True Crime · Apple TV / Spoke Media
by Apple TV / Spoke Media
In 1996, Sue Knight was found dead in her Athens, TX, home. Her will named a loose acquaintance as the executor of her estate, but after an alleged phone call from the CIA and a dire warning from the local sheriff, the executor stopped asking questions. More than 25 years later, Sue’s memory haunts the town of Athens and the people who knew her. Who was Sue, really? Why did this English expat settle in small-town Texas? And could she still be alive? Under Cover of Knight is an Apple Original podcast, produced by Spoke Media and Castleview Productions. Listen and follow on Apple Podcasts. apple.co/UnderCover
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Holy cow I don't understand the anger and vitriol around this podcast! It's very well done. It's extraordinarily researched. Maybe because it didn't go the way you wanted it to go? Give the hosts, producers, consultants a break! I kept waiting for it to get bad considering the weird reviews. And it never did. So we may never know. I think it was fascinating and there were many reasons to look into the life of this person. I am quite frankly delighted that I found it.
went into all the information gathering, interviews, etc., to make this an intriguing and very interesting listen. Almost 30 years forward, I found it especially interesting what a BIG challenge it presented to revisit the “memories” of those involved. Your interview with the expert who explained about how ‘memory’ works was especially interesting. Your dogged dedication to searching for the “truth” was admirable! 👏👏👏 Thanks for all your hard work and the beauty that it reaped in the lives of this family❣️
Excellent and heartfelt podcast that explored many issues, including memory, small towns, depression, family and friend dynamics. Thank you!
This podcast didn’t go where one would expect but it ends up encapsulating so many things about human nature. I don’t think anyone on the team is a mother because if they were they’d understand how painful it would be giving up a child. We see things through our own life experiences & to me it was so obvious; she had a traumatic childhood & she was running from that & the hurt of having to give up her children. She chased her father down & felt abandonment. Then had her babies taken from her, further having things leave her. Who would want to stay in a place with those memories? Who would want to admit those things? So she never returned home to live & made up stories so she wouldn’t be further asked. She also likely felt to be needed. And she found a place is rural Texas that let her escape those memories & made good friends who made her feel special. As for her death. I think when death occurs to someone so young our minds try to come up with stories. Did the guy who said she called, was he a drinker and maybe had a dream while drunk? The CIA thing. Did one person say it & another while high or drunk imagine the same thing? One great thing this podcast proves is our memories are fallible. And sometimes we can’t even trust our own minds. About her death - she had heart problems and flu can hit the heart. Was the heart examined microscopically to determine if there was myocarditis? Still several different explanations left unexplored but all in all a good story about how one person ties so many together.
Y'all should be ashamed for making a spectacle off someone’s life without their consent. It’s wild you got to the point of recording yourselves trying to come up with reasons to justify your actions. This woman clearly had a lot of tragedy and heartbreak in her life. You chased down every acquaintance of hers from 30 years ago to surface random stories she told along the way to some people who may not have known better. You work to make a fool of the people she knew and her memory for your profit. No ethics. You should take this down.
Not sure why this was even made. The “mystery” mostly seems to be gossip and hearsay. The most logical conclusion seems mental illness and loneliness, along with familial estrangement. In which case, this seems incredibly exploitative or at least, super insensitive. It feels like someone REALLY wanted to make a murder mystery podcast even if the case didn’t warrant it. The giggly producers discussing the private nuances of Susan’s life made me cringe. I stopped after seven episodes.
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