Reviews For Criminal Conduct

One of the first podcasts that I couldn’t wait to hear the next episode. Been listening to them for years, and it’s the reason I found Javier’s other podcast, Pretend.

Great choice of a song. Very haunting.

I absolutely love this show. So I signed up for Pretend + so I could listen to the subscriber episodes. Every time I try to it says it can’t play because I need a subscription. I paid for it days ago and it still won’t play. I’m not sure how to handle it.

Javier Leiva is a podcaster who always produces phenomenal content. The podcast is well researched and the interviews are well done. Javier also has a great voice with just a tiny, I assume, Latino accent that is adorable and very easy to listen to. I am neurodivergent and can sometime be distracted by voices, phrasing, or tone, so a good voice and diction are very important to me. If you see his name you know you will be getting good content.

The investigators try really hard to report well but it just sounds like they are reading a script and they don’t really give new information.

Yay! You’re back…. One of the best narrated pods with excellent story research.

I adore this intriguing podcast. Javier and John present a thoroughly thoughtful investigation. Their guest interviews are great. I cannot stop bingeing the seasons.

The hosts are excellent and they discuss unfamiliar cases. There are too many people just repeating the same old gory details with nothing to add to the genre. This is thoughtful and the discussions don’t go off the rails into silly banter. The hosts both have their own excellent shows. Power duo!

I have only listened to season 1. The series is obviously scripted, making dialog between our hosts come across as unnatural. I was hoping for a clear resolution of the case, but that never happened. I understand that musicians have to make a living, but hearing “You’re not a bad man, you’re not a bad man, I’m not a bad wooooMUUUN”, followed by “buried the body, buried the body (incoherent mumble singing) for me” several times an episode is a nightmare Props for doing a case I never heard of. Too bad I spent several hours listening, only to find no satisfying conclusion

Fantastic stories and very well written and presented ! A+

Excellent. Just excellent! I found this podcast after listening to many episodes of Twisted. I binged all 3 seasons in one weekend and am excited for season 4. I have also subscribed to Javier’s podcast Pretend. Such a refreshing take on True Crime. Definitely not the same recycled material that you hear in other shows.

One of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to. Great job!

These guys did a great job choosing unbelievable cases, telling the story, conducting great interviews; all of the seasons are very interesting and well done!

Sorry you wasted time and effort on this tired performance. Oh, and the hostess has lost her t pronunciations. Distracting v

I love the psychological aspect of this podcast. Not only do you get the crime details, but also an in-depth discussion between John and Javier. Criminal Conduct is a very interesting, and gripping, podcast

They’re milking this guy “Wild Bill’s” story for all its worth and it’s not worth much. Not interesting enough for me to finish.

Come on, guys—this is your best season yet—much less speculation. But why do you keep putting up interviews that you interrupt literally every few seconds to interject your take on how it’s going? Just let us listen to the interviews and hear the hot takes afterwards. Have you ever heard another interview that’s handled that way? Have you ever seen a documentary where you only see seconds-long snippets of the interview, separated by the filmmakers discussion of the previous minute?

The hosts work well together and go in depth for the story.

Would be less irritating if you would not glorify the criminal by using their moniker. Don’t encourage them.

I’ve been totally interested and immersed in these cases… great interviews and reporting… great podcast!

Great reporting. I’m in season 1. Easy to binge but the music is a bit much.

This podcast is very good to listen to. Interesting and crazy stories. The two hosts do a great job telling the story. The only negative is the music.

Professional,, attention grabbing, bingeworthy, and all the other things about podcasts we love. These two know how it’s done, hands down the best show out there!

I enjoy the conversational style of the podcast while staying on topic and not being annoying. I especially like that it's not one sided and alternative theories are presented.

Couldn’t have chosen better cases to investigate, but it is PAINFULLY scripted. It seems like a lot of research and work went into this podcast, but the laziness of only recording AFTER reaching the conclusion and choosing to “recreate” scenes via the two hosts literally reading off dialogue from a script with very obvious (and bad) acting, has distracted me so badly I can’t handle listening to more than 1 episode in a row. One scene that got me was them “heading to a library” to “research” the victim, where they use sound effects of a paper pages being rubbed together, some keyboard clacking, then complete silence while the hosts read lines of dialogue back & forth like, “wait, is it true she did this?” “Oh that’s interesting we should look into that.” “Something strange is definitely going on here.” Like WHY?!!! Don’t insult your listener’s intelligence. If you knew you were making a podcast, couldn’t you just bring a recorder with you to actually capture some audio while researching & capture candid discussion? Or simply omit that bit altogether as it adds nothing to the story but filler to make more episodes to squeeze in more intrusive commercials, or *remind* listeners how much time you spent on this. Be sincere, be honest. Everyone has notes or reads prepared outlines for Podcasts, but VERY few TRUE Crime/Documentary Podcasts fake dialogue between hosts like this, and it’s unethical in addition to being almost intolerable to listen to. Also, why frame the telling of this story by literally posing questions to the silent listener, instead of simply reporting? Again — undermining the intelligence of your listener, which is the biggest mistake by any media or content creator/producer. I sincerely hope you learned from Season 1 & improved your presentation for Season 2, or I’m just not gonna continue with this. Your other Podcast Pretend seems to be much better, likely because it’s not OVER-produced. Just stick to the story & use better recording equipment if you insist on ONLY conducting PHONE INTERVIEWS with witnesses & subjects. You can record direct from the phone itself, or buy phone-recording equipment. It’s incredibly lazy and unprofessional to just record distorted audio from speaker-phone. Majority of reporters do and travel to your subject. You’ll likely get more out of that interview and the build-up leading up to it, so you don’t have to perform “researching” sessions with bad sound effects & acting to move the story along. Be professional and respect your audience!

I love this podcast! They go in deep and satisfy every lingering question you might have. Great audio production and editing. Love that the ads are toward beginning and end. Flawless. If you get any case updates please do bonus episodes!

I so wanted to keep listening to these 2 guys because the content was interesting. However, there was almost constant music, etc. going on while they were telling the story and interviewing a person involved in the story. I don't understand why podcasts do this. It's like having 2 pictures blurred together on the TV. Pretty soon, you'd just turn it off.

These two investigated Jeremy Banks and seemed to become soft on the Sherifs motives .They pretended it wasn’t a cover up and pumped this podcast on Citizen P.I. They didn’t accomplish anything and girlfriend murdering Jeramy Banks is still a cop. I would believe they are not just about $$ if they truly kicked up some dust in St Augustine .

These guys tell a good story. Season 2 has been especially interesting- a different type of story vs. typical true crime. Both seasons dig into corruption that runs deep. Can’t wait for season 3!

I got turned onto this podcast with season 2 as I lived a very brief (and miserable) period in somerset. So I was naturally intrigued with key players I was familiar with and backstories I knew personally. I’m now on season 1 and I’m hooked on the podcast. I love true crime podcasts but usually have a hard time liking the hosts but they are great.

Sounds like the position needs to be abolished, and the laws updated. This is archaic and as a result there is an absolute abuse of power where Wallace and his cronies were literally terrorizing people. I hope he’s put away for a long time and the money and property they stole is given back and then some. The term “Constable” is English and in Canada and the commonwealth police officers are called Constables/Bobbies. So when British rule stopped in the US which was how long ago….. so does this mean it was implemented during British rule ???? Omg!! Just terrible. It amazing the amount of injustice that is around. O’Connel - sadly I do think the Officer terminated the life of his girlfriend, and then covered to look like she took her own life. And honestly sounds like the other guy was murdered by the family member but no one wants to say it, you sure alluded to it though and evidence seems to point in that direction.

I’ve seen Wallace abuse his power and ‘jurisdiction’ for 10 years. Hope the jury sees the truth.

What a great bit of investigative work, disclosing the abuse of assumed power. Thank y’all so much for telling these important stories. I feel sadness for the victims and hope they will be able to recover and move forward. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You have an interesting mind. I'm a fan of all your podcast. You have a great voice which is almost more important than the topic... The whole constable bit is freaky Scarry.. I thought only Canada had Constables..U learn something new everyday!! Great Podcast!!

JOHN TAYLOR! That’s all I can say. 10 stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I loved season 1 & season 2 is just as promising. I find myself listening to each episode twice because they’re so dense with detail. The analysis & research done by the hosts makes this a must-listen, 5 star podcast.

Great host, really like the new season!

These guys need a TV show!

Definitely this case needs to be reopened.

I love the energy between the hosts and the information they include, including interviews with family and friends. Great job on this all around!

Great podcast

Such a well done podcast! They set up the facts very clearly and are very respectful of all parties. Highly recommend. Also love that it’s allowing attention to be brought to unsolved cases!

Wish the eps.were longer as I fall asleep 😛 both voices are soothing and very much appreciate both delivery styles. Don’t change a thing. Love love love the song. Some eps I am like ‘hmmm could be suicide’ and then do a 180 next ep. That retired/retiring sheriff got on my nerves. Horrible man. Also Kept thinking i would hear ‘tremendous’ or ‘fake news’ any minute. nightmare memories.

Two episodes left, and I have loved this podcast (also Pretend!). You guys are doing a great job! Just have to leave some constructive feedback if you’re open to it...Javier always sounds very natural when talking, interviewing, analyzing...but John...I’m not sure if I missed it somewhere, and he’s actually reading other people’s statements? If so, disregard! If not, however, it’s jarring to move from free-flowing narrative to robotic script. If he could stop reading his portion, it would flow so much better! So what if there’s a stumble? That’s what editing is for! That’s also what friendly podcast audiences are for. It would improve the quality so much, and I’ll come back and revise to 5 stars! Hope you guys do another one. Thank you again for all you do - keep going - and happy new year!

Update: Biggest waste of time I’ve ever experienced. I wasn’t sure if I’d finish it (per review below) but, I decided to finish because it is a very interesting subject & I hoped these guys could pull it together. But, let’s be honest, after 11 episodes you’re left with NO more information than the 30 min podcast on Crime Junkies. I mean we did learn that Eli was a nut job and his son probably killed him (my conclusion). It’s okay to scrap an idea and try again guys! This was annoyingly pointless. been intrigued by this story since hearing it on the Crime Junkies podcast a few months ago. I was so excited to find another podcast that would dive deeper. I found the analyzing of the 911 call to be pretty irresponsible. A podcaster presenting opinions as facts doesn’t sit well and I found myself questioning everything they said there after. Lots of options, very little (if any) new factual evidence. I’m on episode 6 now and I’m not sure I’ll finish it. After this I’ll stick to podcasts like Undisclosed, Counter Clock, In the Dark (for some in depth, well investigated stories) and Crime Junkies (when you need something short & sweet)!

Does this podcast provide new evidence in the Case of Michelle O’Connell? No. But does it bring attention back to her case? Yes! If you are not familiar with this case, I implore you to listen. It’s important for Michelle’s family (and Eli’s family), that additional attention be given to the circumstances of their deaths.

I knew when I heard Javier,(PRETEND ❤️👍) this was gonna be AMAZING but I was way off! ITS BEYOND AMAZING!!! I live in Camden Co., GA , about an hour away and seen this case on the news! I was shocked that I’d never heard of the insane circumstances surrounding Michelle O’Connell’s untimely death. I’d actually barely recalled hearing of it at all but knew I had somewhere. I chopped it up to me not living in the area at the time, BUT then I realized I did recall the much more recent death of Eli, and the BRIEF mention of him checking into someone’s death on the local news, but was quickly discouraged from any possible connections and led to believe it was an unfortunate case of discrimination against the LGBTQ community! I’m so in and I cannot wait to hear more! AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING! When you bring real unbiased facts to light, you have my attention and these guys have my full attention!