Listen to the True Crime Podcast Based on Trainer Karen Graham’s Family
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By Delores Kuhlwein
One of Voyage Media’s newest podcasts explores a true crime story that hits home for renowned AQHA trainer Karen (Dunlap) Graham of Cave Creek, Arizona.
It’s the story of the injustice of the accusation and conviction of her father, Max Dunlap, in the assassination of Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles in 1976. The story was big news over many years in her home state and across the U.S., as it was the first assassination of an investigative journalist in modern America.
The podcast exposing the truth, thanks to Karen and to Pulitzer-Prize nominated reporter Don Devereaux, was released this week. Karen says, “47 years later my family’s story is finally told. It’s not an easy post for me, but I’m wanting all the press I can get because the State of Arizona is guilty of so many things. They literally shredded all the surveillance records that proved my dad was telling the truth. The policemen involved testified to it.”
The story was decades in the making, and when it released this week, industry friends all breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the truth was finally out. “My dear friend Karen Graham is my hero,” says Andrea Simons. “The strength and determination that it took to share her family’s story is truly incredible. One of the best podcasts around!”
Read the Voyage Media summary of the must-listen-to podcast:
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A new true crime story about innocence, guilt, and the thin line that divides them when you’re accused of a crime… The Patsy. Narrated by The West Wing’s Joshua Malina. We don’t think about journalists being killed in America. But it happens here too. On June 2, 1976, Don Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, was killed by a car bomb in the parking lot of a hotel in Phoenix – the first assassination of an investigative journalist in modern America. Bolles had been writing about corruption in the state, especially the connection between the dog racing industry and the mafia. Max Dunlap, a local heavy dirt contractor and family man with seven children, was accused and ultimately convicted of involvement in the crime.
The new true crime podcast The Patsy investigates his story, through the eyes of his daughter Karen, and Pulitzer-Prize nominated reporter Don Devereaux, who long suspected Max’s innocence, and spent decades finding evidence to support it. A story that goes from street-level hoodlums to the mafia, to the district attorney’s office, all the way up to the governor’s mansion.
Listen to the podcast on Spotify:
