Deep Dives. Real Lives. Stories Told with Compassion.
California stories, told differently
People often ask why I started a true crime podcast. There are so many reasons that I sometimes struggle to put them into words. But somewhere along the way, I realized that simply collecting facts and explaining what happened wasn't enough. Facts can reconstruct a crime. They can establish a timeline, identify evidence, and tell us how a life ended. But they can't tell us what that life meant to the people who knew it. I wanted to start my podcast, not because I wanted to gather facts to explain what happened. I wanted to gather stories and memories so I could explain who was lost.
Beyond the Story
The People
Every case begins with a person, not a crime. Whenever possible, I look beyond the circumstances of someone's death or disappearance to the memories, relationships, and life that existed before it.
The Record
Good storytelling begins with good research. Episodes are built from court records, contemporary reporting, public documents, interviews, and other primary and reliable sources whenever available.
The Context
Crime doesn't happen in isolation. Understanding a case also means examining the systems, communities, relationships, and circumstances surrounding it.
The Voices
Some stories are best understood through the people who lived them. Interviews, firsthand perspectives, professional insight, and case suggestions can bring context to a story that records alone cannot provide.
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Latest Episode
Season 2, Episode 3
Betty Broderick: The Fall of the American Dream
In 1989, Betty Broderick entered the San Diego home of her ex-husband, Dan Broderick, and shot and killed him and his new wife, Linda. But the story that captured national attention was years in the making. A bitter divorce, a family unraveling, and two competing accounts of a marriage whose collapse became almost as fiercely contested as the crime itself.