Individuals are listening to an rising quantity of podcasts during the last decade and chief among the many genres is true crime. Now, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace is without doubt one of the newest organizations to hop on the development.
Bexar County True Crimes Podcast, co-hosted by Sheriff Javier Salazar and Fox San Antonio investigative reporter Yami Virgin, dropped its first episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts on Oct. 26.
As soon as a month, the sheriff will decide circumstances to spotlight which have both gone by means of the courtroom course of or are unsolved, stated Virgin, who has intensive expertise overlaying crime and in addition hosts a podcast on immigration.
“Alternating between the adjudicated circumstances and the chilly circumstances, I feel it’s an important components to carry extra consideration to those lacking folks’s circumstances and in addition to the officers and the work that they do every single day,” Virgin stated.
The podcast begins by dissecting “The Scorned Spouse Case” in its first three episodes, that are launched each Thursday.
In 2016, Frances Corridor was convicted of murdering her husband and enterprise associate Invoice Corridor. The 2013 homicide drew worldwide headlines as particulars of Invoice Corridor’s affair with a youthful lady emerged as Frances Corridor’s motive for driving her husband, who was on a motorbike, off of Loop 1604.
Within the podcast, Bexar County investigator Ruben Arevalos, who labored on the Corridor case, talks by means of the twists and turns of the investigation, forensics, arrest, trial and sentencing of Frances Corridor, who acquired the minimal, two-year sentence after being convicted of homicide and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon.
A fourth episode will likely be recorded to reply listeners’ questions concerning the case, which started pouring in earlier this month, Virgin stated.
“It’s not like CSI” or different crime TV reveals, Virgin stated, as a result of actual investigations take time and don’t all the time find yourself with the dangerous man in jail.
A part of Virgin’s position on the podcast is to steer Salazar and different legislation enforcement friends away from “cop speak,” which may be stuffed with jargon, she stated. “I’m actually there to information issues — to maintain it conversational.”
Each Virgin and Salazar stated they perceive the significance of avoiding the tendency that many true crime podcasts must sensationalize tales about actual human beings.
This podcast will keep on with the details of the circumstances, no matter they might be, Virgin stated. Generally the details are salacious, she famous, which was true with the Corridor case.
Salazar stated he needs to make use of the platform to unfold consciousness of sources for home violence survivors — in addition to assist generate new leads for chilly circumstances.
“There are chilly circumstances that we actually need assistance from the general public to unravel,” Salazar stated. “And we’ve bought some chilly circumstances that return a long time.”
Within the first episode, Salazar does a public service announcement about home violence and what listeners ought to do in the event that they’re in that scenario.
“On the root of this, it’s a home violence case that — like we all know home violence circumstances are inclined to do — escalated to the purpose the place the sufferer died,” Salazar stated.
The podcast may additionally develop into a platform for crime victims and the households of victims to inform their very own tales, he stated. “We’re simply form of within the early phases of this and deciding the place to go from right here.”
The sheriff’s workplace is much from the primary legislation enforcement company to take part in podcasting — NYPD launched its “copcast” Break within the Case in 2019 and the U.S. Marshals Service launched Chasing Evil final 12 months — however it’s among the many only a few (if any) that function a present elected company head as a bunch.
Bexar County True Crimes Podcast is produced by members of Salazar’s employees and recorded contained in the workplace’s media room. Past the time that Salazar and employees spend recording and making ready for the podcast, it’s not funded by Bexar County, he stated, noting that he could not all the time have the ability to co-host the present, if his duties intervene.
The three, 25-minute episodes took about two hours to file, Virgin stated.
The topic of the subsequent podcast hasn’t been finalized but, however Virgin hopes an upcoming sequence can deal with Patty Vaughan, who went lacking on Christmas 1996, Virgin’s first 12 months as a reporter. It’s a deeply private case for Virgin.
“I’ve stayed along with her household all the 26 years [since]together with eight years that I used to be up in Milwaukee working as a reporter,” she stated. “It simply breaks my coronary heart as a result of I promised them I’d be there till the day that we discovered Patty.”
