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'Radioactive' - Ep. 4: The Investigators

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Three investigators tried to solve the mystery of what happened to Karen Silkwood on that dark highway the night of November 13th, 1974. An accident investigator hired by the union believed so strongly that Karen’s car had been forced off the road that he saved the bumper as evidence, handing it down to his daughter on his deathbed. A private eye pieced together a theory that Silkwood was under surveillance. And a state trooper launched his own investigation inside law enforcement. They all hit dead ends. Or did they? Follow "Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery" now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or your podcast app of choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A couple of months ago, Bobby and I set out on an epic road trip, from Oklahoma City

0:09.0

to Albuquerque, New Mexico, eight hours through a lot of flat, dry land.

0:15.0

For most of the way, there wasn't much to see except giant windmill farms, a few antelope, and some rest stops.

0:22.6

Okay, well we got about three hours more to Albuquerque.

0:27.6

What do you think we're going to find there?

0:29.6

Well, I am hoping that we actually find some of the keys we need

0:36.6

to begin to put a close on this case.

0:40.3

I mean, you and I have been chasing this thing for years,

0:44.3

and it took a lot to dig out this information that's in New Mexico,

0:50.3

that we're hoping is what we think it is, and I'm just really anxious to get there and start looking.

0:56.9

We decided to drive all this way.

0:59.7

I mean, we could have flown, but I do hate flying.

1:03.3

Yeah, I was tempted to say, meet you there.

1:06.8

But eight hours in a car, that's nothing when you think about the thousands of hours we've put into investigating Karen Silkwood's story.

1:15.9

At the end of this road trip, there was a crucial piece of evidence we wanted to see,

1:21.5

evidence that had been passed down in a family from one generation to the next.

1:28.2

Our journey to uncover that piece of evidence had finally brought us here.

1:33.8

Hi, nice to see you.

1:36.1

Here we met another Karen in this story.

1:39.4

Karen Pipkin Guerrero greeted us at the front door.

1:42.8

Welcome to Albuquerque.

1:44.5

It's really good to be here.

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