"Is 'West Cork' the next 'Serial'?" asked The Irish Times after the show premiered in February 2018. The series shares "a story of a family left in limbo, a murder mystery and a vivid portrait of a moment in time". Vishal's family are put "at the heart" of the series, and Campbell's "methodical linking of seemingly unconnected pieces of information makes for remarkable listening". Suchin Mehrotra, Vishal's half brother, and investigative journalist Colin Campbell "attempt to piece together" the events that took place more than 40 years ago, said the Financial Times. The boy's remains were found eight months later. The BBC's ten-part series investigates the disappearance of Vishal Mehrotra, an eight-year-old boy who was abducted from the streets of London as the country celebrated Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's wedding on 29 July 1981. The story is well-known, but what Grey "brings to the table is extraordinary detail and deep links with many of those directly affected" – plus a "veteran journalist's flair" for "gripping storytelling". In 2017, the assassination of the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia made global headlines, exposed a network of corruption in the island nation, and ultimately brought down its government. But good ones keep coming, and "Who Killed Daphne?", by the Reuters reporter Stephen Grey, proves that at their best, "such series are vital outlets for investigative reporting". Not all true-crime podcasts reward "the hours devoted to them", said Gerard O’Donovan in The Daily Telegraph. In the second episode we hear from Miho Saita, whose business "helps people find new homes and jobs, organises the removal of their belongings and assists them in creating a new identity". In Japan, this can involve engaging the services of a "yonige-ya", or "night-moving company". But the podcast isn't really focused on solving such cases: it explores why people feel the need to vanish, and how they do it. Concerning the thousands of people who deliberately disappear in Japan each year, it starts with the case of Morimoto, an accountant who'd been embezzling funds. "The Evaporated" has elements of true crime, said Fiona Sturges in the FT. "Kudos" to this podcast's creators for "reshaking this money tree to bring listeners an eye popping tale". Her "new age racket", run out of Hampstead in north London, saw people part with envelopes of cash as "a 'sacrifice' to be hung on a money tree in the Amazonian rainforest", among other activities. From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Juliette D’Souza "conned £1 million out of credulous clients". True crime podcast writers have "already mined a rich seam of stories about fraudsters", said The Times, but "Filthy Ritual" is "a doozy". "Dogged and meticulous, with a spine of moral certainty, it makes other true-crime podcasts look lazy" by comparison. In the course of this "gripping" nine-parter, the Pulitzer-winning journalist Gilbert King and his colleague Kelsey Decker not only identify the real killer and extract a confession – they also extract a second confession related to a separate unsolved murder. This is "not one of those true-crime shows that starts brilliantly and then falls away because the investigator can't track down the real perpetrator", or finds them but isn't able to interview them. Despite a lack of either physical or eyewitness evidence, her husband Leo – then 21 – was convicted of the crime, and 35 years later, he remains behind bars. "Bone Valley" is about the 1987 murder of an 18-year-old from Florida called Michelle Schofield. Here is a real treat for "all you fans of true-crime-cold-case-clue-by-clue-to-the-truth podcasts", said Miranda Sawyer in The Observer. MacSorley was invited to dinner with "Knight/Rossi", and began wondering "if this was, genuinely, a case of mistaken identity". Investigative journalist Jane MacSorley's story provides a "knock-out listen", said Nicol. Except that police said this man was in fact the convicted sex offender Nicholas Rossi. Two years ago, in December 2021, police arrived at a Glasgow hospital with an international arrest warrant for one of its patients, Arthur Knight. I Am Not NicholasĪudible's " I Am Not Nicholas" is a "bizarre, chilling story", said The Sunday Times radio and podcast critic Patricia Nicol. It features poetry by Rhys Iorwerth, and "reporters Tim Hinman and Meic Parry are excellent" in this "careful, imaginative" podcast. The series is "beautifully paced and realised" by producers Overcoat Media, said Miranda Sawyer in The Guardian.
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