Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, SCS Nation, and welcome to the second live edition of Survive and the Survivor, the Podcast that promises to bring you the very best guests in all of true crime.

Of course, if you were just with us, a disturbing story out of New York City, Midtown, Manhattan, to be precise,

Brian Thompson, the CEO of the largest private insurer in America gunned down this morning in cold blood

on 6th Avenue in New York City between 54th and 55th Street. He was headed to an investors

meeting at the Hilton Hotel shot several times, hit in the back and the calf, and he succumbed to his injuries.

The shooter who was hooded is still on the loose.

There is a NYPD manhunt going on, a reward of $10,000.

And the wife, Paulette Thompson, has spoken to the media to say

that he had had some threats against him. And there is a DOJ investigation that was going on

about some potential insider trading. So we are following that story, got done with a long show. Today, we were expecting

what is known as an examining hearing about Brad Simpson, but that is no more because Brad Simpson

was indicted. For those who are new to the case, Brad Simpson has been indicted on a murder charge for the death of his wife,

Suzanne Simpson.

Together they have four children.

Two of them are still minors.

Two are adults.

And those kids, obviously, it seems like, will never have a mother and possibly never have a father if

Brad Simpson is in fact convicted. We're going to break it down. And we've got an amazing

group of guests starting off here with Nico LaHood. Second time back on the show. Apologies,

I don't have this super formal bios because I was doing

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