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Heres something weve long come to believe: True crime is the bloody, beating heart of podcasting.
After all, many of the mediums biggest hits can be broadly grouped into the genre.
Indeed, theres even a budding genre of parodies, likeThis Sounds SeriousandA Very Fatal Murder.
In this, though, podcasting isnt particularly unique.
Balascios father, Edward Wayne Edwards, would later be credited with at least five murders in the Midwest.
He died behind bars in 2011.
For a long time after Edwardss arrest, Balascio said little to the media.
And so a galaxy of mistruths and exaggerations stepped in to fill in the gap.
Over the past ten years, Edward Wayne Edwards became a caricature that evolved into something bigger.
A patron saint of bad things, so to speak.
Balascio and Dean met three years ago on the day Prince died, as Dean recalled.
The team has been working on the project for almost two years now.
Dean acknowledged the complications with Balascio acting as a creative collaborator on the project.
But he insists they have a system in place, and that she does not have any creative control.
Still, she was incredibly important to the process, he said.
Balascio was also useful, they noted, at opening doors for the investigation.
As Dean pointed out, law enforcement officials tend not to call back journalists making requests about cold cases.
At all times, the darkness of his actions looms over everything.
At one point, a womans gasp is briefly audible before the recording cuts out.
As will probably be the case throughout the rest of the series, its hard to tell.
Edwards thought he was scheming and pulling one over everyone else.
Its an admirable position to stake, but the difficulty of its execution is not unfamiliar.
Our hands arent totally clean, Menjivar acknowledged.
All I would really hope for is that we get to start a conversation.
The first two episodes ofThe Clearingare scheduled to drop on July 18. you could find the trailerhere.
