470 // The Death of Karen Silkwood W/Mike Boettcher & Bob Sands

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by two veteran investigative journalists, Mike Boettcher & Bob Sands. Mike & Bob have worked together for decades but there is no story more worthy of justice than the mysterious death of Karen Silkwood, a woman poised to blow the whistle on one of the most powerful nuclear facilities in the world. Listen to Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery by ABC Audio here: https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/radioactive-the-karen-silkwood-mystery/ Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from Missing, Crawlspace and Dark Valley shows! Ad-free episodes and The Subscription Show at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. YT: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace. Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt. The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound. Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?
0:32.4	I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. We have a real treat for our listeners. We have two individuals on who are
0:39.4	legendary in their fields. They're investigative journalists. They've been all over the world.
0:44.9	The story that they bring to us today is one that happened 50 years ago. The anniversary of this
0:50.3	is on November 13th, which is when most people are listening to this episode, and they
0:55.3	have a new podcast about it, about their journey, about their investigation. Some people might have
0:59.8	heard the name before and related it back to a movie with Meryl Streep, as myself did and
1:05.5	probably you. But Tim, before we get to this, there's no movie that has been made about your mood.
1:10.1	So we got to get something here.
1:11.5	How are you?
1:12.1	Oh, boy.
1:12.8	I'm doing great.
1:13.8	Thanks a lot for asking.
1:15.2	And yeah, we are joined by a couple of great guests.
1:19.0	It's Mike Betcher and Bob Sands.
1:21.7	And these guys are legends in the industry.
1:24.0	And they are working on a new podcast from ABC Audio.
1:28.5	It's called Radioactive the Karen Silkwood Mystery.
1:33.3	And as you mentioned, this mystery has endured the test of time because this is a case from
1:40.7	1974 in Crescent, Oklahoma.
1:48.1	And this mystery involves Karen's car, potentially being forced off of the road. And a lot of people have heard the name Silkwood before, and the person
1:52.9	behind that name is Karen Silkwood, as you mentioned. And she worked at the Kerr-Magee nuclear
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