Kendahl Landreth

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4,881 appearances 12 recordings 6 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 2 Sep

Kendahl Landreth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder · Ep. 127 | Cold Cases Solved DECADES Later · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

Wrote a book about the amateurs who work cold cases, and she was asked what pulls them into these searches. matched

Quote, what draws them in is the mystery, the challenge. matched

Nobody can really resist a mystery. matched

They're also eventually driven by compassion, a feeling that they'd like to provide closure for these families of missing people. matched

They realize these people are someone's daughter or wife or husband or uncle, and they feel strongly that they'd like to end that. matched

Agony for them. matched

But that same impulse has done real damage as well. matched

After the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Reddit users went through hundreds of photographs of the scene, noting anyone holding a bag and treating them as a suspect. matched

Not great, because a lot of people carry bags. matched

And two innocent men wound up on the front page of the New York Post under the words bag. matched

Eggman, Salaheddin Barhoom, and Yassin Zaymi later settled a defamation suit against the paper. matched

And when the FBI put out pictures of the actual bombers, Reddit had already settled on somebody else. matched

They had already picked out Sunil Trapathy, a missing Brown University student, and they turned on his family, who were themselves still looking for him. matched

So just an awful situation. matched

And Eric Martin, Reddit. matched

General manager apologized once the damage was done. matched

And Carol Schwetzer, a senior forensic case specialist at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, drew a distinction in what the Internet had done in the Grateful Doe case. matched

Quote, social media was the tool that helped bring all the pieces together. matched

It helped spread this information out further. matched

I would say that Reddit, Facebook, and Imgur users didn't investigate the case. matched

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