Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw Mystery

I Think the man wearing the hat Low over his eyes who was seen in the parking lot that morning was the gay lover. I think he did it!

The podcast started off ok, and I feel for Anthea and her family, but an exploration into how trauma may have also affected Jeff’s behavior in the months and years that followed would have led to more comprehensive storytelling. Instead, the podcast builds an unconvincing case against Jeff and then takes the listener on a strange journey of harassing him as various reporters follow Jeff onto trains and into public bathrooms (c’mon…) and ambushing him in various other ways decades after the still unsolved murder took place. Jeff’s not wanting to participate in this type of gotcha-reporting is not surprising and certainly not evidence of guilt, and neither is the family’s tremendous pain. Heartbreaking all around, but the podcast left me feeling icky.

Seems like Anthea and Jeff were very close; best friends before married. Seems like Anthea wasn’t a volatile person. That said imagining she would have been fairly understanding if Jeff revealed his homosexuality albeit understandably possibly initially upset that he hadn’t fessed up before the marriage. Makes more sense to me a jealous homosexual lover. Jeff may have not wanted to reveal that possibility as it would implicate him as possibly being complicit in the murder and gotten him criminally charged at minimum under Brunei homosexual laws.

Why is an Australian podcast playing so many American propaganda commercials?! It’s so distracting from the story