Hey listeners, we're sharing something special this week. It's an episode of the new podcast

Radioactive, the Karen Silkwood Mystery. It details the death of a 28-year-old whistleblower, which

50 years later continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation. The young plutonium plant worker

died in a fatal crash while driving to meet a reporter with the New York Times.

She agreed to deliver sensitive documents that were never found.

Two reporters who covered the story in 1974 have spent years trying to piece together what many in Oklahoma speculate.

Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew.

Now, here, newly discovered investigative tapes, deathbed revelations, and long-awaited interviews re-examining what happened that night.

50 years later, the story

still resonates. Nuclear secrets,

threats to the powerful, and why

the truth stubbornly refuses to stay

buried. Okay, here comes

the episode. You can listen to more episodes

of Radioactive, wherever you get your podcasts.

Last year, my buddy Mike and I found ourselves inside a giant warehouse with hundreds of big wooden storage containers stacked floor to ceiling.

It felt like a scene from an Indiana Jones movie.

You know, the one where the government stores the Lost Ark in a massive warehouse filled with crates where it'll never be found.

Well, we were definitely searching for lost treasure, hoping one of these storage containers

would hold the key to a 50-year-old mystery.

We pulled out box after box, each one sealed with layers of thick packing tape.

There were boxes of toys and old family photo albums

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