What Happened to Joseph Smedley? Episode Six: Confidential Informant

This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence, assault, and trauma. Please listen with care.Nathanael Sexton terrorized women in Southern Indiana for nearly two decades. Eight survivors came...

5 Mai 202517min

She went out with friends in 1979. And then she was gone. Vali Davis’s case is just one of many cold cases from the 1970s, where slow investigations and lack of technology left too many questions unan...

28 Apr 202523min

Deputy Jeffery Freeman’s arrest for assault and strangulation wasn’t just an isolated case—it revealed Indiana’s hidden crisis of police misconduct enabled by silent transfers and systemic loopholes. ...

21 Apr 202519min

What happens when the badge becomes a shield for abuse?In this one-off episode, I cover the arrest of Monroe County Deputy Jeffery Freeman Jr. — charged with sexual battery, strangulation, and officia...

14 Apr 202513min

What happened to Jeremy Jourdain?We return to the moments leading up to Jeremy’s disappearance and begin to unravel theories around what could’ve happened to him that Halloween night.

7 Apr 202521min

In this episode, we dive into the challenges the Jourdain’s faced after Jeremy went missing, the emotional toll of searching without answers, and the systemic issues that made this case feel invisible...

31 Mar 202520min

Episode 2 begins on Halloween night, 2016, as the search for Jeremy Jourdain unfolds in the hours after his disappearance.

24 Mar 202521min

17-year-old Jeremy Jourdain disappeared on Halloween night 2016, vanishing into thin air in Bemidji, Minnesota. Season Two of A Heavy Weight explores Jeremy's disappearance.

17 Mar 202525min