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Criminal

Wolf 10

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. “They’re just gone. And that’s implausible because wolves don’t just disappear.” Thomas McNamee’s book is The Killing of Wolf Number Ten. This episode was originally released in 2020. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. 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

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0:03.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.0

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0:13.7

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0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Hi, it's Phoebe.

0:34.8

This month we're bringing you two of our favorite episodes.

0:38.5

Two stories about the same family of wolves in Yellowstone. One is a crime story and the other is a love story.

0:47.3

For the love story, check out episode 72 of our other show. This is love. We've got a link in the show notes. Here's the crime story.

1:00.2

In April of 1995, a man named Mike Phillips was in a small airplane flying over Yellowstone National Park.

1:09.0

He was the leader of the Yellowstone Wolf Project, and he was looking for two wolves that had decided to head north.

1:17.0

They were identified by numbers 9 and 10.

1:22.0

Wolf 9 was big, with black fur that people said looked gray in certain light.

1:29.0

10 was her mate.

1:31.0

10 was absolutely enormous, 122 pounds, white with gigantic paws.

1:40.2

Rader Thomas McNamee says Wolf 10 was the very definition of an alpha male.

1:46.5

When you go into a gift shop and you buy a stuffed wolf, he looked like one of those.

1:53.0

Nine and ten more research collars that transmitted signals.

1:57.0

Wildlife biologists use these to track the wolves when they started heading north.

2:03.0

They track them the first day,

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