NPR Host Tonya Mosley on ‘She Has A Name,’ Reporting Her Family’s Own True Crime
Imperfect Paradise
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4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
She Has A Name is set against the backdrop of the drug epidemic in 1980s Detroit. The new podcast hosted by NPR's Tonya Mosley blends elements of investigative journalism and memoir to tell a story about loss and redemption, mending broken family ties, and the trauma experienced by countless individuals who've lost loved ones to violence.
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CONTENT WARNING: This episode of She Has A Name includes discussion of some heavy topics, including murder and other acts of violence. Listener discretion is advised.
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| 0:32.2 | Hey, this is Imperfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm Antonio Serejido. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, we're bringing you the first episode of a fascinating series called She Has a Name from APM Studios. |
| 0:47.8 | In it, executive producer and host Tanya Mosley blends investigative journalism and memoir |
| 0:53.3 | to tell the story of her sister Anita, |
| 0:56.3 | who went missing in 1987. |
| 0:59.1 | My sister's son Antonio was a teenager when she disappeared, and he's built his entire life around searching for his mom. |
| 1:07.1 | Had you at any point held out any sliver of hope that your mom would be alive? |
| 1:15.0 | In a childish kind of way, I think for years I carried that optimism. |
| 1:22.0 | That's the thing about missing persons. |
| 1:25.0 | There is no closure. |
| 1:26.7 | So, you know, your mind goes in many different directions. |
| 1:31.7 | Tanya Mosley joins me now to talk about the making of the series. Tanya, thank you so much for coming on in |
| 1:37.4 | Perfect Paradise. And Tonya, thank you for having me. So, Tanya, I'm very excited about both this |
| 1:43.6 | show and this conversation because what you do with She Has a Name is that you do something that we try to do here on Unperfect Paradise, which is like tackle the true crime genre, but from a really ethical and intentional way. |
| 1:56.2 | So I'm curious, what was your relationship to true crime prior to taking on this project? |
| 2:02.3 | Well, for many years, I was a crime in courts reporter. |
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