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 sixteenth, nineteen seventy two, two congressmen bored a small
plane in Alaska. They fly into violent weather, terrible Toby
I said, some spots just absolutely turn the airplane upside
down and disappear. Despite a massive search. We're just bringing
that about Matt, going to find him working around up there.

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

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

(01:09):
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 wars down the glacier, trying
to figure out what happened to Congressman Hailbogs and Nick Baggage.

(01:33):
You can't write this stuff. You can't, it's crazy. Listen
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