At the end of episode 1, we\nwere left with a cliffhanger with the discovery of a second barrel. The second\nepisode begins with a summary of the first episode, basically recapping. This\nepisode did not really advance the plot that much, but rather, it just shows us\nhow cold the case went. The case went cold for about fifteen or more years, so\nthis episode basically talked about what happened in those years and the\nefforts to find new leads. In the last episode, we were given the details of\nwhat happened, so in this episode, we learn of what the detectives did about\ntheir findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the beginning, they use a\nrecap to let the listeners know what happened previously. For me, it was very\nhelpful because I hadn\u2019t listened to the podcast since I posted my last blog\npost. They don\u2019t take too long to recap, just about a minute to give us the\nquick rundown of things. It was also very interesting how they used this\nepisode to reflect the period of time where nothing happened. For fifteen or so\nyears, no new discoveries or leads were found. This episode reflected that\nbecause nothing much happened in the episode, either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the last episode, we\nlearned there were actually two barrels instead of just one, and they were\nabout 300 ft away from each other. For some reason, the second barrel had gone unnoticed\nduring the time of the first barrel\u2019s investigation. So, Jason Moon uses this\ninformation to get the listeners involved by asking why\/how the barrel wasn\u2019t\nfound during the first barrel\u2019s investigation. He also plants a seed in our\nmind about how far the police search actually went, because if the barrel was\nonly 300 ft away from the first, how did the police search miss it? This helped\nthe listener get more involved with the investigation and makes us question\nthings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second barrel contained\ntwo unidentified victims\u2019 bodies as well, similar to the first. This time, we\nlearn the second barrel had the remains of two other females, both young and\nwere probably related to the first victims. We get introduced to Ronda Randall\nand her brother-in-law, John, who are both amateur investigators. The question\nis, why did they bring in two amateur investigators? What makes them significant\nenough? They invest a large amount of time and effort into helping solve the\ncase, but I believe they were important to the podcast because in the previous\nepisode, we were thrown a ton of information. So, having these two helps us\nrecap and also helps the investigators get new insight from another point of\nview. Sometimes, amateurs have really interesting insight, so I\u2019m excited to\nsee how they implement these two into the future episodes. At the end of the episode,\nwe learn that they began to start running tests to put together the information\non the victims. This way, they can perhaps find a clue or pattern and condemn\nthe murderer for their deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a lot of suspense building up because even though this episode didn\u2019t really tell us much that was new, we get introduced to some more people who might be important to the mystery and we learn that there are definitely things going on that can\u2019t be explained, but with some tests and research, things will be revealed soon. The music, like I mentioned in my last post, helped really build up the suspense with the transitions. It really sets the tone for the next episode too because at the end, it feels like we\u2019re definitely going somewhere in the next episode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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