Madison McGhee | When closure is a myth and justice is hard won

You Probably Think This Story’s About You

Brittani Ard

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships

3.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Madison McGhee from Ice Cold Case joins Brittani Ard to talk about something we don't discuss enough: how social media makes grief feel performative and what that pressure does to families dealing with tragedy. Madison gets real about why her dad's murder is still unsolved, the wild misconceptions people have about the case, and the power of public pressure. Madison also catches Brit up on what she's been up to—her tour, Teen Vogue Op-Ed , and her new podcast L.A. Crimes with the L.A. Times. It's an honest conversation about turning your worst moment into something that might help other people, and all the messy stuff that comes with that. CBS News Article All episodes are available ad free on Patreon: https://patreon.com/BrittaniArd Share your story with Brittani. Production of BDE Unlimited Sponsor information at https://brittaniard.com/sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Story Media
0:05.4	I could have seen everything
0:11.2	and how my life would have unfolded because of this podcast
0:14.1	I probably would have been like, don't hit record.
0:17.6	Just, just don't do it.
0:20.4	Write it in your journal and call it a day so today i have
0:29.5	madison mcgee with me who if you haven't listened to ice cold case yet you have to go listen
0:35.1	brianna and i had the pleasure of coming down to see the
0:39.1	launch. It was your first show of the Family Matters tour. And you guys have 13 more cities that
0:45.9	you're doing? I mean, this past weekend was so awesome. It's just really, it was more fun than I even
0:53.3	thought it was going to be.
0:54.4	I was really nervous to do it.
0:57.3	And I feel like they're just going to get better and better.
0:59.5	How come you pick Tanya Harding to talk about?
1:02.1	So I wanted to do kind of in that similar vein of like, no death, really, if I can help it.
1:08.5	And like local.
1:09.7	So I wanted to do sort of like a story that had a lot of lore that maybe had elements of it
1:15.9	that people didn't know a lot about.
1:17.8	So Tanya Harding is like one of my favorites.
1:21.9	I love the movie I, Tanya.
1:23.5	I obviously wasn't alive during the Olympics.
1:26.6	But I just love her story and sort of the line between, like, supporting Tanya, supporting Nancy, the environment surrounding it.
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