Episode 186: The Ramstein air show disaster
The first maneuver the Frecce Tricolori display team would perform at the Ramstein air show on August 28th, 1988, was called the pierced-heart maneuver. But when three of the planes collided, what fol...
16 Des 20211h 52min
Episode 185: The 2017 Portland train attack
The man on the train would not be quiet, and what he was saying was horrifying. Three men would stand up to him. Only one of those men would survive.
4 Des 20211h 16min
Episode 184: The Taconic State Parkway tragedy
We will never know the entirety of what happened on the Taconic State Parkway on July 26th, 2009, but we know enough - that a drunk and high mom driving a van loaded with five children drove the wrong...
27 Nov 20211h 50min
Episode 183: The Oppau explosion
On September 21st, 1921, the day dawned just like any other workday at the BASF fertilizer plant in Oppau, Germany. But just a few minutes after 7:30 that morning, an explosion rocked the town and lef...
21 Nov 20211h 2min
Episode 182: The Ghost Ship warehouse fire
On the night of December 2nd, 2016, an Oakland warehouse burned to the ground. There was just one small problem - it wasn't empty at the time.
31 Okt 20211h 39min
Bonus: Disaster Area road trip!
Jennifer went on a five-day-long pilgrimage to as many disaster sites as she could manage and now she's going to talk about it for two whole hours.
9 Okt 20212h 9min
Episode 181: The Sandy Hook school shooting
On December 14th, 2012, a young man carrying a Bushmaster rifle walked over the shattered glass from the front doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and into the building. He was already a murderer. I...
2 Okt 20211h 9min
Episode 180: American Airlines Flight 587
September 11th was still fresh in everyone's minds when, two months later, an Airbus 300 crashed in a Queens neighborhood after takeoff from JFK International Airport. Was it terrorism, or something e...
29 Sep 202147min
