A family vacation story that narrows into courtrooms, paperwork, and grief.
The Last Trip follows Carrie and Dale McGinnis as a 2011 family vacation in Punta Cana moves from pool days and resort wandering into tragedy late one night.

Survivor stories, told with steady care.
Strictly Stalking gives survivors, advocates, and experts room to explain how stalking takes shape in ordinary life. Episodes move through customer relationships, neighbor disputes, divorce, campus cases, and law enforcement perspectives with a calm, careful interview style.
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Strictly Stalking treats stalking as a pattern, not a single dramatic incident. Its episodes listen closely to how fixation enters ordinary routines and changes them. A small-business customer becomes possessive. A neighbor dispute turns into years of intimidation. A former spouse reappears through messages, fake accounts, packages, and claims of destiny. On campus, shared classes, dorms, majors, and social circles can make unwanted contact feel impossible to escape. The show is strongest when it lets a guest rebuild the timeline from memory, one warning sign at a time. The pace is measured. The questions tend to clarify rather than compete with the story. Survivors describe the practical details that often get flattened in crime coverage: checking cameras before pulling into a driveway, asking friends what they know, saving messages, trying to get protective orders, or navigating court systems that move slowly and confusingly. Some episodes bring in people with professional experience, including Megan on Title IX cases and Dr. Shiloh on psychology, law enforcement, and high-risk behavior. Those conversations add context without pushing the show away from lived experience. Strictly Stalking also occasionally presents related true-crime material, including family tragedy, campus sexual assault reporting, and documentary-connected survivor accounts. Those episodes keep the same concern with aftermath: what happened, who was left to carry it, and where accountability broke down. The show can be difficult listening. It deals with fear, coercion, sexual violence, harassment, legal trauma, and grief. But it avoids making danger feel glamorous. Its editorial center is the person trying to be believed, stay safe, and regain control of a life that someone else tried to invade. For true-crime listeners drawn to survivor testimony, criminal justice questions, and the slow mechanics of escalation, Strictly Stalking offers a steady, compassionate record of experiences that are often minimized until they become impossible to ignore.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer survivor testimony, careful timelines, and criminal justice context over spectacle. It also suits listeners interested in stalking behavior, campus cases, and the limits of protective systems.
What sets it apart: The show gives guests unusually direct narrative space, letting the emotional and logistical details of stalking accumulate in their own words. It pairs intimate accounts with practical context from attorneys, psychology, and law enforcement without losing the survivor-focused focus.
Strictly Stalking is a weekly true crime podcast exploring true stalking stories from survivors - in their own words. Every Tuesday, hosts Jaimie Beebe and Jake Deptula cover a unique stalking case by interviewing stalking survivors, advocates, and experts.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Survivor-led interviews make stalking's daily pressures and the limits of formal protection concrete without pushing uncertain events beyond the testimony.
Strictly Stalking lets the person living through unwanted contact set the timeline. Jamie Beebe and Jake Deptula use direct interviews to trace how access becomes surveillance, how repeated encounters alter daily routines, and what happens when someone asks an institution for…
A neighbor appears 300 miles away, and Jamie and Jake let you hear what fear changes.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A family vacation story that narrows into courtrooms, paperwork, and grief.
The Last Trip follows Carrie and Dale McGinnis as a 2011 family vacation in Punta Cana moves from pool days and resort wandering into tragedy late one night.
A customer connection curdles into a sharp account of manipulation, crossed boundaries, and fear finally being validated.
Cody's story starts with an ordinary customer interaction at a small business, then steadily tightens into something more invasive and frightening.
A boundary dispute becomes a years-long stalking account shaped by cameras, distance, and a grin that will not quit.
Strictly Stalking follows Kathy from a property boundary dispute with a neighbor into a long pattern of harassment and intimidation that drives her from her home.
A stalking story that makes ordinary routines feel exposed and watched.
Strictly Stalking centers Terry, whose stalking began more than 45 years ago, before stalking laws or legal protections were in place, and the episode keeps that reality grounded in the plain terror of being followed, watched, and harassed for nearly five years.
Practical stalking guidance, with technical clinical detail that adds real value.
Strictly Stalking centers Dr. Natalie Jones, a licensed professional clinical counselor with over 16 years of experience, in a conversation about stalking, survivor stories, and the point where concern has to become action.
A survivor's account of stalking, legal limits, and the damage of being judged not high risk enough.
Strictly Stalking spends this episode with Anne, whose account of stalking and harassment by her ex-partner moves through police, social services, and family court while returning to the same wall: she was judged not high risk enough.



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Accountability journalism in briefing form.

Conspiracy leaves the chat and enters town.

Black America, reported through history’s unfinished business.
Hosts Jaimie Beebe and Jake Deptula interview Dr.
Hosts Jaimie Beebe and Jake Deptula interview Anne, a survivor of prolonged domestic abuse and stalking by her ex-partner Mark.
An interview with Jordan Morrison's parents about their family vacation to Punta Cana that ended in tragedy.
A mother recounts how a friendly customer interaction escalated into stalking and lasting trauma.
A woman recounts her harrowing experience of being stalked by a neighbor after a property boundary dispute, forcing her to move 300 miles away only to be found again.
Strictly Stalking hosts Jamie Beebe and Jake Deptula interview Megan, a Georgia attorney who works almost exclusively on college Title IX cases involving stalking and related misconduct.
A woman recounts her decade-long stalking ordeal by her ex-husband after their divorce.
Strictly Stalking hosts Jamie Beebe and Jake Deptula interview Terry, who was stalked for nearly five years starting in 1979 by a gas station worker named Greg, decades before stalking laws existed in California.
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