S1 Trailer: Missing in Alaska

Alaska, 1972. Two congressmen vanish on a small plane. They’re never found. In 1995, a mobster tells the F.B.I. the plane was bombed. What happened?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
October nineteen seventy two, two congressmen board a small plane
in Alaska. They fly into violent weather, terrible spots, just
absolutely turned the aeroplane upside down and disappear. Despite a
massive search, snow they're gonna find him walking around up there.

(00:23):
They're never found. The case goes cold, that is until
I start researching it. I'm standing right little of Portage
Pass in Alaska. My name is John Waalzack. I'm a
journalist based in New Orleans, and what I've found is
one of the strangest stories you've never heard. Did he
indicate what was in the suitcase? He said it was

(00:45):
a bomb. Mysterious radio transmissions of what they heard of
the plane going down. The mafia was tough time for
law enforcement. There was a lot going on. There was
a lot of crime. Cocaine was everywhere, and edged bombing
on FBI Anchorage, FBI headquarters, and a brand new lead

(01:06):
on the planes location. It looks pretty shiny, but it
was shredded like it was torn off. So join me
as I travel from Arizona to the Arctic Circle tracking
down sources. I was the last person to see the
man alive, trekking into the bush. What happens is that
the wind just roars down the glacier. Trying to figure

(01:29):
out what happened to Congressman Hail Bogs and Nick Baggage.
You can't write this stuff. You can't, it's crazy. Listen
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