The Death of Col. Sabow

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 1991 Col. James Sabow was found dead at his home on El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California. The death was ruled a suicide by local authorities and NCIS, but subsequent inquiries cast doubt upon the verdict, and dark allegations of covert flights and arms smuggling at the air base were raised. Was Col Sabow’s death really a suicide—or was it murder?

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.9	This is The Shocking Details.
0:13.3	Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details. I'm Joe, joined as always by
0:19.3	Vincent Caldoni. And this week, we've got a juicy mystery
0:24.3	for you. We're going to be discussing a strange death, the strange death of one Colonel James
0:30.9	E. Sabo of the U.S. Marine Corps. This was in January 1991 as Operation Desert Storm was getting
0:40.9	underway. Yeah.
0:43.1	Yes, military deaths.
0:45.7	So, uh...
0:46.1	Weird one.
0:47.1	Yeah, it's kind of odd. Yeah, definitely a mystery here.
0:50.6	Just also want to say that if I sound a little weird,
0:52.9	it's because doing the three-parter on Aibu-Gogo made me pretty ill.
0:58.2	Oh, did it?
0:59.1	Ah, wow.
1:00.3	A lot of late nights.
1:01.5	I mean, I still work a full-time job.
1:02.9	So, yeah, I'm a little under the weather this week.
1:05.1	I'm a little hopped-up on cough medicine.
1:06.9	So if I sound a little loopy or a little gravelly, don't, don't at me.
1:11.2	Ah, you sound okay to me, but, yeah.
1:13.2	Good, good.
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