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  • June 23 · 18 min

    Murder in Derry

    Stolen gift cards. Discreet warehouses. Millions of dollars’ worth of Apple products. A look inside an elaborate international criminal operation quietly operating out of New Hampshire that’s gone from financial crime to violent crime. For more on this story, visit NHPR.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • S11 · E4
    January 29 · 45 min

    Safe to Drink, Ep. 4 | The Neighborly Thing to Do

    When we’ve been exposed to something that could harm us, what are we supposed to do — as regulators, as doctors, as company executives, or as people just trying to live our lives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • S11 · E3
    January 29 · 50 min

    Safe to Drink, Ep. 3 | A Gray World

    Former workers at Saint-Gobain’s New Hampshire plant share what they did — and didn’t — know about PFOA and its potential health effects. And how the chemical industry has worked to sow doubt to its own benefit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • S11 · E2
    January 29 · 47 min

    Safe to Drink, Ep. 2 | A Flash of Genius

    We go back in time to Hoosick Falls, New York where a man looks for answers after his father dies of cancer following his retirement from the local Saint-Gobain plant. What he finds changes the course of this whole story: a remarkable kind of chemical once used to help make the Atom Bomb that manufacturers knew could be dangerous for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • S11 · E1
    January 29 · 32 min

    Safe to Drink, Ep. 1 | You Don’t Know About This?

    A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a “forever chemical.” The source appears to be the nearby Saint-Gobain plant. Officials say the potential health effects are unclear, but most people can still drink the water. One resident doesn’t buy it and goes down a research rabbit hole. She soon learns all this has happened before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • January 13 · 4 min

    Trailer: Safe to Drink

    A New Hampshire town finds out their water has been contaminated by a chemical. Their most basic question — whether the water is safe to drink — doesn’t have a clear answer. Nobody seems to know much about this so-called forever chemical, which is weird because… this has all happened before. From the Document team at New Hampshire Public Radio, Safe to Drink is a four-part series about the water contamination story that keeps repeating in town after town — and about the people who fought for answers through a maze of chemistry, regulations, and illnesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Dec 1, 2025 · 16 min

    Love Brings You Home

    A genealogist finally digs into her own family’s past and unearths a 100-year-old tragedy. Then, she sets out to make sure the truth will never be buried again.

  • S9 · E2
    Nov 12, 2025 · 31 min

    Operation Night Cat, Ep. 2 | Behind the Brick Wall

    The poaching investigation takes a surprising turn when it reveals another set of potential crimes – this time, behind the brick walls of New Hampshire’s State Prison for Men.

  • S4 · E12
    Jun 9, 2025 · 29 min

    The 13th Step, Ep. 12 | Feds Arrest Eric Spofford

    Federal prosecutors now say the vandalism scheme was Eric Spofford’s idea all along. Spofford appears in federal court, and Lauren explains what this remarkable moment means for her and her sources.

  • S8 · E3
    Mar 5, 2025 · 26 min

    The Final Days of Sgt. Tibbs, Ep. 3 | ‘Close and Tight’

    Todd begins to investigate the final days of Sgt. Tibbs as the social media storm Rose kicked up descends from the Internet clouds into a real life courtroom. And parts of Debbie and Sabrina’s story about Sgt. Tibbs’ final days don’t seem to add up.

  • S8 · E2
    Mar 5, 2025 · 31 min

    The Final Days of Sgt. Tibbs, Ep. 2 | #JusticeForTibbs

    Rose mounts a pressure campaign against Debbie, the woman who says she and her daughter Sabrina rescued Sgt. Tibbs, but now refuses to give him back. First, Rose takes to social media. Then, she leads a protest outside Debbie’s business where this cat struggle turns into something much more troubling.

  • S8 · E1
    Mar 5, 2025 · 18 min

    The Final Days of Sgt. Tibbs, Ep. 1 | Chicken Livers

    Sgt. Tibbs, a fluffy, 19-year-old Maine Coon with tiger stripes, soft eyes, and a chipped tooth, is missing on the streets of Manchester, New Hampshire. His owner, Rose, fears the worst. But when she finds out her cat was never missing at all – the truth turns out to be worse than she feared.

  • S3 · E5
    Dec 18, 2024 · 34 min

    Death Resulting, Ep. 5 | Epilogue

    Three years after his sentencing, Josh Cook and his mom have lived through even more consequences of America’s drug crisis and the ways we respond to it – each in their own dramatic and completely separate ways.

  • S4 · E11
    Dec 11, 2024 · 26 min

    The 13th Step, Ep. 11 | The Sentencing

    A federal judge sentences Eric Labarge, the man who pled guilty to orchestrating the vandalism in retaliation for our reporting on Labarge’s friend, Eric Spofford. Lauren explains what went down in the courtroom – and how she navigated the experience as both a journalist and a victim of this crime.

  • S7 · E1
    Oct 30, 2024 · 55 min

    Emelia's Thing

    A young police officer unexpectedly finds herself back in New Hampshire, and she’s not the same person she was when she left. Something happened to her – to all of us. But for Officer Emelia Campbell, this thing still lives in her brain and her body. This is her story of survival.

  • S6 · E3
    Jun 26, 2024 · 36 min

    The Youth Development Center, Ep. 3 | Sober Algebra

    This flood of roughly 1,300 people who’ve come forward all started with one man. How the widespread abuse at YDC finally came to light and how people are grappling with what justice and accountability even mean in a scandal so large. If you have suffered abuse and need someone to talk to, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. If you’re in a mental health crisis, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 9-8-8.

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