📍 Recorded Live on Chatter Social | Hosted by Joseph Lobosco & Adrienne Barker

🎧 A Debate the News: True Crime Production

What happens when a city begins to fear it’s living through the reign of a serial killer?

In this episode, hosts Adrienne Barker and Joseph Lobosco unpack the chilling case of five women murdered around Portland in 2022–2023, a series of deaths that stunned the Pacific Northwest and left families demanding answers.

What you’ll hear:

→ The stories of Kristen Smith, Joanna Speaks, Charity Perry, Bridget Webster, and Ashley Real — young women whose lives were cut short under suspicious and brutal circumstances

→ How the bodies were discovered in remote fields, culverts, farms, and forests, often far from where the women were last seen alive in Portland

→ The slow recognition of a pattern, and the public’s growing fear that a serial killer was at large

→ The arrest of Jesse Calhoun, a repeat offender controversially released early from prison after fighting wildfires, and how his background fueled outrage

→ Indictments connecting him to four murders, with one case still unresolved — and why the timeline to trial stretches into 2026–2027

→ The frustration of families who felt their daughters’ struggles with addiction, homelessness, or mental health delayed a serious response from law enforcement

→ The larger question: how many serial killers may be active across the U.S., and why are vulnerable women so often overlooked?

Debate the News: True Crime Edition is for informational and discussion purposes only. We are not attorneys, law enforcement officers, or forensic experts. While we research each case, the show is recorded live with little to no editing; any factual errors are unintentional. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Listener discretion is advised. Guest and audience views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the hosts.

→ Adrienne Barker — Co-Host

→ Joseph Lobosco — Co-Host

→ Mariana — Guest Contributor

→ Debbie — Guest Contributor

→ Mary Kim — Guest Contributor

→ Pamela — Guest Contributor

Credits:

"Debate The News: True Crime"

Created by: Jonathan Bing, Adrienne Barker and Joseph R. Lobosco

Producers: Adrienne Barker, Joseph R. Lobosco, Jonathan Bing

Writers: Adrienne Barker & Joseph R. Lobosco

Editor: Joseph R. Lobosco

Cover Art: Joseph R. Lobosco

Theme Song: Alaina Cross - Karma [NCS Release]

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