Uncharted: A Different Kind of Justice

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A small, informal survey leads to shocking revelations about the US justice system, with its truths only uncovered decades later. Meanwhile, an ambitious portfolio manager discovers a perfect graph outlining eye-watering profits. But something doesn't seem right. Could the graph be accurate, or is it hiding a far more sinister truth? This story delves into the power of data, the hidden forces behind it, and the unexpected revelations that can change everything

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0:00.0	11 climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.
0:06.4	It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.
0:09.9	Rock falls, avalanches.
0:11.6	Huge pieces of ice.
0:12.9	All are big enough to kill you.
0:14.3	He just flew out into Devoid, and he was gone.
0:17.3	How did it all go so wrong?
0:19.2	And is it really worth risking death to feel alive?
0:22.2	Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation?
0:27.3	Extreme.
0:28.3	Peak Danger.
0:29.3	With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella.
0:31.7	Listen to the full series now.
0:33.3	First on BBC Sounds.
0:38.4	We begin today's story in a car in Harlem.
0:42.4	Two eyes trace a once-familiar landscape.
0:46.0	It's been 25 years since Edwin Eddie Ellis has walked these streets.
0:51.6	As he steps onto the sidewalk, the sounds of hip-hop and local children playing
0:56.2	fills the air, a stark contrast to the prison yard he's just left behind. He wonders how many
1:03.9	of those children would also go on to spend decades locked in behind the bar door.
1:10.4	Because for the past few years, Eddie has been
1:12.8	conducting an investigation in prison, unlike any that had been done before. And it was time
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