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Dr. Jack Cashill and I talk about his book "Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future". The book focuses on the April 3rd, 1996 plane crash that killed sitting Secretary of Commerce Brown and 34 others on a mysterious trade mission in Croatia. In this interview we talk about the lead up to the plane crash and the multiple fronts of trouble facing Brown before the crash including an ongoing Independent Counsel review and a complicated natural gas deal in Oklahoma that allowed Clinton mega-fundraisers Gene and Nora Lum to siphon off tens of millions of dollars from consumers by overcharging for natural gas. This natural gas theft was being abetted and protected by members of the Clinton white house including Chief of Staff Thomas "Mac" McLarty and Ron Brown as well as Ron Brown's son Michael Brown. Show notes and links: Amazon page for Dr. Cashill's book and the subject of this interview "Ron Brown's Body: How One Man's Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hillary's Future": http://a.co/7IqmU6L Amazon page for Dr. Cashill's "TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy": http://a.co/39geIPX Dr. Cashill's 2004 talk televised on CSPAN on "Ron Brown's Body": https://www.c-span.org/video/?182235-1/ron-browns-body The Thompson Committee "Investigation of Illegal or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns" final report, referenced by Dr. Cashill in our interview and in his book, on the U.S. Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/senate-report/167/1 Archive of Ron Brown speeches and appearances on CSPAN's website: https://www.c-span.org/person/?ronbrown "The Strange Death of Ron Miller", originally published in the Oklahoma Constitution and reprinted online on the Free Republic's website that details whistle-blower Ron Miller's death connected to shady natural gas dealings involving Clinton White House figures like Ron Brown and Thomas "Mac" McClarty: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/569975/posts WND article further detailing the Oklahoma natural gas scandal involving Brown and the Clintons: http://www.wnd.com/2001/05/9363/ Stephen Dresch's website, forensic investigator mentioned by Dr. Cashill, with tons of information on anthrax cases including that of Ron Miller: http://www.forensic-intelligence.org/ Free Republic article about the anthrax poisoning case of Russell Welch, an Arkansas State Police investigator who was looking into Clinton's Mena drug running: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/555472/posts James O'Keefe interview with Jack Cashill from August of 2016 on journalism ethics: https://youtu.be/1ctuhLLgnTU

In part two of my interview with author Mike Campbell about his book "Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last" we briefly cover again the circumstances of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan's disappearance. Mike then recounts the timeline of the official narrative and the mainstream acceptance of other ideas like the crashed-and-sank hypothesis and the Gardner Island or Nikumaroro-landing hypothesis and why they have no merit. Mike then talks about the work of TIGHAR and Ric Gillespie and the almost performance art-like expeditions that they've engaged in including using cadaver dogs to try and unearth evidence of Earhart on Nikumaroro many years after her disappearance. Mike also details the dearth of evidence for these ideas and analyzes why the media continues to support them despite their lack of substance. Show notes and links: Mike Campbell's book "Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last" 2nd edition published by Sunbury Press on Amazon: http://a.co/hDfWlry Mike Campbell's blog which contains many articles unpacking various aspects of the Earhart case along with photos and lots of source material: earharttruth.com September 2014 post on Mike Campbell's blog earharttruth.com about Bill Prymak and radio expert's analysis of Earhart's bizarre radio behavior during her final flight: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/bill-prymak-radio-experts-analyze-amelia-earharts-bizarre-radio-behavior-during-her-last-flight/ Bill Prymak, radio experts analyze Amelia Earhart’s bizarre radio behavior during her last flight Elgen Long's book Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved referenced by Mike Campbell: http://a.co/eJ1aa8Q Earhart Truth post abot Rollin Reineck's work refuting Elgen Long's theories: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/how-much-flight-time-did-amelia-earhart-really-have/ 2017 National Geographic article covering TIGHAR's expedition to Nikumaroro using cadaver dogs 80 years after Earhart's disappearance looking for signs of the famed aviator: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/forensic-dogs-amelia-earhart-spot-where-died/ Earhart Truth piece on Fred Goerner's 1991 letter to Life Magazine discrediting TIGHAR's Nikumaroro theory of which an excerpt was read by Mike on the podcast: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/goerners-91-letter-to-life-magazine-fred-hooven-created-nikumaroro-theory-not-ric-gillespie/ Earhart Truth blog post debunking recent History documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence which was based on an allegedly newly discovered photo that is supposed to depict Earhart and Noonan on a dock on Jaluit: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/historys-amelia-earhart-the-lost-evidence-underhanded-attack-on-the-marshalls-saipan-truth/ "DC" Dave Martin's three recent columns on the Earhart photo episode: "Press Touts Dubious Earhart Photo": http://www.dcdave.com/article5/170707.htm "Earhart Photo Story Apparently Debunked": http://www.dcdave.com/article5/170713.htm "'Earhart Photo' Debunker Debunked?": http://www.dcdave.com/article5/170802.htm Part II of Earhart Truth's series on Japanese War crimes: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/japan-has-never-admitted-murder-of-amelia-earhart/

Part one of my interview with author Mike Campbell, a researcher who has written the definitive book about Amelia Earhart's disappearance "Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last" and also writes a blog at earharttruth.com that contains articles full of pictures and reference materials about Earhart and her final flight. We discuss Amelia Earhart's flying career and how she got to the point where she attempted her fateful flight in 1937, a world record attempt to fly around the globe. We then get into the evidence that exists of what became to Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan after they took off from Lae, New Guinea and  disappeared according to the mainstream account. These include witnesses who saw Earhart come down near Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, witnesses on Saipan which had been occupied by the Japanese until the end of World War II and where Earhart was said by witnesses to have kept as a prisoner, and military personnel involved in the U.S. takeover of Saipan in 1944 who saw evidence of Earhart's presence on Saipan including seeing her plane which was destroyed by the U.S. military and her briefcase and other personal effects. Part two of this series examines other ideas that continue to be propagated by the mainstream media of what happened to Earhart and Noonan and will be released next Monday. Mike Campbell and I talk about the crash-and-sank theory and the Nikumaroro or Gardner Island theory both of which have been thoroughly debunked as well as the recent History documentary about a photo that is alleged to depict Earhart and Noonan on a dock in Saipan that was apparently recently discovered. Show notes and links: Mike Campbell's book "Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last" 2nd edition published by Sunbury Press on Amazon: http://a.co/hDfWlry Mike Campbell's blog which contains many articles unpacking various aspects of the Earhart case along with photos and lots of source material: earharttruth.com "Daughter of the Sky" by Paul Briand referenced by Mike Campbell as being the book the began the modern era of Earhart disappearance research. First published in 1960: http://a.co/19YpLWT "The Search for Amelia Earhart" by Fred Goerner published in 1966 and the only bestseller about the true facts of Earhart's fate on Saipan referenced by Campbell: http://a.co/0jSWNun Article on Campbell's blog, the first in a two-part series published on 9/25/17 about Japanese war crimes during World War II, "Earhart's murder among first of Japan's war crimes": https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/earharts-murder-among-first-of-japans-war-crimes/ Earhart’s murder among first of Japan’s War Crimes Book by Victor Loomis referenced by Campbell "Amelia Earhart: The Final Story" that contained accounts by Marshallese witnesses of Earhart landing near the island: http://a.co/fNbFp3l Article on Campbell's Earhart Truth blog eulogizing and recounting the works of Earhart researcher Bill Prymak, refenced by Campbell: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/bill-prymak-a-giant-of-earhart-research-dies-at-86/ Mike Campbell's first book with Thomas Devine that collects the accounts of U.S. servicemen that witnessed evidence including her plane and briefcase that Earhart was on Saipan after her ill-fated flight "With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart" http://a.co/7BJm3Zo Article on Campbell's EarhartTruth.com blog about the three flag officers who disclosed information to researcher Fred Goerner about Earhart ending up on Saipan: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/generals-letters-to-goerner-reveal-earhart-truth/

Show notes and links: Website of Robbie Martin's 3-part documentary series A Very Heavy Agenda: http://averyheavyagenda.com/ Robbie Martin's twitter account: https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey Media Roots website where you can listen to Media Roots radio, a show Robbie Martin co-hosts with sister Abby Martin: http://mediaroots.org/ Richard Perle clip referenced by Martin from 9/16/01 CNN appearance where Perle asserts that the next attack will be different and possibly involve chemical or biological attack: https://youtu.be/yM_JPeI2WFs Clip from A Very Heavy Agenda referenced by Martin of Donald Kagan talking about Kagan's argument on 9/12/01 that we should invade Palestine: https://youtu.be/xdcj4-2RePo Book on anthrax attacked referred to by Martin by Philipp Sarasin "Anthax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy": https://www.amazon.com/Anthrax-Bioterror-as-Fact-Fantasy/dp/0674023463/ref=sr_1_54?ie=UTF8&qid=1506918017&sr=8-54&keywords=anthrax+book The Nation article talking about the board members of the Institute for the Study of War, referenced by Martin, and who pays pro-war pundits: https://www.thenation.com/article/whos-paying-pro-war-pundits/ Investment Watch Blog piece on the think tank the Project for the New American Century being re-branded as the Foreign Policy Institute: http://investmentwatchblog.com/pnac-didnt-die-it-only-changed-its-name-the-foreign-policy-initiative-fpi/ Leaked tape of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland talking about how to reorganize Ukraine and infamously saying "fuck the E.U." referenced by Martin: https://youtu.be/2QxZ8t3V_bk Clip of former CIA director James Woolsey implicating Iraq in 9/11 on 9/11/01 referenced by Martin: https://youtu.be/GpKr78BOkq0 Village Voice piece referenced by Martin that revealed Woolsey was sent on a fact-finding mission by Paul Wolfowitz: https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/11/20/saddam-in-the-crosshairs/ Clips of Operation Dark Winter terror drill fake newscasts referenced by Martin: https://youtu.be/we7Map5Pho0 10/29/01 ABC News piece claiming additive bentonite was found in the anthrax used in post-9/11 attacks which was supposedly a signature of Iraq's anthrax stocks: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92270 Clip of Jerome Hauer on ABC News with Peter Jennings on 9/11/01. As mentioned by Martin, Hauer in this clip is one of the very first people to suggest the structural failure hypothesis that would later become the official story adopted by the government: https://youtu.be/Dj0Rz9ZsDAg 11/29/05 Sun piece that talks about Rudy Giuliani's firm BioOne's work decontaminating the Sun building that had been infected with anthrax: http://www.nysun.com/new-york/giuliani-firm-anthrax-work-ends-in-a-feud/23660/ Rudy Giuliani on Wolf Blitzer's show talking about who is behind the anthrax attacks and his involvement in response to the anthrax letters: https://youtu.be/s7FZxzttnwo Robbie Martin piece on carry-over of Neocons like Giuliani into the Trump administration: http://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-promised-drain-swamp-hes-filling-bush-era-crazies-instead/222482/ Book written by neocon Michael Ledeen and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies" referenced by Martin: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Fight-Global-Against-Radical/dp/1250106222 Clip of Mike Pence, current Vice President, in a news clip from October of 2001 referenced by Martin where Pence, then a Congressman, gets the antibiotic Cipro after anthrax letters were mailed to Congress: https://youtu.be/u-bpLtrYmM0 Robbie Martin interview with former drone intelligence analyst Matt Dehart about the possibility of CIA involvement in the 2001 anthrax attacks: http://mediaroots.org/alleged-cia-involvement-in-2001-anthrax-attacks/ Robbie Martin's documentary American Anthrax v1.5 on youtube: https://youtu.be/0PqU7dXEirU Corrections: Anthrax researcher is Francis Boyle, not Phil Boyle and it's Spike Bowman rather than Skip.

One of the leading lights of the 9/11 truth movement, Dr. Graeme MacQueen has a PhD in comparative religion from Harvard. He taught in the Religious Studies department of McMaster University based in Hamilton, Ontario for 30 years. MacQueen, now retired from his post at McMaster, was formerly the co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies and published The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy in October of 2014, a book deconstructing the official story of the Anthrax attacks that followed closely the events of 9/11 and made a powerful case that the Anthrax attacks must've been concocted in the deep recesses of the military industrial complex of the American government.  Dr. MacQueen has written a pair of deeply interesting articles on the topic of 9/11 this year. The "Inside Job" Hypothesis of the 9/11 Attacks: JFK, 9/11 and the American Left which addresses the left's reluctance to seriously consider issues like 9/11 and the JFK assassination and just this past week his article 9/11: The Pentagon's B-Movie was published, a piece that illustrates the peculiar unreality and filmic nature of the 9/11 attacks.  Show notes and links: Dr. MacQueen's 2014 book The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy: https://www.amazon.com/2001-Anthrax-Deception-Domestic-Conspiracy/dp/0986073121/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Dr. MacQueen's March 2017 article The "Inside Job" Hypothesis of the 9/11 Attacks: JFK, 9/11 and the American Left: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-inside-job-hypothesis-of-the-911-attacks-911-and-the-american-left/5579911 Dr. MacQueen's article published on September 10th of 2017 9/11: The Pentagon's B-Movie: https://dissidentvoice.org/2017/09/911-the-pentagons-b-movie/ The Department of Justice's report Amerithrax Investigative Summary: https://www.justice.gov/archive/amerithrax/docs/amx-investigative-summary.pdf Other recent radio and podcast appearances by Dr. MacQueen: MacQueen and Robbie Martin on A Very Heavy Agenda podcast (The 9/11 Bulletin Episode 4: The 2001 Anthrax Attacks w/ Graeme MacQueen published on youtube 3/30/17): https://youtu.be/1hudD6TB9kk MacQueen and Tim Kelly on Our Interesting Times podcast (Graeme MacQueen on 9/11: The Pentagon's B-Movie published on youtube 9/18/17): https://youtu.be/C-69ABnSKqY MacQueen on Public Radio Exchange - Progressive Spirit show: https://beta.prx.org/stories/215294

I spoke with Allan Favish about his experience working on a FOIA suit, National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish, where Favish argued before the U.S. Supreme Court for release of photos depicting the death of Vince Foster.  We cover the details of the death of Foster and why the government's underlying investigatory record is fatally flawed. We also discuss the media's role in not responsibly covering the Foster case and how that spurred on the growth of independent media.  Show notes and links: Allan Favish's website: http://www.allanfavish.com/ Whitehouse.gov petition to re-open the Foster investigation: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/federal-government-should-re-investigate-death-deputy-white-house-counsel-vincent-foster Allan Favish's 5/31/16 American Thinker article: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/donald_trump_is_right_to_think_that_something_is_very_fishy_about_the_vincent_foster_death.html Miguel Rodriguez memo on Fbicover-up.com about 11/29/94 meeting concerning Foster death investigation: http://www.fbicover-up.com/ewExternalFiles/MiguelRodriguezMemo.pdf Miguel Rodriguez resignation letter on Fbicover-up.com: http://www.fbicover-up.com/ewExternalFiles/Miquel%20resignation%20ltr.pdf Miguel Rodriguez page on Fbicover-up.com which includes links to audio of Rodriguez talking about how reporters wouldn't cover the Foster case: http://www.fbicover-up.com/miguel-rodriguez.html "DC" Dave Martin's website which includes links to his indispensable weekly columns as well as a six-part essay comparing and contrasting the Foster death investigation to the Dreyfus Affair: http://www.dcdave.com/ 20-page addendum to the Starr report added against Starr's vociferous objection that details witness Patrick Knowlton's involvement in the Foster case and his subsequent harassment by federal authorities: http://www.fbicover-up.com/ewExternalFiles/Purdue%20University%20Vol.2.pdf Supreme Court opinion in NARA v. Favish: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/boundvolumes/541bv.pdf#page=252 Report of medical examiner Donald Haut where there is an alteration on page one and an inconsistent description of the fatal wound with respectively page one calling it a gunshot wound mouth-head and page two saying it was a gunshot wound mouth-neck: http://www.fbicover-up.com/ewExternalFiles/Medical.examiner.rpt.pdf Photos released as a result of Favish's FOIA suit showing Foster's car and other items from the death scene: http://www.allanfavish.com/index.php/vincent-foster/209-photo-index-of-selected-photos C-Span coverage of impromptu press conference by Favish following his argument of NARA v. Favish at the Supreme Court on 12/6/03: https://www.c-span.org/video/?179470-1/america-courts Hugh Sprunt's Citizen Independent Report on whatreallyhappened.com: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/FOSTER_COVERUP/TEXTS/vwfhs75a.html Radio interview of the "confidential witness" who was officially the first person to discover Foster's body explaining that he did not see a gun in Foster's hands: https://youtu.be/FP9fhYhg39Y 2013 U.S. Park Police report showing that they'd only been involved in one homicide investigation from 2009 - 2013: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/upload/2013-Annual-Report-FINAL.pdf Philip Weiss' New York Times piece "Clinton Crazy" where Weiss talked to Hugh Sprunt and came away believing that the official story of the Foster death was untrue: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/magazine/clinton-crazy.html?mcubz=1 Philip Weiss' segment on This American Life detailing why he stopped investigating the Foster case because of work and family pressure despite believing that the official story was incorrect: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/63/one-thing?act=3#play

An interview with private citizen investigator Hugh Sprunt, author of well-known analyses of the Starr and Fiske reports on Vince Foster's death, looking back on the death of Vince Foster during the first Bill Clinton administration on 7/20/93 from the perspective of almost a quarter century gone by. Sprunt's work on Foster was later featured in a number of magazines like Heterodoxy and Media Bypass and Sprunt has made numerous TV and radio appearances talking about his expertise in the underlying government records and the inconsistencies and errors in the official accounts. Show notes and links: Hugh Sprunt page on Allan Favish's website with links to the Citizen's Independent Report, analysis of the Starr report and links to Hugh's talk at the Grenada Forum which is on YouTube: http://www.allanfavish.com/index.php/vincent-foster/170-hugh-sprunt-on-vincent-foster Hugh Turley, Patrick Knowlton, and John Clarke's website FBI Cover-up: http://www.fbicover-up.com/ "DC" Dave Martin's website: http://www.dcdave.com/ One version of Miguel Rodriguez' memo detailing problems with the Foster case: http://www.dcdave.com/article5/MiguelRodriguezMemo.pdf Miguel Rodriguez page on FBI Cover-up including audio of Rodriguez talking about running into a cover-up while he was trying to investigate Foster death: http://www.fbicover-up.com/miguel-rodriguez.html Interview with "Confidential Witness" in Foster case, the first person to officially come across Foster's body on WABC 770: https://youtu.be/FP9fhYhg39Y Link to article that includes a still image of the only publicly released photo of Vince Foster's death scene depicting a hand with a black revolver: http://citizenwells.net/2015/04/16/vince-fosters-gun-serial-number-searched-before-death-newsmax-article-april-4-2001-1993-four-searches-conducted-craig-brinkley-foia-request-with-fbi-park-police-searched-evening-of-foster-dea/ Michael Rivero's "What Really Happened" page on Republic Broadcasting: https://republicbroadcasting.org/what-really-happened-with-michael-rivero/ 20 page appendix to the Starr report added by witness Patrick Knowlton over the objection of Starr: http://www.fbicover-up.com/ewExternalFiles/Purdue%20University%20Vol.2.pdf Philip Weiss article on The Clinton Crazies including a profile of Sprunt: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/magazine/clinton-crazy.html?mcubz=0 Philip Weiss on This American Life talking about turning away from looking into the Foster death: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/63/one-thing?act=3#play

An interview with Dr. Frederic Whitehurst about his service in the military in Vietnam, his educational background as a Chemist and attorney, his experience working with the FBI labs as a chemist, his work with the Office of the Inspector General in reforming practices and protocols at the FBI, and his current career as a criminal defense attorney and forensic consultant.

In the spring of 2003, Maggie Wigen went missing from the small town of Tenakee Springs. Two years later, James Harmon was convicted of the murder of Wigen. In 2016, Harmon's request for Post-Conviction Relief was sent back to Superior Court from the Alaska Court of Appeals to further investigate if Harmon had adequate representation at his trial. Harmon alleges that his trial attorneys and his first PCR attorney failed to adequately represent him. The Alaska Court of Appeals agreed with Harmon that there was at least some basis to further investigate the circumstances of Harmon's representation. There is a hearing scheduled on 4.17.17 in the PCR to determine scheduling for this matter. Episode 5 of the podcast summarizes what transpired from the moment Wigen went missing up until this week. Show notes and links: February 17th, 2017 KTOO article by Matt Miller about James Harmon's PCR: http://www.ktoo.org/2017/02/17/convicted-murderer-tenakee-springs-woman-seeks-review-case/ Commonplace poetry podcast with Olena Kalytiak Davis: http://www.commonpodcast.com/home/2016/10/17/episode-10-olena-kalytiak-davis 2008 Harmon appeal opinion affirming conviction: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ak-court-of-appeals/1179087.html 2016 Harmon PCR opinion remanding case back to Superior Court: https://govt.westlaw.com/akcases/Document/Ic25ea8c6bd6811e5b86bd602cb8781fa?originationContext=Search+Result&listSource=Search&viewType=FullText&navigationPath=Search%2fv3%2fsearch%2fresults%2fnavigation%2fi0ad70f700000015b6d098fc0e077c0d2%3fstartIndex%3d1%26Nav%3dCASE_PUBLICVIEW%26contextData%3d(sc.Default)&rank=2&list=CASE_PUBLICVIEW&transitionType=SearchItem&contextData=(sc.Search)&t_title1=harmon March 1st, 2004 Juneau Empire article by Tony Carroll "Tenakee looks for justice": http://juneauempire.com/stories/030104/sta_tenakee.shtml#.WPDBA2krKUk January 25th, 2017 ADN.com article by Megan Bush about Tenakee Springs, part of the "Why do I live where I live?" series on Alaskan communities: https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/we-alaskans/2017/01/25/tenakee-springs-a-happy-compromise/ Maggie Wigen memorial website: http://www.seawead.org/flotsam/maggie/maggie.html Maggie Wigen Living and Raw Food personal ad from January 21st, 1999: http://www.living-foods.com/cgi-bin/personals/view.cgi?000516 James Harmon's betweenthebars.org posts: https://betweenthebars.org/blogs/378/james-harmon March 6th, 2005 Juneau Empire article "Defense in Wigen killing slaps troopers", quotes Harmon's attorney as saying Harmon is "sullen, very large, and not too bright": http://juneauempire.com/stories/030605/loc_20050306002.shtml#.WPDYu2krKUk New Yorker review of Olena Kalytiak Davis' "The Poem She Didn't Write and other Poems": http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/08/you-and-me-both Music credits (sampled and altered): Built to Spill - Goin' Against Your Mind Sleater Kinney - One More Hour Saves the Day - Hold The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles Modest Mouse - Talking S**t About a Pretty Sunset Elliott Smith - Between the Bars (instrumental performed by heavypiano)

In early April of 1982 James and Ann Benolken were murdered in their apartment in downtown Juneau, Alaska. This podcast recounts the story of the Benolken murders and the two subsequent trials that occurred in the aftermath of the brutal stabbings. In episode 4 of the Murder, Alaska podcast we examine the Juneau Police investigation and a handful of the police that testified in State of Alaska v. Newton Lambert. We also focus on a liquor store clerk and a bank manager's testimony at the trial of Newton Lambert. Lambert was one of two co-defendants who were tried for the murders. Finally we focus on Special Agent Michael Malone of the FBI who was the State's hair expert at the trial of Newton Lambert. We go over the FBI lab scandal that erupted in the 1990's as a result of the whistle-blower Dr. Frederic Whitehurst and Malone's involvement in the subsequent Office of the Inspector General reports detailing the shoddy work at the FBI labs. Show notes: 3.25.85 Juneau Empire front page articles about the murder of Emanuel Telles by Victor Johnson at the Imperial Cafe: https://goo.gl/B7EWVJ Juneau Police Department history, 1980-1999: http://www.juneaupolice.com/documents/1980-1999.pdf Rob Warden TEDx talk on False confessions: https://youtu.be/XA7H5hvaA9g Great New Yorker article about The Reid Technique (mentioned in this episode in relation to Newton Lambert being interviewed by JPD) and its flaws and how it is being replaced with techniques less likely to elicit false confessions and bad information: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/09/the-interview-7 The Innocence Project's page on False Confessions; amazingly one in four DNA exonerations is based in part on a false confession or incriminating statement according to the information gathered by the Innocence Project: Link to 4.19.82 microfiche scan of Juneau Empire article about the Dreamland Bar, which was on the street below the F&L apartments where the murders of the Benolkens occurred, and the pipes having burst the winter before: https://goo.gl/CFMaqY The Staircase documentary episode 1 (referenced because of interesting blood spatter evidence in this case): https://youtu.be/M1kYp5DXlJE Youtube video of interview with David Colapinto, general counsel of the National Whistleblower Center, about Special Agent Michael P. Malone and FBI lab corruption: https://youtu.be/zFtcwJDsY2A 2014 follow-up report by the Office of the Inspector General about the review of the FBI labs. This report was referenced by David Colapinto in the video above. The report is "eye-popping" as Colapinto describes it as it revealed that the FBI had re-hired Special Agent Malone after he was discredited as a hair examiner in the original 1996 O.I.G. report. Malone was re-hired to do security clearances for potential FBI hires. This 2014 follow-up report also further details the scope of the corruption at the FBI labs: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2014/e1404.pdf 2014 New York Post article about 2014 OIG report follow-up regarding Special Agent Malone being re-hired as a private contractor by the FBI to run background checks and further detailing the impact of faulty lab processes: http://nypost.com/2014/07/21/discredited-ex-fbi-agent-hired-back-as-a-private-contractor-years-later/ Spencer Hsu Washington Post stories about Special Agent Michael Malone and the OIG probe into FBI lab practices: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/convicted-defendants-left-uninformed-of-forensic-flaws-found-by-justice-dept/2012/04/16/gIQAWTcgMT_story.html?utm_term=.689b360a7bfc https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/report-irreversible-harm-when-fbi-didnt-reveal-flawed-lab-work-in-death-row-cases/2014/07/16/ebf9496e-0d29-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html?utm_term=.e65a84a781aa

Rachelle Waterman was a 16 year old high school Junior in Craig, Alaska in November of 2004 when she conspired with two local 24 year old men to kill her mother Lauri Waterman. This is the first episode of a new podcast series by local Alaskan paralegal Leo Helmar. Please visit murderalaska.com for more info and keep checking back for new episodes! On November 14th, 2004, a hunter found a smoking minivan on a logging road in Craig, a small logging and fishing town in Southeast Alaska, and reported the find to local authorities. Also in the van was a badly burned corpse which would later be identified as Lauri Waterman. Sgt. Randy McPherron, a renowned homicide investigator for the Alaska State Troopers, was dispatched to Craig and within three days Sgt. McPherron had all three principle conspirators in the murder of Lauri Waterman in custody. They were Rachelle, her 16 year old daughter who had been at a volleyball tournament up North in Anchorage, Alaska, and two 24 year old men with whom Rachelle had had sexual relationships with named Jason Arrant and Brian Radel. The ghoulish details of their crime would become clear in the subsequent murder trials. This episode goes into further detail about how the crime went down and the fallout in the intervening years. Thanks for listening!

In April of 1982 the bodies of James and Ann Benolken were found in their apartment on South Franklin Street in Juneau, Alaska. They had been tied up and brutally stabbed to death. Two men were subsequently tried for the foul crime: Newton Lambert and Emanuel Telles. Lambert was convicted of the murder of Ann Benolken and Telles was acquitted of both murders and walked free from the court room. Just over a year later, though, Telles was in turn murdered. We pick up the story somewhere in 2008 or 2009 when I was working at the Public Defender Agency in Juneau as a law office assistant. One day I opened a letter Newton Lambert had sent asking for help looking into his case and I began falling into the rabbit hole of the Benolken murders that day and haven’t stopped. Please join me for this introductory episode about the Benolken murders where we will set the stage for a future series of episodes centering around the April 1982 double murder case. Music credits: Intro music: The Call by Mattia Cupelli https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqsGQVl-_k5qGE-PwGKO5DA Intermission music: Memphis Slim – I Just Landed In Your Town (public domain) Outro music: Sergei Rachmaninoff 13 Preludes, Op. 32 – 5. Moderato (G major) performed by Vadim Chaimovich (public domain) https://musopen.org/music/250/sergei-rachmaninoff/13-preludes-op-32/

Act 2 of a series of podcasts on the murders of James and Ann Benolken in Juneau, Alaska in 1982. This episode picks up with a brief intro explaining what the episode covers. Then we discuss why the Benolken murders still matter at 04:31, forensic sciences and empiricism, and issues involving wrongful convictions and the populations most subject to them. This episode then touches on who Newton Lambert is as 13:27 and who James and Ann Benolken were. Beginning at 21:00 the early 1980s and 2017 and analyzed in terms of parallels and differences and we take a deeper look into the issues that were relevant 35 years ago and how they compare to current items in the news. Finally at 30:50 we examine the first three witnesses who testified in the trial of Newton Lambert for the murders of James and Ann Benolken. ~~~~Links and show notes~~~~ 7.27.16 column by Jill Burke of ADN.com about 3,800 untested sexual assault kits uncovered in a State of Alaska audit: https://www.adn.com/opinions/2016/07/27/answering-the-nagging-questions-about-those-3800-untested-rape-kits/ "Trial by Fire" by David Grann, 09.07.09 New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire 2.7.17 article by Matt Miller of KTOO about pending decision in Newton Lambert post-conviction relief application: http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/02/07/court-to-issue-opinion-on-possible-dna-testing-in-decades-old-juneau-homicide/ Music credits: "Danse Macabre - Isolated Harp" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ First of the Last by Silent Partner Dark Hallway (clean) Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Reign Supreme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/