeleine expose Zionism or why both parties heel to Israel or the Epstein island situation or bad effects of open borders …or the massive over representation of african american young male crimes, especially in the boroughs of NY. ——It is not allowed. ——-There is a cult in NYC. And “investigative journalism” is simply narrative reinforcing propaganda.

Obsessed with this I am binge listening. No words on how I feel

What an incredible piece of investigative journalism. My heart breaks for all the families in this story. The lack of humanity and accountability by the Marines, while not surprising, shows how the military dehumanizes people. I have no doubt that being in a war zone is stressful and people will make mistakes but this is not one of those instances and the survivors and families deserve justice.

No investigative podcast comes close. I have no idea why season 2 isn’t the most famous podcast season of all time. A podcast that caused action at the highest level of the judiciary. Especially considering the ending. You know, the thing Serial didn’t bother to include.

Everything tries to be Serial now, I don’t care about your feelings, your hard time finding a place, how long it takes you to get information requested. I don’t care about any of that. Just tell the story.

All three seasons were superb. What a fantastic team of people investigating these stories. There were times that I had to pause these stories as I was about to walk into an interview, a grocery store, or a coffee with a friend. The tears, the injustice, the details all made these podcasts incredible. Bravo to the team.

I am so impressed with this pod cast! Every aspect is outstanding,technical,reporting, research and delivery. Madeleine Baran is simply superb in this project. The kidnapping/murder case of Jacob Whetterling is investigated 27 yrs after the fact and gathered more evidence than the incompetent Sheriffs dept could have dreamed of at the time of the murder. Delving into the timeline of what was and wasn't done opens a further investigation into the history of horrible procedures by the Sheriffs office for decades. The shoddy investigation had me just saying OMG over and over. Update S2- Fell in love all over again. I’ve heard pods on Curtis Flowers but this…unparalleled. I wept thru the whole last episode. Madeleine has such a “listenable” story telling voice. Curtis sounds like Muhammad Ali!❤️

Title says it all. Dogged, relentless reporting of our institutions that uncovers the truth. But lest you think it’s some dry morality lecture series, the series also manages to be fascinating, and addictive, keeping you listening long after you said that’s the last episode. Do yourself a favor and binge the whole series right now.

Fair, professional, in-depth podcast looking at all the angles.

Some of the best, most dogged reporting I have ever heard. Just incredible work.

Season 3 was especially devastating and infuriating.

The negative reviews calling this podcast “liberal” are wild. I guess the “conservative” opinion is that the U.S. government should execute innocent black people and the US military should indiscriminately murder innocent children?

I was working on a huge project so I binged seasons 2 and 3 in a couple of days and wow. 1) excellent work in season 2 - your reporting brought much-needed attention to a grave injustice and helped save a man’s life. 2) I always knew the war on terror was really just a bunch of American kids dropping terror on foreign nations but it’s so much worse than that. Thank you for giving a voice to those families. One thing the really stood out in both seasons was that the people that hated you the most were/are guilty and perhaps downright evil.

Listening to this podcast after it was recommended on Death in Ice Valley, one of my favorite podcasts ever. This one was just as mind blowing and eye opening. I have so much respect to this team for shedding light on injustices that are happening today in this country, and for doing some good in the world! The show does cover some heavy stuff but if you enjoyed Serial I highly recommend it. No podcast is perfect or can please everyone, of course; still, they did an impressive amount of honest work and research- and that journalism helped to free an innocent man who had been on death row for decades. Incredible! I found it totally binge-worthy and deeply touching. Keep up the great work!

This podcast is good. I get a little tired of the host hounding the police in season 1. None of the current officers were even on the force back then. They can’t answer your questions. Does law enforcement need more training? Always. But if she thinks it’s so easy and they’re all so incompetent, by all means sign up .

Sorry, but you lost all credibility when you let The New Yorker in. A totally woke, biased rag of a magazine. Shame.

Every American should listen to gain some perspective on the true impact of the “war on terror”

Liberal podcast

I like the podcast very much but the constant pausing in the middle of sentences gets tiring. It’s like reading a speech vs telling a story.

This is one of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to. Season three was very hard to stomach, but I’m so glad some much needed light has been shed on these despicable crimes.

Three excellent-to-perfect seasons of exhaustively researched storytelling. This journalism literally freed a wrongly imprisoned man (season 2), not your average result. The negative reviews are a bit baffling; I get differing tastes but it mostly seems like some just don’t wanna hear things they don’t wanna hear.

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Excellently presented journalism and storytelling. Perfect. I don’t see how any person of empathy could listen to any of these Seasons and not be completely drawn in by the humanity that is portrayed in each. Perfection.

If you think being a Marine automatically makes anything you do justified you should reconsider what it means to be human. War is not an all access pass to kill babies or tell people they shouldn’t grieve over entire families dead. Honestly there are a lot of parts that I don’t think these reporters pushed hard enough. The lack of empathy from some of these men astonished me. Tears and grief over a man who chose to go to war (still justifies grief of course) but hardly a scoff for toddlers shot in the head. Americans need to get off their high horse and stop assuming that everything our military and government does is without blemish. This story needed to be told and it was. Anyone who assume that one’s placement in a country like Iraq automatically qualifies you as a terrorist, a liar, or otherwise will never be able to listen to something like this without bias to begin with. Being an American is hardly the greatest thing on earth and the quicker we stop acting like it is the better off we’ll be.

Seasons 1 and 2 were dramatic and life changing. Real journalism leading to real changes. For season 3, I at least take solace in the fact that the severity of PTSD that the perpetrators of the massacre definitely now have is so life-hindering that they are suffering the natural consequences of their actions. Even if those marines are complete sociopaths, incapable of empathy, I know the magnitude of their mental illnesses will ultimately take a physical toll on them. This is the only justice served in this case, unfortunately. So glad that handling of war crimes is even being discussed!

/ Episode length: 56 min. / Fluff + Ads ⭕️ ⬆️ : 7 min. / Avg time between ads: 14.00 min. / Based on episode: S3E6. ==========================

I’ll give it a fair listen. But it’s the New Yorker which is nothing but a liberal rag piece of . !

In the Jacob wetterling podcast they talk about the sex offender laws like they’re a bad thing, like sex offenders deserve anything less. Insane to me that anyone could have sympathy for a sex offender.