Show Notes
Since 2022, at least thirteen people connected to American scientific and defense research have died or disappeared under circumstances that have drawn scrutiny from the FBI, Congress, and the White House. Some cases have clear explanations: a revenge killing, a system failure, a man lost to grief. But others remain genuinely unsolved, with no confirmed sightings and no answers for the families left behind. In today's first episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Vanessa Richardson examines every name on the list, the skeptics who see pattern-seeking over evidence, and the real human cost when tragedy becomes a conspiracy theory.
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