Murder at Ryan's Run: exposing the cult of John Africa

If you are looking for a podcast about the Move cult, this one is light years better than the propaganda other podcast.

I binged both seasons. Excellent research and storytelling. Lots of new information about the MOVE organization, which I assumed was non existent after 1983. I highly recommend for crime lovers and true story enthusiasts. This is a crazy story that has been told from many perspectives, but this is a fresh, well researched angle at the cult in its current form. It was great to get firsthand account from the former group members who escaped before it was too late! Kudos for their inspirational bravery.

This podcast should be receiving a lot more attention and wider listenership. If you believe in BLM, social justice, and simply justice in general, you should be following this story. After decades of gaslighting and intimidation from this cult, and the complicity of police and government officials, the truth is finally coming out. And it’s more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Listen, and tell your friends.

I’ve learned a lot about MOVE since I found the blog and first listened to the podcast, but this podcast has such little sense of nuance. They tend to very passively describe the atrocities that happened against MOVE in favor of a sympathetic portrayal of the racist and violent Philadelphia police department and (in)justice system. We can at once recognize that MOVE was in fact a cult—an abusive and sociopolitically backwards one at that—without undermining the systemic racism and anti-blackness that motivated the coordinated attack against MOVE and Osage Ave. Additionally, as an Anthropologist/Ethnogropher I take issue with the hosts inability to discern violence and abuse from peculiar cultural differences, she often takes a sensationalist tone and it’s uncomfortable. While I appreciate how crucial these stories are, the platform this podcast has given ex-MOVE members, the host was NOT the right person to tell this story. In short: this podcast is socially narrow minded and it’s giving liberal cop apologist. Informative and Disappointing.