It ain’t over 'til the crawdads sing
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's today explained, I'm Noel King. |
| 0:02.2 | There's a story that has preoccupied Jeffrey Goldberg, |
| 0:04.8 | the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine |
| 0:06.9 | for more than 10 years. |
| 0:08.5 | In 1995, in Zambia, in Africa, a man was shot and killed. |
| 0:12.8 | We don't know for sure who shot him. |
| 0:15.2 | This man was alleged to be an animal poacher, |
| 0:17.6 | but no one ever proved that he was. |
| 0:19.7 | An ABC news crew in Zambia was doing a story |
| 0:22.6 | about a pair of American conservationists |
| 0:25.0 | and filmed the killing. |
| 0:26.8 | And afterward, someone disposed of this man's body in a lagoon. |
| 0:31.0 | No one was ever charged with the killing. |
| 0:32.9 | What bothers me is the idea that somebody was murdered |
| 0:38.0 | in a remote part of Zambia, a remote part of Africa, |
| 0:42.0 | and no one cares. |
| 0:44.2 | It doesn't seem right. |
| 0:45.5 | It's my point. |
| 0:46.2 | It just doesn't seem right that this happened. |
| 0:49.8 | And also, Jeff thinks he knows who did it. |
| 0:53.3 | Coming up. |
| 1:01.8 | Support for today's show comes from Slack. |
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