Tulsa: Who Killed Brittany Phillips?

S.2 E.3 Facts Of The Case - Who Killed Brittany Phillips?

Brittany's case isn't considered "cold" by the Tulsa Police Department. Meaning: public information - because this is an open investigation - is hard to come by. Rightfully so - nothing should jeopardize a court case when an arrest is finally made. _________________________________ Some things are knowable with the information we do have. In this episode I run through the known facts of Brittany's case at this time. When new information is discovered the facts could shift. If you have actionable...

S. 2 E. 2 Who Killed Brittany Phillips: New Evidence

S. 2 E. 1: Who Killed Brittany Phillips?

Episode 19: Christmas Ghosts: Grumpy Victorians, MySpace Goths and Listener Stories

Happy Christmas, or yule, or Saturnalia or whatever you celebrate this time of year --- when the veil is thinnest between here and the great hereafter. I give a brief history of everything from dragging shrubbery into our homes for the holidays, cats and dogs living together in harmony, druids, Romans, and of course the Victorians. So enjoy this quick listen - stay safe, wear a mask and FFS wear a mask.

Episode 18: Megan Gannon: Science Journalist, New Old Bones and Sacred Histories

Megan Gannon is a science journalist focusing on archeological digs and discoveries. She was born and raised in NY but now lives full time in Berlin. We talk a bit today about her recent article in Popular Science Magazine (recently featured by Apple News as a Weekend Must Read) and what it means when a plastics giant threatens both the lives and history of one Black community in Louisiana. There will be unintentional puns and really bad archeology jokes - and I don't apologize at all. Please ma...

Episode 17: Vodnik the Water Goblin: Classic Tale From The Land of My People

Did you ever worry about being abducted by a creepy green water sprite while doing your laundry in a pond? I didn't either until I headed back to the old country of Czech Republic and learned a lot about water safety.----more---- https://www.patreon.com/deadtome ----more---- https://english.radio.cz/karel-jaromir-erben-one-greatest-all-czech-poets-now-last-english-translation-8090894...

Episode 16: How to Report Your Worthless Public Health Official: A Love Story

https://www.patreon.com/deadtome COVID19 getting you down? Feel helpless if you live in a state that doesn't really seem to care about science? This episode could help -- could help -- I am not a doctor or lawyer I am just a grumpy lady who has had it up to here with this nonsense. There is recourse - your state medical licensing board.

Episode 15: Jessica Pishko: Sheriff Accountability Expert on Sheriff's as Coroners, Lack of Oversight and Yes Anti-Mask Sheriff's

NOTE!! There is some graphic detail in this episode. Did you know that too often elected county sheriffs have no oversight? This week I want to warn you all: there is some disturbing stuff in this episode including the work of forensic pathologists that is briefly graphic. Also, there is a brief overview of a Supreme Court case involving the murder of three young girls. Reference Links: https://www.kqed.org/news/11638866/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murde...

Episode 14: The Great And Wild Patti: The Lark Ascending (Happy Halloween)

My good friend Patti tells me all about her dad, her love of halloween (and it is THE most wonderful time of year), the Troubles and maybe some dandy highwaymen.

Episode 13: Bennington Triangle: Shirley Jackson's Missing Girls

Shirley Jackson is one of my favorite authors - dead authors that is. She is famous for her works The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived at the Castle and scads more. But when living in Southern Vermont with her husband and four kids, a girl goes missing, and Shirley starts writing (not that she ever stopped). Over several years people would simply disappear in the wilderness sometimes referred to as The Bennington Triangle. Did any of these disappearances influence the su...

Episode 12: Cathy Hart: First Degree Murder Trail Juror, Sequestration Expert, Noted Minnesotan

Cathy was a juror seated in a 2006 murder trail. After two weeks in the courtroom the jury - her jury - was sequestered for two nights until they reached a verdict. This isn't like Law and Order.

Episode 11: Happy Birthday Dad: Gall Stones, Wooden Legs and Playing the Long Game

Leo Kopsa was born on October 14, 1936 - to wish dad a happy birthday I present gall stones, wooden legs and playing the long game. I can only share little bits of dad with you so far - because I still think - in part - if I share too much I will give him all away. But really? There is plenty of Leo Kopsa's epic bohemian weirdness to wrap us all in a fuzzy blanket as we stare at the stars and wonder: would I keep my gall stones? Me? Yes, all day long, yes.

Episode 10: Interrupting My Expressly All Dead Podcast Because: Proud Boys, Racists, Repeat

When needs must - going back to the well of my reporting back in 2018 about the Proud Boys in bed with the GOP because FFS they got a shout out on a presidential debate stage. Lots of swearing in this one people. FULL DISCLOSURE: I watched another Miss Marple - not the debates. Bouquets and Brickbats can be sent here: [email protected]

Episode 9: Niki Conrad, Dead Dads and the Society of Patriotic Mask Wearers

Niki Conrad is the daughter of Nick and Nedra Conrad. She was born and raised in Fort Dodge Iowa. As a fellow Iowan she is naturally spectacular. In addition to being naturally spectacular, she (like me) has a dad who is dead. Unlike me, she was in the midst of a campaign for Webster County Supervisor. She tells me, for better or worse "death and I have been pals" for a long ass time. She got through the campaign with help from friends, family and the Fort Dodge community - and she proudly - and...

Episode 8: Grief Kitty

Dirty Word Alert Today I explain how against my best efforts I gave in to adopting a kitty who ended up saving my life - and biting my legs off.

Episode 7: Ether, Chloroform and the Curse Of Eve

Genesis 3:16 is pretty clear on the matter of ladies, childbirth and pain. An even-tempered Old Testament God cursed Eve and her offspring (which, I mean technically include men...but) because she ate food when she was hangry. This brief palette cleanser of an episode chats up the wonders of chloroform, a bunch of cheery Scots an equal number of grumpy Scottish Calvinists and the birth (get it?) of anesthesia for labor and delivery!

Episode 6: Heather, Medical Death Investigator - The 60% More Death Stuff Cut

This is an expanded version of my interview with Heather, a friend and medical death investigator in our home state of Iowa. The original version is only about 15 minutes long and offers a good overview of her job, and the job of some trained medical professionals who investigate deaths. But, there was some good stuff I left out - including an anecdote about her dad and my dad back home in Beaman, how we believe talking about death = less hysteria and fear about death, and some minor navel gazin...

Episode 5: Torch Number One, Prague Spring and he Velvet revolution

Over 30 years ago Czechoslovakia staged he Velvet Revolution. So named because from the outside looking in the revolution - resulting in expulsion of the USSR and renewed free open elections - looked peaceful. And for the most part in 1989 it was. But the movement for a free, liberal, democratic Czechoslovakia stretched back decades to the Prague Spring which was anything but peaceful. This is the article I wrote over a year ago for TIME for the 30 year anniversary https://time.com/5730106/velve...

Episode 4: Jonestown: The Recovery Effort, Secondary Trauma Victims and PTSD

Society’s understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder was limited in 1978 and associated almost exclusively with wartime experiences, falling under the umbrella of what was often thought of as “shell shock.” Even less was known about the impact a mass casualty recovery mission would have on first responders. A smattering of studies had been done by the military on nurses, for example, but the literature was sparse. Jonestown was a more massacre than mass suicide and the recovery effort was d...

Episode 3: Ann Neumann: COVID19, Death and Life in America (Part One)

Ann Neumann is the Author of The Good Death: An exploration of Dying in America. We cover a lot of ground in this episode. There is so much to yap about at this very moment from dying, living, pandemics, misinformation, health care - you can see where I am going with this. In part one we discuss terminology - how we talk about death and end of life care, the logistics of death care including hospice, living wills, etc., and Ann's current deluge of work amid the COVID19 pandemic in NYC. Read her ...

Episode 2: My Dead Great Great Grandpa

Fortunetellers, strangers poking a dead man's body in the early 1900s death on full display. My Great great grandpa had the decency to die out in public - in a decidedly spectacular way. If I know small towns like I think I do, there is a good chance people in Coon Rapids, Iowa are still gossiping about it today. Public inquests, lawsuits, train suction and safe school crossings. Oh, and a fortuneteller because of course there is a fortuneteller.

My Dead Great Great Grandpa

In 1916 James Titus was sucked under a train on his way home from seeing a traveling fortune teller. He's my twice great grandpa and today on dead to me, I talk about his death, the newspaper chatter of the day, public death inquest and death foretold.

Episode 1: Heather, Medical Examiner Investigator

Heather is a medical examiner investigator. She has been a nurse for 9 years and working in death investigation for 3 years. She and I grew up in the same neck of the woods in Iowa and she still lives and works there. There are a lot of different systems throughout the US of death investigations. Some systems are questionable, lacking rigorous oversight or - not kidding - medical training. But, lucky for us Iowa isn't one of those. Heather tells me about her job - at least some of it. Come for t...