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A very interesting and tragic story, well researched and thoughtful.
Two quick cons: I totally understand why podcasts need advertisers but it’s really a lot in these short episodes. I also wonder a bit about the title “broken harts”? Is it worth the pun given this painful story?
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I had never heard this story despite my affection for true crime podcast. I am so glad I found it and I do believe it fits the genre of true crime because these two women were criminal in their actions against the children. Without a doubt this is an American tragedy. Great job well worth your time and may I say to some degree it’s perspective changing.
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wondering why i’m getting commercials interrupting every single iheart show when i have an active subscription? ads make it v. difficult for me to remain focused on a podcast and stay engaged with the content. i’m happy to pay to avoid them and to support this channel’s continued work. but with so many ads, what am i paying for?
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Thank you for your great journalism and ability to tell the whole yet unbiased story of their lives. It is tragic and heartbreaking and sadly true the foster system and this podcast brings this to the forefront again and hopefully can spark some positive change
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I listen to a lot of true crime, mostly the traditional podcasters that tell about a whole case within an hour to an hour and a half with occasional two parters, but I’m not against podcasts that focus entirely on one case. Seeing an investigative journalist explore different angles that law enforcement may have missed, have conversations with friends and family, and get into the deep issues that led to tragedy can make for a great podcast and an eye opening experience.
This is not that podcast and you don’t have to get political to say how bad it is.
This case could’ve been told in two episodes at most. The way it is laid out, it feels as though the narrators were going for a traditional telling of the story. This is what the world saw, this is the truth, and finishing with the tragic conclusion. The problem is they are all over the place. By episode seven I could no longer tell where the story was in the timeline of events. They spend the first four episodes painting these women as misunderstood or tragic heroes. Let’s be clear, these two monsters tortured and murdered children. I don’t care what their sexualities or personal ideologies were. The podcasters seemed to be trying to portray how their friends and family didn’t realize what was going on behind the scenes because of how perfect they seemed on the surface, but to us listeners, it really does come off as being overly defensive of the Hart women.
The interviews add little to nothing. Most of the people have nothing more to say then, “they seemed nice, but there were some weird things in hindsight.” I kept waiting for deep dives into the psychology of the women, their relationship, the abuse the children endured, etc. This podcast doesn’t really care about that though. By episode seven I wasn’t sure where the podcast was going and was even becoming confused on details that had been established up to that point.
Ultimately this podcast is a gross injustice to the children that were murdered, glossing over their suffering as almost a secondary subject. It confuses the listener about the timeline and details regarding the case, with interviews that add little, if any, extra information. I find myself asking why was this made? To defend two women that murdered six black children? Not a position I would want to take. To talk about what role society could’ve had in this? They don’t delve nearly enough into the personal psychology of the women for us to say how much of it was their fault or enough into the issues personally experienced by the family for us to have that conversation. Were they trying to tell the story of a horrific tragedy? Again, I’m more confused about the details of the case now then when I started.
Whatever the podcasters were going for here, they dropped the ball. I don’t see any reason to continue listening and will probably avoid their work going forward.
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The fact that they labeled this murder as a “rational decision” is mindboggling. At the beginning, the hosts seem to be unbiased and neutral. However, as the story progresses, they empathize more and more with the murderous adoptive parents. This podcast did not do the children justice.
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