The Bubble Lounge Podcast talks about Riggs’ new hit true crime series on Fox Nation titled Freed To Kill.

Cohosts Martha Jackson and Nellie Sciutto asked the questions that every woman who loves true crime wanted to know during their exclusive interview with Robert Riggs about his new hit television show Freed To Kill in their Dallas Studio.

Riggs revealed that in the wake of the success of Freed To Kill that he has a half dozen more true crime shows in development in Texas. Riggs said, “everything is bigger in Texas, especially crimes that are stranger than fiction.”

The disclosure prompted the Bubble Lounge’s co-hosts to declare that, “Riggs is a prolific storyteller in the spirit of fellow Texan Taylor Sheridan the creator of the hit TV shows Yellowstone and 1883.”

Riggs took Martha and Nellie inside the mind of serial killer Kenneth McDuff who spread a wave of terror through the heart of Texas randomly abducting, assaulting, torturing, and murdering countless women.

His investigation of the release of McDuff who had once been on Texas death row for murdering three teenagers was featured in the first season of his True Crime Reporter™ podcast.

Riggs and his podcast co-host former U.S. prosecutor Bill Johnston take fans of the True Crime Reporter™ Podcast “inside the yellow crime scene tape” with real-life stories from their careers and interviews with investigators as well as crime victims.

The new television series features Johnston’s role in launching a nationwide manhunt for McDuff and later prosecuting the Chairman of the Texas Parole Board who released the serial killer under a cloud of corruption.

The podcast was honored for Best True Crime Podcast along with NBC’s Dateline and the BBC in the 25th Annual Webby Awards in 2021. 

Riggs revealed how the podcast was picked up for television by Big Media TV which produces shows around the world. In a co-production deal with Riggs, Max Montoya of Dallas and Danny Wilk the President of Big Media developed and sold a 5-part documentary series to Fox Nation Streaming which premiered on March 18th of 2022.

To produce Freed To Kill in a short ten months, they assembled what Riggs described as a “dream team” headed by Showrunner and Executive Producer Seth Isler. The other key members included Susan Sullivan, Line Producer; Glenn Kirschbaum, Writer/Producer; Kevin O’Brien, Director of Photography; Ron Frank, Editor; and Martin Kase, Producer and Director of Big Media’s Studio in Prague. Riggs beefed up the team with Texas’ field producers/grips Seiler Burr who produces the True Crime Reporter™ Podcast and Brandon Billington from Texas A&M University.

Freed To Kill features Riggs’ interview with legendary CBS News Anchor/Correspondent Bob Schieffer. Schieffer was the lead police beat reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram who covered McDuff’s murders in 1966. McDuff was dubbed the “Broomstick Killer” for the unthinkable cruelty of his murder of a seventeen-year-old girl.

Riggs, a Peabody Award-Winning Investigative Reporter, got Schieffer to reveal for the first time ever how he ended up face to face with McDuff in an exclusive interview and how he was present for the confession of McDuff’s accomplice. Reporters are amazed by Schieffer’s account!

Schieffer also helped fellow Texas Riggs get his start in television news back in 1978.

The Bubble Lounge Podcast is the only weekly podcast show for women living in the upscale communities of Highland Park and University Park, Texas.

With more than 80-thousand listeners, Jackson and Sciutto are the go-to place for everything women need to know about living in the Park Cities — from who to know, where to go, and what to do.

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Robert Riggs, the host of the indie True Crime Reporter podcast, is making the jump to television. Fox News has recruited Riggs to host a five-episode docuseries focusing on one of the stories he featured on his podcast and for which the show received a 2021 Webby Award for true crime.

Over the course of five episodes, the TV series titled “Freed to Kill” will explore the harrowing acts of serial killer Kenneth McDuff known as “The Broomstick Killer,” suspected of at least 14 murders. Based in Central Texas, the violent killer was released on parole due to overcrowding in Texas prisons and the suspension of the death penalty.

Upon his release, McDuff made no attempt to show he had reformed and continued his violent streak and was suspected of committing several other crimes before fleeing the state. After being profiled by “America’s Most Wanted,” McDuff was caught and convicted yet again of murder and sentenced to death. McDuff died by lethal injection in 1998. Following his arrests, Texas began an overhaul to ensure that no other criminals like him were able to get out on parole.

“Kenneth Allen McDuff is one of the worst serial killers in the United States, and most people have never heard of him. I brought together all of the retired investors; I brought together the victim’s families, to tell the full story of what this man did,” Riggs told KDFW-TV Dallas.

The Riggs-fronted and executive-produced television series has been released on Fox Nation, the streaming service sister to Fox News Channel. It was produced with Big Media. Watch a trailer HERE.