Natural Life
Natural Life is a limited podcast series chronicling the life of Christian McNeil, who is serving a lifetime sentence without parole in a Michigan prison.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2022
Act 5
Christian McNeil is sentenced to natural life without the possibility of parole, plus two years for the firearm. The sentence is not the start of the answer but the start of the question: What should…
Act 4
What is it like to be the parent of a murderer? What’s it like to be their sibling? Three days before the shooting, Nathan had beaten Christian’s brother Adam. Now, Nathan is dead, Christian’s in pri…
Act 3
Bridgette Burnett was married to a prisoner for seven years. He got out, and now she’s engaged to another—one who is never leaving.
During the decades that Christian has been locked-up with all his ba…
Act 2
Conjugal visits—whether you’re married or not—have never been allowed in Michigan prisons. But there's more than just sex that Christian is missing out on now that Bridgette has been banned from visi…
Act 1
Michigan, 1996. Nathan Harris and Christian McNeil meet in the parking lot between the Red Devil Restaurant and the Battle Alley Barbershop. It will prove the final moments of Nathan’s life, and it w…
Trailer
Natural Life is a limited podcast series chronicling the life of Christian McNeil, who is serving a lifetime sentence without parole in a Michigan prison.
February 14, 2022