10 episodes
Vigilante Opportunist
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- True Crime
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3.9 • 113 Ratings
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Vigilante is a podcast about regular people who take justice into their own hands - for better, or for worse. Hosted by Sara James McLaughlin.
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Marvin Heemeyer: The Killdozer
Marvin Heemeyer was nearing his breaking point after a decade-long battle with his local zoning commission.
He believed they were conspiring against him.
Heemeyer demanded justice, and in an effort to secure the justice he believed he deserved, he turned to an armored bulldozer and terrorized his local community. -
Varnamtown! Available Now!
Two years ago, Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, called investigative journalist Joshua Davis with a strange story. Kyle had heard a rumor that Pablo Escobar did a deal in the early 1980s with a remote, coastal Southern town of 300 people. In exchange for vast wealth and limitless cocaine, Escobar would be allowed to land planes and ships in the area. Over the last 24 months, Josh and Kyle investigated the rumor, journeying to Varnamtown to knock on doors and find out what really happens when a firehose of money and cocaine is turned on a small, tight knit community.
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Scambaiters: A Brilliant Game
"In a weird, f****d up way, you're doing good."
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Chaim Levin: The Plaintiff
"They were thriving on the secrecy. The secrecy was their currency."
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Tim Miller: Epilogue
Host Allie Conti joins Hannah Smith (The Opportunist) in conversation about the making of Vigilante, season one.
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Customer Reviews
Had high hopes
I thought this started off well, but I was really turned off by the host insinuating that it was Tim’s fault that a suspect took his own life. I’ve also never heard a journalist talking so much about being afraid, and in this case, it seems very unfounded.
Well done!
I enjoyed the story and also the music interludes. There’s some dark humour to keep things fresh! Very entertaining.
5/10
It started good as others have stated. I felt like episode 4 and 5 felt a bit phoned in. Lots of wasted time I thought when the podcaster rambles on about whether or not to interview a key character in the podcast and then ultimately decides not to, for what seems like pretty convoluted reasoning on her part.