Great interviewing, audio, story telling. Intriguing and disturbing.

Exactly the kind of garbage that you would expect from the moronic mind of Ben Shapiro. A bunch of lies and half truths just like the daily wire

This podcast has been on my list for awhile and I’m glad to have finally listened.

Excellent story telling with fascinating anecdotes.

Great job on presenting the facts. Fantastic narration and the host is incredible. Really enjoyed listening to this series. Highly recommend

Highly recommend. Organized story telling. Infuriating case.

Really detailed and covers so much information. Well edited and enjoyable to listen to. Thanks for the great entertainment!

Already on episode 5. So compelling. A great listen for any true crime fan.

Wonderfully crafted and utterly compelling. Thank you!

Wonderfully researched, couldn’t stop listening. Love the respect and focus on the victims and their stories and loved ones. Can’t wait for season 2.

Out of this world! Such respect shown to all the victims from the Producer. I’m so impressed with your work.

Excellent investigative journalism, very professional, very compassionate towards the subject matter, and extremely well produced! I binged the podcast in a few days! Thank you!

This show has such a good presentation on the case of the Boston Strangler (or stranglers). The use of interviews with people who lived this case and actors made it hard to stop listening to. I found it hard to hit the pause button. Great listen!

This is the first podcast I ever listened to and I’m hooked. Can’t wait for another season!

The best podcast I’ve ever listened to.

If you like crime, give it a try. Started to peter out for me toward the end of the series, but I still recommend it.

So well researched and narrated. Wish Portland Helmick would do another case!

So well done! Presents the facts without sensationalism and your organization of the story and the way it’s told is excellent!

This was an extremely well produced and intriguing podcast. Sensitively told but did not gloss over the acts of this evil man and what these victims suffered. I highly recommend this top notch podcast to anyone who wants to understand the fear that gripped Boston at the time and the lives lost because these women opened the door and evil walked in.

Well researched and presented in a professional, even-handed manner.

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this podcast. The interviews were amazing and the whole podcast keeps me captivated and easy to follow. I am going to listen again for the second time.

This podcast is excellent. The presentation is the best l’ve heard in a podcast. I hope that Portland has done or in the future will do another report. (I am listening to this in August 2019.)

This was absolutely heartfelt and I’m quite sure very hard to due after so many years I’m glad this story was told meaning the behind the seance

I have run thru all my favs. I like dark, smart well researched material. I heard an ad for this podcast and gave it a try. It’s very well done, lots of facts, tie ins, human interest and history. NO MINDLESS BABBLE!!! Thank you!!! I am sooo over hosts wasting my time w 20 min of gunk trying to be cool and chatty over crap I don’t care about. I am here for the crime. This podcast delivers!

This is probably the best true crime podcast out there. Beautifully produced and the interviews are extremely compassionate and not exploitative. I’ve listened to this podcast a couple times through because it’s that good. I will say that if you’re a female living alone, I’d be very wary of listening to this. It’s extremely scary and made me think twice about trusting anyone.

So interesting and well done. ❤️ love love love it!! Can’t wait for more I hope fingers crossed 🤞

This was one of the best crime podcasts I’ve listened to! Very informative and such a soothing voice. Highly recommend!

Still with me, two years after I first heard it. A new and affecting take on a story I thought I knew.

Well produced and researched. It’s such a huge case it would be great to have summations and more timeline recaps. For e.g. it sounds like De Salvo is likely to have committed several of the murders. It would be interesting to know how those murders align time-wise, or not, with the others. More psychology would be interesting. Some serial killers start with lower risk victims and then escalate. That could be an explanation for the change in MO. But again, the timeline got a little muddy in my mind as went went through since there was so much info.

This podcast is well research, has quality production, flows nicely, and the narrator does a great job talking through the case. I really enjoy this podcast. It keeps things interesting, build suspense and goes at the story of the Boston strangler from SO many points of view - victims families, detectives, friends of victims, women in Boston at the time & even brings in authors who have extensively written about the case!! 5 stars, well done!!!

You will not regret spending some time to binge this podcast. I listened to the whole series the moment I found it as it’s very addictive. The use of audio contemporary to the murders in 1962 and 1962, music that beautifully evokes the time period (including an intro that is easily my favorite podcast intro ever (you won’t want to skip over it), superb interviews with an array of participants, and the expert use of sound to conjure the Boston of the early 1960s all combine to create an extraordinarily engrossing portrait of a lost time filled with contradictions. This was a time of innocence, exemplified by the young women in large numbers seeking jobs and excitement in the big city; and it was a time of discontent and extreme violence, as exemplified by the assassination of the (Boston Catholic) President Kennedy, which looms in the background of the Strangler’s murders. I was born well after this time period but this podcast makes me feel like I was there and can see the tough detectives working on the murders day and night, often in their own humble homes as roasts cooked in the oven for Sunday dinner and their very Catholic families prepared to attend mass. I can see the working-class Bostonians that populate this world, and most importantly, the women whose rich lives were brutally cut short. The victims, whose life experiences varied from fleeing persecution in Stalin’s Russia to moving away from a very small town in Massachusetts to find independence in the city, are respectfully revived. This is one of the best and most professionally done podcasts of the many true crime podcasts out there. It’s a fantastic deep-dive into one of the most famous “serial killer” cases of the modern era. The infamous “Boston Strangler” case is a case that many have heard of but few know the details, and very few people know that DeSalvo was NOT clearly the perp in all of these murders. That fact makes it all the more terrifying.

Great, thorough reporting. This podcast was excellent from being to end. Great job Portland and team!

This podcast is exceptionally narrated and produced. I like the chronological examination of events and the people interviewed in each episode, to include investigators, family members, authors, and reporters. The city of Boston in the early 60's comes alive in each episode. Working with sex offenders and a few serial rapists/murderers, I especially recognize and commend the emphasis on victims. Each victim becomes a person to the listener - her interests, manner of dress, occupation, and plans for the day that turned out to be her last. Thoughtful and respectful descriptions, including the horrific crime scenes. Very well done.

This is a great podcast from the narration to the story itself. I have already recommended it and will continue to do so!

Great podcast. I really knew nothing about the Boston Strangler or Stranglers. I’m now completely fascinated by it. I listened to the whole thing over 3 days & I thought it was very well done.

I listened to the entire first season in a day during a road trip and I could not listen to anything else. I absolutely love this podcast and highly recommend to anyone interested in crime.

I was hooked immediately, having known little about these horrible crimes but also the way in which Portland lets the story unfold. Tastefully done, really brought to light a larger issue and was a great memorial to those 13 women.

Got hooked on the very first episode! Good show and good storytelling!

I know quite a bit about the Boston Strangler, but this podcast presents a number of new angles. Beautifully constructed and implemented, they are doing a dynamite job. Highly recommend! So much better than another recent podcast exploring another old case that happened in Atlanta..lol.

This podcast is binge worthy.

i like it! murder mystery cold case type shows. i used to watch these all the time a while back. and about the boston strangler as well one of society’s most famous and infamous serial killers.

I listened to this podcast several times, over and over. It is fascinating and heartbreaking. Portland's voice is hypnotic - in a good way!

This podcast is fascinating. I counldn't focus on my work any more until I finished it.

Great information and organized very well! It’s an excellent podcast for people interested in true crime !

When the tales of the Boston Strangler end up having some of these suspects tied to other crimes. I highly recommend this podcast!

Great research. Great story telling. Great topic.

The last episode contextualized violence against women and violence prevention, which made me feel less macabre for listening to true crime podcasts. I didn't mind the re-enactments at all... I barely noticed them.

I caught myself not wanting to wait till the next episode or listening to anything else when I still had episodes to listen too.

Exceptional podcast, riveting from start to finish. Such high quality and a story that will have you binge listening every free second you have. Could not recommend more!

Story is interesting enough without the over dramatic re-enactments. And it’s totally unnecessary to always have a type writer sound in the background when people are speaking to indicate that they’re writing. It’s too on the nose and comes across kind of silly. The story is quite interesting but because of some of these stylistic choices it’s hard not to fast forward through a lot....