Introducing Valley of Shadows: Corruption in California’s Mojave Desert

Introducing Valley of Shadows: Corruption in ...

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Episode 1: The Devil’s Punchbowl

Deputy Jon Aujay is former military, an ultramarathon runner, and a part of the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s elite SWAT unit, so when he fails to return home from a run in Antelope Valley’s Devil’s Punchbowl…no one knows what to think. The sheriff’s department launches ...  Show more

Episode 2: An Unreasonable Act

After deputy Jon Aujay disappears, the sheriff’s department claims he was suicidal — pointing to marital troubles and erratic behavior in the weeks before he vanished. But the LASD’s official story doesn’t square with what Aujay’s loved ones and colleagues remember. Then, investi ...  Show more

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