Creative Babble

Hey guys, this Javier. Can you believe it? I am working on season 22, eight years of pretend.

I can't believe it, but season 22 is going to be great. It's going to be a collection

of stories that I've been actually reporting on for multiple years and some new investigations.

And some investigations that went busts and right in my face. It fell flat, but I'm not giving up.

But while I'm working on the new season, I wanted to play a story that's really the most

Americana story that I have in my catalog.

And it's the story of David Crow and his father.

It's called The Paleface Lie.

And when I originally aired this series, it was a part one and part two.

I'm going to air them both together today.

If you've never listened to it, it is a powerful story.

Really, truly an unbelievable story.

And if you have listened to it, but it's been years,

I just listened to it again just to remind myself of the story.

And it is just as fascinating now as when I first learned about it.

So without further ado, here is a pale-faced lie.

I would imagine that most people, when they think of their earliest childhood memories with their father,

they're probably thinking about throwing the football back and forth on the lawn or weekend camping trip,

or maybe even going over math homework at the kitchen table.

For David Crow, things were a little different.

He wasn't just his father's child. He was also his criminal accomplice. I have an expression, childhood is a city you can never leave. And when you

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