S29 E1: "A Damn Paper" | Capital Gazette

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4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Part 1: Five colleagues are shot dead. Everyone is traumatized. On that day, June 28, 2018, what can the remaining staff of the Capital Gazette do that might make a difference? Publish "a damn paper."

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0:00.0	I'm Kathleen Goldthar and this week on crime story we discuss the hit podcast
0:04.7	Blood is Thicker a shocking story of family fortune and cold-blooded betrayal.
0:10.6	The day of the shootings she was supposed to pay $400,000 to this trust company, and so she hatched
0:17.6	this plot to murder her own mother and her sister and transfer money into her account so she could have the house that she
0:26.7	wanted with her husband even if that cost her mother's life and her sister's life.
0:31.8	Don't miss that episode of Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.8	This is a CBC podcast.
0:40.0	Hey I'm Kelly McEvers from NPR's Embedded, and we are bringing you our series,
0:46.2	Capital Gazette, on uncover.
0:49.1	The episode you're about to hear is the first of a five-part series we released in 2021. In 2018, a man entered the offices
0:59.4	of the Capitol Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, and shot and killed five people.
1:05.0	And for the next two years our team followed the survivors of that shooting,
1:10.0	the employees of that newspaper, as they tried to move on.
1:15.0	I don't want to say anything more than that, so here it is the Capitol Gazette.
1:22.0	There's this thing that happens in our country, this uniquely awful American thing.
1:29.0	It's become so common, I don't even have to say what it is for you to know what I'm talking about.
1:35.2	I can just say where it happened.
1:37.0	In Denver suburb of Aurora...
1:39.0	A Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
1:40.3	The historic Mother Emmanuel, AME Church, Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. The
1:43.8	historic Mother Emmanuel, A. M. H. H. H. H. H. H. Pulse nightclub in Las Vegas Country Music. A high school in Parkland, Florida. It's first tree of life synagogue.
1:50.7	13 hours after El Paso, another massacre. This one in Dayton, Ohio.
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