Anna Sale Introduces Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery
Death, Sex & Money
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4.6 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Anna talks with her WNYC colleague Nancy Solomon about her new podcast, Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery.
New Jersey politics is not for the faint of heart. But the brutal killing of John and Joyce Sheridan, a prominent couple with personal ties to three governors, shocks even the most cynical operatives. The mystery surrounding the crime sends their son on a quest for truth. Dead End is a story of crime and corruption at the highest levels of society in the Garden State.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. You may not know this, but I actually got my start in local news in West Virginia, |
| 0:05.5 | where I grew up, and then at my home station of WNYC. And I am joined today by one of my colleagues |
| 0:12.4 | who works in the WNYC newsroom, Nancy Solomon. Hi, Nancy. Hi, Anna. Hey, we go back. I particularly |
| 0:19.3 | remember 10 years ago when we were both covering the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and I got sent out |
| 0:25.4 | to New Jersey and had nowhere to stay, and you let me stay in your attic for like days. See, it's |
| 0:32.3 | funny because I remembered the other way. I remember that you came and saved me because you brought |
| 0:37.5 | me a can of gas, and I was out of gas, and I was freaking out about how I was going to go out and |
| 0:43.0 | do reporting at this crucial moment without any gas. And you brought this can that saved me, plus |
| 0:49.6 | it had this fantastic back story, because of course all your stories do, where it had been given to |
| 0:55.5 | you by like court just to Stavid Souter, I think. Is that right? Yes. This was the famous gas can that |
| 1:03.3 | for a year I kept in the back of my Honda Accord that when I had run out of gas while covering |
| 1:09.3 | a Republican debate in New Hampshire, when I was covering politics, I ran out of gas on the side |
| 1:13.6 | of the road, and this nice gentleman pulled over and helped, and I only discovered at the very end |
| 1:19.3 | that it was former Supreme Court justice, David Souter, who helped me in my time of need. So it was |
| 1:25.8 | a famous gas can, and of course during Sandy, all the gas stations were closed. I just remember that |
| 1:31.2 | yellow tape where you were driving around going, oh my gosh, if I run out of gas, it's as if |
| 1:36.9 | civilization is on pause, and I don't know what I will do. So I'm very glad I had that gas can to |
| 1:44.2 | help you out in that moment of need. But we are not here to just talk memories. We are here to |
| 1:52.4 | talk about another important story that Nancy has been covering out of the state of New Jersey. She's |
| 1:57.6 | got a whole new podcast out about it. Nancy, tell us what you have been working on. So I've been working |
| 2:03.0 | on this for two years. It's called Dead End, a New Jersey political murder mystery, and it's a story |
| 2:10.0 | that starts with the brutal death of John and Joyce Sheridan, and there are problems with the |
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