THE UNFORGOTTEN
UNNATURAL
CAUSES
A nine-part true crime podcast that tells the story of how one of Texas’ most prolific serial killers targeted older Americans through the cracks of a broken system.
UNNATURAL CAUSES is the second season of THE UNFORGOTTEN, a true-crime podcast from Free Range Productions. Hosted by award-winning journalist Charlie Scudder, it takes you behind the scenes of an astounding criminal investigation and reveals failure after failure of a system meant to protect some of the most vulnerable people in society.
For years, murders were brushed aside as heart attacks and theft reports went ignored as one of the most prolific serial killers in Texas history stalked vulnerable victims at luxury senior living communities. THE UNFORGOTTEN: UNNATURAL CAUSES does what the police and senior living facilities where they lived and died failed or refused to do: String together evidence that points to years of failed care into a riveting story. It helps listeners understand the harm that can come to their aging loved ones when the system meant to safeguard them fails catastrophically — and the emotional toll that these families have faced when pleading, in vain, for officials to more closely scrutinize these peculiar and untimely deaths.