PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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On December 22, 2016, Karen Klein got trapped in a snowstorm near the Grand Canyon. But she pushed through it to save her family.
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 26:24
- Purchases: 2
After a hung jury in the rape trial of five local Hawaiians, the family of the alleged victim looked for vengeance. They got it — by committing one...
- Added: Nov 10, 2016
- Length: 29:02
A privileged socialite. A Native Hawaiian wrongfully accused of rape. A ruling elite that favors whites. So begins the Massie Case. A story from 19...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 33:12
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:18
In July of 2002, Philadelphia Homicide Detective Pat Mangold was called to the scene of a gruesome murder on the Schuylkill River. When he wasn’t a...
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 24:12
- Purchases: 2
What It Is Like Working at a Funeral Home
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2015
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 1
Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and upped her game...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 19:28
- Purchases: 1
On July 17th, 1889, the residents of Clayton County, Iowa woke up to news of the worst crime in their history. A Civil War veteran and his young wi...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 17:25
- Purchases: 2
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
There are plenty of things we don’t share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you’re both in the business of death.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 28, 2014
- Length: 14:24
- Purchases: 4
Dan Lawton talks of his first assignment as a crime reporter in the 7th Ward of New Orleans.
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 04:27
Biloxi, Mississippi, 3 a.m. The attackers advanced from the dark.
The violence was sudden, intense. Forester's cheek, nose and two ribs were brok...
Bought by KUT, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 15:28
- Purchases: 3
A musical thought about poverty, desperation, and violence in an increasingly mad world.
- Added: Mar 08, 2008
- Length: 04:19
Film documentarians travel through the subway tunnels in search of the legendary Mole people
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Sep 24, 2004
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1