Rude Awakening

By: Sheree Ann Martines, John Robert Whedbee

Narrated by: Rich Brennan

The reporters said it was a sexy story-church, money, greed, adultery, blood, a defenseless child with profound disabilities, and a good man who never saw it coming, all the elements that garnered column inches and high ratings.

The main players on the stage included a talented journalist who played the organ at church, a cunning narcissist who hid behind a pretty face and a sweet demeanor, and a respected businessman and father. The plan, her plan, unfolded in the early morning hours of June 8, 1994, when a flyspeck of a man dressed in black, covetous and possessed by passion, clutched a large knife in his gloved hands and stood above his sleeping prey. He could not know, as the blade arced toward its target, how many lives would be forever changed by their crimes.

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Good story, odd production

Interesting case, and Bob Whedbee certainly deserves this opportunity to set the record straight. The narrator is okay. The production is sprinkled with sound effects: doors creak, phone conversations sound like they are spoken through a megaphone, and inner thoughts are delivered from an echo chamber, all of which creates an unintentional Scooby Doo comic effect.