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Rae Review

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Booking Overview

Dark Stories with Rae Review is a true-crime and dark-history show that blends narration with expert perspectives on real cases and human behavior. It offers strong booking value for PR teams representing investigators, filmmakers, or researchers connected to documented crime and justice topics.

Metrics

Episodes: 26

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 14.7k subscribers

Instagram: 988.0k followers

Contact Information

raereview2@gmail.com

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Host

Rae Review - Narrated by Rae Review, described as the show’s guide bringing disturbing tales to light through deep dives into true crime, dark history, and human behavior.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Law enforcement investigators (especially cold case detectives), documentary filmmakers/directors, and other credible figures directly tied to well-documented true-crime cases (often with specific investigative or production involvement).
Required Achievements:  
Solved or significantly advanced major cold cases, Produced or directed major true-crime documentaries/series, Used forensic methods (e.g., DNA/ballistics) to identify suspects, Publicly documented case resolutions or justice outcomes

Recent Guest Discussions

Detective Dan Jackson - How The Case Was Solved With DNA And Ballistics; Who Robert Eugene Brashers Was; Promise Made To A Victim’s Mother; Call To The Original 1991 Detective Before News Broke.

Director Margaret Brown - Grief And Resolution; The Wrongfully Accused; What It Means When The Truth Is Finally Resolved.

Recent Topics

True Crime, Forensics, Criminal Justice, History, Murder

Episodes

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Velma Barfield: History's First Female Lethal Injection

June 04, 2026

Get my list of essential true crime documentaries HERE Velma Barfield: The “Grandmother” Serial Killer, Arsenic Poisonings, and America’s First Female Lethal Injection Rae profiles Velma Barfield, a little-known serial killer who killed at least four people and became the first woman executed in the U.S. in 22 years and the first ever by lethal injection. The episode examines competing explanations: sociopathy, addiction-driven fraud, and dissociative identity disorder. Before detailing...

The Yogurt Shop Murders: Inside HBO's Final Episode (With Detective Dan Jackson)

May 28, 2026

Rae Review featuring Detective Dan Jackson — the Austin Police cold case detective who solved the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders. For 34 years, the murders of Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, Jennifer Harbison, and Eliza Thomas went unsolved. The case landed on Dan Jackson's desk on his very first day in the cold case unit. He never imagined he'd be the one to answer the question on the billboards: who killed these girls? Three years later, using DNA and ballistics, he identified serial killer Robert E...

The Yogurt Shop Murders: Inside HBO's Final Episode (With Director Margaret Brown)

May 21, 2026

Documentary filmmaker Margaret Brown joins Rae on Dark Stories to talk about the Yogurt Shop Murders - the 1991 case that haunted Austin, Texas for over three decades. The fifth and final episode, "The End of Wondering," premieres Friday, May 22, 2026 on HBO and HBO Max. On December 6, 1991, four teenage girls, Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, Jennifer Harbison, and Eliza Thomas, were murdered at an "I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!" shop in Austin, Texas. The case sat unsolved for 34 years. Four me...

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