Stolen: Multiple Seasons
4.9/5
Critic Rating
Season 3: Trouble in SweetwaterViolence. Retaliation. Disappearances. The Navajo Nation is 27,000 square miles of remote terrain with just over 200 tribal police officers. This season on Stolen, Connie Walker’s investigation into the cases of two missing women leads her on a search for justice in a place where people say you can get away with murder.Reporting for Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s (IWMF) Fund for Indigenous Journalists reporting on issues related to Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) with a concentration on women, girls, Two-Spirit, and transgender people.Season 2: Surviving St. Michael's Last M...
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
The Crime Writers Squad • Crime Writers On • Apr 18, 2024
"(Season: Trouble In Sweetwater) We hear Connie gently poke at the failures in the investigation of a Navajo elder from Sweetwater, AZ and uncover a surprising connection to another of her investigations, the disappearance of another Navajo woman from New Mexico."
Score: 5
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter • Mar 11, 2024
"(Season: Trouble In Sweetwater) If I need to even lift a finger to convince you to listen to a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist Connie Walker podcast, I don’t know what you’re doing here. …"
Score: 5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Dec 13, 2022
"(Season: Surviving St. Michael's)...both an expansion and a deepening of her project with Walker turning inward to explore a story in her own family. What emerges is a moving investigation via oral history and an affecting recognition of the close relationship between the personal and the political."
Score: 5
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter • Jun 20, 2022
"(Season: Surviving St. Michael's)...a deep personal and gripping story about Connie tracing her family’s history to residential schools in Canada...Connie goes full in, cracking open a conversation that is eye-opening whether Gauthier can be “trusted”..."
Score: 5
Marsha Lederman • The Globe and Mail • May 23, 2022
"(Season: Surviving St. Michael's)...the stories come to life, and the trail gets warmer. It’s revealing, riveting. Walker delivers it all with such openness, even as devastating details emerge. Walker, who lives in Toronto, employs trauma-informed reporting, approaching her interview subjects with extreme sensitivity."
Score: 5
Hannah Verdier • The Guardian • May 19, 2022
"(Season: Surviving St. Michael's) ...disturbing catalogue of what went on at St Michael’s school in Saskatchewan from the 1950s to the 70s and the effects it had on families."
Score: 5
Wendy J. Fox • PodcastReview.org • Apr 14, 2021
"Stolen is extremely well produced, balanced between Walker’s narration and source audio. Underscoring the very real threat of trafficking faced by Indigenous women in Montana and across the US and Canada, the podcast is urgent and compelling. Stolen has received much-deserved praise from many media outlets, so it seems clear that the episodes are being listened to. What’s less clear is if the stories of women like Charlo are, within the larger cultural landscape, truly being heard."
Score: 4.5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Mar 3, 2021
"I’ve listened to the first two episodes, and the transition is pretty smooth: It has the same high level of dogged reporting, the same compelling rhythms of chasing down leads in a case, and the same determined perspective of a reporter staring down a long history of violence. As it turns out, the change in locale doesn’t end up meaning much, as colonialism affects indigenous people on both sides of the border in much the same way. …"
