Ep.15 Web of death- part 1
The Tip Off
The Tip Off
4.7 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In the corner room of Buzzfeed’s office is a wall is covered with photographs. Photographs that are linked up in a web of connections. Photographs of dead men.These are the people Heidi Blake suspects were killed with impunity on British soil.
This is the story of how Heidi and a team of reporters followed the clues surrounding a series of mysterious deaths, back to the same, shady source.
(This is the first in a two part episode.)
Read all about it:
Pentagon Papers clip from Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/the-pentagon-papers-secrets-lies-and-leaks/
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Production support: Cheeka Eyers
Music: Dice Muse and The Losers
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| 0:00.0 | Scott Young committed suicide. That's what the news report said. The millionaire appeared to have jumped from the window of his lavish London home on the evening of December 8th, 2014. He was found more than 30 foot below, his |
| 0:23.8 | lifeless body impaled on the wrought iron railings surrounding his luxurious home. Despite |
| 0:30.3 | rumours and intrigue about the shady company he was keeping, months later a coroner's report |
| 0:36.2 | ruled out foul play. |
| 0:38.3 | London property tycoon Scott Young dies after falling onto railings, read the news headlines. |
| 0:46.3 | The gory details were all and more jarring, couched in the emotionless reporting of the newspaper clippings. Clippings that had been packed neatly into a carry-on bag. |
| 0:58.0 | Heidi Blake's carry-on bag. |
| 1:01.0 | She was on her way to New York. |
| 1:04.0 | And she didn't know it then, but the journey would be longer and take her much further than that. |
| 1:10.0 | From cold parish streets to the sun-drenched patios of Midwestern US restaurants, |
| 1:16.4 | to turned-over flats and secret safe houses. |
| 1:20.6 | But we don't start there. |
| 1:22.9 | We start with a tip-off. |
| 1:29.3 | Heidi Blake had worked for the Sunday Times for years. |
| 1:32.3 | She had broken huge stories there, exposing alleged bribery by Qatar to win the 2022 World Cup, |
| 1:38.3 | or her work uncovering the corruption at the heart of FIFA. |
| 1:42.3 | But now she was ready for a fresh challenge. |
| 1:46.2 | She was on her way to New York to meet Mark Schoofs, the head of BuzzFeed investigations. |
| 1:53.1 | And so I kind of turned up to see him in New York clutching this news cutting, saying, like, |
| 1:59.1 | this, it's just a crazy story about this group of people who've all died. |
| 2:02.8 | Pulling out the news story about Scott Young, Heidi explained to Shoefs what was going on. |
| 2:07.8 | Scott Young was a multi-millionaire kind of fixer and property dealer and he'd been embroiled in this |
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