Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts Launch New Podcast

RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 3:57pm CT

''Silenced: The Radio Murders''

Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts, in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), launch a new eight-part series, "Silenced: The Radio Murders," that re-examines the murders of radio broadcasters in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood in the early 1990s. The murders were never solved. One of the detectives involved in the investigation declared, "These men were killed for words they spoke on the airwaves." The new podcast debuts Thursday.

Co-hosted by Kaleidoscope co-founder Oz Woloshyn and veteran investigative journalist Ana Arana, "Silenced: The Radio Murders" investigates the Haitian broadcasters' assassinations during a period of extraordinary hope for the establishment of democracy in Haiti. Arana first reported on these murders in the early 1990s for CPJ and is returning to the investigation in hopes of finding the masterminds behind the murders and have them held accountable.

Woloshyn has investigated the serial murders of hundreds of women along the U.S.-Mexico border in his previous podcast series, "Forgotten: Women of Juarez," and hopes to deliver a similarly far-reaching impact with "Silenced: The Radio Murders."

Arana remarked, "When we began this podcast we wanted to tell a story about impunity and the impact it has on immigrant communities. However, as the series developed, we realized the need to have federal authorities re-examine the cases because they encroached on the First Amendment and the essential right to free speech. With their murders, these voices and the ideas that those broadcasters held were silenced."

CPJ Advocacy and Communications Director Gypsy Guillen Kaiser commented, "We are proud to collaborate with Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts to bring 'Silenced' to a global audience. Nearly 30 years after Ana first reported on these cases, the fight for justice persists. We look forward to digging into the new evidence they've uncovered and continuing our pursuit of full accountability for the murders of these Haitian journalists, which have never received the attention they deserve."

"We are proud to collaborate with Kaleidoscope on their impressive slate of scripted podcasts," said iHeartPodcasts President Will Pearson. "Listeners everywhere have been drawn to these real-life stories of wild chocolate hunters, unsuspected astrologists and Russian cosmonauts, and we know 'Silenced' will do the same - hopefully leading to some answers as to who was behind these unsolved murders."

"Silenced: The Radio Murders" is Kaleidoscope's fourth series release with iHeartPodcasts following "Obsessions: Wild Chocolate," "Skyline Drive" and "The Last Soviet."