S29 E5: "All of a Sudden… It’s Different" | Capital Gazette

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4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Part 6: In our final episode, there's one important part of the newspaper's story we couldn't bring you until now: what it's like to have their attacker stand trial. And the unexpected ways that trial can affect you. Plus a big update about the newspaper itself.

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0:00.0	Hi it's Chloe here this week on the slow newscast from Tortoise a succession drama
0:08.0	The Revolution treated a paradise for some clays and help for others.
0:13.4	He very clearly said that war is a blessing.
0:18.2	So we're still grappling with what happened in 1979.
0:23.0	Who will be Iran's next supreme leader?
0:26.0	Listen now to the slow newscast, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:34.0	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers from NPR's Embedded and we are bringing you our
0:39.2	series Capital Gazette on uncover.
0:42.3	In 2021, we did a series Capital Gazette on uncover.
0:43.0	In 2021, we did a series about a newspaper,
0:47.0	The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland,
0:50.0	where back in 2018, a man walked into the newsroom and shot and killed five people who worked there.
0:59.5	Years before the man had been convicted of harassing a woman he met on Facebook.
1:05.0	The paper wrote a story about it and the man got really angry at the paper.
1:10.0	The man eventually pleaded guilty to murdering the five people who worked at the Capitol Gazette.
1:15.0	Rebecca Smith, Wendy Winters, Rob Hyacinth, Gerald Fishman, and John McNamara.
1:22.0	After the shooting we we followed the surviving staff for a couple of years.
1:27.0	We wanted to know what life and work would be like for people who went through something like that.
1:32.0	But at the time, when we put out our series, there was one part of the story we couldn't include. Because even though the man had pleaded guilty to the murders, he also pleaded insanity, which meant
1:47.6	he eventually would go to trial.
1:50.3	And this summer, three years after the shooting, that trial finally started.
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