The podcast asks why Goetz received an outpouring of public support, and ultimately escaped conviction for attempted murder, while the four victims – Darrell Cabey, Troy Canty, Barry Allen and James Ramseur – were marginalised and misunderstood. Vigilante explores a crime that defined an era: the shooting of four Black teenagers by a white man named Bernard Goetz on the subway in 1984. Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal called him “ the subway samaritan”.īy the time this horror unfolded, journalist Neyfakh was already deep into making the sixth season of his Audible podcast, Fiasco, about a subject with inescapable parallels. But he was hailed as a hero by Republican politicians and supporters, who raised millions for his defence. Protesters decried Penny, who is white, as a vigilante and described the death of Neely, who is Black, as a lynching. Penny pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
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