As a writer and interviewer, I am always excited about talking to interesting people. When they are also extremely genuine and pleasant—like Yeardley Smith, co-host and co-producer of Small Town Dicks—it’s just icing on the cake. Even though I had just met her, Yeardley made me feel like we were
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In my recent features, I’ve covered the fusing of Politics and True Crime and Business and True Crime in podcasts, so why not Sports and True Crime? As it turns out, when
Not all true-crime stories need to be gruesome, kicking off with something
With the holidays upon us, many of us look deeper at our
What happens when one of the primary suspects in a murder case pleads guilty in the middle of the production of season two of your podcast that is solely based on that
Some people really love true crime… so much so, it becomes more than a category to listen to while walking your dog or a TV show to watch some nights before
Is the world predominantly good with pockets of evil, or evil with sprinkles of good here and there? I’m just a civilian, but with the work I do in the law-enforcement community
Sometimes, podcasts cross categories. The Great Fail succeeds at doing so well! At first, you may think you are listening to a typical true-crime podcast, with openings such as “In March
In May, many of us celebrate both Mothers’ Day and Police Week. That makes this feature particularly special, and why I chose to highlight Angeline Hartmann—mom, Emmy-award-winning broadcast journalist, and host of
When I was a kid and snuck a sip of my mom’s martini, I hated it. “It’s an acquired taste,” she told me. Ironically, that’s how I feel about Martinis &
In a number of true-crime enthusiast circles, Sword and Scale is one of the podcasts that continually comes up in conversation. This is far from surprising since its creator, Mike Boudet, has
Many people, myself included, will point to Derek Chauvin as the exception—not the example—of a police officer today. Having worked with law enforcement for nearly two decades, I can tell you
The release of this issue of Podcast Magazine® falls between two significant calendared events: Police Week in May and Father’s Day in June. Although the in-person activities of Police Week have been
What do you call a white-collar criminal who crosses into an even deeper level of evil by murdering his victim as well? You call him a red-collar criminal! That is the
