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A decade ago, I was on the trail of one of the country's most elusive serial killers,

but it wasn't until 2023 when he was finally caught.

The answers were there, hidden in plain sight.

So why did it take so long to catch him?

I'm Josh Zeman, and this is Monster,

hunting the Long Island serial killer,

the investigation into the most notorious killer in New York,

since the son of Sam, available now.

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Hi, friends. When I started working on Jeannie Child's story, one name kept coming up. Jennifer

Mayerly. Jennifer is a senior investigative reporter at WCCO and the journalist behind

Footprint to Murder, a documentary that helped bring Jeannie's story

and her family's decade-long fight for justice back into the public eye.

She joined the case after an arrest was made in 2019, and through that reporting, Jennifer built

a really close relationship with Jeannie's mother, Betty, and her sister Cindy, and spent years following

every single twist in turn, from the cold case investigation to the trial, to the verdict,

and of course, all of the aftermath.

So today, I wanted to share a recent conversation I had with Jennifer.

In our chat, we talk about what it was like for her to report on a case that's both

deeply human and also really complex. We dig into how her documentary came together and the trust

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