The Death of Andrew Finch - 490
The Generation Why Podcast
Wondery
4.6 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
December 28th, 2017. Wichita, Kansas. On December 28th, 2017 28-year-old Andrew Finch was fatally shot by a police officer outside his home in Wichita, Kansas. The officers realized too late that the call was a “swatting” prank. The next day a man in Los Angeles was arrested for making the false call. Investigators soon learned that the call that led to Andrew’s death was just one in a series of swatting incidents and false bomb threats all over the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear ages and we all, |
| 0:05.1 | today... |
| 0:08.4 | I want to say a few more things. |
| 0:13.4 | For theerna. |
| 0:17.2 | Still in the natural state of their lives |
| 0:20.1 | i've forgotten that |
| 0:22.4 | let that go by |
| 0:23.8 | How you doing tonight, Earn? |
| 0:46.0 | I'm doing good, Justin. |
| 0:47.2 | How are you? |
| 0:48.2 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:50.1 | I saw something in the news the other day that reminded me a lot of Gillian Flynn's |
| 0:57.0 | Gone Girl book and movie that came out. |
| 1:00.9 | What happened recently, Earn? |
| 1:03.2 | I know while we don't have an episode on this, this is the case that pretty much everybody |
| 1:08.7 | who follows crime in the news knows about Sherry Papini. |
| 1:12.7 | She was that mom from California who went missing, right, was supposedly kidnapped and |
| 1:17.9 | then she turned up and well, she was recently sentenced after pleading guilty, right? |
| 1:24.6 | She pleaded guilty to one count of lying to a federal officer and one count of male fraud. |
| 1:30.2 | Well her sentence 18 months in prison, what do you think about that? |
| 1:34.6 | Well for people that don't know, what did she do? |
| 1:37.6 | She lied to the police basically, right, about what had happened to her. |
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