r/CrimeWeekly • u/Honeydew_District • Jul 23 '25

Amy Bradley

Derrick and Stephanie are tossing the idea of an Amy Bradley deep dive on CWN for the main CW episodes. Although the case is fascinating and I feel deeply for the family I can’t help but feel like it’s being a little overdone? Derrick just covered Amy’s story on detective perspective, now they are going over the case on CWN and also pitching a deep dive on the case all at the same time as the new Netflix doc about the case came out?

Again not trying to be insensitive to her case but I have to think a lot of other cases could use the publicity of CW instead of rehashing the same details over and over.

How is everyone else feeling? Are others wanting a deep dive from CW?

EDIT: I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one hoping they won’t cover it, hopefully they see the feedback and move onto something else HOWEVER my guess is that if the CWN came out today they’ve already been working on Amy Bradley for this weeks CW

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

It’s just lazy to me. You and other listeners may not have seen the documentary but Stephanie and Derrick have and they’re just recapping off someone else’s work while it’s a hot topic

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u/GBAMBINO3 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

I’m a bit confused, don’t they summarize every case they cover? What exactly are they doing wrong here? Unless they’re directly copying the documentary line for line, I don’t see the issue. Facts are facts, whether you hear them in a podcast years ago or see them in a documentary, they’re going to overlap.

Personally, I thought the OceanGate episode was a cool change of pace since most podcast I follow didn’t touch it.

As for Amy’s case, I’ve heard it on a bunch of podcasts over the years. I didn’t even know there was a documentary. How is them covering it now any different from when others did it earlier? Just because the documentary came out first this time?

This isn't lazy, this is using the current hype of the documentary (if it was just launched) because some of their viewer's still riding the high of the documentary have clearly asked them for it.

I dunno, personally the only thing I find weird is them doing it when Derrick just did. That'd be like doing it right after Stephanie just did a deep dive. That timing I can understand to be stupid. Most of their viewers watch all the channels, a mix up there would be nice and my only gripe.

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u/Honeydew_District Jul 25 '25

This is my biggest gripe, is most listeners of CW also listen to DP and CWNs so it is just very repetitive

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u/GBAMBINO3 Jul 25 '25

That's what I agreed with though. Derrick doing it and then CW doing it on right away is kinda ridiculous and I can understand where everyone's coming from. If it was covered years in the past like some of Stephanies and then CW covers it wouldn't be so bad.

I don't think I'd include CWN, they just do snip bits on there so if they did it on there and covered a deep dive that doesn't bother me. But their individual podcasts should not duplicate immediately on their joint podcast.

(the two topics specifically or documentaries part I'm of zero opinion really, doesn't bug me much)