The Trail Went Cold - Bonus Episode - Interview With Scott Reeder: Suspect Convictions Season 2

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

June 15, 1998. Bloomington, Illinois. Three-year old Christina McNeil is discovered dead inside her bedroom and small cuts can be found in her window screen. The investigation soon focuses on Christina’s father, Barton McNeil, who is eventually convicted of his daughter’s murder and receives a life sentence. However, Barton continually maintains his innocence and points the finger at another suspect, who winds up going to prison for another brutal murder years later. This controversial case is the subject of the second season of the true crime podcast, “Suspect Convictions”. The podcast is produced by veteran investigative journalist Scott Reeder, who appeared on “The Trail Went Cold” earlier this year to discuss the first season, and has joined us again to talk to us about this new season of “Suspect Convictions”. Click here to visit the “Suspect Convictions” website and download the podcast. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	Oh, And the Hello everyone. This is Robin Warder and welcome to a special bonus episode of The Trail
0:40.5	When Cold. You might remember that back in January, we released an episode where we conducted an interview
0:46.7	with Scott Reader, a long-time journalist who put together a true crime podcast called
0:51.6	Suspect Convictions, which covered the 1990 murder of a nine-year-old
0:55.5	girl named Jennifer Lewis and the controversial conviction of a suspect named Stanley
1:00.0	Liggins.
1:01.0	While season one of the podcast has concluded and was a big success, so suspect
1:05.8	convictions has just returned for season two and will be featuring a different case about
1:10.3	another controversial murder conviction.
1:13.0	Scott contacted us and asked if we would like to interview him again about this new season,
1:17.0	so we happily brought him back to talk about it.
1:20.0	Have a listen.
1:21.0	Okay, I'm here with the Scott Reader, the host of the suspect conviction. a the release of Suspect Conviction season one and here we are many months later and they've released suspect convictions season two has just started
1:37.3	The episode number one launch just a couple days before we're recording this so before we talk about season two
1:44.2	Scott maybe you'd like to give us just a quick recap of your background as a
1:48.3	journalist in how suspect convictions season one came about.
1:52.0	Well I've been a journalist for about 30 years
1:56.0	I've worked for newspapers and news services during that period of time and oh gosh about a year and a half ago I decided you know I want to try
2:06.8	something to my own and I was one to write a book about a murder case I covered as a young
2:10.9	reporter it was a horrible case involving a nine-year-old girl that had been
2:17.6	kidnapped, strangled, sexually assaulted, and then taken to a school playground and set on fire.
2:28.1	They arrested an African American man several days later.
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