Why Reporter Nancy Solomon Chose True Crime

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this year, the New Jersey Attorney General opened up an investigation into the killings of John and Joyce Sheridan, a well known couple with personal ties to three governors. In 2014, they were found stabbed to death, and their home set on fire. Local police thought that John Sheridan murdered his wife and then killed himself. That was eight years ago. So why is the Attorney General revisiting the case now? Well, this year, our WNYC colleague Nancy Solomon released an investigation into their brutal deaths, and found damning evidence of corruption at the highest levels in the Garden State. The series is called Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery. In this midweek podcast, Nancy tells Brooke how she used the true crime format to get listeners to care about corruption in New Jersey.

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0:00.0	Earlier this year, the New Jersey Attorney General opened up an investigation into the
0:05.8	killings of John and Joyce Sheridan, a well-known couple with personal ties to three governors.
0:12.2	In 2014, they were found stabbed to death and their homes set on fire.
0:18.0	This morning, the mystery deepens over the death of John and Joyce Sheridan, a prominent
0:23.5	New Jersey couple with powerful connections and close friends of Governor Chris Christie.
0:29.3	The first responders who came into the door of the Sheridan home early the morning of September
0:33.0	28th found what could only be described as a house of horror.
0:37.0	Local police thought that John Sheridan murdered his wife and then killed himself.
0:42.0	That was eight years ago.
0:43.9	So why is the Attorney General revisiting the case now?
0:47.7	Well, this year, our WNYC colleague Nancy Solomon released an investigation into their
0:53.7	brutal deaths and found damning evidence of corruption at the highest levels in the
0:59.4	Garden State.
1:00.9	The series is called Dead End, a New Jersey political murder mystery.
1:05.7	I'm a big show out on Friday.
1:08.2	You'll hear an hour of that spellbinding coverage.
1:11.5	But in this midweek podcast, I wanted to hear why, after 20 years of reporting on New
1:17.4	Jersey politics, Nancy made the show at all.
1:21.6	The idea first occurred to her in 2019.
1:25.3	She was working on a project with pro-publica and she found that a tax break program was being
1:30.5	exploited by a powerful family in Camden, New Jersey.
1:34.9	During that reporting, she realized there was more to the Sheridan killings than the public
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