Today we’d like to introduce you to Brandy Morris. Them and their team share their story with us below:
Cold Case Retrace Podcast is a true-crime podcast focusing on Cold Cases. Hosted by Brandy Morris and Kayla Buckley, who have a shared passion for finding the voices of victims of crime. We decided to focus the majority of our content on Cold Cases – cases that local law enforcement officials have spent countless hours of dedicated work trying to solve. We have shared graduate degrees in Criminal Justice and have spent a good portion of our careers in forensic medicine. We’re hopeful that our degrees combined with experience, will give us a leg-up, and will people within the community will be drawn to us and our stories. We decided we want to collaborate with law enforcement and help them take their hard work to the next level – podcasting. We want to be a resource and an ally working towards the same goal – solving Cold Cases and bringing families justice. Initially, we’ll be focusing on Cold Cases within our home state of Ohio but do plan to expand if our podcast grows. We plan to drop our pilot episode late summer 2022. We really hope you’ll join us.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
For the most part, since we announced our podcast idea, the support we’ve received has been extremely humbling. We had to get over some personal nerves and decided to reach out to local law enforcement as well as our state crime lab and presented our ideas and vision. We’ve met with and spoken to Cincinnati Police Department’s Cold Case Unit and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Cold Unit. Both of them, have agreed to work with us in some capacity. While both of us are avid true crime podcast listeners, we are very green when it comes to recording. Despite this, we’re hopeful that we’ll figure this part out and that we’ll be recording very, very soon.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
We will not mention what we currently do as our “day jobs,” but Kayla and I have dedicated our careers to helping victims of violence. Working within the field of forensic medicine has allowed us to understand and appreciate just how vital it is to help people who have been victimized find their voices again. I think I can answer for both of us when I say that we’re most proud of our dual degrees – the commitment we made to take our work further, to educate ourselves, and become more verse in the field. As mentioned before, we hope that this sets us apart from other true crime podcasts.
What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
We are well aware that the podcast industry is already full of so many amazing true crime podcasts – most of them we’re fans of ourselves. We would be honored to join their family and someday their ranks. We personally believe that the interest and curiosity with true crime will continue to grow and we definitely want to help make a difference. Our hope is that with more and more exposure people will feel safer about coming forward with information that they may know. Right now, the trend is true crime podcasts and we would love to see a shift take place where the general public steps up and helps the true crime podcasters, who in turn will help law enforcement solve more cases.
Contact Info:
- Website: coldcaseretrace.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/cold.case.retrace
- Facebook: facebook.com/coldcaseretrace
- Twitter: twitter.com/ColdCaseRetrace
Image Credits
Andrew Brumagen
Dateline NBC
