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SONY EP on The Binge, began Editors’ Bootcamp, edited Watching You & EP on What Happened to the Harrisons? https://shorturl.at/lxJ78

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“This wasn’t ghosts and goblins. These were m*rders.”

Same house, different years, three mysterious tragedies. What Happened to the Harrisons? Investigative reporter for the Toronto Star @amydempseyraven puts over a decade of research into finding out.

🎧Listen wherever you get your podcasts or click the link in bio.

Two episodes are out now, and episodes release weekly on Tuesdays. Get all episodes early and ad-free by subscribing to The Binge.

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OUT TODAY WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS!

From the outside, 3635 Pitch Pine Crescent looked like the kind of home where nothing bad could happen, the gathering place for every birthday and holiday. Until, one spring night when tragedy struck. In less than five years, three people would end up dead in the same house. Each time, the authorities found a way to explain it away. But the family who loved them knew something was wrong.

Toronto Star reporter @amydempseyraven spent over a decade asking: what really happened inside that house? And it was an honor to come on and produce this series with her for @thebingetruecrime @sonypodcasts

Amy’s tireless mission for accountability for the senseless death of a family is nothing short of admirable. I feel incredibly privileged to have spent the last year learning from and creating with a masterful journalist who approaches every detail with integrity and care.

Thank you @cslspeaks our inimitable EP for all your guidance, hard work, and attention to detail throughout production and to my long time champion @thisisjonathanhirsch for this amazing opportunity.

#truecrimecommunity #truecrimepodcast #truecrime #canada

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Catherine Saint Louis packed the (virtual) house for last night’s Expert Talk, “What Makes a Podcast Bingeable?” 🔥🔥🔥

Instructive, insightful, relevant, timely, Catherine brought it all!

👉🏽 Check out our lineup of upcoming Expert Talks at theopedprojecf.org/experttalks

👉🏽 Become an OpEd Project member to view all of our past Expert Talks at theopedproject.org/membership

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August and September Expert Talks are 🔥🔥

🗓️ Aug. 25, join us for “What Makes a Podcast Bingeable?” with Catherine Saint Louis. It’s not enough to have an eye-opening story or worthy message, you have to know how to tell a story in such a way that people cannot stop listening. Catherine, executive editor of podcasts at Sony Music Entertainment, will share her secrets and the inside scoop on how riveting podcasts are made and why cliffhangers matter.

🗓️ Sept. 22, we’re so excited to host bestselling author and time-management expert Laura Vanderkam for “Time Management for Thought Leaders.” Big ideas need time, but urgent tasks consume the hours. So how do you make the most of your one wild and precious life as a thought leader? Join us with Laura, a longtime OpEd Project Mentor-Editor whose famous TED Talk on the topic has been viewed over 16 million times. Laura analyzed thousands of days of time logs—including 1,001 days from women earning six figures plus—to understand how top thinkers think about time. You’ll learn: how high performers use time differently, how to leverage 168 hours, and why you may have more time than you think.

🔗 Links to register for both at theopedproject.org/ExpertTalks

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🎙️What Makes a Podcast Bingeable?
🎧Join us for an Expert Talk with @cslspeaks
🗓️ Aug. 25 from 7-8 pm ET
👉 Register at theopedproject.org/experttalks

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This July has been one of my favorite months ever.

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See you soon 👀

#publicvoices #changewhowriteshistory #opedproject

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At the start of last year, Courtney Dobbins brought me Ruth Finley’s story.

We’d already been deep into making Queen of Canada together, and she suggested we try pitching something she’d had in development at Muse for a while.
I read the pitch and knew immediately we had to make it. In 1977, while the BTK Strangler was terrorizing Wichita, a woman named Ruth Finley started getting threatening phone calls. Then letters. Then poems. Then it got worse. Police wondered if BTK himself was behind it. The Poet is one of those rare documentary stories with a twist so big it feels like a movie, but it’s all true.

It’s been told before, but never with this much detail, and the detail matters. Without it, you miss the human mystery sitting at the center of the whole thing.
We brought back the team from Queen of Canada, Rachel Browne, Pippa Johnstone, Nathan Howe, and Mark Angly, and added an incredible new EP on the Sony side, Catherine Saint Louis.

Proud of this one. Huge thanks to the Sony team, Steve Ackerman, Emily Rasekh, and Jonathan Hirsch, our partners at Muse, and everyone at New Metric Media.

Full credits below. 👇
The Poet is a production of Sony Music Entertainment, New Metric Media, and Muse Entertainment.
Host: Rachel Browne Producer: Pippa Johnstone Story Editor: Nathan Howe Sound Design: Mark Angly Executive Producers: Chris Kelly, Catherine Saint Louis, Jonathan Hirsch, Courtney Dobbins Story Consultant: Gene Stone Fact Checking: Maya ElHawary, Alexis Green Legal: Daniel Henry, Garland Anthony, Austin Wong Voice Acting: Kassandra Sison, Morgan Murray, Anthony MacMahon
Special thanks to Andres Lara, Patrick McConnell, Sammi Allison, Allison Haney, and the rest of the team at Sony Music Entertainment.

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Could we *be* more excited about this summer lineup of Expert Talks?

☀️June 23, 7-8 pm ET: Moving Between Fiction and Nonfiction with Chicago-based @writerdawnturner. In today’s publishing world, writers are often pushed to choose: fiction or nonfiction. But some of the most powerful voices move between both. Indeed, in challenging times, fluency across genres can open unexpected paths to truth. Join Dawn, an award-winning journalist, memoirist, and novelist, in conversation with OEP coach @heidikstevens to learn how to build a writing career across genres, without losing your voice.

☀️July 21, 7-8 pm ET: Monetize Your Genius: How to Land Paid Speaking Opportunities. Join us with @feleciahatcher, CEO of Black Ambition and a peak performance strategist who has built a 7-figure speaking business, for a no BS, no fluff conversation on how to monetize your genius and land paid speaking opportunities.

☀️August 25, 7-8 pm ET: What Makes a Podcast Bingeable? It’s not enough to have an eye-opening story or worthy message, you have to know how to tell a story in such a way that people cannot stop listening. Join us with @cslspeaks, executive editor of podcasts at Sony Music Entertainment, to learn her secrets and the inside scoop on how riveting podcasts are actually made and why cliffhangers matter.

👉 More info and links to register in our bio

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Two identical twin sisters — Sunny and Gina Hahn — born the same day, raised by the same parents, co-valedictorians of the same high school. By all accounts, the future of their Korean immigrant family. Sunny earned a full scholarship to Stanford. Gina enlisted in the Air Force.

And then — at almost exactly the same time — both of their lives fell apart. Sunny dropped out. Gina got discharged. By November of 1996, Gina was broke. She had attempted suicide. She had nowhere to go. Sunny — the only person left who hadn’t given up on her — took her in. It lasted three weeks.

When Sunny finally kicked her sister out, she told her never to call her again. And that’s when Gina started planning to kill her.

She recruited two teenage boys, fifteen and sixteen years old, and offered them money to commit the murder. She bought a 22 caliber pistol. She bought duct tape. She bought Pine-Sol and garbage bags to clean up afterward. And she brought a potato, which she planned to use as a homemade silencer.

On the afternoon of November 6th, 1996, the boys posed as magazine salesmen and forced their way inside. They put a gun to the roommate’s head. They tied both women up in the bathtub. And then they realized something nobody had planned for: they didn’t actually know which twin was which.

In the chaos, the roommate broke free, ran to a neighbor’s apartment, and called 911. When police arrived, they found Gina sitting in the parking lot in a blue Mustang. When the officer asked her name, she gave him Sunny’s.
Because they were identical twins.

At trial, Sunny took the stand and told the jury she didn’t believe her sister had actually wanted her dead. Gina was convicted anyway. 26 years to life. And when she came up for parole in 2014, the person who wrote a letter to the board asking for her release —was Sunny. The sister she had tried to kill.

There is something between identical twins that the rest of us will never understand. Can the person closest to you in the world try to destroy you, and somehow still be the only person you know well enough to forgive?

This week on @thebingecrimescene , we dig into the story of The Evil Twin

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Brian Wells died on live television with a bomb around his neck after robbing a bank. For years the story painted Brian as a petty criminal who got what was coming to him.

Then in 2018 Netflix released Evil Genius. And a woman named Jessica Hoopsick came forward and said she was paid $5,000 to find someone gullible enough to walk into that bank. She chose Brian — her regular client, her friend. He had no idea the bomb was real.

The official version of a case is almost never the complete version. It’s just the version that was provable in court.

Going back to find what got left behind — that’s the work.

Hear our conversation this week on Crime Scene. Link in bio.

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