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"Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo"

Some parts of this podcast are exasperating. As others have noted, the main journalist seems to have an ethics issue. She will steal your property if she feels the DNA results may be interesting. She will listen sympathetically as you insist you do not want to be recorded, then she will secretly record you as you continue talking. Beyond that, there's a serious storytelling problem here. Someone once said to Anne Lamott, "You have made the mistake of believing that every single thing that has ever happened to you is interesting." The same thing applies to Connie Walker, the journalist responsible for "Missing and Murdered." Her repetitive, tiresome musings, her insistence on making us listen to static, to dead-end queries, to inane chatter....All of this is infuriating. "Finding Cleo" should be around four hours, maximum, and instead it clocks in at ten. Ten! All that said, there's a compelling story here. A Native American family believes that...