In the 1930s, New York City was a political powerhouse, but in a world of secrets,

bribery and corruption, it seems no one is safe, as was the case when a New York Supreme

Court justice vanished without a trace, tilting the city on its axis.

Once considered the missingest man in New York, today we're investigating the disappearance

of Judge Joseph Crater. This is Red Web.

Welcome back Task Force to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast Trevor Collins and joining me hearing this case for

the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.

Ooh, missing judge. I mean, that's just a hard job. When you're putting people away or

responsible for making those type of decisions that influence another person's life like that.

Yeah. You make a lot of enemies, but, you know, we do need structure in this world and we need people that enforce

the structure and that has its own issues too because how do you know someone's fully

capable of enforcing that, non-biasedly, et cetera, but that being said, it's a scary job

and, oh man, already my head's racing. It could be a mafia thing. Maybe there's an inside job and oh man already my head's racing it could be a mafia thing maybe there's an

inside job okay the amount of people is just that this judge could have rubbed the wrong way you know

and it's like oh yeah he's a judge he's got to make the right choices so he's not going to rub people

the right way all the time you know what I mean well you hope he's not going to rub people the right way all the time

you know what you hope not you hope that you rub people the right way and you hope that people are

happy but he's going to rub people the wrong way and then people aren't going to be happy and they won't

have their happy ending and so and you have right yeah not everything could be a fairy tale and it can't be yeah everything can be a fairy tale. It can't be. Yeah. Everything can be good at a fairy tale. Sometimes, you know, things rub out the wrong way, not the right way. And so with some houses are made out of bricks. Sorry. Yeah. And so I don't know. I mean, it could even be the like politicians coming to play um and they're they're easily rubbed the

wrong way. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so. And listen, task force, we just finished Red Web reads Akitar.

So there's a lot of, you know, we're blending the worlds of mom's favorite podcast with euphemisms that we've become more familiar with.

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