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The Unmarked Graveyard: LaMont Dottin

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home.

His mother went to the local police precinct to try to report him missing, and his name was added to a list of thousands of cases that the NYPD’s Missing Persons Squad was supposed to be investigating. Then his case fell through the cracks.

This is the final episode of The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island. Listen to all 8 stories in our podcast feed, tell a friend and share your thoughts with us on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and Facebook. @RadioDiaries

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0:00.0

You're listening to Radio Diaries and this is Nellie Gillis with producers

0:05.2

Elisa Scarsay and Micah Hazel.

0:07.0

Hey, this is our producer takeover.

0:09.6

Sorry Joe.

0:10.6

Sorry Joe.

0:11.6

Before we start today's show, we wanted to let you know that right now is Radio To

0:17.1

Radio T. So we're going to let you know that right now is radiotopia's annual fundraiser and for the occasion our team wanted to come and tell you a few of the favorite things that we've

0:20.6

heard from the network recently. Micah, you go first.

0:24.0

So I recently listened to the Stoop episode,

0:27.0

Don't Call Me Ante, which is basically breaking down like the word

0:30.7

auntie, I use it all the time, a lot of people of color use it all the time it's like a very endearing term and

0:37.6

This episode really just kind of broke down the ways in which it's actually pretty problematic.

0:45.0

I think something the show just really does well is it takes these just everyday things

0:49.3

in my life or everyday things in black culture and it kind of like flips them on the head a little

0:53.7

bit while also just feeling like a very casual like conversation between friends.

0:58.8

Awesome. How many people in your life do you call auntie? Oh my God. Like pretty much anyone who's nice to me.

1:07.8

How about you, Elisa? So I recently loved this episode. It was a collaboration between two of my favorite

1:13.6

radiotopious shows, Articles of Interest and Wait for it. They did this story

1:17.6

about plus-size clothes that was the perfect combo of personal stories and

1:21.9

really fascinating fashion history that I had never thought

1:24.4

about. I'll never be able to look at those shoulder cutouts on t-shirts the same way.

1:29.1

I heard that episode too and I definitely have shoulder cut-out shirts that I don't know whether I'll ever wear again.

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