The Raid

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In 2023, police raided the Kansas newspaper where Eric Meyer worked with his mother, Joan. Seven officers also searched their home. Joan had a heart attack and died the next day. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, special merch deals, and more. 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	Amazon One Medical presents painful thoughts.
0:04.8	I could catch anything sitting in this doctor's waiting room.
0:08.6	Oh, a kid just wiped his runny nose on my jacket.
0:11.6	And the guy next to me, sitting in a pool of perspiration, insists on sharing my armrest.
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1:02.5	On August 11, 2003, police arrived at the home of a man named Eric Meyer in Marion, Kansas.
1:10.4	I was just sitting there at the house, checking email, doing normal stuff, and they came to the door.
1:16.8	What did they say they wanted?
1:18.3	They said they were serving a warrant.
1:20.4	Eric Meyer is the editor and publisher of a local newspaper, the Marion County Record.
1:27.0	Marion is a small town, about an hour north of Wichita, and at the time, the paper had about
1:32.7	4,000 subscribers.
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