"How Do You Talk About It as a Murder When You Think It's an Accident?" Citizen Sleuth Director Chris Kasick on His SXSW-Premiering Mile Marker 181 Doc

In the nine years since Serial, the “true crime podcaster” has become, variously, a career goal, sociological type and, in TV shows like Only Murders in the Building, object of satire. In Citizen Sleuth, world premiering in SXSW’s Documentary Spotlight section, debuting director Chris Kasick considers his voluble, no-filter subject--Emily Nestor of the Mile Marker 181 podcast--from all of these angles while also producing a work that is something of a moral reckoning for the popular audio ...