Episode #77: 1 in 66 Quintillion: The State vs Skaggs
August 1990. A young mother working the late shift at the Western Sizzlin in Flowood stops at a Brandon Texaco for cinnamon rolls for her kids' breakfast. She's inside for only a few minutes. Half a m...
24 Sep 56min
Episode #76: 25 Years on High Alert: What Has Living Through 9/11 Done to Our Bodies?
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the toll of a quarter-century spent on high alert is written into the bodies of the people who answered the call. This week, Sara Perkins-Ricks and Therese Apel sit down ...
10 Sep 1h 6min
Episode #75: The War Within
There are many voices around Mississippi speaking on behalf of first responders in the field of mental health. One of the more prominent currently is Kevin Whitsell, a 20-year veteran paramedic and fi...
3 Sep 52min
Episode #74: What Happened at the Po' Folks.
In April 1996, a spring afternoon in South Jackson turned into a scene of terror the metro area has never forgotten. This week, Therese Apel and Sara Perkins-Ricks sit down with Charlie Smith, a forme...
27 Aug 1h 5min
Episode #73: The Story of Mike Dill.
Some of the people who change our lives never know they did it. Capt. Barbara Folsom-McNeal was eleven years old when a police officer walked into the worst night of her childhood and carried her out....
20 Aug 58min
Episode #72: The Coroner's Call -- Counting the Toll
Jackson has held the highest homicide rate per capita in the nation for five years running. Behind every one of those numbers is a name, a family, and a death someone has to answer for. In Hinds Count...
14 Aug 1h 33min
Episode #71: Not a TV Cop
From Olivia Benson to Dana Scully to Ziva David, we’ve all got a TV idea of what it looks like to be a female cop. Spoiler alert: you can’t actually run in those heels, and the cases don’t wrap up in ...
6 Aug 1h 7min
