Hi, this is Alex. We are working on some more reply all stories. We have a new one from

a manual that's coming up very soon. But in the meantime, we've got something from our

colleagues at Gimlet. Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm

this is Habibah Nishin. She's an investigative reporter. And she's the host of season three

of conviction, which is a show that digs into a big crime story every season. I'm recording.

I think one two three four one two three four. And I recorded this interview with her from deep within

my closet at home. Thanks for doing this. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. We just put out

the last episode today. So I feel like I don't know what to do with myself right now. Yeah, I was just

about to ask you what are you going to do with yourself? I've started watching Bridgerton.

And I have to do laundry. Oh my god. I have to do laundry too. Habibah spent the last three years

working on a story about a woman named Nisaba Hassan who went missing. And the crazy thing is

her disappearance went unreported for almost a decade. And the only reason that Habibah found out

about it was because she received an anonymous email years after Nisaba went missing. Yeah. So in

the spring of 2019, I found myself reading an anonymous email from a tibster who essentially said

there's a woman who's missing and there's a lot more to her story than that's been reported.

And I think it's worth looking into. I'm happy to talk to you, but I must remain anonymous for my

own safety. Wow. I mean, we get a lot of emails that are like, this is life or death for me. This

is very important. What was it about that email that jumped out at you that made you want to pursue

this story? You know, it was short. And most of those emails that you were like, look into this,

like they're long rambling essays about people's lives and you're just trying to sort through

in this person in this email, wrote names, dates, things that I could easily verify within a few

minutes in a Google search. And that was really helpful to know, no, this person is talking about a

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