Claudia Rowe (on the foster care system)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Published
- February 4, 2026
- Duration
- 2h 10m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 24, 2026
Discusses Claudia Rowe (Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care) is a decorated journalist…
Summary
Claudia Rowe (Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care) is a decorated journalist, advocate, and author. Claudia joins the Armchair Expert to discuss making the shift from using long-form journalism to a book to tell a story, touching off a five-year correspondence with a confessed serial killer, and confronting why she became fixated o…
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Claudia Rowe (Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care) is a decorated journalist, advocate, and author. Claudia joins the Armchair Expert to discuss making the shift from using long-form journalism to a book to tell a story, touching off a five-year correspondence with a confessed serial killer, and confronting why she became fixated on what causes a person to commit murder. Claudia and Dax talk about her harrowing experience writing a true-crime memoir, realizing that this t