The Secrets of Spirit Lake

Craig Melvin reports on the latest twist in the Alex Murdaugh case, after his double murder convictions were overturned and a new trial was ordered for the murders of his wife and son. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collect ...  Show more

In South Carolina, Supreme Court judges make a pivotal ruling in the case of Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced lawyer convicted of murdering his wife and son. In California, police search for the remains of Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old college student killed in 1996, in the backyard o ...  Show more

Native American women are trafficked, murdered and raped at five to ten times the national rate of other American women. The figures are gruelling. Each year, hundreds of girls and women go missing. Many end up dead. A complex system of tribal, state and federal law means many of ...  Show more

<div>*Content Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault and emotional abuse.

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Ultra Violet: Facts About Violence Against Native Women
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When a 9-year-old girl vanishes from her home overnight, investigators must try and overcome a lack of evidence and follow a number of shocking, but ultimately dead-end tips that have them convinced she is still out there somewhere more than three decades later.

“The Northern Cheyenne people have a saying: A nation is not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground,” says Lucy Rain Simpson, executive director of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. “And that was a primary tactic. If you want to break a nation dow ...  Show more