Digging Deep into Cold Cases: Research and Writing with Josh Hallmark & Anna Priestland
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Laurah interviews Josh Hallmark (True Crime Bulls**t) and Anna Priestland, both of whom are writer-researcher-producers, about their experiences tackling longform and complex podcast projects. Josh is well-known for his in-depth coverage of Israel Keyes and Kelly Cochran. Anna wrote many of the best-known and most popular Casefile podcast series, including the show's coverage of EAR/ONS/GSK, and has gone on to a successful career as a leading independent podcast writer-producer-researcher.
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| 1:13.8 | This is the fall line. |
| 1:24.3 | As listeners know, we've spent our time between cases, |
| 1:29.0 | interviewing experts whose knowledge might add something interesting and valuable, |
| 1:33.6 | to the larger discussion of cold cases, of true crime, of science, of ethics. |
| 1:39.8 | For this episode, we reached out to two researcher slash writers, Josh Hallmark and Anna |
| 1:45.6 | Prisland. Both Josh and Anna are involved in deep years-long projects that require archival work, |
| 1:53.2 | primary investigative research, and everything in between. |
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