As the TrueAnon crew proves, all it takes is an intense passion, bordering on obsession. It’s what separates Bad Blood from something like ABC News’s The Dropout podcast, which also follows the Holmes trial, but it’s not a requirement for ideal courtside podding. Having a podcaster as intimately familiar with the material as Carreyrou is a unique opportunity. She seems like a different person than the one who sat in court. After a particularly harsh day in court for the defense, Saul spots Holmes and her mother in a Starbucks near the courthouse-her guard down, her poise melted away. But there are also some quietly revealing moments that go beyond the scope of formal reporting.
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As these moments develop and accumulate, the hosts describe the impact they make on the room, along with helpful context. There are several other explosive moments, such as when top witness Adam Rosendorff’s testimony suggests that he is the pseudonymous crucial character, Alan Beam, from Carreyrou’s book-which Carreyrou later confirms.
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For instance, even before NPR revealed that Holmes’s father-in-law, William Evans Sr., was secretly feeling out reporters during jury selection incognito, Carreyrou and Saul had already clocked it on the podcast.
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The real meat of the podcast, though, are the episodes entitled “This Week in Court.” These bonus dispatches start with the jury selection process, where several prospective jurors turn out to have read Carreyou’s book (humblebrag!), and include all the key moments of the trial as they develop. His subscriber-based podcast, cohosted by reporter Emily Saul, fills in listeners on everything that’s come to light since his book came out. Nobody is more qualified to escort observers through the Holmes trial than Carreyrou, the former Wall Street Journal reporter who published Bad Blood in 2018, a definitive account of the Theranos saga. What the more recent breed of courtroom podcasters offer, however, is the kind of sprawling play-by-play account and insightful expertise that only a dedicated show could provide-with an emphasis on details that might escape other outlets.
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These kinds of shows give their listeners more in-depth coverage than a typical newspaper column or TV segment. Meanwhile, Court Junkie, born in 2016, alternates between some of the most famous trials and mistrials of all time and current cases. Its podcast somehow didn’t kick off until 2019. It’s a no-brainer of an idea: Court TV, after all, helped hook Americans on true crime way back in the mid-’90s. The Court TV Podcast, for instance, follows high-profile cases with only a little lag time. Neither show invented the concept of a podcast reporting on a trial as it unfolds, of course.
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These two shows couldn’t be more different, but both are perfect marriages between content creator and subject, and each brings something fresh to the world of true crime. As the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, known associate of alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, got underway, the conspiracy-fluent hosts behind the Epstein-heavy TrueAnonpodcast headed to court to launch their own “gavel-to-gavel” coverage.
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Last week, this show found an unlikely companion. The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced former CEO of defunct fake-unicorn Theranos, started three months ago, and star reporter John Carreyrou has been doggedly covering it on his podcast, Bad Blood: The Final Chapter, ever since. A more tasteful, less intrusive direction for the next evolution of true crime, though, is courtroom podcasting, which applies the real-time urgency of Murder TikTok to a trial, rather than an ongoing investigation. Some of these armchair sleuths ended up helping police efforts, but others spread false narratives-and most were ghoulishly exploitive. Instead of offering deeply researched and responsibly reported recaps, a fleet of self-styled Sherlocks dabbled with red-yarn mania. Back in late September, as doomed influencer Gabby Petito’s disappearance launched a thousand private investigations, the national fascination with true crime seemed to implode.