Madison McGhee
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121 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Feb
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So you've got to keep making episodes that you keep getting more information. That's been really wonderful. A traumatic side of that is you've now opened yourself up to the opinions of other people. And I've invited the world to listen into my deepest trauma and the things that make me who I am.
opening yourself up can be very triggering and traumatizing. I just find myself retreating in social settings because I don't want every conversation to be about my podcast or about my dad when I'm out with my friends. And it just sort of always comes back to that. And as big of a thing as that is in my life, I am a nuanced person.
And I try really hard to caveat that with showcasing my personality through my marketing tactics. I try to get funny with it because that's who I am as a person while keeping the tone of the show a little more serious. But yeah, it's been hard to differentiate myself as a person and a personality from this thing that happened to me that I'm trying to uncover.
But again, that's the result of the popularity of the show, which is going to eventually solve the case. On my dad's side, however, I didn't know a lot of my family members. I knew some of them in passing, obviously interviewed a couple of them. I've met one cousin through this that I'm actually quite close with now. She's lovely and she's very, very supportive of this.
We have a lot in common, actually. The rest of my family has been quite critical of the show. I have a couple cousins in particular that are very vocal about their distaste for what I am doing and others that I can just tell aren't really that interested or not super happy about it. But there are a couple that are very loud about their distaste. It's been weirdly motivating.
I've been able to use that comedic side that I have to translate some of the messages I get from my family. There is one in particular message I got from a cousin that told me that my dad deserved to die because he was a snitch ass daddy. That's my favorite thing I've ever heard in my life. As soon as I read it, I was like, oh, my God, I just love that.
I don't know where it will go, but I love it. So now I have Snitch Ass Daddy on a hoodie. I wrote a parody song called Snitch Ass Daddy, and it comes out in June. People try to put you in this boat of grieving daughter. And I think nobody knows what that even really means or what that looks like. So I remember being a little worried about, oh, is this song going to rub people the wrong way?
A, I don't really care. B, I don't think anyone can put anyone in the box of grief looks like this. I lean on humor as a coping mechanism. I think it's very... easy to say, well, be funny behind closed doors and don't let the world see that you're laughing because then how will people relate to you as this grieving daughter? And it's like, well, sometimes I laugh.
For me, the means is definitely going to justify the ends. Absolutely.
What is one thing you wish consumers would keep in mind while consuming our stories or something you could shift in the consumer perspective? Yeah.
That's a great question, because I've been on both sides of this. I grew up consuming true crime content. I loved watching America's Most Wanted, Cold Case Files, when cable was really hot, and then becoming the subject of something. It's very easy to comment on and give input on people's lives. There can be a lot of commenting.
You should do this or have you thought about doing this or I don't like how you do this. And I think really looking at this as these are human beings who are trying to share a story for the purpose of solving a case, preventing it from happening to someone else.
else helping people navigate through whatever it is note the difference between this sort of consumerism that we live in today to not doing that in any sense but especially in a true crime forum because it's so inappropriate when people hear about a story and they care enough and it's humanized in a way then they're all in it doesn't matter what the story is it could be anything
I think that's the power and the fear that social media, traditional media really bring to the table is that in the same way it can be very powerful, it can also turn our attention to the wrong things or make us believe the wrong things, but it can also really provide a tool for people like us as well. My show really exists to humanize my dad's story.
And I think if we look at true crime stories and podcasts, shows, docs, whatever it is, and we look at these people as real human beings, I think that's the important way to see all of these stories. I think we're all learning still, but I think that's the biggest takeaway. We're not reality TV subjects. We are people who are grieving a great loss.
I want justice in the sense that I'd really just love to know what happened. I don't really know what justice means anymore. I just maybe selfishly want to know for my own life and want to know that I did this. I know what happened and now I can mentally move on.
I've had a really difficult time processing the fact that whether or not my dad's case can ever be solved in a court of law is dependent on the people who initially investigated the crime scene the morning of. That's the biggest thing that I've noticed in my case and that could potentially prohibit it from being solved in court.
This lack of evidence, this lack of investigation, not interviewing people at the time. Now it's been so long, a lot of people that I would have loved to talk to that the police never did aren't alive anymore. The biggest struggle I'm facing is that there isn't a set of protocol that must be followed to investigate a crime scene.
And what I mean by that is if there's a suspected homicide, I think no matter what, you should swipe for fingerprints. You should have to tape off the scene for a certain amount of time at minimum.
It can obviously be taped off for longer than that, but I think there should be a minimum time that you have to tape off a scene so that people can't walk around, go in and out, contaminate any evidence. There should be a minimum amount of time that you have to keep evidence for, which I think should be longer than a life. I think it should be like 50 to 100 years.
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