The Clearing: When a Daughter Turns In Her Serial Killer Father

A groundbreaking podcast explores April Balascio's decision to report Edward Wayne Edwards for murders spanning decades—and the ethical questions that followed.

In July 2019, Pineapple Street Media and Gimlet Media premiered The Clearing, an eight-episode podcast hosted by veteran journalist Josh Dean that chronicles April Balascio's extraordinary decision to suspect and report her own father, serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, to police in 2009.