''The Fall Line'' is an American
true crime
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The crimes most commonly include murder; about 40 per ...
podcast that covers lesser-known cases of murder and disappearance from minority communities in
Georgia
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* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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. As of January 2021, it is an independent podcast, after having been part of the
Exactly Right Podcast Network for 2 years. The podcast has helped to publicize the
disappearance of Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook, a cold case from
Augusta, Georgia
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History
In 2017, Laurah Norton decided to make a podcast focusing on cases that had received little attention and had victims from underserved or marginalized communities. She first decided to focus on the Millbrook twins after hearing an episode of ''Thin Air'' discussing their case. Together with producer Brooke Gently-Hargrove, she launched ''The Fall Line'' on June 12, 2017.Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
.
Episodes
The first season of the podcast focuses on the Millbrook twins, who disappeared in 1990. The second season deals with the 1989 disappearance of Monica and Michael Bennett, while the third season examines the "Grady babies", seven kidnapped children born at Atlanta's Grady Hospital. The podcast's fourth season largely focuses on cold cases involving LGBT
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victims and Jane Does. The fifth season debuted in August 2019 and recounts the circumstances of the 1998 disappearance of 8-year-old Shy’kemmia Pate in Unadilla, Georgia
Unadilla is a city in Dooly County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,796 at the 2010 census, up from 2,772 in 2000. Dooly State Prison is located in the northeast corner of the city.
History
Unadilla is a name derived from the Iroquo ...
. The podcast has since released episodes covering the Jane Doe and unmatched confessions of serial killer Samuel Little
Samuel Little (born Samuel McDowell; June 7, 1940 – December 30, 2020) was an American serial killer who confessed to murdering 93 women between 1970 and 2005. In 2014 he was convicted of the murders of Linda Alford, Guadalupe Duarte Apodaca, ...
, the unsolved Atlanta Lovers' Lane Murders, the cold-case murder of Georgia Leah Moses, and dozens of other cases.
See also
* '' Last Podcast on the Left''
References
2017 podcast debuts
Audio podcasts
Crime podcasts
Non-fiction works about serial killers
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