The Mysterious death of Kanika Powell

Wife of Crime

Jess & Russ

True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this episode I tell Russ about the crazy and mysterious death of Kanika Powell. Kanika was a young ambitious woman who held a top secret security clearance and worked for the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. With the type of job Kanika had her friends and family thought she would be protected from danger but her job may have been the very thing that led to her death.Moral of this story... there is no lesson to be learned here because Kanika did everything right and still couldn't escape her killer. Sponsors: Hydrojug www.thehydrojug.com Promo code: CRIME Green Chef: www.greenchef.com/wifeofcrime10 promo code: wifeofcrime10 Join the Crime Family!: www.patreon.com/wifeofcrimepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is an unscripted, unedited conversation about true crime.
0:05.0	We take the cases very seriously, but I don't take myself seriously at all, and neither should you.
0:11.0	Welcome to Wife of Crime.
0:13.0	So, Russ, the story I'm telling you today is super mysterious.
0:20.0	This is a case about a young ambitious woman who got her dream job working with top secret information.
0:29.0	With a job like this, you'd think that she'd be protected, but it might be the very thing that caused her death.
0:38.0	This is the case of Kanika Powell.
1:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Wife of Crime.
1:03.0	A true crime podcast where I tell my husband Russ, true crime, stories, and he reacts to them.
1:10.0	Yep. Yo, did you see that story about the missing drunk man that accidentally joined the search party to find himself?
1:19.0	I did.
1:21.0	It reminds me of my boy Chip, and I showed him that at the bar, and he laughed because he probably thought that could have been me.
1:26.0	Yeah, that was a really funny story.
1:28.0	Yes, I'll give you guys a brief little thing about it.
1:31.0	There was a guy whose wife reported him missing. This was in Turkey.
1:34.0	I just definitely assumed it was from the Bronx, and it was someone I knew.
1:38.0	But he was out all night drinking his wife reported him missing.
1:42.0	He saw a search party, and I was like, oh, I guess I should help with that.
1:46.0	So, he probably chugged one more shot, walked in. I added the extra shot.
1:51.0	And they were searching for a while, and eventually, he heard them calling his name.
1:56.0	And he's like, hey, that's me.
1:59.0	And they didn't believe him.
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