Investigative narrative and metajournalism in the true crime podcast the woman in the abandoned house

This article aims to understand the presence of metajournalism when applied to narrative true crime podcasts. To this end, this study investigated the first episode of the podcast "A mulher da casa deserto", produced by Chico Felitti for Folha de S.Paulo, which tells the story of a woman confined in a dilapidated mansion in S & atilde;o Paulo. We address the true crime genre in podcasting, with an emphasis on the immersive potential of this language and the close relationship between narrator and listener, since our object of study has an investigative narrative in the first person. Subsequently, we observe the presence of metajournalism as an ethical-interpretative stance while relating expressive marks present in the podcast that potentially guide the listener to fictional folkloric archetypes, fostering value judgments.