ENCORE: Challenger Disaster | What Really Happened | 4
Following the Challenger disaster, engineers grapple with guilt and the consequences of raising concerns about the space shuttle’s flaws. Am...
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Listen Now: I Am Not Nicholas
“I am not Nicholas Rossi!” gasps Arthur Knight through an oxygen mask in March 2022. Recently discharged from a Covid ward in Glasgow, he's...
ENCORE: Challenger Disaster | Launch Day | 3
In the tense hours leading up to the Challenger launch, engineers and managers at NASA and its contractor Morton Thiokol heatedly argue over...
ENCORE: Challenger Disaster | Acceptable Risk | 2
As NASA struggles to keep its ambitious launch schedule on track, engineers at contractor Morton Thiokol raise concerns about a key componen...
Listen Now: Dan Taberski’s Manifesto
Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, follow Dan Taberski ( Hysterical, 9/12, Missing Richard Simmons ) as he sets off on his most comp...
ENCORE: Challenger Disaster | Bigger, Faster, Cheaper | 1
In January 1986, the Challenger Space Shuttle was poised to make history, carrying seven astronauts, including Christa McAuliffe, the first...
Mafia Cops | The New Underworld | 5
For decades, the Mafia was the face of organized crime in America. But while the mob's power has faded, organized crime itself has become mo...
Mafia Cops | The Rat | 4
In 1997, investigator William Oldham learns that imprisoned mobster Burton Kaplan once worked with two corrupt NYPD detectives. What Kaplan...
Listen Now: Foul Play
Ed is the grandson of footballing legend Gordon Banks. He was a national icon, the only goalkeeper ever to win the soccer World Cup for Engl...
Mafia Cops | The Crystal Ball | 3
In the aftermath of an FBI raid on New York’s crime families, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa are threatened with exposure by the mobst...
New Season - Dr. Death: The Cowboy
Dr. John Schneider rode into town like a character out of a Western: an outsider on a Harley-Davidson, in trademark cowboy boots. He promise...
Mafia Cops | Murder For Hire | 2
After surviving an assassination attempt, mobster Anthony Casso turns to his police contacts for help identifying his attacker. See Privacy...
Mafia Cops | The Thin Blue Line | 1
In 1969, police cadet Stephen Caracappa meets fellow recruit Louis Eppolito. The two officers soon rack up allegations of misconduct—but not...
Chappaquiddick | The Weight of the Name | 5
Ted Kennedy spent the rest of his life in the shadow of Chappaquiddick. The accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne effectively ended his chan...
Listen Now: OnlyFantasy
Is what’s happening on OnlyFans real? Or is it only a fantasy? In this provocative investigation into OnlyFans—the adult platform where subs...
Chappaquiddick | Under Oath | 4
Ted Kennedy thinks he has put the mysterious incident on Chappaquiddick behind him, when a new legal threat emerges that threatens to destro...
Chappaquiddick | Circling the Wagon | 3
Police on Chappaquiddick Island recover the body of a young woman from Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile and begin to question the Senator’s story ab...
Chappaquiddick | The Bridge | 2
Following a car accident on the island, Ted Kennedy and his associates rush to save Mary Jo Kopechne. Afterward, Kennedy’s friends encourage...
Chappaquiddick | The Kennedy Curse | 1
The young Ted Kennedy follows in the footsteps of his older brothers and enters the world of politics. But he struggles to cope with the bur...
Titan Sub Disaster | No Risk, No Reward? | 5
Is the genius American innovator just a myth? In this special episode of American Scandal, tech journalists Mark Harris and Kara Swisher, an...