Natural Life
Jan 10, 2022
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Natural Life is a limited podcast series chronicling the life of Christian McNeil, who is serving a lifetime sentence without parole in a Michigan prison.
February 14, 2022
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Mar 13, 2022
Act 5
Christian McNeil is sentenced to natural life without the possibility of parole, plus two years for the firearm. The sentence is not the start of the answer but the start of the question: What should we do with Christian McNeil?
A quarter of a century after the shooting, Christian reaches out to Lynda Harris, Nathan’s mother, for the first time. He wants a clean slate before his and Bridgette’s wedding day, which has finally arrived. But will the wedding itself?
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Mar 6, 2022
Act 4
What is it like to be the parent of a murderer? What’s it like to be their sibling? Three days before the shooting, Nathan had beaten Christian’s brother Adam. Now, Nathan is dead, Christian’s in prison, and Adam is exiled to Florida. None of them are ever coming home.
The wedding between Christian and Bridgette is so close it seems inevitable. But the families of both the bride and groom are hoping it proves otherwise.
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Feb 27, 2022
Act 3
Bridgette Burnett was married to a prisoner for seven years. He got out, and now she’s engaged to another—one who is never leaving.
During the decades that Christian has been locked-up with all his basic needs given to him, Bridgette has been having to scrap and struggle. The world now is much crueler than the one Christian left. And is it a world that he even wants to return to?
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