Murderville GA
Podcast
This podcast is about a wrongful conviction case. The murder took place in Georgia in 1998, in the midst of racial tension and false testimonies. The case is tragic because there are 4 murders in this town in 2 years but the person who was first convicted was convicted from no real evidence points to him. There is no DNA and he had an alibi, but he was also new to town and therefore suspicious.
The case itself is very interesting, the podcasters are too obvious though. They repeat information a lot and say dumb things that are well, obvious. I did like that it was short enough to listen to in a day because a lot of these kind of things draw it out and make it easy to forget what was previously talked about. It's only 8 relatively short episodes and they just state the facts and move on. I do think they focused too much on the second murder because they focused only on his race and his family's history. I know they were trying to bring up the racism that led to his case not being investigated as it should have been but they didn't need to take an hour talking about it. We know that there is racism in the south, it's kind of what they are known for (I love Georgia and even named my dog Savanah after the town.)
I was not impressed with the podcast but the story needs to be heard. I would look into Devonia Inman yourself without listening to this podcast. It's crazy though because they are both award winning journalists or maybe the company they work for is award winning? It's hard to tell without too much research and I'm not willing to put in that time.
This podcast is about a wrongful conviction case. The murder took place in Georgia in 1998, in the midst of racial tension and false testimonies. The case is tragic because there are 4 murders in this town in 2 years but the person who was first convicted was convicted from no real evidence points to him. There is no DNA and he had an alibi, but he was also new to town and therefore suspicious.
The case itself is very interesting, the podcasters are too obvious though. They repeat information a lot and say dumb things that are well, obvious. I did like that it was short enough to listen to in a day because a lot of these kind of things draw it out and make it easy to forget what was previously talked about. It's only 8 relatively short episodes and they just state the facts and move on. I do think they focused too much on the second murder because they focused only on his race and his family's history. I know they were trying to bring up the racism that led to his case not being investigated as it should have been but they didn't need to take an hour talking about it. We know that there is racism in the south, it's kind of what they are known for (I love Georgia and even named my dog Savanah after the town.)
I was not impressed with the podcast but the story needs to be heard. I would look into Devonia Inman yourself without listening to this podcast. It's crazy though because they are both award winning journalists or maybe the company they work for is award winning? It's hard to tell without too much research and I'm not willing to put in that time.
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