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The most notorious mass murder in Ohio’s history happened on the night of April 21, 2016 in rural Pike County. Four crime scenes, thirty-two gunshot wounds, eight members of the Rhoden family left dead in their homes. Two years later a local family of four, the Wagners, are arrested and charged with the crimes. As the Wagners await four back-to-back capital murder trials, the KT Studios team revisits Pike County to examine: crime-scene forensics, upcoming legal proceedings, and the ties that bind the victims and the accused. As events unfold and new crimes are uncovered, what will it mean for all involved? What will it mean for Pike County?
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Love this podcast, but had to drop 1 star because there’s an ad break every 15 minutes. Literally. I had to skip 2 ad breaks during my 15-minute break at work this morning. Kind of ruined the whole break for me. Just wanted to vibe out for 15 minutes and listen to my murder podcast, but had to listen to Paris Hilton talking about her new single.
I honestly loved everything else about how the podcast was made EXCEPT THE SHEEE NUMBER OF ADS. You can’t listen to it when you’re doing something that fully occupies hands (doing dishes etc.) because you’ll hate that you can’t skip the ads. I hope they make another season during Billy’s trial.
Thank goodness for the skip forward feature. These episodes are about 20-30 minutes of well-reported content and 15-20 minutes of ads. I understand the importance of advertising, but this is too much.
The ads don’t bother me if you don’t want ads pay for the service 🤷🏻♀️ what bothered me is the unnecessary information. When listening to investigative journalism podcasts you don’t need 4 seasons repeating the same information OVER AND OVER. Tell the story, this is ongoing so yes cover the in between and the trial. I skipped so many seasons and episodes because of this.
I didn’t read the reviews before I began the podcast, I like to start each one with a clean slate. I came to leave a review today and what is see over and over is exactly what I encountered. The content is interesting, I like the host, but my goodness…SO MANY ADS. The first five minutes of every episode is ads, there are probably 2-3 ad breaks during the episode that are 3-4 minutes and then again at the end another 5 minutes. It really feels like half the episode is ads. It’s hard to endure. I’m one who likes to finish what she starts, so I guess I’m in for the long haul, but please cut back on the amount of ads in future episodes/shows.
Each episode is 40 minutes long but the first five minutes and the last five minutes are commercials and there’s two commercial breaks that are at least three minutes long. Add to that that most of the content of every episode is a recap of the previous episode or a preview of the next episode, it is maybe two minutes of actual new detail each time. It is horrendously drawn out. I listened to Idaho Massacre first, and I didn’t think that was so poorly done, and now I regret even starting this.
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