If you are looking for a podcast about the Move cult, this one is light years better than the propaganda other podcast.

I binged both seasons. Excellent research and storytelling. Lots of new information about the MOVE organization, which I assumed was non existent after 1983. I highly recommend for crime lovers and true story enthusiasts. This is a crazy story that has been told from many perspectives, but this is a fresh, well researched angle at the cult in its current form. It was great to get firsthand account from the former group members who escaped before it was too late! Kudos for their inspirational bravery.

I’ve learned a lot about MOVE since I found the blog and first listened to the podcast, but this podcast has such little sense of nuance. They tend to very passively describe the atrocities that happened against MOVE in favor of a sympathetic portrayal of the racist and violent Philadelphia police department and (in)justice system. We can at once recognize that MOVE was in fact a cult—an abusive and sociopolitically backwards one at that—without undermining the systemic racism and anti-blackness that motivated the coordinated attack against MOVE and Osage Ave. Additionally, as an Anthropologist/Ethnogropher I take issue with the hosts inability to discern violence and abuse from peculiar cultural differences, she often takes a sensationalist tone and it’s uncomfortable. While I appreciate how crucial these stories are, the platform this podcast has given ex-MOVE members, the host was NOT the right person to tell this story. In short: this podcast is socially narrow minded and it’s giving liberal cop apologist. Informative and Disappointing.

This podcast should be receiving a lot more attention and wider listenership. If you believe in BLM, social justice, and simply justice in general, you should be following this story. After decades of gaslighting and intimidation from this cult, and the complicity of police and government officials, the truth is finally coming out. And it’s more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Listen, and tell your friends.

I am a Philly resident. I remember both confrontations with MOVE. This podcast has drawn me all the way in. I hope justice will prevail for the Gilbride family. This is so shocking and sad. Well researched and has made me look closer. Great work

This podcast includes extensive research and first hand accounts/interviews that are truly eye opening. A deep dive if I’ve ever seen one. Great work uncovering all these connections, I hope this gets national attention as there are still living people tied to these allegations who can be held accountable. So many atrocities, basically pushed under the rug for years.

The way they’re telling and starting the story is very opaque. She starts in the middle and fast forwards and rewinds without much narrative strategy. I’m confused. I also am not clear on the host’s motivations. Could be good, but I’m annoyed at her lack of storytelling ability. Don’t expect Serial or NPR or Wondery style - it’s a bit rough.

This production has some strong points, like giving voice to MOVE members. However, the “context” host Beth offers about May 13th and other larger moments in Philly history lack citation and often lean towards sympathy with police, and justification for the deaths and imprisonments of the Africa’s. If there is a season two, please consider this; the devastating effects of intergenerational trauma this moment had on the entire community, who is the root cause (city of Philadelphia, now University of Pennsylvania is involved), and some of the efforts to recover from that beyond this podcast.

Justice for the children now adults who had to grow- up in MOVE. This is a very important podcast that needs nation attention.

This is an excellent podcast for anyone with an interest in true crime, cults, or investigative journalism. At its heart, Murder at Ryan’s Run is about an investigation into an unsolved murder but it’s much, much more than that — including an exposé of major claims of child abuse that have yet to be investigated by authorities, and a deep dive into a dangerous cult that has impacted a major American city in profound ways. This podcast deserves widespread discovery and recognition!

WHY ARE THERE NUMEROUS ‘TEASERS’??? WHICH ONE IS THE FIRST PODCAST EPISODE????? You already lost me with such horse hockey for non-episodes.

This is a very important story!

I'm so glad someone is finally diving into this story and unearthing the truths. This podcast is well-researched, well assembled and is packaged and presented in a respectful and professional way. I can't wait to hear more episodes. Great work!

Free the trapped move members

Brave, raw and honest.