Good evening and welcome to Nighty Night with Robbie a Chaudhary. Bedtime stories to keep you awake.

I'm DJ Lubel, the shows producer. Tonight's episode, we continue our story behind the story series where Robbie sits down with true crime expert Amber Hunt.

Please enjoy.

Hi and welcome back to the special series of Nighty Night in which we explore the stories behind our narrative stories, which I know you guys all love.

And once again, I'm letting you know to stay subscribed. We're going to be back with an entire season of creepy stories this fall.

It's the right season for those stories. But in the meantime, I am loving having guests on to talk about just the crazy cases that have inspired these stories. And I am so so excited about today's guests.

I cannot tell you this is a crossover dream come true for me. So I'm going to do an intro and then welcome her on today. We are joined by Amber Hunt. Amber is part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team at the Cincinnati inquire where she works as a reporter and is the host of the amazing podcast.

Accused. Accused is an award winning two prime serial whose third season is underway. Amber's latest podcast, however, crimes the centuries is in its second season and was listed as one of 2021's top 10 podcast by Rolling Stone.

And honestly, it's that podcast, which I can't wait to talk to her about, which is why I really wanted her on and you'll understand why when we talk about that show.

And I like Amber. I love Amber. She's I consider her friends. And we've had some really interesting and odd crossovers in our podcasts a few times. So please welcome Amber on to the show Amber. Hi.

Hi. Thank you so much. Just just so you know, I screwed you up and I said, I have that the third season is underway. Fourth season came out.

Oh, see, the bio needs to be updated. I did. And then I delete anyway. So I'm reporting out the fifth season. That's amazing, which is interesting. It's the first time I get weekly phone calls from a prisoner.

Oh, okay, you're reporting the fifth season right now. You're working on it right now. When does that come out? When I finish it, which I love. I know it's the amazing part of the job I have right now is that I report until I feel like I can tell this story.

I've never really had a job like that. So it was like deadline. Focus. But I think it's awesome. But and you know, look, accused was my introduction to you and your work. And I've been following you ever since because I mean, it's such an incredible show. Your reporting is incredible. But when crimes, the centuries began and what it began in 2021 or 2020.

It was a pandemic baby. So it was a pandemic. Yeah. I guess it's come out. It's been a year and a half, right? Or so.

Listen, I lost my mind. First of all, it's on one of my favorite networks with the obsessed network. And we've had Patrick Heinz on to talk about his network as well. But also, it is such a fantastic show. So just tell my audience a little bit about the show and what inspired it.

Actually, what inspired it was me freaking out when they sent us home for the pandemic. You remember when we all went for like two weeks. Ha ha.

So the sun is home and the newspaper that I work for we were struggling. I mean, all newspapers were struggling. So there were these periods of furloughs. And so I would be put on a week long furlough once a quarter.

And all of this was making me feel very unstable. And so I started recording this thing in my closet. And it began with me going into the archives and just really digging into the 1918 epidemic so that I could prepare myself for what was probably going to happen then.

And just seeing all of these headlines next to those stories about these huge criminal cases that I had never heard about prompted me to to start thinking, okay, you know, maybe there could be some value and going back and looking at these.

We have all these cases in society right now where we're like, oh my god, this is the hugeest thing ever. And I'll never forget it. And then, you know, 10 years, nobody is going to remember that case except a handful of people.

And so I wanted to spend some time digging into those types of cases that really resonated at the time, but for whatever reason didn't stick the way that like man since stock.

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