SNEAK PEEK: The first 5 minutes of Season 3, the Disappearance of Mario Rossi
The Sneak
USA TODAY
4.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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The Sneak: The Disappearance of Mario Rossi premieres on April 8. Find it wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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A missing racing genius. A NASCAR drug smuggling scandal. A broken and haunted family. What happened to Mario Rossi?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Nate here. We are back. It's time for our third season. This season is called |
| 0:07.6 | the Disappearance of Mario Rossi, and it's about an auto-racing trailblazer who mysteriously |
| 0:12.4 | disappeared just after New Year's Day in 1983. The season is also about his family, who's |
| 0:18.3 | still searching for him nearly 40 years later, and how it all might connect to perhaps the |
| 0:23.0 | biggest drug smuggling scandal in NASCAR history. This season is racing, cartels, undercover |
| 0:28.8 | FBI informants. I think you'll like it. We're going to play just a snippet of the first episode now, |
| 0:35.4 | and then we'll actually start releasing the podcast on April 8th, available wherever you get your |
| 0:39.3 | podcast. If you don't want to wait until April 8th, you can actually get the entire third season |
| 0:44.4 | starting Thursday, March 25th, add free on Wondry Plus. Download the Wondry app to start your free |
| 0:50.7 | trial of Wondry Plus today. Alright, let's get to the episode. To begin this story, we have to go |
| 0:57.1 | back to the year 1983. It was a couple days after the New Year, and Bill Rossi was in New York City. |
| 1:03.5 | While Bill is 59 now, he was just 21 then. On that cold January day, Bill got a call from his |
| 1:10.5 | family, and they told him he needed to go to his grandma's house in New Jersey. He wasn't |
| 1:15.6 | on the question family, so he made the trek. When he arrived at his grandma's house, though, |
| 1:21.7 | his uncle told him they needed to go for a ride. Bill was a bit disoriented. This wasn't like his |
| 1:28.2 | family at all. Still, he wasn't wanting to question his uncle, so he got in the car. |
| 1:35.7 | That was the part I didn't quite understand why we just didn't go to the house while we were |
| 1:39.4 | riding, you know, riding around, and then basically he had told me that my father was killed in a |
| 1:45.7 | plane crash. Bill sat in shock. His father was Mario Rossi, a legendary race car owner and |
| 1:53.0 | engine builder who will get to know very well this season. Sitting in his uncle's car, Bill tried |
| 1:58.9 | to process the information. Mario was dead at just 50 years old, having crashed his plane |
| 2:06.2 | outside the Bahamas. In stunned silence, Bill's uncle drove him back to his grandma's house. |
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