123: Ashley Fantz

True Crime Binge

Bob Ruff

True Crime

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Bob and Erica are joined by award-winning investigative journalist and host of Wondery’s Suspect Season 2, Ashley Fantz. Bob asks Ashley about her career working as a CNN reporter and how she broke a story involving the destruction of untested rape kits by law enforcement. They then discuss the subject of Season 2 of Suspect, “Vanished in the Snow,” the 1984 murder of Jonelle Matthews.
You can hear more about the case and binge all episodes of Suspect, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/suspect/id1580881826.

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0:00.0	The internet's full of true crime podcasts.
0:05.7	More and more are added to the list every day.
0:08.7	Figuring out where to start or where to go next can be overwhelming.
0:12.3	But have no fear.
0:13.5	I'm Bob Ruff, and this is the place to find your next true crime binge.
0:20.8	Music The place to find your next true crime binge.
0:43.5	I am joined today by, of course, the lovely Erica Cantor, who looks like in her closet again today.
0:44.4	Yes, Lou. I always tell when you're traveling.
0:46.5	Right.
0:47.3	The clothing behind you.
0:49.1	And I also joined by the host of Suspects season two, Ashley Fonce, and we just learned not Farts.
0:56.9	It is not Farts. It is not Farts. Please.
1:02.3	A few people have mistaken it, perhaps intentionally, joking.
1:07.1	So on CNN, was that, was that like live on the air? They came out with Ashley Farts?
1:12.9	It was live. And it was, I think it was my first year there. I was there for many years. And I did kind of freeze for a second. And I thought this is going to be a great story later.
1:24.0	Yes. So you were new enough that you just like it slide. Like, this is just show business.
1:28.3	I guess they call you farts.
1:29.3	And then we just go on about our business.
1:31.7	I had to let it slide because I was doing a really a story that was very dark, too.
1:36.8	So I couldn't really say, oh, ha ha, how funny.
1:39.4	And then slide into this horrible story.
1:41.7	Right.
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