Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders

Erin Moriarty has been in this game for 30 years, she herself is a lawyer and she is very knowledgeable about the criminal justice process. She’s also an Emmy winning journalist who understands how this format works, something that clearly can’t be said for some of these listeners. She asks the tough questions and grills these witnesses and suspects, even the young ones, because her job is to extrapolate facts for the rest of us. If you’re uncomfortable with her methods, there are a plethora of much less credible, yet candy coated, true crime pods available for you to listen to instead.

Air every podcast Erin puts out as a winner in my book. I had the pleasure of meeting her at CrimeCon, and she didn’t disappoint. She did a session on this case, and it is riveting, especially hearing from the granddaughter of one of the victims. This is an important case, and everybody should be hearing about it.

From the first few seconds, this series sounds and feels different. A murderer lurking in a safe loving community. As always, Erin takes care with her reporting. This is about to get dark but the victims and their families are given agency to tell their stories in a respectful manner.

A sad senseless story, well written and well told. The only negative thing I have to say is that it was wrong for Erin Moriarty to chastise the young man who didn’t immediately go to the police at 15 or 16 when he was told about the murders. We’re talking about a kid. Please think about that in the future when interviewing someone who doesn’t have the capacity yet to consider all the consequences of decisions.

This is an interesting story but the narrator was far too harsh on Alvaro, a true hero in this story. I found her tactics very rude and disrespectful. There is a way to cover a story without sensationalizing someone’s pain and this is not it. Quite tone deaf.