Murder In America

Really impressed with your Uvalde shooting coverage. It was respectful to the victims and facts. Thank you for doing it.

This podcast has no fluff and is thorough and interesting.

Huge paranormal files fan, finally getting into podcast & I just love talks soothing voice & real life in detail stories. Awesome show Colin. Everything you produce is with heart & soul.

I found MIA a couple of months ago and have been binging it religiously ever since. It’s obvious how much time, research, and passion Collin and Courtney put into creating this show. They cover fascinating cases (many famous ones, but also many obscure ones that deserve to be more widely known) and what I appreciate the most is how they put so much emphasis on humanizing the victims and survivors of violent crime. I think that some of the theatrical aspects were a bit over the top in the early episodes, but it’s clear that their editing and presentation have grown a lot over the years. Personally — though I know it might not appeal to everyone — I really love when they discuss the paranormal elements to certain cases, and that it’s handled with a lot of sensitivity. I’m not sure where the negative reviews about them only covering Texas cases are coming from, as they have hundreds of episodes spanning the entire country. (Texas also has a lot of high-profile cases that make for great fodder for a true crime podcast.) I also want to say something to the reviewers complaining incessantly about all of the ads in the show: I’m not sure if y’all know this, but ads are how podcasters and other content creators make money. And before you say that a podcast should be a passion project offered for free: do you have a any idea how much work it takes to make a quality podcast? All of the hours and days spent researching, writing, producing, and editing? Especially considering that most podcasters also have day jobs and other responsibilities? It is the height of entitlement to demand that content creators take no monetization for the labor of love that goes into making their product (and a podcast is a product) just so *you* don’t have to sit through ads, WHICH YOU CAN LITERALLY SKIP OVER. (The horror of taking 10 seconds to skip an ad! Oh, how terribly inconvenient!) If ads really bother you that much, you can join the Patreon and pay for the ad-free version. Otherwise, either don’t listen or find a way to deal with it like an adult, and stop devaluing the work of creators by demanding they work for free.