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#146: Profiling the Weather and Crime with Dr. Elizabeth Austin

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The RCP team interview Dr Elizabeth Austin, the forensic meteorologist at the top of her profession ahead of her new true crime show ‘Storm of Suspicion’.

Storm of Suspicion premieres October 7 on the Weather Channel. 

 https://youtu.be/XFcbH_A9rSs



Buy Dr. Austin’s book Treading on Thin Air

https://www.amazon.com/Treading-Thin-Air-Atmospheric-Meteorology/dp/1681774038


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0:00.0

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0:07.9

This wasn't an ordinary missing person's case. We are looking at something that we don't see that often. You think in a thousand different scenarios

0:14.8

Which something one right? There was some red flags right from the beginning. Quickly news. It's a category for her cake. You can't stop stones from coming.

0:22.1

It was essentially the opportunity for the perfect crime. Heavy rain is going to wash away potential evidence.

0:28.8

There were no witnesses. There was no confession. Everybody at this point is going to be a person of interest.

0:33.9

Who had the motive? Who had the opportunity and who had the ability to do it?

0:48.4

This mom mysteriously vanished as the state of Texas was bracing for Hurricane Harvey. Now her loved one's fears she may have met with foul play.

0:57.6

We feel very confident that she's not a victim of this storm.

1:01.7

Now her loved ones are thinking the unspeakable. Was Hurricane Harvey used as a smoke screen to cover up a terrible crime?

1:12.0

Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, Retired FBI Profile, a former New York City prosecutor and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds.

1:19.4

And with me today from across the pond is from Rainy and Grey London is Laura Richards, former criminal behavioral analyst from New Scotland Yard and Founder.

1:27.6

I'm a pilot in National Stalking Advocacy Service.

1:30.1

And I am Lisa Zambetti, I am the casting director of CBS's Criminal Minds. I have a real interest in Real Crime and the minds that solve those crimes.

1:38.1

And with us today is a very special guest.

1:41.5

I'm Elizabeth Austin and I am from the Reno Lake Tahoe area of Nevada in USA.

1:48.1

And what is your job Elizabeth?

1:50.6

Well, technically CEO of Weather Extreme but I'm a forensic meteorologist and I reconstruct weather for litigation purposes but weather can be from skiing accidents, car pilots, murders, bombings, you name it.

2:06.2

So you're the cross between weather and crime?

2:08.7

I am.

2:09.8

That's awesome.

2:10.7

We have you on because it's a fascinating field, this forensic meteorology which I had never heard of and I know many of our listeners had never heard of.

2:18.7

But also because you are starting in a new television series on the weather channel which is such a brilliant idea.

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