Spoilery review! The story is fascinating but the podcast leaves much to be desired. I'm sorry to say I don't think very highly of the investigative reporter's skills. Spoilers below: There are many elements completely glossed over and left totally unexplored, such as the fact that she met her husband first as the 17 year old babysitter and what might have precipitated his sudden departure from his wife and home, or what exactly she may have been doing with her time while she was pretending to be getting treatment, or what she did with the money. I also think the podcast and listeners would have benefitted greatly from having some guests on to discuss, such as an oncologist who could speak to just how ridiculous her claims were, and a psychologist who could speak to the damage caused by that kind of long term deception. They didn't even attempt an educated guess as to the cash and other donations that weren't part of the wire fraud case. And it sounds like stepdaughter Jessa was being possibly abused, and possibly even that the custody case was to get her as a full time caretaker for Amanda's children, but that wasn't even broached as a topic. They never even ask what Amanda was actually doing in all of that time, or where the money actually went. If she was in what looked like a large church, SURELY there were some medical professionals there who could tell her constant remissions from stage 4 cancer were total nonsense. I find it difficult to believe that there were no skeptics there, and if the reporter couldn't find any, then see my above statement about this reporter's investigative skills. The storytelling is sloppy, and the timeline is incredibly muddied. And the very premise of the reporter being sent a tip by a whistleblower is never addressed clearly -- I assumed for a bit that it was Aletta, but then they said it wasn't her, but never brought up the identity of the whistleblower again. Even a comment at the end saying that the original whistleblower never revealed themself or something would have been helpful. I saw someone say that the podcast fundamentally doesn't understand its listeners -- no one is hooked and listening to find out the legal outcome, anybody can google that she was sentenced -- we want to know how and why she did it! Ultimately interesting but unsatisfying, and the reporting is anything from mildly incompetent to irresponsible. I think in the hands of better producers it could have been very good, but as it is the best parts of it are the actual story itself and the voice actress who read Amanda's posts.