Shattered popped up when I did a search for true crime as that is what I like to listen to. I decided to start with the first season about the Skelton brothers. I thought the show was done very well. Good reporting and follow-up. I’m about to start season two. With regard to the case of the Skelton boys… so very sad that there has not been any information to their whereabouts to this day! My heart goes out to their mother!! The father is a true narcissist and one can only hope that he chooses to do the right thing and confess what he did to those children and where he put them! He is pure evil!!!

⭐️because I can’t get the episodes to play in the correct order. This needs to be fixed. Stopped listening after 3 episodes. Too much work.

1st season really good, insightful, objective, and compelling . Second season is ok but subject matter feels tired. Third season is MEH-Story telling Feels phoned in, confusing, dry and particularly rushed. It seems like the narrator is being held at gunpoint and is forced to tell this story. The timelines are incoherent and and in some cases downright ignored. Narrator forgoes discriptions of events in favor of vintage interviews which are given piecemeal, which forces listener to constantly question the order of events.

Listened to occk the only pod with different and intriguing thoughts thank you

The government should release the files to the public!

I’ve only listen to the Hoffa podcast but it was excellent and I learned so much about Hoffa and about the JFK assassination about which I really had no idea even though I was aware of it at the time. Excellent series!

Excellent podcast, very well done!

Great podcast if your from Michigan, this is a must listen. Even if your not a great listen.

Frustrating to hear johns accounts !!! He really is a master manipulator. Great job with the journalistic background work

I really liked this podcast, but it really surprised me in the first season fourth episode when the podcaster and then his wife is questioning this poor mother for not showing enough emotion during her interviews after seven years I’m sure she’s just running on autopilot this poor woman has been through hell you’re interviewing her seven years later after she lost her children she’s done thousands of interviews. Just because this is a novelty to you does not make it new to her. She’s allowed to be emotionless if she wants while talking about a horrific event. Until you have lived through something like that beck off and show some respect, she's allowed to separate her emotions. She has prevailed in horrible circumstances.

Very interesting podcast. Now I’m more interested in Mob Queen after listening to Hoffa!

Love this show!

Great job Steve! I always loved watching you on WDIV in Detroit. Now that I’m in Minneapolis it’s great to hearing you on this podcast. Very well done.

This series is great, and the reviews speak truth; seasons 1 and 3 are awesome. Season 2 not so much. I was not interested at all in the story of white boy rick. Good stories and investigation. My only gripe is that the episodes are too short; i dont normally listen to anything less that 20 or 30 minutes. Edit: im onto season 4 and the short episodes are REALLY getting to me. Changing review to 4 stars.

Constant interruptions with advertising and promotion, the balance has fallen way out with this new season. Find myself fast forwarding at least 4 or 5 times per episode and missing bits here and there. Cant listen to it unless you’re right there. No more bathtub/gardening/sewing with this pod on in the background. Cooking and working out only.

What a great job on the first episode on Jimmy Hoffa. Was living in Waterford Township when news broke he was missing. His history is intriguing and compelling and you folks are doing a great job. Can’t wait for the next episode. Wish they were longer!

I am impressed with the amount of time investment the people reporting these stories make. I have binge-listened to all three seasons. I think the same people made "The Shrink Next Door," which was great too.

The boys deserved better than both of their parents. Hard to empathize for either parent but the poor kids who were victims from the very beginning. The narrator doesn’t ask the right questions and his voice is monotone.

I loved Season 1. It had a more suspenseful investigative side to it.. But season 2 feels more like I’m a 3rd wheel listening to your conversation while you’re on the phone with some guy who talks about when he was a kid. So there’s nothing current.. just a story & probably would have a better effect if you just told it without ricks raspy voice popping in here & there. I haven’t gotten to season 3 yet but I hope it’s more like season 1 than the season 2 history of a once powerfully unlawful kid who became adult convict....

Season 1 is absolutely infuriating. It’s so obvious to anyone with a brain that the father killed those kids. Giving him 2 episodes to spew his vile fantasies and even giving that narcissistic selfish liar a voice made me very angry. I also feel the interviewer was not asking the right questions and letting him off too easy.

Great find & even greater listen! I am still on season 1. Did anyone else catch in Season 1, Episode 8 that the children’s grandmother said she was sad having to return the gifts she had bought the boys the Black Friday they went missing? I mean if the boys were only missing, wouldn’t you, especially a grandparent, hold onto those gifts until they returned home? Unless she already knew they were never coming home?

This podcast is one of the best true crime ones out there. Kevin does an excellent job.

The children were not well cared for. Jill Robbinson stayed for 4 days, and another child was held 19 day.she was the only one who was bathed and dressed.

I’ve always been tormented by the boys and this was a very well done podcast. Thank you!! Can’t wait for all The other seasons I need to catch up.

I've only started the FIRST season and so far, hearing the host constantly trying to end someone's sentences is super annoying. When you're interviewing someone, let them talk! You can edit any unnecessary chatter later in post but during the actual interview don't interrupt them to try finishing their sentences. SOOOO annoying. I'm hoping he stops doing this so that I can enjoy the rest of this season. I'm looking forward to Season Two about White Boy Rick. Updated: It doesn't get better the further into Season 1 I get. It's to the point where he finishes people's sentences so often I'm starting to wonder who REALLY is telling this story. Jeremy or the victims' family? Wow....talk about shady journalism. TLDR: Stop trying to finish sentences when you're interviewing people. Let them finish their thoughts!

Season 2 it’s awesome!!! White Boy Rick is off the chain he was done really wrongly glad he’s getting out! Season 1 is really good to havnt listened to season 3 yet but great job!

The stories covered in season 1 and 3 are riveting and super interesting. I had a hard time getting into season 2. Overall great coverage. Definitely worth the listen.

Season one was good, season 3 was really interesting at first but then I was totally disgusted by the way they treated the Amish people. Even they way he was speaking about them like they were aliens and making fun of the culture . Then they used that young girl to get info they should have not used her voice. Did she agree to be in the podcast ? I’m not saying I believe John but the podcast is totally bias. Why even speak to him if you know he’s guilty from the start ? You actually completely believe Tanya, a convicted child molester. She’s hiding something too. She forgot about hearing they found 3 kids bones lol

Sandra Ali was terrible. Played dumb never asked a real question. Should have used a real reporter at least someone who ask a real question

It literally goes nowhere. Tedious, annoying and pointless. Hopefully season 2 is better.

One of the more engaging and well researched podcasts around. The team has shed new and interesting light on a series of cases that I thought that I already knew; the mark of a good podcast. Don’t let the Michigan connection fool you: this is not a local-only podcast.

The Oakland County child killer case has been in the back of my mind since I lived through it in the ‘70’s. Well put together, interesting podcast. Some of the audio is in rough shape, but they acknowledge that in the first episode. You guys should do one on John Norman Collins, or the murders up in Mio, Mi.

Not engaging and quality of the audio is poor

Anyone who takes money from the Koch brothers and runs ads for them is an immediate NO for me. I was subscribed to and listened to your podcast for two seasons. No longer. You are either desperate for money, lack any moral compass, or both. I’m out. Too many better podcasts out there who don’t take money from a downright evil corporation.

This is such a roller coaster ride of a story. It’s gut wrenching. It’s heart breaking. It’s unbelievable. And it’s been well researched, well written, and well told. There has to be an answer; keep talking to him and keep after him with the tough questions - I think you’ll get to him, because he’s saying things to you that he didn’t mean to say to anyone and he’s clearly back-pedaling the second he slips up. Please do it for the boys ... do it for their Mama ... do it for the community ... just do it ... please just do it ... please

I thought new information was being discussed. This is just the audio of the WDIV segments on their web site.

Bill - I hope you read this. Your honesty and ability to share your story after all these years has helped so many, including me. You are a hero.

This is one of my favorite podcasts to listen to. Such a heart wrenching story! It captivated me from the beginning and held my interest the entire time. Forever praying for the Skelton boys! 🖤

Cool if you need a nap

Interesting, respectful and well researched. Thank you

Binge on the first two season in 2 weeks and love it!!

Mike has always been great reporting news. Great insight on white boy Rick. Clearly railroaded and needs to be released. Would love to see a podcast on Nate “Boone” Craft.

Beautiful podcast!!!

I love this podcast, I am totally disgusted by John Skelton, he speaks as though he wants answers about his son, then he lets slip some of the venom he holds because the mother was given custody. He is vindictive and evil and he know what he did to these children and where they are.

I have been listening and find very good... so sad & makes me really think about how this Mother has survived. Host does a great job, I find him sweet 😊

Enjoyed every minute of Rick’s story, I pray he’s released soon, he should not still be behind bars! Listening to the Skeleton boys story now and all I have to say is, when and if it’s ever known what happened to those boys. I pray John and all of his complicit family are prosecuted and punished as such. He knows and apparently they know as well. Stupidity should not be a justifiable reason for the coward John’s family. This is absolutely heartbreaking! P.S. Has John ever been given a polygraph?

Though I am proud to be an American our justice system is broke. People getting life sentences for non-violent crimes is ridiculous. Rick was used by the FBI then thrown away like garbage after they got what they wanted from him. Receiving a life sentence for drugs @17 with no possibility of parole boggles the mind. My son is incarcerated for embezzlement $10,000. He received a ridiculous sentence as well. There needs to be better sentencing guidelines. Offenders shouldn’t be left to the mercy of a judges wrath. My son is due to be released in 2021 (thankfully) the majority of his 30 year sentence was suspended. He will have served 6 years. Yet violent offenders, rapists etc. get “deals.” I’ll never understand...

I can’t stop listening! Every episode is absolutely intriguing. Once I found this podcast and the Covert podcast I binged them both! I was engaged at every turn!

Listening to the White Boy Rick podcasts and blown away by the story. Using a 14 year old boy as an informant is hard to imagine, but it happened. Thoughtful and intriguing every step of the way.

I listened to season 1 and 2 in 2 days! Great podcast! Can’t wait for season 3.