Mandy Matney is tired. It is late November, and she is finishing up the 69th episode of her podcast Murdaugh Murders, a true-crime investigation she began in 2019 and has evolved into a complex puzzle of unsolved deaths, insurance fraud, drugs, power and murder. The previous day, a jury in Charleston, South Carolina, delivered the first guilty verdict related to the case, and Matney was there to cover it. “It was super exciting, and really felt like a huge sigh of relief,” she says.
Hedley Thomas knows this feeling well. He experienced a similar vindication when his 2018 podcast series The Teacher’s Pet led to the conviction last year of former high school PE teacher Chris Dawson
