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Western Connecticut State University<\/a> Professor of Justice and Law Administration<\/a> Dr. Casey Jordan<\/a> has launched a new true crime podcast, \u201cCriminal Appeal with Dr. Casey Jordan<\/a>.\u201d The podcast, which premiered on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, features Jordan, a well-known criminologist, profiler and attorney with more than three decades of on-air experience, and co-host Dr. Colleen Butler-Sweet, a sociology professor at Sacred Heart University. Together, they discuss real cases through the lens of Jordan\u2019s actual analysis as the case unfolded, and Butler-Sweet\u2019s exploration of how society, identity, and inequality shape our understanding of crime and justice.<\/p>\n The podcast can be found on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Apple<\/strong><\/a>, as of November 4.<\/p>\n According to the podcast\u2019s website, \u201c\u2026 the difference between \u2018Criminal Appeal\u2019 and other true-crime podcasts is that Dr. Jordan features cases that she knows firsthand because she worked them in real-time. The show confronts tough questions about the justice system, media influence, and the gray areas of morality that surround every accused offender and determine every verdict. It\u2019s smart, bold, and unflinchingly honest true-crime discussion with intellect and heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Jordan\u2019s significant experience providing analysis and commentary on high-profile crimes on major media outlets for decades has provided her with access to criminal case files, courtroom strategies, subject interviews, and previously unreleased evidence that she now is able to share with her podcast audience. Each episode will deliver not just a retelling, but a forensic-level breakdown of why<\/em> crimes happen, how investigations unfold, and what justice really looks like behind closed doors.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I talk about a case, it\u2019s not conjecture, it\u2019s experience,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n The podcast\u2019s first season will feature six full-hour episodes and six \u201cmini\u201d episodes. The first two-part episode focuses on convicted murderer Paris Lee Bennett, a 13-year-old who murdered his 4-year-old sister, Ella Bennett, in Abilene, Texas. Jordan analyzed Bennett during a prison interview with TV host Piers Morgan for his series,\u00a0\u201cPsychopath.\u201d Podcast listeners will get to hear excerpts from that prison interview.<\/p>\n The second two-part episode is about a Connecticut murder case. Linda Bigazzi, a 76-year-old woman who killed her 84-year-old husband in 2017, will be the topic of Jordan and Butler-Sweet\u2019s discussion in this episode. Jordan interviewed the accused killer and will share never-before-heard\u202fexcerpts on the podcast, revealing that Bigazzi had been abused by her husband for decades, something that was not disclosed by the media.<\/p>\n Jordan is recognizable to television news and true crime show viewers for her expertise in explaining the behaviors and motivation of serial killers and other violent criminals. She has served the In Session Criminologist and Legal Analyst on TruTV, as well as the in-house CNN Criminologist covering unfolding crime stories and offering play-by-play assessment during live trials. Jordan has represented WCSU as a guest criminologist, legal analyst, or expert commentator with more than 1,200 television shows and newspaper stories, including \u201c48 Hours Mystery,\u201d ABC News \u201c20\/20,\u201d NBC \u201cToday Show,\u201d CBS \u201cEarly Show,\u201d\u00a0\u201cGood Morning America,\u201d and on many current events shows, including \u201cAnderson Cooper 360.\u201d Jordan has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Court TV, and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Wanted.\u201d\u00a0She has been quoted or featured in\u00a0The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor,\u00a0The New York Times, Yankee magazine,\u00a0USA Today, and Oprah\u2019s \u2018O\u2019 magazine.<\/p>\n A frequent guest speaker at criminology associations, forensic conferences and justice forums, including annual presentations at Danbury Hospital\u2019s Pediatrics Conference\u00a0and the Exploration Program at Yale University, Jordan appeared in TruTV\u2019s\u00a0reality show \u201cUnsolved Murder Unit,\u201d where she teamed with a forensic\u00a0pathologist and police detective to reprocess evidence and develop leads\u00a0in unsolved homicide cases.\u00a0She currently offers case analysis for\u00a0Investigation Discovery\u2019s series, \u201cI (Almost) Got Away with It\u201d and\u00a0\u201cScorned: Love Kills,\u201d as well as interviewing female subjects and\u00a0analyzing their behavior for ID\u2019s show \u201cWives with Knives.\u201d<\/p>\n Jordan holds a B.A. in Political Science, Law & Society, from the University of Tulsa; an M.A. in Criminal Justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice; a M.Phil. in Criminal Justice from CUNY Graduate School (John Jay College); a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, CUNY Graduate School (John Jay College); and a J.D. from Quinnipiac College of Law. She has more than two decades of university teaching, mediation, scholarly research and criminal justice consulting experience. Emphasis on teaching excellence and curriculum development has resulted in several pedagogical publications, including Allyn & Bacon\u2019s Blockbuster Approach series (Blockbuster Approach to Teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Anthropology). Grant-funded research and scholarly journal articles reflect her studies on homicide trends, serial killing and multicide, human trafficking, victimology (child abuse, domestic violence, homicide and sexual assault), and police studies, including articles in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, the Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, and the Praeger Handbook of Victimology, and African Americans & Criminal Justice:\u00a0An Encyclopedia. Jordan also is certified in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Health Law.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Western Connecticut State University changes lives by providing all students with a high-quality education that fosters their growth as individuals, scholars, professionals, and leaders in a global society. Our vision: To be widely recognized as a premier public university with outstanding teachers and scholars who prepare students to contribute to the world in a meaningful way.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Western Connecticut State University Professor of Justice and Law Administration Dr. Casey Jordan has launched a new true crime podcast, \u201cCriminal Appeal with Dr. Casey Jordan.\u201d The podcast, which premiered on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, features Jordan, a well-known …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories","tag-faculty-success-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/success-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}