Well researched, interesting story, BUT...

The many deaths surrounding the Murdaugh dynasty in South Carolina has been a developing, fascinating story over the past couple of years. This podcast is well researched and provides interesting insight into the case. Unfortunately I couldn't get pass 12 episodes, as I found the structure a mess and the host/ writer is (and I really hate saying this) one of the most infuriating and annoying individuals I have had the misfortune to hear. Incredibly conceited from the get go, she regularly boasts of her achievements with the story and dismissive to other media outlets (because she's the best). Her delivery has a "vocal fry", something I did notice, but didn't think about it too much until she told the listeners off for mentioning it in her comments. Bringing in her fiancé to tell us what an amazing journalist she is doesn't help. They talk about haters, a lot of complaining. She comes across incredibly arrogant, so much so it's a distraction. I wanted to support this, I think it's a fascinating, but tragic story. However I feel the writer's continuous boasting, unpleasant manner and placing herself at the centre of the tale is grating and frankly disrespectful to the victims in this story.

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Excellent

This is so well researched and insightful. Thank you for all your hard work Mandy

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Fascinating story

The Murdaugh story is unbelieable and I am sure it will be made into a film - such a large web that touches so many areas. However Mandy's voice is very annoying and she is constantly telling you how wonderful she is. You can usually fast forward the first 10 mins and last 5 mins with her trying to sell you stuff or explain how great she is. If it wasn't because the story is just so amazing I would have turned off a long time ago.

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Fascinating story, thoroughly researched however..

So far I'm 18 episodes in and I want to hear more but I have issues with the production,
Firstly Audible automatically takes you to the most recent podcast and if you are trying to capture story from the start then there's constant scrolling through.
Secondly, the disjointed ordering of podcasts is confusing, rather than episodes,1,2,3 etc you get an episode about Gloria Satter, then one about where's the money, then back to one about Stephen Smith, then about the money, etc etc, this so difficult to follow.
Thirdly there's a huge amount of repeated sound-bites so you hear the same pieces again and again and then you can miss the new bits of information.
Fourthly, I too find it annoying when the reporter is telling us how wonderful they are to have exposed a story that everyone else overlooked.
Finally, I pay a monthly subscription for Audible so its annoying to have so many adverts and I am unimpressed with the reporters fiancée bombarding me with the opportunity to advertise and how the reporter and her boss Will are changing world, yes be proud but you've not invented Penicillin!
Finally, finally I have zero complaints with Mandys voice it's genuine

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