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The First Degree

DEEP DIVE: MISSING AND MURDERED SCIENTISTS

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.510.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

You asked for it….get ready for the ultimate deep dive digging into the over 13 missing and murdered scientists over the past few years. We are starting with the most infamous, disturbing, and head scratching case of Amy Eskridge. Get ready to go down the rabbit hole with us. It’s a wild ride. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree 📓 Substack: http://thefirstdegree.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6

You know, We go to PITO MOYORNELL-

0:42.1

BIDO

0:43.4

NTIIA! Welcome to the deep dive where the difference between a conspiracy and the truth is six months. It's me, Jack. I'm here with Lex.

1:04.9

I messed up the intro. You know, I like psych myself out because it's a little bit of a tongue twister. And every time I'm going to start, I'm like, I'm going to mess this up. And then half the time I do. And this was one of those days, but you won't see it because we cut it out. You know what, though? In your defense, you do have three intros. And it's like we record these every day, various times, in various combinations.

1:29.3

Like sometimes we'll do a deep dive in a traditional app.

1:31.9

Sometimes we'll do a premium in a deep dive.

1:34.3

Sometimes we'll do a premium in a traditional app.

1:36.8

Sometimes we'll do three traditional apps.

1:39.0

Like, how are you supposed to keep it straight?

1:41.1

I don't know.

1:41.5

I don't think I would be able to.

1:43.4

Well, it's one of those

1:44.3

things that's kind of in my brain in autopilot, you know, and then once I start thinking about it is when I mess it up, like the outro to our first degree episodes, if anybody actually listens that long and doesn't turn it off by then. It's a pretty long outro. And I have to, I have to like look a certain way up into the heavens

2:01.9

and try to pull it from the depths of my brain to make it work because once I start

2:06.1

thinking about it or once like Alexis is like add a little note here I'm like flow state

2:11.5

disrupted flow state ruined oh man well it's so fun and we're you know the fact that we get to do three episodes a week with you all is just so delightful for us.

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