Not sure about all you guys, but by the end of this I’m kinda glad Tim’s daughter got killed and I hope it was super painful. Also, I hope Tim dies in a diabolical way.

I like the episodes they put out, but the daily spam of “shows I might be interested in” from this feed is extremely annoying and clutters up my podcast app with nonsense, unsubscribing soon if it keeps up

All Kast shows have cratered.

So many wonderful creators in the space of podcasting, and this show cannot compete

I started listening to this because of the single episode stories, which I like. I tried the 5 episode season and couldn’t get past the third episode. If you’ve listened to true crime podcasts long enough, then you can tell when they’ve run out of stuff and are going to restate the exact same information over and over again. By the end of episode two I knew there wasn’t going to be any resolution, but I tried one more episode. Not worth it, just skip the first season and listen to the single episodes.

I got halfway through the Byron David Smith episode and then my podcast app crashed. I tried restarting it several times, but every time I opened the app it would crash. Finally managed to delete that episode and start another episode of another show and the app stopped crashing.

I feel like there was a lot of missing information in the Deer Hunter episode. There has to be more to the story than we were told.

The story did not need 5 parts, very slow as well, had to listen at 1.5 speed, so boring.

Love this show. It’s up there with Criminal for me.

I listen to podcasts for several hours each day while working, dog walking, chores, driving, etc and I have pretty high standards for production quality and content. I’m writing this review after listening to the story on Tim & his search and recovery organization. Pros: the intrigue of the story itself, production quality (minus a couple hard-to-hear phone convos), & the honesty and fairness of the host. She’s open about this being her first foray into ‘podcasting investigative journalism’ and I found myself both rooting for her and worrying for her alongside wondering what would happen next in the story. This made it refreshingly different than other true crime podcasts I listen to. In addition, I appreciated that there weren’t horrific, drawn-out descriptions of violence like in some other true crime podcasts. Finally, I felt that she delicately approached the conundrum of Tim’s approach to his work… yes, he’s doing much-needed work that helps others, but sometimes that’s at the risk of putting his own people in danger. This is, I feel, a fair assessment on the part of the host. I don’t think she’s being unnecessarily harsh when she questions Tim’s methods. After all, don’t we want an investigative reporter to question everything to some extent? Cons: we didn’t hear the “assumed serial killer’s” side of the story BUT the host disclosed valid concerns - the most important being safety (+1 for trusting your gut). In addition, Clyde wasn’t very honest on the phone so it’s difficult to believe an in-person meeting could be any more informative. BUT I did find the incredible amount of “missing evidence” to be very perplexing…. I wish the host would have investigated that further. How could a police department be so incompetent that they lost multiple pieces of evidence? I started wondering if the medical examiner himself could have be involved, stealing evidence for “trophies.” The fact that he took the evidence home with him is so bizarre. Honestly the failures of law enforcement in this story probably provide enough content for a whole podcast of its own. Re: content for future episodes, might be worth looking into the shockingly large volume of missing and murdered indigenous women.

I really, really tried to like this podcast. But the Tim bashing behind his back and thinking he was trying to get her to do his “dirty work” by confronting Clyde missed the mark. What’s worse is it seemed like a convenient excuse for her not to interview him. As a journalist, it hurts my soul that she passed up an open offer for an interview with this guy. Meet with him at a busy park or a Starbucks or something and take along some pepper spray. I doubt he’d try to murder you mid-interview. If you can’t do the hard investigative work, then you can’t call yourself an investigative journalist and certainly won’t make it as a P.I.

I think my friend Maníge Blackburn would make a hilariously satisfying season. She’s like a Jack of all vigilantes, but harmless and petty to the extreme 🤣Anyways! Love the show!

Really liked the show and the hosts reporting. But like many of the other reviews have said, the ads are terribly placed throughout the show. Placing an ad mid-sentence is pretty low quality production work. I’ve noticed this on other Kast media shows as well. While I would love to subscribe to the show and have no ads, there isn’t enough content/shows I have found from Kast that I can justify the cost. Therefore, I just skip over the ads as they come. I just wish they were cut into the show better than they are currently.

3 episodes in and absolutely drawn into Tim world . Some really great reporting.

Interesting content, easy listen

The volume and the timing of ads is so jarring that I’ve stopped listening to episodes. I get that you need to get paid but most decent podcasts let you know when they’re going to add and don’t do so in the middle of a sentence.

Hi, This is an outstanding podcast, but unfortunately there is a persistent editing flaw. In the middle of heady, emotional conversations, there is an interruption of jarring, upbeat ads. These occur mid-sentence. I’m a huge podcast fan, and I have yet to listen to a podcast that messes up ad placement in this matter. Please, edit in the ads properly!

Just in the middle of a sentence boom LOUD AD. So frustrating. Have some respect for your listeners.

Host was extremely self-important and smarmy, which completely took away from the show. I was interested in hearing about a man who would go to any length to find a killer, but this ended up sounds like the host had a personal vendetta against him and wanted to make a slam piece. This show was centered around people who lost loved ones, try to be a little more respectful and humble.

Super interesting, host is a great journalist. Blown away by the Tim Miller reporting. Fascinating man and great coverage of his life and his work. Looking forward to more episodes. Thank you!

The stories may be interesting, but the host sounds depressed. Couldn’t get through the first couple of episodes.

I love this podcast so much! It’s so smooth, and the perfect length as well! Y’all did such an amazing job, and I can’t wait to listen to every episode!!!

Stop what you’re doing. Subscribe. Listen. Thank you.

Over-hyped and anti-climactic.

Loved the podcast and appreciated that the Podcaster kept and open viewpoint.

I really enjoy this podcast. The stories are interesting. I really like that the episodes are “just right” length for how long it takes me to get to work.

Holy smokes! This is a great podcast. I’ve binged the entire first season and one snowy afternoon. I cannot wait until the second season.

Confusing and sensationalized. The story just isn’t that great, despite the host trying to make it more interesting and dramatic than it really is. Ultimately nothing is resolved and there is no real end to this story.

YOOOOOO, this Allie Conti host is a G!!! Do you like True Crime Podcasts? Me neither! But please understand: this podcast is an anomaly of unique findings, and Allie Conti executes this thing with formidable panache! This podcast is aligned with what is probably the Greatest Color Combination of All Time: BLACKANDYELLOWBLACKANDYELLOW!!!! If THAT doesn’t sway you, then I don’t know what will! G’s 4 LYYYYYFFFFEEE!!!

Great podcast. Kept me on my toes!

You sound like you are BORED TO DEATH reading your script….your voice drops at the end of every sentence. So depressing to listen to!!!

I understand that the reporter was scared of the man accused of being a serial killer and that he was most definitely not a good dude, BUT if the story was too scary for her, she shouldn’t have done it at all. Instead, she worked as a tool for Tim Miller, concluding at the end that there was undeniable proof that the accused was guilty. She did not give the accused the opportunity to contradict that. Nor did she present the possibility that Tim was lying or that he has told the “witness” details specific to the case that not everyone knew. As these sort of podcasts become more common, I think it’s really important that we require journalists to abide by ethical standards and in my assessment, this journalist did not.

After listening to this podcast, I keep hearing ads for it and they infuriate me. One reviewer called it click bait, and that's exactly what it is. Talk about anticlamactic. I only listened because I thought they must be building up to the interesting stuff. Nope. There are so many good podcasts, don't bother with this one.

Was annoyed by the amateur host. A lot of whining. We all get you don’t like Tim.

The series about Tim and his daughter - it started off interesting but then the last three episodes just basically regurgitate the first two episodes. The biggest aspect of this would be a conversation with the prime suspect yet the host wrote it off as being too dangerous. To investigate a disappearance (multiple disappearances ) of women, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t accept this as part of it. Why go down this path if you’re not willing to speak to all those involved? Just doesn’t make sense to me from an investigative, journalistic perspective.

Kind of misleading because, all the podcast listed in your bio you say you are similar to…. You are a combination of all their worst qualities. The mindless drivel & pointless banter is worse than the last Podcast On The Left and I was a diehard morbid fan, but I just can’t listen to them anymore now that they have just completely stopped caring about the work that they put out so I was on the hunt for a new podcast… & I guess I will have to keep looking

So anticlimactic, pointless and boring. Ads are really misleading.

The trailer for this podcast is extremely misleading. It implied that the father was evil & she was in danger. I’m on episode three & I’m still waiting for actual suspense. Random people are talking, there’s zero context of who they are, nothing is being explained. I hear her say “they may be on to a serial killer” & I’m dumbfounded because I’d yet to hear a coherent thought about the work up to anything at all - just people talking. I guess listeners are supposed to figure out what’s going on themselves by taking notes and drawing diagrams on the wall connected with string. I got to part of episode three and I’m done.

Gary Jefferson Byrd psychiatrist in Houston Texas. Convicted pedofile

This podcast sounded great in the ads but after listening to it, I promise you it’s not what it claims to be. The hosts life is never in danger. Tim basically decides he doesn’t want to work with her when she won’t go talk to Clyde, the prime suspect. She acts like tim is manipulative or setting her up or something when he seems to want the journalist to be a journalist and interview people. The FBI guy is like interviews are the most important way to solve cold cases and the host is like “nothing could possibly be gained by interviewing the prime suspect.” And look Tim seems absolutely crazy but like rightly so and maybe try getting into the why of that instead of just trying to make him look bad when he hoped you were going to help him solve his daughter’s death. There is a good podcast in this subject matter: Tim destroying innocent people’s lives when he got it wrong; why the ME hid so much; why so many women and girls were going missing in this area in the 80’s. The evidence that supports Clyde’s guilt. But none of those were the podcast we got. Instead we got a made up drama about fake threats and repetitive story telling.

Tim sounds not just “maybe, sort of, a little unethical.” He sounds like a manipulative, vicious con. He rallied the whole town against an innocent man until that man died by suicide. And then Tim just moved on to someone else. He repeatedly bullies and manipulates people out of their homes or into doing dangerous things for his own single-minded gain. You say he’s done good in the world with his search and rescue volunteers, but prove it. You get all the information from him and his acolytes which could easily be confabulation. And is Destiny happy being someone’s “part-time girlfriend?” Ugh. I am not saying the police were effective, but no wonder they hate him. He doesn’t do anything admissible in court. He sets out to prove his theories, not consider all possibilities and let the evidence lead. How do we know he didn’t plant all that evidence he and Destiny “found” in the house he stole out from under Gladys? Of course the police would tell victim families not to talk to him, he winds people up against whomever Tim has decided to blame. That scene with the necklace and the victim’s family member was despicable. She didn’t recognize it, but gets all choked up believing it was familiar. It was like watching a psychic do a cold reading on someone primed to believe the psychic is really speaking to their dead relative. This mystery guy with a confession placing Clyde as the ringleader who comes out of the woodwork in perfect timing at the end just when the host is wrapping up (Tim is about to lose her attention!)—and whom Tim is helping TO GET IMMUNITY— so he can pin it on Clyde? Does no one else smell a frame job? Since when does Clyde work with accomplices? I can just hear Tim telling this guy “I’ll pay you out of the money we get from suing Clyde and the prosecutor will listen to me and give you immunity from being charged. You just have to say you were there and saw Clyde do it. And don’t forget to mention the shirt. The shirt will be especially convincing to the podcast host who eats up everything I say.” This show is all over the place, but doesn’t complete any of its tasks/goals. It is sort of a profile of Tim, but only half skeptical. It is definitely NOT an investigation of the original murders, because it doesn’t delve deep enough. The women victims are barely touched on. And this isn’t an investigation into the handling of the original investigation since the majority of what we get is from Tim, who is biased. I’m sorry I listened.

Good good

Love it

I really wanted to like Vigilante, but the story just felt very bland. It felt very similar to Criminal and Serial but lacked a lot of the heart and story telling. I genuinely listened to the final episode twice and do not understand “how he solved his daughters murder?” The final episode had no build up to the climax, no drama, no excitement..

Alli did a very good job of staying objective and not being pulled into Tim’s world while still telling a great story.

Content is interesting and well researched. Narrated well.

Just started listening to Vigilante. Definitely hooked. This is the kind of true crime podcast I really enjoy. Hope I can find more just like it.

A must listen! Great reporting, great narration, and professionally produced! Love it all!

i was hopeful. very interesting story. the podcast wasnt put together well. repeating the same clips again and again and again. i like the host's voice but just didnt do a good job telling the story. change the music too.

Allie’s journalistic style is not the problem. This is a very stick-to-the-facts podcast in terms of description of the crime and narrative context, but she has a flair for the dramatic when she claims her life was at risk when Tim proposes she interview Clyde in person. As is the case with so many true crime podcasts, the victims of the crime at the root of the story are erased from this story. The central character is Tim, although we don’t delve deeply into how his grief has shaped and derailed his life. In fact, the listeners are led to believe Tim has found his calling because his daughter was killed—vigilantism and decades of plotting and retribution. It’s a weird take.