In de winter van 2002 ontdekten de autoriteiten meer dan 300 lichamen op één terrein in het kleine stadje Noble, Georgia. Wat volgde was een van de grootste en duurste onderzoeken in de geschiedenis van het Amerikaanse Zuiden. Om dit vergeten dossier te ontrafelen, reist journalist Shaun Raviv naar een plattelandsgemeenschap vol geheimen.
Hij ontrafelt de indrukwekkende geschiedenis van de gerespecteerde familie die het terrein bezat, onderzoekt het lot van de lichamen die naar het crematorium Tri-State waren gestuurd, en gaat op zoek naar de mysterieuze man die in het middelpunt van het verhaal staat. Tijdens zijn zoektocht verkent Shaun een van de meest fundamentele en complexe vragen die ons als mensen bezighouden: wat zijn de levenden verschuldigd aan de doden?
In the winter of 2002, police discovered more than 300 bodies on one property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia. What followed was one of the biggest and most expensive investigations in the history of the American South. To get to the bottom of this forgotten case, journalist Shaun Raviv visits a rural community with plenty of secrets.
He discovers the epic history of the well-respected family who owned the property, uncovers the fates of the bodies sent to a crematory called Tri-State, and searches for the mysterious man at the center of it all. And in the process, Shaun explores one of the most primal and vexing questions we face as human beings: What do the living owe the dead?
“A gripping, thoughtful, perfectly balanced meditation on death and our relationship to its practicalities” – The New Yorker, Top Podcasts of 2024
Host Ashley Willcott is known as a TV anchor, a former judge, and a trial lawyer, and nearly all of the cases she’s covered over the years intersect with one of the seven deadly sins.
Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. The opposite of the seven heavenly virtues.
These are THE REASONS why criminals commit crimes. They cannot resist their temptations. And it is a fascinating study to delve into the biggest and less known cases to figure out that why behind the crime; the motive.
This is a chance for us to figure out that WHY.
Join Ashley each and every week as she dives deep into cases you’ll recognize instantly – and many you won’t. She’s joined by a roster of experts to break down each case.
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