29: A Crane in the Bay - Part 1

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

When an unnatural disaster befalls her family, Kate demands answers. But no one's willing to talk.

Read David Simon's 1992 article about Kate and her family here.

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0:00.0	You're listening to WALT.
0:02.0	Hooooooong!
0:04.7	Brrrrrrng!
0:06.7	Homemade Radio.
0:09.7	When I was a little kid, just as now, I loved the library.
0:18.6	Probably once a week.
0:20.0	My mother took me there and I would bring home giant stacks of library books.
0:24.9	And from a very young age, I was fascinated by natural disasters.
0:29.5	So spontaneous combustion and tornadoes and hurricanes.
0:35.0	And I was fascinated by volcanoes and the idea that a mountain could just explode and
0:51.7	destroy entire civilizations.
0:54.8	I was the kind of reader who understood fact versus fiction at a pretty young age.
1:01.1	But I had a harder time putting into context.
1:05.6	Okay, so a volcano is real, but is it the real from hundreds of years ago or is it the
1:12.1	real from now but 500 miles away?
1:16.2	Mount St. Helens was on the television when I was a kid.
1:21.3	So while I was reading and seeing these things in books, it happened on television.
1:26.6	It's the kind of thing where you go to your parents and say, could that happen here?
1:32.8	Do you remember what your parents would say when you would ask them about volcanoes?
1:37.1	Don't worry about it.
1:38.9	Don't worry about it.
1:40.4	That would never happen here.
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