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Coffee and Cases Podcast

E173: Rodney Marks

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Rodney Marks was only 32, but he had already earned so much respect as an astrophysicist. And he took his work seriously, signing up for multiple long stints at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, run by the National Science Foundation. A job assignment like this one was not for the faint of heart as it required working more than half a year in darkness and in an environment of such extreme temperatures that even a plane couldn’t land because its fuel would freeze. It also meant months of complete isolation from the outside world; so, when Rodney Marks fell ill, there were limited resources. When he died on May 12, 2000, it would be over five months before his body could be removed from the Antarctic continent and an autopsy performed. A full seven months after Marks passed away, autopsy results revealed the biggest shock of all—he had been poisoned. This week we are joined by Richard, co-host of both Private Dicks and Unethical podcasts. If you like comedic, light-hearted true-crime, check out his pods here: Private Dicks: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/private-dicks/id1607947543 Unethical:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unethical-podcast/id1555266424 BLENDJET OFFER: Go to blendjet.com and use code coffeeandcasesblend12 to save 12% at blendjet.com and get free 2-day shipping. The discount will be applied at checkout! PATREON: Please consider supporting the pod by joining us over on our Patreon page! Are you up-to-date on all our regular content? Get access to monthly mini-episodes as well as one full solved case per month by joining today! Be a part of the C & C Fam by going to https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases to register! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We want to start this episode by telling you to go, yes, right now, to whatever app you are listening to this episode on and subscribe to the podcast, Love Murder, because the hosts, Jesse and Andy, are amazing people, and so is their podcast.

0:17.0

It is one that you will fall in love with during the first listen.

0:21.5

Here's a little bit about the show from Jesse and Andy themselves.

0:25.8

First comes love, then comes marriage, and then comes murder?

0:31.0

Unfortunately, that's the case for most of the episodes of Love Murder.

0:36.1

I'm Jesse Prey, and I'm Andy Cassette, and we're the hosts of Love Murder.

0:40.3

Love Murder is a podcast about hidden affairs, devious deceptions, and love gone fatally wrong.

0:46.9

To get a taste, check out episode 138, The Young and the Murderous, in which a torrid,

0:52.7

youthful love affair turns into a brutal double homicide.

0:56.9

Follow Love Murder Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

1:05.0

While for security purposes, psychologist Kelly Slack, a member of NASA's Johnson Space Center astronaut selection panel,

1:13.1

cannot detail the tests astronauts are put through before selection. They must look not only at

1:19.8

physical agility, but at mental fortitude as well. You see, spending an average of six months in space

1:26.4

in close quarters with only a handful of people,

1:30.1

far away from family, friends, and modern conveniences, as well as the lack of natural light,

1:36.2

causes many problems that must be anticipated.

1:39.7

The psychological toll of that cramped, dark, and isolated environment quite often leads to anxiety,

1:46.7

depression, excessive alcohol use when they return, withdrawal, and sleep problems. In fact,

1:53.9

when NASA published an article titled Five Hazards of Human Space Flight, situated snugly at

2:00.1

number two, right below space radiation, is the

2:04.3

behavioral hazard of isolation and confinement. At number three, distance from Earth. Should something

2:13.0

happen where supplies are needed, or there's a medical event or an emergency, everything from an appendicitis

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