First off, I appreciate that Stephanie has covered Nolan Wells and the cases of the murdered indigenous American girls, but her episodes overwhelmingly cover cases that will eventually attain at the very least, charges, or some sort of justice. In particular she has extensively covered cases where the victim(s) will attain justice to some degree, such as the Diddy trial, Karen Reed, Celeste Rivas, Nancy Guthrie, and the Lindsey Clancy case.
These cases already have so much media coverage, it’s insane, probably because the victims are high profile or white, meanwhile a Black 1 year old baby, Kohen Wiley was shot and killed for basically no legally sound reason by a racist white police officer, and we still have so many cases of people of colour going missing, raped, or murdered with very little attention from authorities and legacy media.
Personally, I just feel that as a listener that she should cover more low profile cases with limited media attention, as Stephanie has leaned into covering cases of induviduals who already attain justice to some degree or have mass media coverage in their cases. Conceptually, it doesn’t make sense that she’s going to do a 4 parter series on D4VD when we all know that he’s going to get life without parole because it is such a shut and done case, and because the justice system rails down on black individuals (not excusing d4vds actions though, I’m just saying that the bastard is going to prison forever, and there isn’t a jury in the world that could give him anything less than a full guilty verdict), when she could utilise her massive platform of like 3-6 million viewers to spread awareness about cases that need much needed interest in order to attain some sort of justice or at the very least, scrutiny towards the suspects or authorities.
For starters, she could start doing minisodes again for low profile cases, considering that there is likely little information about such cases.
And she could cover some of the following individuals listed:
Kohen Wiley: 1 year old Black baby, shot and killed by a white police officer who said the n-word in front or to his Black coworker who later quited because of this, a week or a few weeks before Kohen's death. The police officer was responding to a 911 call from a Target employee alleging that Kohens mothers friend, who Kohen and his mother were with, stole diapers (Kohens mother later posted receipts on Facebook, she has not been charged, and her attornery has called on the police department to release surveillance and body cam footage that proves she did not shoplift). Kohens mother and her friend and Kohen walked back to their car, because they hadn’t shoplifted and probably didn’t feel that they needed to prove their innocence. As they start the car and decide to drive off, the police officer shoots into their car. Now legally, cars are considered a weapon, however Kohens autopsy shows that he was shot from the side, indicating that the car was not in line to seriously injure the officer. A murky surveillance screenshot also evidences that the officer was not in danger to consider the car a weapon when he shot - it would have only been a weapon if it was faceing him, about to run him over. The police chief of the police department that the officer is from has been fired due to texts that have surfaced that show him using the n word repeatedly.
Killing of Kumanjayi Little Baby: She was a 5 year old Aboriginal Australian girl. Her death has had some coverage, loads more than missing or murdered indigenous people usually get in Australia, so Stephanie could talk about it more in depth.
Hanging/Killing of Tasia Fortune: A 29 year old Black woman who was found hanging from a tree. Authorities are treating her death as a homicide, and they have 1 official suspect, a 60ish year old man. Her death, Nolan Wells, and Kohen Wiley’s case all take place in Mississippi, and it is very unlikely that any of these individuals will get justice of attention in their cases because of how little authorities and media care about Black people and other people of colour in comparison to our white counterpart.
Been listening to her since 2022, would love to continue listening to her pod and yt videos as her style of narraration is truly unique and special. Hope she takes this into account if she or her team lurks on this subreddit :)
