The Fentanyl Files: Zachary's Story

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True Crime, Murder, Unsolved Case, Killing, Murderer, Cold Case

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

19-year-old Zachary Cain Biederstadt of Hammond, Indiana died of an overdose in 2023. In this episode of The Murder Sheet, we will interview his aunt about this wonderful young man, the impact of his death, and devastation wrought by the fentanyl crisis. This will be the first episode in an ongoing series about all angles of the spate of fentanyl deaths in the United States.

The Times of Northwest Indiana's coverage on Zachary's case: https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/gary-man-allegedly-knew-pill-that-killed-19-year-old-contained-fentanyl-documents-allege/article_89d9d770-bdbc-55c2-a030-be3f7b2d30db.html

Information on fentanyl from the Drug Enforcement Administration: https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl

Information on fentanyl from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/stopoverdose/fentanyl/index.html

Information on fentanyl from the National Institute on Drug Abuse: https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/fentanyl

Information on fentanyl from Scripps: https://www.scripps.org/news_items/7642-why-is-fentanyl-so-dangerous-video-podcast

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