Payne Lindsey

Payne Lindsey is an American director, documentary filmmaker, Right Side of the Tree lead singer and podcast host.

[1] He is best known for co-creating and hosting the hit investigative journalist and true crime podcasts Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster.

[7] Lindsey did not have access to police files, so instead scoured through old news articles and online forums to hunt out possible leads.

[15] This helped uncover previously unnoticed evidence which lead to the decade-old case being cracked and two arrests made.

[16] After Up and Vanished, together with his business partner Donald Albright,[17][18] Lindsey launched the content creation company Tenderfoot TV which is based in Atlanta.

[20][21] As of January 2020, Oxygen and Tenderfoot TV are working to develop a television special about Kristal Reisinger which will be produced by Lindsey.

[30] In fall 2019, Payne Lindsey announced and released the first episode of a new podcast that features true stories with a fictional backdrop, Radio Rental.

[30] The podcast is hosted by a fictional character, a 1980s-era video store employee named Terry Carnation, played by Rainn Wilson.