#True crime obsessed podcast series

The Variety piece, in particular, identified a few other accusations of plagiarism leveled against the Crime Junkie team, and the podcast has since issued a statement, sent to Variety and posted on its Facebook group, that it has decided to take down episodes where вЂњtheir source material could no longer be found or properly cited.вЂќ The show did not specify just how many errant episodes would be pulled off its podcast feed, but at least five have been removed so far. вЂњI then started listening to your other podcasts and - SURPRISE! - discovered that you donвЂ™t cite sources or credit news organizations.вЂќ Frye went on to threaten legal action unless the podcast removed the relevant episode from their distribution channels.ДЇryeвЂ™s accusation kicked up a fair bit of attention, drawing coverage from the likes of Variety, BuzzFeed News, and even the New York Times. At one point, you quoted a portion of MY copyrighted story almost verbatim,вЂќ she wrote in a post on the podcastвЂ™s Facebook group.

#True crime obsessed podcast series

вЂњYou relied on my series about Kacie Woody to air your podcast, which, I would assume, profits by the sharing of crime stories. Over the past two weeks, the popular series Crime Junkie has found itself caught up in plagiarism scandal after a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter, Cathy Frye, accused the podcast of using her work on a 2002 murder without proper attribution. ThereвЂ™s trouble in the true-crime podcast world.