CLASSIC: Inside America's Zone of Death

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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It sounds like pure fiction: A tiny part of the United States, tucked away in Yellowstone, where you can commit any crime you like and never go to trial. So what is this so-called Zone of Death, exactly? How does it work? Perhaps most importantly -- could you really get away with... anything?

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0:00.0	When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her into the train yard.
0:10.0	This is what it sounds like inside the box-top.
0:13.0	And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful that it changed me.
0:20.0	But the rails do that to everyone.
0:23.0	There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil, you're gonna find them there in the rail yard.
0:28.0	I'm Denon Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us and the city of the rails.
0:33.0	Listen to City of the Rails, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:38.0	Or, cityoftherails.com.
0:41.0	What's up? This is Ryan Hollins, 10-year NBA vet and current analyst for the Houston Rockets.
0:46.0	And I've got a new podcast called NBA Rookie Life, giving you weekly news, analysis, and an inside look into the 2022 draft class.
0:54.0	This rookie class is really so fun. Each week, I'll be breaking down the best rookie performances,
1:00.0	as well as getting behind the scene stories and welcome to the league moments that make NBA Rookie Life so crazy.
1:07.0	Listen to NBA Rookie Life with Ryan Hollins on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:15.0	In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, flees Russia, for her new home, America.
1:22.0	Hello, everybody. I am very happy to be here.
1:26.0	That story alone is worthy of a podcast, but Spedlana Spedlana is about what comes next.
1:32.0	And it's the craziest story I've ever heard. It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright Commune, weird sex stuff, three Olga's two Spedlana's, and one neurotic gay playwright.
1:43.0	That's me. Listen to Spedlana Spedlana on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:51.0	True story folks. For years, even as you're listening now, it is technically possible to get away with murder in one very small part of the United States.
2:06.0	I'm talking about the zone of death. The zone of death is what we called it. Yeah.
2:10.0	Not a not a Mad Max movie, not some sort of Thunderdome situation, a bit of a legal loophole, actually, more than anything.
2:20.0	But it's the coolest name ever, the zone of death.
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