6 May 2020

Verified podcast creator Susanne Reber

From Nine To Noon, 10:06 am on 6 May 2020

Kathryn's feature guest Susanne Reber has a passion for bringing difficult stories to listeners' ears. She's the executive producer and creator of a podcast called Verified, which details the deeds of Italian policeman Dino Maglio, who used the Couchsurfing website to host young female travelers in his Padua home, drug and sexually assault them.

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The podcast, which just hit one million downloads, focuses on how the women came together to fight for their justice through the Italian court system. Susanne has a long history with podcasts, she was the co-creator and former executive editor of Reveal, and prior to that she set up and ran NPR's investigative unit.

She's also the author of Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild, which details the shocking death of a 17-year-old indigenous boy in Saskatoon, and the local police practice of driving young native men to the edge of town and abandoning them - so-called "starlight tours".