Toen April Balascio 40 was, werd haar decennialange angst eindelijk bevestigd: haar vader, Edward Wayne Edwards, was echt een moordenaar. The Clearing vertelt wat er gebeurde nadat April in 2009 een detective belde om haar vermoedens te delen – dat gesprek leidde tot de arrestatie van haar vader en zijn uiteindelijke veroordeling voor meerdere moorden. Het volgt de emotionele reis terwijl zij en presentator Josh Dean teruggaan naar haar jeugd, de waarheid over het leven van haar vader ontwarren, en een virale online verhaallijn ontkrachten die van Edward Wayne Edwards een soort karikatuur van een seriemoordenaar had gemaakt.
When April Balascio was 40 years old, something she’d feared for decades was finally proven true. Her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, really was a murderer. The Clearing is about what came after April called a detective in 2009 to tell him about her suspicions — a call that led to her father’s arrest and eventual conviction on multiple murders — and tracks the emotional journey as she and host Josh Dean dig back into her childhood, unravel the truth of her father’s life, and overturn a viral online narrative that had turned Edward Wayne Edwards into a kind of serial killer caricature. Produced by Pineapple Street Studios in association with Gimlet.
Today we’re sharing the first episode of The Disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan, a new season of Conviction created by our colleagues at Gimlet. Listen to the full series here. Nobody seems to know what happened to Nuseiba Hasan, a Jordanian-Canadian woman, who, in 2006, suddenly vanished without a trace. That is until someone from her past resurfaced, searching for justice. For the last three years, investigative journalist Habiba Nosheen has been trying to find out what happened to Nuseiba. But some people want the truth to stay hidden.
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