MTV’s ‘True Life Crime’ Takes a Deeper Dive Into the Investigation for Missing Runner Jerika Binks

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MTV’s ‘True Life Crime’ Takes a Deeper Dive Into the Investigation for Missing Runner Jerika Binks
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Binks went for a run in February of 2018 and never returned, but it took nearly a year before large-scale attention was brought to the case.

, and the two connect with Binks’s family and local law enforcement during the investigation.

Pongo said the case was eye-opening in many ways, which included learning about what women go through in terms of safety when they are out running alone and how to report on sensitive cases like this one. “We started to think about it through the lens of the show, looking at how the victim’s identity can play into how they are treated,” Pongo told. In preparing to cover the case, he read up on statistics regarding how many people were harmed while exercising as well as trying to understand the context of how cases are handled when the victim doesn’t have a squeaky clean background.

Through the course of the episode, Binks’s story unfolds and new information appears, but in the end doesn’t lead anywhere. After spending weeks in American Fork last spring , Pongo and the crew pack up and leave for a break. They had planned to come back in a few weeks when they got a call with

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