Unrestorable - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This is a great compelling podcast! Listening to each episode, I couldn’t wait to hear the next episode unfold.
It’s a heartbreaking story to know Troy has lost his two young children & will never know what happened to them, will never see them again or will never have closer!
It’s very disappointing to hear that Catherine was not able to be held accountable for her actions & the tragic events of her missing children. The court system needs more accountability & justice.

This was a truly heartbreaking story. I wanted to jump through my phone and give Troy the biggest hug in the world. I don’t know how he’s gone through all of this and still keeps his chin up. It has to be so incredibly painful and frustrating. I hope someday he gets all of his answers. Well put together. I couldn’t wait to listen to the whole thing.

I personally really feel for the dad- for whatever dysfunction in the parents relationship, he obviously loved his kids very much and took great care of them. The wife’s parents tried to help too. Yes, there are many other points to be made regarding metal illness, pp depression, etc., but the fact remains that this was a family trying to manage this women’s illness & they deserve answers as to what happened to these children. The dad is a victim, his kids are gone. Be kind.

Episodes 1 &2 of this podcast presented basically the same information in two styles: one seemed DIY and the other a polished newsmagazine story. At one point in episode 2 I wondered if the producer and reporter were aware of what is presented in episode 1. It was a strange choice to allow the father to declare that his two children were murdered by their mother as if it were fact. She’s no doubt responsible for their disappearances and presumed deaths, it’s unclear to me whether she murdered them or gave them away to bad people or forgot where she left them in some psychotic episode. They could have pushed back harder when the family claimed they had concerns about her decision making to the extent she couldn’t be left with the children, but never thought she would hurt them on purpose. Obviously at one point the family believed she might do something harmful while in a bad state. Why did they stop believing that and jump to the conclusion that she plotted the murder of her children as soon as they figured out something was wrong? Just a very one-note exploration of this story. Do better.

I struggled a lot listening to this podcast as it seems there was no real journalistic push to fully understand the events. This entire podcast is based off one side of a story where the narrator of that story is pretty unreliable. Troy is obviously very angry and was really more focused on seeing punishment for Catherine and his statements and interviews during this podcast made me feel like he definitely left out details.

On top of an unreliable narrator, this podcast was very surface level, and made a few statements that were pretty questionable and made me wonder if the team actually understood the mental health events that we’re taking place in Catherine’s life.

Overall, it’s questionable at best and a skip from me.