Is it a sin? Is it a crime? Love and you do like I do.

If it's a crime, then I'm guilty. Guilty of love and you.

Hello, welcome to Criminal Broads, a true crime podcast about wild women on the wrong side of the law.

Today, we're getting into the case of Centoya Brown, who you may remember as the young girl that Kim Kardashian tweeted about, but we'll get into all of that later.

First, though, I have some news for you all and I must say it is a bit sad.

This is going to be the last month of Criminal Broads, at least for the time being.

I'm not canceling the podcast. I'm not shutting it down forever. I'm not deleting every episode and flancing off and huff.

But I am taking some time away from it. And I know so many of you really like the podcast and it breaks my heart too.

I feel like I'm abandoning you, but let me just explain.

I am first and foremost a writer as maybe you know if you know anything about me.

And when I am writing something that's not a podcast, not something audio, but something online or in print, it takes a long time.

And I ideally get a nice chunk of time to do that. I don't know if you remember, but a couple episodes ago.

I told you about this piece I wrote for the American Bar Association Journal on the lawyer who's representing a mother of an alleged victim of John Wayne Gacy.

That piece was so fulfilling for me to write. And it took months, months between pitching the idea and seeing the idea in print.

It was actually the cover story of that month's Abba Journal. I probably worked on it on an offer about two months and then there was a revision.

And the piece was about 4,000 words. One of my criminal broads podcast episodes is usually five, six thousand words last week.

The massive episode was 8,000 words. And I write that in a week. And I can do it. I mean, I've been doing it all year.

I think it's been great practice and proud of the episodes I put out. But that is not how I like to work ideally. That's too fast.

I can't write and research with the care that I would prefer to. And I care so much about the research.

I love when you guys write in saying you learned something new from an episode, like you thought you knew everything about the case and then you learned something new.

That's from the research. I promise I'm not just making up things to surprise you. You know, that's from the research.

But there's really only so much research you can do in a week. And then also write, edit and record the podcast.

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