Our story begins in St. Louis, where host Nina Gilden Seavey recounts how the FBI surveilled her family in the 1970s to keep an eye on her father, Louis Gilden, a civil rights attorney at the time. We also learn about Howard Mechanic, one of Gilden’s clients, who was a student at ...Show more
Coming Soon: My Fugitive
Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 4, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man arrested in connection with the fire: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious federal time, Howard fled and became one of the longest-running fug ...Show more
The podcast team sets out to find the Houck family and get their side of the story. We knock on doors, including the family farm, the grandmother’s home and Brook Houck’s home that he shares with his girlfriend. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: ...Show more
In this first bonus episode of the season, you will listen in on the last interview we did during our investigation. Our producer Angelina Mosher Salazar and our editor Jasmine Romero sat down to have a profound conversation with Calvin Jones. In this interview, Calvin opens up a ...Show more
Jack Barsky was a college student in 1970 when the KGB knocked on the door of his dorm room to inquire about his plans after college. “I was told to broaden my knowledge of culture, of literature, of music, to become a well-educated person who could operate in higher strata of so ...Show more
Josh and Nicole are going into some of history's most insane food related true crime stories! Leave us a voicemail at (833) DOG-POD1 Check out the video version of this podcast: http://youtube.com/@ahotdogisasandwich To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices vis ...Show more