{{Short description|American true crime podcast}} {{Infobox podcast | title = The Fall Line | image = | host = Laurah Norton and Brooke Hargrove | genre = True crime | updates = Weekly on Wednesdays | language = English | num_episodes = 300 | list_episodes = | began = {{Start date|2017|6|12}} | ended = | ratings = | provider = Independent, previously Exactly Right Podcast Network | website = {{URL|https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/}} }} '''''The Fall Line''''' is an American true crime podcast that covers lesser-known cases of murder and disappearance from minority communities in Georgia. As of January 2021, it is an independent podcast, after having been part of the Exactly Right Podcast Network for 2 years. The podcast has helped to publicize the disappearance of Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook, a cold case from Augusta, Georgia.<ref name=atlanta/><ref>{{cite news |last1=DuBose |first1=Renetta |title=Podcast releases new updates in nearly 30-year-old missing twins case |url=https://www.wjbf.com/news/podcast-releases-new-updates-in-nearly-30-year-old-missing-twins-case/ |publisher=WJBF |date=September 4, 2017}}</ref>
==History== In 2017, Laurah Norton decided to make a podcast focusing on cases that had received little attention and had victims from underserved or marginalized communities. She first decided to focus on the Millbrook twins after hearing an episode of ''Thin Air'' discussing their case. Together with producer Brooke Gently-Hargrove, she launched ''The Fall Line'' on June 12, 2017.<ref name=atlanta>{{cite news |last1=Wheatley |first1=Thomas |title=The Fall Line: Two podcasting sleuths revisit the cases of abducted Grady newborns |url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/fall-line-two-podcasting-sleuths-revisit-cases-abducted-grady-newborns/ |work=Atlanta |date=May 9, 2018}}</ref> The podcast's name refers to the Atlantic Seaboard fall line in Georgia.
==Episodes== The first season of the podcast focuses on the Millbrook twins, who disappeared in 1990. The second season deals with the 1989 disappearance of Monica and Michael Bennett, while the third season examines the "Grady babies", seven kidnapped children born at Atlanta's Grady Hospital.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Suggs |first1=Ernie |title=After Grady baby kidnapping, a full family life |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/grady-baby-warm-case-after-kidnapping-full-family-life/bdKe61eFTBc0wT1UE5IiOP/ |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=November 29, 2018}}</ref> The podcast's fourth season largely focuses on cold cases involving LGBT victims and Jane Does. The fifth season debuted in August 2019 and recounts the circumstances of the 1998 disappearance of 8-year-old Shy’kemmia Pate in Unadilla, Georgia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Nakell |title=Middle Georgia investigators hope podcast sparks leads in decades-old missing child case |url=https://wgxa.tv/news/local/middle-georgia-investigators-hope-podcast-sparks-leads-in-decades-old-missing-child-case |publisher=WGXA |date=November 7, 2019}}</ref> The podcast has since released episodes covering the Jane Doe and unmatched confessions of serial killer Samuel Little, the unsolved Atlanta Lovers' Lane Murders, the cold-case murder of Georgia Leah Moses, and dozens of other cases.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sources |url=https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=The Fall Line |language=en-US}}</ref> The full episode guide for their 300+ episodes covering missing persons, unsolved homicides, and John and Jane Doe unidentified victims can be found on their website, including [https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/episodeguide comprehensive case coverage]
==See also== * ''Last Podcast on the Left''
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