Episode 184: The Taconic State Parkway tragedy

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

We will never know the entirety of what happened on the Taconic State Parkway on July 26th, 2009, but we know enough - that a drunk and high mom driving a van loaded with five children drove the wrong way and struck another vehicle, leaving eight people dead. It's in the details where the mystery grows.

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