Mel Barrett is a screenwriter, journalist, and the creator and host of The In Between Podcast, an investigative series that blends narrative storytelling with deep reporting on new and historic criminal cases.

 

A New Hampshire native, Mel brings a personal lens to her work—examining how justice, media, and memory collide, often with life-altering consequences. Her decade-long investigation into the Pamela Smart case has uncovered significant new evidence, including trial transcript discrepancies and constitutional violations that form the basis of a new habeas petition.

 

Mel has been featured in both regional and national media and was recently named a Consulting Producer on a major network-BLEEP-bleep-bleepity-bleep's forthcoming Untitled Pamela Smart Documentary, slated for release in 2026. The In Between Podcast was named a Top Ten True Crime Podcast by the Associated Press and has garnered 135,000 listens in just over six months.

 

Her work sits at the intersection of narrative nonfiction, legal analysis, and cultural reckoning—asking not just what happened, but how we told the story, and why we were so eager to believe it