“Countdown to Capture,” released in September 2018, is believed to be the first true-crime podcast produced entirely by a police department. “And I hadn’t really thought about it that way.” Manzella hadn’t considered that viewpoint. “He said, basically, ‘You can’t discount that kind of contribution to the case, even if it wasn’t the final nail in the coffin,’” she said. “When these people feel pressure, they have to keep moving, they have to spend money, they have to use different IDs, and they make mistakes.” “I think he felt the pressure,” Singer said. Because of that, Chadwick was aware of the podcast, Singer said, and he knew that people were looking for him. Marshal David Singer told reporters, had generated attention from media outlets, armchair detectives and other law enforcement agencies. The podcast-a largely one-woman project, recorded and produced in Manzella’s bedroom closet-had been an instant hit, notching 400,000 plays and charting in multiple countries shortly after its release, eventually peaking at the 24th-place ranking across all genres in iTunes.īut despite the show’s reach, and the dozens of leads it generated, the tip that led to Chadwick’s capture hadn’t come from a listener. Jennifer Manzella, creator and host of the podcast as well as the department’s spokeswoman at the time, was skeptical. “It’s our belief that we put pressure on Peter, which is something that we wanted to do as well, and that was the reason we chose to use this vehicle.”
It also kept this case in the forefront of people’s minds,” Lewis said. “What this podcast did was increase awareness and generate leads for us. At a press conference two days later, Newport Beach Chief Jon Lewis credited an unusual source for helping with the investigation: the true-crime podcast "Countdown to Capture," launched by his California police department a year earlier. 4, 2019, Peter Chadwick, a real estate magnate who fled the country in 2015 after being charged with his wife’s murder, was apprehended in Mexico.
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