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Suspect

Wondery | Campside

True Crime, Chameleon, Arpana Jinaga, Over My Dead Body, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Exhibit C, Eric Benson

4.2 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. When you take stock of what’s left, it starts to look like a crime scene: decapitated mountains, poisoned rivers, oil-soaked pelicans, maybe a sun-bleached cow skull in a dried-up lake bed. The only thing missing is yellow caution tape. On each episode of Lawless Planet, host Zach Goldbaum reveals the scams, murders and cover-ups on the frontline of the climate crisis, and the life and death choices people are making to either protect our world – or destroy it.

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0:00.0	What if I told you the biggest crime story of our time is happening right under our noses,
0:05.5	and we're all witnesses?
0:07.5	Introducing Lawless Planet, the new podcast from Wondery that exposes the dark underbelly
0:13.1	of the climate crisis, from the Amazon rainforest to small-town America, host Zach Goldbaum,
0:19.3	uncover shocking tales of murder, corporate cover-ups, and greed.
0:23.8	You'll hear about the brave activists risking their lives for their beliefs, the corporate
0:28.5	tycoons destroying ecosystems for profit, and the ordinary people caught in the crossfire.
0:34.6	This isn't some distant threat. It's happening right now. Each episode drops you
0:39.9	into a battle for our planet's future. We're talking mysterious deaths, daring heists, and
0:45.9	billion-dollar scams, all with the fate of our world hanging in the balance. This is Lawless Planet.
0:54.0	I'm about to play a clip from Lawless Planet.
0:56.4	Follow Lawless Planet on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcast.
1:06.4	9-1-1. Where's your emergency?
1:12.8	Yeah, I was just calling.
1:14.2	I'm home to figure out.
1:16.0	My heart's been missing for a while.
1:18.9	I can't figure out where he is.
1:21.4	It's just before 2 a.m. on April 18, 2018, 2018.
1:25.9	Amy Price is in her home in Bluefield, Virginia,
1:28.9	an Appalachian coal mining town on the border of West Virginia.
1:32.6	Amy last spoke to her husband around 8 p.m.
1:35.9	He said there were a few things he needed to take care of
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