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From WBUR Boston and the Boston Globe, this is last scene. I'm Kelly Horan.

By the end of a process like the one to put together an investigative podcast about the

most sensational, unsolved, art-hiced in history, the only thing more cluttered than our

brains is the cutting room floor. There are characters and storylines and theories that

are so compelling we just couldn't fit them all in or go quite as deeply with them as

we'd have liked. Enter a last scene live event, a recording of which you're about to hear.

Last scene fans in the Boston area joined me and my colleagues Jack Wartolico and Stephen

Kirkton as we spoke candidly about the Gardner mystery and took the audience behind the scenes

of the last year and a half of our reporting. The event took place at the Great Hall at

Fanniel Hall in Boston and was part of the Globe Docks film festival. And we were joined

onstage by our WBUR colleague and host of the Endless Thread Podcast, Ben Brockjohns.

Welcome, guys.

How's it going? Always good when we're with you Ben. Likewise. I feel like you guys have been

sitting down on the couches near where we do our work at the iLab for so long having these

like really deep conversations about the reporting that you're doing and we've all been listening

to the episodes as they've come out which has been incredible but I'm really excited to

talk about the behind the scenes stuff with you. So thanks for being willing to do this.

Kelly, I want to start with you. As you prepared yourself to tackle this story and this project,

what were you most excited about? Well, I was most excited I think about the journalistic

challenge of taking on a story that has been so often told in many places in many ways and

then trying to make it new and fresh. One of the things I vowed before I took it on was to never

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