I share some of the concerns of others that this podcast is too partial to the side of innocence and the Vaughn family. However, I do think it’s a fact driven show for the most part and definitely makes any open minded person have some concerns over the conviction and investigation. It’s an interesting listen, well produced (apart from that weird song that sounds like a song a witch might sing in a Disney cartoon) but it had about 10 minutes of advertisements over a 30-40 minute episode so is had to immerse yourself into the show. Unfortunately something most I heart radio podcasts suffer from due to the amount of forced promotion.

What a load of nonsense. He’s guilty no matter how much his family disliked the poor wife.

The theme song is a hoot. Probably fine in another context but here it made me laugh every time I heard it because it’s so incongruous and sounds like madness! The first few episodes were relatively interesting but hearing only one half of the family perspective (the relatives of accused) felt deeply problematic. While the host makes much of the fact that the victim’s family were asked for comment, by airing one family’s biased and bizarrely judgemental views (goddamn ‘academics’) I felt that the general tone of the podcast was skewed from the start. The early episodes’ reliance on Chris’s family’s audio automatically gave unfair credence to their story. By the end it seemed the host was clutching at any tenuous evidence of Chris’s innocence in a way that felt like straw clutching in what I cynically read as an attempt to prolong the podcast.

“He couldn’t have done it because I saw his picture and he had nice eyes! So I decided to investigate his conviction”. Disgusting. Horrible podcast.

The podcast it’s such is pretty well done, as in I really enjoy long form podcasts, the case is very interesting too and one I hadn’t heard of before. However the victim bashing in it is heart breaking, EVEN if what this podcast claims to have happened actually happened, there no empathy at all, not a single kind word was said about the mother. Every tiny flaw the poor woman had was torn apart and as a mother with some of same flaws I actually found it scary to see how it has been used against her.

Love this podcast, well presented and researched

An absolutely superb podcast. A huge amount of effort has gone into exploring this tragic and deeply moving case and it should be heard. I am surprised at the current star rating because this is one of the most moving podcasts that I have listened to. I have read some of the poorer reviews and I feel that they are unfair and unjustified, the story is more than entertainment and needs to be viewed from that wider perspective without the necessity of a neat & tidy ending.

That’s about it.

Thanks for this podcast. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Really changed my opinion by the end! Would like follow up episodes as things progress?

Regardless of how enraged and/or hysterical some people have been about this podcast, and no matter how many times they say they *know* Chris Vaughn is guilty, they never cite actual evidence. Without leaving any additional spoilers, though due to previous reviews, the ship has long sailed on this being a wrongful conviction case, Lauren Bright Pacheco does look at the evidence. The evidence is clear, but I’ll leave people to hear that for themselves. Others simply skipping over the science, don’t actually change the facts by ignoring them. There’s a lot of feelings about Vaughan’s family. While I concede that they have never spoken to the media before, and therefore they and their opinions are in this podcast a lot, in fact it is fair to say there is far too much of them in this. The first five episodes are essentially all Vaughn family opinions, and I was bored and tried to get through this section quickly. I’d say if you missed an episode, or even two of this out, you’ll have missed nothing. It’s repetitive. If you are open-minded though, you can discover a fascinating case. I have to say he seemed very guilty to me at the start of this, but that’s before I found out that the cops and therefore the prosecution, didn’t have any real evidence, just a department of detectives that already had a horrible reputation for tunnel vision. And had been told to stop doing that. Unfortunately, this is yet another obvious case of that same tunnel vision. To summarise, this podcast, has clearly gotten a lot of attention and interest, from people who work in Innocence Projects, and others who work in other areas of wrongful conviction, and on behalf of those who have fallen foul of it. If it has piqued their interest, it is good enough to pique anyone’s. As I believe I’ve said, you just have to have an open-mind. There are way too many miscarriages of justice in the US, and the system of DAs being elected, is appalling and leads to too many miscarriages of justice. It really is a criminal *injustice system *, and it needs to change.