Investigative reporter, writer, host "Body Brokers” and Suspect II" pods @campsidemedia & story consultant. More stories ashleyfantz.com

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9 Jan 2023
tinyurl.com/yreakab9 My pod "Suspect II" about the disappearance of #JonelleMatthews is OUT on all platforms today. If you want a fresh twist on true crime, download this baby! Big tx 2 an A team @matthewshaer @elbenson @wambamash @cierrafranco8 Garrett Tiedemann

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23 Aug 2024
My colleagues amaze me. Daily. Congrats to @heislerphoto for somehow capturing this much longing and history in one frame.
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This is the first and last time I want to talk about an NFL kicker.
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Ole Miss is literally called this to honor how enslaved people had to refer to the slave owner’s wife. Black students account for less than 12 percent of the students there even though Mississippi is the most heavily Black state in the country. But keep telling me how DEI made them do it.
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18 Feb 2024
Thanks to @5280Magazine @walkerchris for the thoughtful piece about my pod “Body Brokers” about 2 unhinged CO funeral directors who dismembered the dead and sold the bodies. 8th & final episode is released Tues.
Megan Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, sold body parts without consent. The crime they were sentenced for? Mail fraud. 5280.com/new-podcast-explore… @afantz
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Get into Cover Up, a riveting journey into the shadows of deceit and power abuse hosted by @afantz. The latest season, Body Brokers, investigates how a small-town funeral homeowner and her elderly mother got into the shadowy world of body dealing #podcastdelivery
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An op-ed in the @nytimes today again raises up @CARE's October report that warned of pregnant women in #Gaza being forced to undergo emergency C-sections without anesthesia, and science showing how the trauma of war can directly affect newborns. 🧵 nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opini…
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We keep climbing! Body Brokers @campsidemedia is currently #4 in True Crime and #10 across All Categories! So exciting! @afantz
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2 Jan 2024
Want a wild listen this year that involves criminal funeral home owners, people who buy and sell bodies and - scariest of all - the possibility that any of us could be victimized after we go gently into that good night? I recorded something for ya podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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15 Dec 2023
CNN Exclusive: A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference in 2016 went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials. Superb team reporting by my @cnn colleagues cnn.it/3NxY3td?cid=ios_app
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BREAKING NEWS -- Stanford's president will step down after an investigation into manipulation of data first triggered by @theobaker1, a freshman student journalist at the university. I can't think of a more powerful example of accountability journalism. stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19…
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30 Jun 2023
1) Thread for today: I am not going to opine on the Supreme Court's ruling except to tell a story about a late and valued friend. The story will suffice for the sum of my thoughts about affirmative action. I was working at the student newspaper at the University of Maryland...
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"From the hot peripheral clamor of the crowd, I saw Donald J. Pepe reappear."
29 Jun 2023
my first foray into longform journalism! i went to miami for @thebafflermag to write about trump’s indictment, norman mailer, the Espionage Act, and political life in the age of the streamer. thebaffler.com/latest/the-pr…
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Weird way to promote tomorrow night’s Town Hall but let’s see if it pays off.
9 May 2023
Jury in federal civil case finds Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and then defamed her when he denied it cnn.it/3VMCUyu
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The *front runner* for the Republican nomination for President of the United States has just been found liable for sexual abuse. The more these lawsuits pile up, the more of an aggrieved version of Trump we'll get. He is unfit to hold office.
Breaking news: Jury in civil trial finds that Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, awards $5 million in damages. wapo.st/42m6sFC
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The judge will deliver instructions on Tuesday morning. trib.al/7tEe1FI

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27 Apr 2023
Hey ⁦@latimes⁩ - yes John and I used to be married. We are now friends and share a wonderful son together. In this context I am not an “ex wife,” I am a veteran journalist with decades of experience who worked hard for this role. Do better please.
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7 Apr 2023
Wam pow investigative reporting here. So will Justice Thomas face any consequences?
One thing that always amazes me about ProPublica - even after being here for three years - is it’s ability to come out of nowhere and clobber you with a story that the big guys missed or took for granted. Proud and insanely jealous of my colleagues @js_kaplan @JustinElliott
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