A Fantastic Review That Is Prescient Today

This is a completely unreal story, and the clips from the courthouse are beyond incredible.

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Excellent podcast

Really enjoyed! The research and interviews were brilliant. The story leaves you with a better idea of what really occured!

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Great introduction

Narrator sounds like a journalist. The beginning introduction of this story went straight to a news outline. I'm interested to listening the next chapter.

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Fear City

I enjoyed this piece it's quite interesting. I did live in the latter part of the seventies in Staten Island and I would take the ferry into Manhattan Island it's quite an interesting story about the vigilante and other things that were happening. What the police was trying to solve a crime of self-defense. Mr Gatts getting off of all the charges, except having an unlawful weapon.

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Straight-up excellent

Always love hearing about something I lived through and realizing that I didn’t understand it at all. Bravo, Leon and team.

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Well Done

Fiasco never disappoints. This is real journalism. This piece was well researched and incredibly engaging. I appreciate the sensitivity given to the victims. They were victims of a vigilante. Leon is probably the best narrator… his cadence is perfect.

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Excellent

Well researched and very compelling. Great audio clips and interviews. I knew very little about this case before listening as I was a child in 80s. I appreciate the education. Another great Fiasco podcast.

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Excellent well researched

Timely well researched piece of storytelling. The Fiasco series continues to provide thoughtful series on historical content that continues to echo today. Crime will always have many layers and viewpoints and this story is the latest example where narratives and rushes to judgement often obscure the actual human beings involved.

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Love it

More narrative long form audio please. Well done overall and looking forward to the next season.

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A vivid description of FEAR & FREEDOM

I grew up in London in the 50s and thought I knew what it was like living in a big city until I arrived in New York at the end of the 80s.
Time Square was lively, vibrant , noisy and exciting 24/7. The subways were completely the oppposite - dark & dank.
Steam drifted up through grates in the sidewalks forming a moist hiss from the subterranean vaults. The stations were boiling hot in the summer and freezing cold in winter. The trains were dirty and usually smelled foul with cigarette buts on the floor cans in the corners. I was told by friends never to use them after dark because of the muggings and violence by street gangs no matter which station you were headed for. I remember always getting a yellow cab in the evenings even though I coudn't really afford one - and walking only next to the lights of stores after getting out.
This podcast took me back to those days - always in a state of uncertainty - never quite sure what was going to happen next (good or bad).
Listening to this I kept asking myself if it has changed that much - what would happen today if/when a white person decided to kill 4 black kids out of fear and become a hero?
Do we feel free today in 2023 to walk the streets and enter the subways at night - as a woman - I don't.
Great listening - opens a Pandora's Box of questions - well produced - highly recommend the experience.

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