After my extremely disappointing experience with Truly Criminal, I had a completely different experience with the podcast Eyes in the Dark. It is a German podcast and I have not spoken German since high school so I am not a listener. However, my good friend Anna-Lena is and mentioned this podcast to me as one of her favorites when we were exchanging references. It’s always weird when you watch a show or listen to a podcast and suddenly, an episode comes out and is about someone you know. That happened to her when she heard an episode they made about the case my husband is linked to.
The case part didn’t upset her as much as the end of the episode, when the two hosts discussed me and my son. They expressed they really couldn’t understand how someone could fall in love with a murderer and – according to my friend since I couldn’t listen to the segment – a lot of wrong information about me. My friend took matters into her own hands (but asked my permission before sending anything because she is a wonderful respectful friend ❤️) and reached out to them expressing her disappointment and near anger at their ending she felt was added for shock value. She listed the erroneous facts about how I met my husband and basically defended my character. She had a great final point explaining they should have verified their information and maybe even talk to me, or leave me out of the episode completely as I have nothing to do with the crime.
This has been a very tough media year for me. Not that I had any media year before lol. It is so weird to watch people suddenly get upset about my life when my relationship is 7 years old! And people bending the truth to make it fit their own narrative and even profit off of it.
It was heartwarming to have a friend standing up for me… and what happens next is pretty amazing (it should be the norm, but definitely isn’t).
They responded and apologized to my friend and OFFERED to correct the information in their next episode. They then reached out to me and apologized to me. Then they did what they said they would: they actually made a special mini-episode of 10 minutes to come back on what they were wrong about and apologized officially. They corrected some information and reminded their listeners of the importance of always fact-checking what you read on the internet. Of course, I couldn’t listen myself either so I am trusting Anna-Lena’s opinion that they did a good job and it was a nice segment.
This was just such a refreshing experience and I am of course most thankful for Anna-Lena having my back. I want to give a shout out to Laura and Sarah from Eyes in the Dark for being good people and (Anna-approved) quality true crime podcast. So if you understand German, give them a listen (I don’t think they have a website so look them up wherever you are listening to your podcasts).
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