Murder in Illinois
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In 2007, Chris Vaughn was arrested during a funeral for his wife and three children. He would be tried and convicted of their murders. To this day he maintains no memory of what occurred that tragic day 20 years ago. Murder in Illinois follows the complicated circumstances that led to Vaughn’s conviction, as well as the forensic evidence his supporters believe proves his innocence- in attempt to answer one question: Who killed the Vaughn family?
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Some good/some bad
10/10/2022
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.
Rubbish
4 Jan
What a load of nonsense. He’s guilty no matter how much his family disliked the poor wife.
Listenable (if you skip through theme song) But Biased
18/01/2022
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.
Disgusting example of true crime profiteering off tragedy
04/09/2022
“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.
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