The Shell Lake Massacre

Such a sad, tragic story. The host did such a good job of telling the story in a respectful way, and did amazing research and interviewing.

I first heard this story when Brittany was interviewed on Wicked Words. I’d never heard the story before and Brittany does a masterful job of sharing the story of the Peterson family and who they were as people and a family.

Excellent. Love a podcast that has interviews with people involved.

Great story. I like that those who experienced the actual crime were featured via live interviews. Also, many formal historical articles, court docs, and police documents are read & discussed in their original script. Re the complaints about the voice: I wish the critics would try to acknowledge that preference plays a large role in this assessment. I have gave up many podcasts because of the narrator. If so, my complaint is usually that the voice is either monotonous or insincere/disingenuous. I was happy with the narrator on this podcast. One of my personal preferences is that the narrator sound like a ‘real person’ i. e., speaks as if we were having a personal conversation. That was the impression I got here, so it worked for me. I did not find it monotone - and I can be picky. The one tip I offer to the narrator: beta blockers. Her voice did reminded me of myself. Public speaking can cause anxiety (obviously). But for a small percentage of folks, this anxiety causes shakey voice; this then, might be mistaken for emotion. The narrator seemed to have this issue so I’d just say beta blockers solved the problem for me!