Unravel - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I heard of this on another pod and just binged every season until current in about a week. I love how the stories have similar themes- cold case mostly- but they’re so unique too and the reporting is in depth and thorough. I’m in the US but will be checking out other ABC shows since I’m so pleased with this one! Great if you mysterious true crime stories.

I stumbled onto this podcast and can’t believe I hadn’t heard of it (I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts).

This show is so well done. The hosts are great, the subjects are important, and I love the sound bytes and interviews. Side note: I am NOT a fan of stories that have no resolution. Sure, sometimes that happens with this show. But because the structure surrounding the show is so solid, because there doesn’t seem to be a hint of sensationalism in the telling, I am left satisfied because the stories still have momentum. It’s really, really good.

Season 4 Snowball (New Zealand accents) is top notch. The best kind of roller coaster, one cannot make this kind of story up. Con artists, narcissists, hapless victims, it has it all packed into a season you can binge in a day.

Ollie had extraordinary psychological insight into Leslie. This was an engine that powered the podcast. But it also had a family element that is unusual. The final words from Greg are moving. I learned something about myself from this podcast.

The narrator’s family entered into a bad business deal, and has used ABC as a weapon against the woman they blame, as well as her parents. The patriarch of the aggrieved family admits to hacking into the alleged perp’s email account. Rather than saving screenshots (which could imply some level of authenticity), he chose to copy/paste text from this account as well as other email accounts that he claimed to have hacked. The narrator accepts his father’s account without question. It is most likely that the father, clearly obsessed with his misfortune, fabricated his copy / pasted email evidence. While I don’t question that the family felt victimized, this is an extreme example of someone with an agenda spinning a self-serving, one-sided story. There is no evidence that the woman they blame ever made any money from her “scam”. In fact the podcast offers nothing resembling evidence for any of their accusations.