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Criminal

The Feather Lady

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On October 4, 1960, Eastern Airlines Flight 375 took off from Boston’s Logan airport, and then, two minutes later, it crashed. 62 people died. Investigators couldn't figure out what had happened, and they decided to ask a scientist working at the Smithsonian for help. Roxie Laybourne's investigation helped launch a whole new field of science that changed aviation and forensics. Special thanks to the Smithsonian Institution Archives for letting us share audio of Roxie Laybourne. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. On October 4th, 1960, Eastern Airlines Flight 375 took off from Boston's Logan Airport.

0:40.4

And then, two minutes later, the plane crashed into Boston Harbor.

0:45.0

62 passengers died.

0:48.0

Witnesses on the ground told investigators that they saw a puff of gray smoke coming from one of the engines.

0:55.0

Others said they saw fire.

0:57.7

Two surviving flight attendants said they felt the plane wreckage

1:03.4

Shake, after takeoff.

1:05.0

Investigators recovered the plane wreckage from the harbor and began a nine-month

1:08.5

investigation into what happened.

1:12.3

They couldn't figure it out.

1:15.0

And then one day, a box was delivered to the desk of a scientist in Washington, D.C.

1:21.0

And of course, in the beginning beginning it was what I called going fishing.

1:27.0

Her name was Roxy Leiborne.

1:30.0

She opened the box and got to work.

1:33.0

I'm Phoebe Judge. This is criminal. Roxiele-born was born in 1910 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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