Commercialized Killings: Interview with Paul McNally of the podcast Alibi

Dakota Spotlight

James Wolner

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In South Africa a school teacher was assassinated in front of her class by hit-men. Who would take out a contract on a school teacher? That's what Paul McNally wanted to find out with Season 2 of his gripping podcast Alibi. Dakota Spotlight spoke with Paul from his home in South Africa. Listen to the Alibi podcast https://shows.acast.com/alibi Check out the full catalog and everything Dakota Spotlight https://dakotaspotlight.com/ Get episodes 1 week early, ad-free, and more. Subscribe to Spotlight PLUS https://dakotaspotlight.com/spotlight-plus/ Support the show on PayPal https://bit.ly/3wDhonM Sign up for the Dakota Spotlight newsletter https://dakotaspotlight.com/newsletter/ Advertise your podcast or brand in Dakota Spotlight episodes [email protected] Email: [email protected] Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/dakotaspotlight X/Twitter: @dakotaspotlight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's James here, host and producer of this show, Dakota Spotlight.
0:03.8	I've got some exciting news to share with you.
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0:32.7	You're listening to Dakota Spotlight, a production of forum communications.
0:36.2	My name is James Wulner.
0:38.9	Welcome to yet another episode from this series of interviews performed over the summer of 2021 with other true crime
0:44.4	podcast producers from around the world. There are a lot of people on this earth who've dedicated
0:49.8	themselves seeking justice for missing and murdered individuals.
1:10.0	Music themselves seeking justice for missing and murdered individuals. I don't know about you, but when I hear the word assassination, I think of politicians. I think of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shot down in D. Lee Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
1:18.0	I think of Sweden's Prime Minister, Ulav Palme, gunned down on the streets of Stockholm in 1986.
1:24.8	Both Kennedy and Palma were aware that their occupations, their positions in society, put their lives at risk.
1:32.3	Some of us, some of you have dangerous occupations as well, jobs that could get you killed by accident or by others.
1:39.3	Firemen, law enforcement officers, for example, put their lives on the line constantly. There is a distinct
1:45.8	difference between getting killed by accident or in the line of duty and getting assassinated.
1:51.6	An assassination involves premeditation. It's an act to remove someone from a position of power or
1:57.0	great importance. It's a murder to knock someone down off their pedestal or chair or throne.
2:03.6	Most of us don't sit on a throne or even a powerful chair,
2:07.6	so we don't have to lie awake at night worrying that we might get assassinated
2:11.6	because someone wants to remove us from our position.
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