On June 12, 1972 Adrien McNaughton a five year old boy, vanished during a fishing trip with his family in the backwoods of Arnprior Eastern Ontario. Canadian filmmaker David Ridgen teams up with CBC to create Someone Knows Something, a podcast devoted to opening up cold cases and investigating them through journalistic measures. A cold case investigating podcast on Adrien McNaughton's disappearance hoping to give Adrian's parents Murray and Barb McNaughton some closure after more than 40 years without their son. David Ridgen is not new to cold cases, he has history of cold case podcast with the CBC prior. Ridgen grew up in Arnprior and is familiar with the McNaughton’s case. David ariased “Coming from Arnprior, this is one of those cases that …show more content…
has been mentioned ever since I can remember. I moved there probably two weeks after he disappeared, so we'd just arrived and the case was there.” Ridgen was hesitant at first to investigate this cold case, not knowing if everything he did in past cases were really worth it. David Ridgen says “opening a wound to heal it.” is effective having a fresh pair of eye view the evidence and interview witnesses can bring light onto a cold case such as Adrien McNaughtons. Throughout this podcast Ridgen visits the small lake West of Calabogie where Adrien was last seen and conducts interviews with the McNaughton family as well as people in the community which allows the listener to develop a sense of what could have happened to young Ardien Mcnaughton on that summer day of 1972. The pacing in the first two episodes is not effective for this podcast.
In episode one the focus was more on the emotion from Adrien's family not as much the information we already knew about the McNaughton case. Adrien's mother said “Good things happen to little boys sometimes.” Episode two has more new information but is still repetitive of known information. Another ineffective component is Ridgens unrelated dialogue in the second episode. By having this sort of opening to a episode diminishes interest of the listener trying to focus on the details of this podcast. Throughout the first two episodes Ridgen use of sound really sets the mood of all being connected with one another in Adrien's town. The music during interviews was carefully chosen by Ridgen, the music is very effective in portraying the emotion of nostalgia tied into the conversation. The use of raw authentic sounds of Ridgen’s environment is effective. Even though the raw sounds of knocking on Adrien’s door and walking through the wooded area where Adrien was last seen help you understand that this is a real cold case, being done in real time, with real people, these sounds are a higher volume than the rest making them stand out a little too much and causing you to come back to reality when you are in that listening mode during a …show more content…
podcast. David Ridgen is a great voice for this podcast because he is easy to listen to and has a welcoming voice.
The use of voice overs in this podcast has more cons than pros. The voice overs did a great job of giving background information on the case and set a tone for the next interview or speaker, the voice over tend to cut in at unlikely times taking away from the conversation taking place. The voice overs at the beginning of the podcasts, usually about Ridgen weren’t effective or needed, but they did set a tone for that particular podcast but the time could have been more effectively used to express something relevant to the cold case of Adrien Mcnaughton. The use of interviews in this podcast was effective. During Ridgens interviews with Adrien’s family as well as Mr.Ring Ridgen is able to share each person's ideas and theories about Adrien's disappearance, these interview effectively give you background on Adrien's family town and events that happened that day in june. Hearing Adrien’s parents and sibling talk about him you get a great understanding of Adrien’s personally and makes you think about how strange a boy such as Adrien could vanish without a trace. I believe this podcast is a open style with real time interviews and events Ridgen takes you with him throughout his journey trying to solve this cold case. Using the format of always recording and open interviews give the listener little pieces of background to what the speaker is actually like and a reminder that
these are real people not actors for a tv show. Ridgen often takes a section of the podcast to reflect of theories and information shared in that podcast such as a recap with I believe to be effective a little recap and some situations that could have happened to Adrien in a good way to end a podcast leave the listener thinking about what is going to discover next and what could arise in this cold case. The Someone Knows Something podcast overall message is unfortunately bad things happen sometimes that parents have no control over and in the end it is not one fault. As humans we try to make sense of the inevitable things that happen, to better understand how we can prevent or be prepared for everything. During this podcast it was very easy for me to connect to this cold case, having a 5 year old niece that I am very close to the thought of something such as this happen to her and not knowing what happen would destroy me. I always find myself worrying about the different scenarios that could happen and the best way to prevent those things from happening to my niece. Hearing this story about Adrien McNaughton makes you realize that bad things happen to little children sometimes, and sometimes there is nothing you can do about it, we should not lay blame on the parents over an inevitable situation. I think this story is significant to the world we live in because every parent is worried about their children and the thought of what if. As parents you do everything in your power to protect your children, when hearing a story such as Adrien’s no parent wants to be labeled as a bad mother or father, or the parent that let that happen to their child. When looking at the principles of public broadcasting this podcast does not meet most of the criteria. This podcast does not give a voice to any minorities, the main voices in this podcast are caucasian males. Global or regional issues are also not address in this podcast, the main focus is investigating a cold case in a small community. Ridgen is not constricted nor encouraged by any groups or business to express all details involving this cold case investigation. In conclusion the elements used were not effective in making this a great podcast. There could have been a better way of displaying this information on a cold case that did not go anywhere and this podcast slot could have been used more effectively to talk about pressing issues that face our world today.
On June 9th 1959 near Clinton, Ontario 14-year-old Steven Truscott gave his classmate 12-year-old Lynne Harper a ride on his bike from their school down to Highway 8 (Ontario Justice Education Network Timeline of Events for the Steven Truscott Case). This sole event would be the one to change his life forever. The next day Lynne’s body was discovered near Lawson’s bush (close to the area in which he dropped her off) where she had been strangled, sexually assaulted and subsequently killed. That day Constable Hobbs conducted lengthy seven-hour interview on young Steven Truscott in which he asked him a number
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The Web. 28 Feb 2014 Christopher, Liam. “Mother ‘vindicated’ after girl’s murder suspect held.” Daily Post. 18 Aug. 2006: 19:. Proquest Newsstand.
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er was a serial killer that committed 17 murders over a period of 13 years. A serial murderer is someone that has “killed 3 or more people over a period of days, weeks, months, years, or decades” (Fleming, 2014). Dahmer is a killer that had many paraphilias that will be discussed as well as the characteristics that classify him as a sexual sadist. A sexual sadist is someone that experiences sexual pleasure from acts of cruelty (Marshall & Kennedy, 2003). Dahmer chose a select type of victim groups, this case study will find out why he chose those victims and what his intentions were. The behaviour of Jeffrey Dahmer was one that resembled a serial killer with a number of signature behaviours ranging from lack of remorse to cannibalism.
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Katz, Helena. Cold Cases : Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, And Disappearances In America. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2010. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web.