The Clearing

The Clearing introduces Crime Show, a new podcast from Gimlet that features stories of crimes, told by the people who lived them. In this episode, a social worker doesn’t hear from a client that she had placed at a boarding house. When she investigates, she discovers that her client isn’t the only one who is missing. To listen to more episodes of Crime Show, head to http://gimlet.media/crime-show.

It’s 1987, and the Chippendales dancers are packing nightclubs across America with their sold-out male exotic dance shows. As crowds of women scream for the mullets, the spandex, and the tans … a shocking event about to change the course of the brand and its booming business forever. 

On a farm in Wisconsin, April sees some good.

April finds a connection in Akron, OH.

How to solve a murder and why you probably won’t.

What else could Ed Edwards have done?

Confronting the myth of Ed Edwards.

How one murder case turned into three.

Who the hell was Edward Wayne Edwards anyway?

April reads a news story and everything changes.

Listen to the first two episodes of The Clearing starting July 18. 

More than 20 years after she last lived with her father, April Balascio discovered new information that confirmed something she’d desperately hoped was not true. Her father, Edward Wayne Edwards, was a murderer. The Clearing is about what came after April called a detective in 2009 to tell him about her suspicions — a call that led to her father’s arrest and eventual conviction on multiple murders ...