Criminal Creators & Guests

Phoebe Judge is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured on a numerous national radio programs. She is a co-founder of the podcast Criminal, and is the host of the podcasts, This is Love and Phoebe Reads a MysteryShe regularly conducts interviews and anchors WUNC's broadcast of Here & Now. Previously, Phoebe served as producer, reporter and guest host for the nationally distributed public radio program The Story. Earlier in her career, Phoebe reported from the gulf coast of Mississippi. She covered the BP oil spill and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for Mississippi Public Broadcasting and NPR.Her work has won multiple Edward R. Murrow and Associated Press awards.

Jackie Sojico is the Producer of The Longest Shortest Time Podcast.

Nadia Wilson is currently a senior producer for Criminal. Before that, she was a producer for NPR’s How To Do Everything and Planet Money.

Lauren is the producer of Criminal and This Is Love, and the producer, director and editor for The Story with Dick Gordon. She is from Durham, North Carolina and has previously been a teacher as well as a producer at NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR's Bryant Park Project, and American Public Media’s The Story with Dick Gordon.

Susannah Roberson is an assistant producer of the Criminal Podcast.

Amy Westervelt is an award-winning journalist with eighteen years' experience writing about health, psychology, technology, business, and environmental issues. Her work has recently appeared in Popular Science, Elle, Smithsonian, and Aeon. As a cofounder of Climate Confidential--an award-winning collaboration between six female journalists who syndicated environmental reporting to various national outlets--she helped get longform investigative environmental journalism into a host of national publications, including The Atlantic, Quartz, Smithsonian, Modern Farmer, and many more. In 2014 she was awarded a Rachel Carson Award for environmental journalism.

Jack Barsky is an IT specialist and author.

Gina Perry is an Australian writer, science historian, and Author of the book 'The Lost Boys.'

Amy Loughren is an American reiki master and former registered nurse. She is known for assisting in the arrest and prosecution of serial murderer Charlie Cullen.Loughren worked with and befriended Cullen in the intensive care unit at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey. In 2003, she joined a law enforcement investigation into deaths associated with Cullen. He was arrested and convicted for 29 murders.

Errol Morris is a film director.

Ragnar Jónasson is a bestselling author of crime fiction and an investment banker.

Sheila Wysocki is a licensed private investigator, known for her work on cold criminal cases.Wysocki became a private investigator in order to help solve the cold-case murder of her college roommate, Angie Samota. Realizing that her skills could help other people, she began her professional career.

Martha Minow is the writer and author of When Should Law Forgive?.

Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph based in New Orleans, and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

Aaron Goings is an author.

Dr. Diane Atkinson is an author and historian who specializes in women in history, especially the history of the Suffragettes in England.Previously, Atkinson was a curator at the Museum of London, where she prepared their Suffragette exhibition in 1992.Atkinson's first book, "The Purple, White and Green: Suffragettes in London," was published in 1992She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. She married the artist Patrick Hughes in 1986.

Susan Wels is a bestselling author, historian, and journalist.

Stacy St. Clair is a journalist, currently reporting for the Chicago Tribune.Previously, St. Claire reported for the Daily Herald, the Dayton Daily News and The Topeka Capital-Journal. She has received numerous national honors for her work.St. Clair received her B.A. in Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, with minors in American politics and Spanish.

M. Chris Fabricant is an author, lawyer, and expert on the use of junk science in the criminal justice system. Currently, he is Director of Strategic Litigation at The Innocence Project.Fabricant's first book, "Busted!: Drug War Survival Skills," was published in 2009. His most recent book, "Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System," was published in 2022.Fabricant received his B.A. from the University of Arizona and his J.D. in Criminal Law from The George Washington University Law School.