City of Lights

City of Lights

Willy Nast

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CubeRobsSoul 03/27/2026
★★★★★
This is what is not often told or told in this way in most true crime podcasts. The real story of what happens to the family and what they go through after a loved one is murdered. And especially if the case goes unsolved. Very compelling well told journey over almost 20 years.
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Gwennlex 04/20/2026
★★★★★
Willy Nast’s moving exploration of the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable grief and loss will leave you feeling surprisingly hopeful. Al and Mary Ann are extraordinary people whose strength in sharing their story may help others dealing with loss. Hopefully, someone listening to this podcast who knows something about what happened to their son Jeff will come forward. The history of Aurora, IL discussed in this podcast is also fascinating. Highly recommend!
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Randy Richardson 02/16/2026
★★★★★
A deeply reported, compassionate podcast that looks beyond the crime to explore grief, community, and the long shadow of gun violence. Thoughtful, unsettling, and quietly powerful.
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Yiya Zulu 03/21/2026
★★★★★
Willy Nast did a wonderful job in telling the story of Jeff, his parents and the City of Aurora. I was captivated and feel he did everyone justice in telling how it all went. Highly recommended!!
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M. Lives 05/07/2026
★☆☆☆☆
There is an excellent podcast buried in here. In a sea of true crime podcasts, we don’t see enough of the after effects; the family of the victim struggling and confused, turning to activism (in this case, only to be denied by the very community they’ve served), never truly finding closure.

We’ve seen podcasts that call out and shake corrupt systems, and certainly that would also be welcome here.

Instead, the author had no idea what kind of podcast to make, so focused on himself and his own journey instead, and it’s insufferable as well as unethical, as well as not particularly interesting. The last episode is even dedicated to forcing the previous episodes on the victim’s parents and critiquing their responses to him, including the mother who had just had surgery (!!!). The case is still unsolved and naturally they’ll do anything to promote awareness of it, which only makes it more infuriating that the author spends so little time actually on it.

More time is given to his own favorite authors and hemming and hawing about ethics than the victim’s actual murder.

This case deserves attention, and if this podcast does anything, I hope it’s inspiring someone to give it the examination it deserves and justice for the family, because this is certainly not it.
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