Kyle Norton Riester: Lieutenant LSD

The Opportunist

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True Crime, Talk Radio

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Kyle Norton Riester was an active duty Army pilot who used LSD on the weekends and sold psychedelics on the dark web. On this episode of The Opportunist, we examine how his double life led to federal charges and a stunning fall from grace.

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0:00.0	It was an unremarkable August morning in 2024.
0:13.0	The air in Springfield, Virginia was humid, even at dawn.
0:18.0	Automatic sprinklers turned on and watered brown front lawns.
0:21.6	Early morning alarms began to rank.
0:24.6	The many military families in the neighborhood were waking up,
0:28.6	ready to report for duty at nearby Fort Belvoir.
0:32.6	Springfield is a bedroom community like any other near the nation's capital, a busy collection of single-family homes, strip malls, stoplights, and Starbucks drive-thrus.
0:45.3	On this Monday morning, a commuter's only concern would be beating the morning traffic.
0:52.3	Lieutenant Kyle Norton Reister was getting ready to head into work at nearby Fort Belvoir.
0:59.0	He's not what you would expect from someone who would file this lawsuit or be involved in a case
1:04.8	like this.
1:05.8	You know, he's clean-shaven.
1:07.7	He has the military baron.
1:12.0	The Black Hawk pilot's morning routine was interrupted when he heard aggressive knocking
1:17.3	at the front door. A voice shouted. The FBI was there. And they had a warrant.
1:26.6	You find out about people who have two lives going on, two completely different lives.
1:33.3	What crime could possibly bring the FBI to a career military man's door?
1:39.5	What secret was Kyle Norton Reister hiding?
1:49.6	No. secret was Kyle Norton Reister hiding. This is the opportunist, an original podcast from Podcast 1.
1:54.4	You're listening to a story told in one episode called Kyle Norton Reister, Lieutenant LSD.
2:02.9	I'm Sarah James McLaughlin.
2:12.6	In this episode, we dive into the story of Kyle Norton Reister, the Black Hawk pilot fighting an indictment from the U.S. government with a defense as unconventional as his crime.
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