Theories of the Third Kind

Flock Safety cameras are scanning license plates across America, recording where and when vehicles are seen and allowing law enforcement agencies to search a massive shared network.In this episode, we investigate how Flock's automated license plate readers (ALPRs) work, what information they collect, how agencies share and search that data, and reported cases of the technology b...

Using phone records, Apple Watch data, and trial testimony, we reconstruct Patrick and Lindsay Clancy’s timeline on January 24, 2023, including the unanswered questions fueling viral theories about the case. We examine Patrick’s testimony and actions before and after the killings, Lindsay’s postpartum psychosis defense, the 911 call, and the medical and psychiatric evidence surr...

We go deeper inside the human remains trafficking network uncovered through the Jeremy Pauley investigation. In Part 2 of The Body Trade, we follow additional buyers and sellers, including James Nott and Andrew Ensanian while examining the underground market for human skulls, bones, body parts, and other remains. As the federal cases come to an end, we investigate what happened ...

Jeremy Pauley’s basement discovery exposed a nationwide human remains trafficking network involving stolen body parts, an Arkansas mortuary, and the morgue at Harvard Medical School. In Part 1 of The Body Trade, we follow the investigation from Pauley to Candace Chapman Scott, Matthew Lampi, Katrina Maclean, Joshua Taylor, Denise Lodge, and Harvard morgue manager Cedric Lodge, u...