Ogie Ogilthorpe
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Usually for daily driving I've got a handful of sports podcasts that I listen to but for the longer road trips, hunting trips, weekend getaway driving, I try to turn to longer run items to kill longer periods of time. I'm a bit of a true crime buff and I've found a couple that have been just fascinating, at least to me.
First one I found was what I believe is the first season of "Serial", which details and does a deep dive into the story of Adnan Syed, the HS student in Maryland that was convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1999. He's still in prison for it. Very well done, I think HBO did a special on it as well; to this day, I still couldn't tell you if he did it or not but I lean towards that there was not enough evidence to convict.
I did start and get through most of a second story under the "Serial" umbrella that was good but not as good about a girl that was murdered in northern Canada, an indian girl if I recall correctly. The most glaring thing I took from that one is just how racist the Canadians appear to be towards the native Americans, truly a second class citizen, which didn't help the effort in the investigation.
The one I'm currently plowing through is "Culpable", which details the story of Christian Andreacchio, a 21-yr old man who allegedly committed suicide in Mississippi in 2014. This one is completely fascinating, how this was ruled a suicide is maddening, and I wouldn't be surprised someday if this one gets solved as a homicide. The amount of evidence that indicates homicide/murder over suicide is substantial. I haven't finished it yet, although I did a quick search when I was about halfway through it to see where it was at and two of the people who aren't directly implicated but are certainly shown to have very well known more about it than they're saying have filed a massive $47M defamation lawsuit against the podcast creators.
Both of these are really well done and I'm constantly amazed at the amount of legwork and investigation effort that the narrators/creators of each one have done. The only downside to any of these is that if you're the kind of person who wants closure at the end of a good long story, it sucks that they are essentially unresolved. But if you're looking for something to keep you occupied on a good long drive, I think they have been fascinating.
I'm sure there are a number of other good ones out there? I've downloaded a couple others that got good reviews but I don't do that many 3-4+ hour road trips in a given year, especially driving solo, to get that much opportunity.
EDIT: Sorry, the one based in Canada that I mentioned was a "Someone Knows Something" podcast, not "Serial".
First one I found was what I believe is the first season of "Serial", which details and does a deep dive into the story of Adnan Syed, the HS student in Maryland that was convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1999. He's still in prison for it. Very well done, I think HBO did a special on it as well; to this day, I still couldn't tell you if he did it or not but I lean towards that there was not enough evidence to convict.
I did start and get through most of a second story under the "Serial" umbrella that was good but not as good about a girl that was murdered in northern Canada, an indian girl if I recall correctly. The most glaring thing I took from that one is just how racist the Canadians appear to be towards the native Americans, truly a second class citizen, which didn't help the effort in the investigation.
The one I'm currently plowing through is "Culpable", which details the story of Christian Andreacchio, a 21-yr old man who allegedly committed suicide in Mississippi in 2014. This one is completely fascinating, how this was ruled a suicide is maddening, and I wouldn't be surprised someday if this one gets solved as a homicide. The amount of evidence that indicates homicide/murder over suicide is substantial. I haven't finished it yet, although I did a quick search when I was about halfway through it to see where it was at and two of the people who aren't directly implicated but are certainly shown to have very well known more about it than they're saying have filed a massive $47M defamation lawsuit against the podcast creators.
Both of these are really well done and I'm constantly amazed at the amount of legwork and investigation effort that the narrators/creators of each one have done. The only downside to any of these is that if you're the kind of person who wants closure at the end of a good long story, it sucks that they are essentially unresolved. But if you're looking for something to keep you occupied on a good long drive, I think they have been fascinating.
I'm sure there are a number of other good ones out there? I've downloaded a couple others that got good reviews but I don't do that many 3-4+ hour road trips in a given year, especially driving solo, to get that much opportunity.
EDIT: Sorry, the one based in Canada that I mentioned was a "Someone Knows Something" podcast, not "Serial".
