Mandy Matney’s Murdaugh Murders and Hedley Thomas’s The Teacher’s Pet have recently seen the subjects of their investigations jailed. But why are podcasts doing the work of police, and can the legal system keep up?
. What made you move into podcasting and what has the medium given you that print does not?I wanted to do a podcast ever since I listened to the first episode of Serial; I was probably 25 at the time, I was young in my career. I listened to that episode and it just changed my idea of storytelling, and changed the way that I thought about journalism.
And basically, I cared so much about getting the story straight. I realised that true-crime podcasts are super popular, and I realised that my work in print journalism was not going to reach the number of people that my competitors would, no matter what I did. I thought: “If I don’t do it, somebody else will, and they’re going to do it the wrong way.”I too had listened to Serial, and I felt it was compelling but also frustrating at times.
This case of Lynette Dawson’s disappearance was the one that I really had been troubled by since 2001. I first reported on it as a much younger newspaper reporter. And it struck me as a likely case of murder involving a man who’d become completely obsessed, infatuated with this teenage schoolgirl whom he moved into the house to be the family’s babysitter.
The other thing with podcasting that’s been so overwhelmingly positive is just the reach that you can get with in-depth journalism. I mean, I worked in newspapers before but I have never seen this reach, or people that pay such serious attention to every detail of a one-hour podcast. People really do care about this, and they’ll get behind you and root for you.
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