Join award-winning Dallas journalist Charlie Scudder for a special preview of THE UNFORGOTTEN: UNNATURAL CAUSES, a new investigative true crime podcast. UNNATURAL CAUSES tells the story of Dallas’ most prolific serial killer, who targeted healthy, active women in exclusive senior living communities and their own homes. Because of their age and where they lived, officials assumed that heart attacks, strokes and other natural causes were to blame. Why were officials so quick to brush aside the deaths as natural? How did the killer use the cracks of a broken system to target some of society’s most vulnerable people? And how can we be sure it doesn’t happen again? Learn more and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Charlie Scudder is a professor of practice in SMU Meadows’ Division of Journalism who teaches classes on digital journalism, news reporting, journalism ethics and critical thinking.

He is a freelance writer and editor based in Dallas-Fort Worth whose work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Dallas Morning News, Tampa Bay Times, USA TODAY, Gannett newspapers, SAVEUR magazine, Texas Monthly, Garden & Gun and others. He has made broadcast appearances on NPR’s Morning Edition, MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, FOX News’s Shepard Smith Reporting, and local talk radio stations in Ireland, Seattle, Fargo and more. He has also appeared on international broadcasts on Israeli, Canadian and Swedish television.

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