Exposed: The Truth Behind Wondery's The Missing Sister Podcast

In this podcast episode Gina Blue (aka Karizma) — a former member of Israel United in Christ (IUIC) — breaks down her shocking experience working with the UK journalists behind the Missing Sister podcast, which was heavily promoted on Wondery+ and BBC Sounds. The Missing Sister podcast claimed to investigate the tragic murder of Joy Morgan, a midwifery student and former IUIC member from the UK who was murdered by IUIC leader Shofah El Israel. Gina gave these journalists deep insight into IUIC, her own background, and how destructive cults operate. But once the podcast dropped, Gina realized she had been blindsided. In Episode 5, The City of Hope, she discovered that her 2019 exposé on IUIC’s leader Bishop Nathanyel was used almost word‑for‑word — without her permission, without credit, and without honesty about where the information came from. The journalists repackaged her work as their own “discovery,” and Gina felt the entire narrative shifted away from telling Joy Morgan’s story. Instead, it became yet another media project profiting off Joy’s murder and the trauma of former IUIC members.