The Cult Queen of Canada from Uncover

In the upcoming season, Uncover listeners will get to know the surviving staff of The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, MD, where a gunman murdered five people in June 2018. Produced by NPR's Embedded. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes. ...

In 1964, the partial remains of two black teenagers — Charles Moore and Henry Dee — were pulled from a backwater of the Mississippi River. Brutally murdered by the Ku Klux Klan, no one was ever convicted. In one of his first ever cold case investigations, Someone Knows Something host David Ridgen joins victim's brother Thomas Moore, as he returns to Mississippi 40 years later to discover the truth...

In 1964, two klansmen were arrested for the murder of Dee & Moore: James Ford Seale and Charles Marcus Edwards. The charges were dropped. But Edwards is still known to be alive, and Thomas wants to meet him face to face. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the epis...

Why did authorities close the case? David & Thomas speak with the FBI and local District Attorney to try to find out. They also meet Henry's sister Thelma and Joe Lee, one of the last to see Dee & Moore alive. Thomas makes a shocking discovery. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ H...

David and Thomas meet journalist Jerry Mitchell, who has stacks of FBI documents about the case. They speak to people who lived through the terror of civil rights era Mississippi, and visit U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton to try to get the case reopened. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here...

David and Thomas search for MHSP officers and FBI agents who were present during Seale and Edwards's arrests. And Thomas looks for the support of the local community as he plans to confront the Klansmen in person. For transcripts of this series, please visit here . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Eviden...

The investigation continues, leading to the doorsteps of more former Klansmen. Then, a surprising revelation from Lampton. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (red...

In the aftermath of the Dee-Moore case, questions remain. Years later, David and Thomas return to Mississippi to meet old friends, mourn those who have passed and to try meeting the Klansman turned church deacon, Charles Marcus Edwards, one more time. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ He...

In this bonus episode, David travels back to Mississippi, follows up on the Dee & Moore case, and looks at the fate of other civil rights era cases in the wake of the James Ford Seale trial. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺...

In this special episode, David and Thomas Moore reflect on their search for justice and what they’ve learned in the years since their investigation into the 1964 Klan murders of Henry Dee and Thomas’ brother Charles Moore. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Inter...

Two-year-old Salmaan disappears in the chaos of the final days of the war against ISIS. In London, Salmaan’s grandfather, Ash, has been desperate for answers ever since. Poonam travels to Syria to find out what happened to Salmaan and the thousands of children like him. We want to hear from you! Take the Uncover audience survey now . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cu...

Bombs drop as Poonam enters Syria, blocking access to the areas she needs to get to. If things get worse, the troops guarding IS prisons say they will be forced to abandon their positions. The team makes contact with Salmaan’s Canadian family, learning what they believe happened to him and his mother. Poonam and her team see up close the dangers still facing children here. We want to hear from you...

Poonam finally gets into the prison camp where the women and children of suspected IS fighters are being held. There, she meets a Canadian woman who has information about baby Salmaan. But it’s clear she isn’t telling Poonam everything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased ma...

Poonam returns to DA, now suspicious of the secret she is keeping. What was IS like through her eyes? What can she tell Poonam about some of the terror group’s most heinous crimes? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (re...

Poonam makes the perilous journey to the last known location of baby Salmaan, a guesthouse near where IS made its last stand. But IS sleeper cells still lurk in the desert and Poonam only has one hour on the ground – can she find what she needs in time? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.  ...

Poonam makes the perilous journey to the last known location of baby Salmaan, a guesthouse near where IS made its last stand. But IS sleeper cells still lurk in the desert and Poonam only has one hour on the ground – can she find what she needs in time? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.  ...

Poonam travels to Canada for an unexpected meeting and returns to London where she shares what she has discovered with Ash. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 You heard Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada. 📁 [ Here's what's NOT in the episode .] 🧩 Evidence photos.   🗺️ Unreleased maps.   📼 Interview outtakes.   📄 Witness statements (redacted → unredacted). ⛔ [ 82% of listeners never see thi...

Two-year-old Salmaan disappears in the chaos of the final days of the war against ISIS. After the war against the Islamic State was won, what became of the children of its fighters? There are thousands of kids like Salmaan, with roots in Canada, the U.K., the U.S. and beyond — many of whom are still trapped without a way back home. Is it a race against time to rescue them? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━...

Crimes like this don't often happen on land. A 10-minute slow-motion slaughter captured by a cell phone camera shows a group of unarmed men at sea, possibly 15 of them, killed one by one by a semiautomatic weapon, after which the culprits pose for celebratory selfies. The shocking footage is then made public, and yet no government is willing to investigate, much less prosecute the murderers. This...

It would be hard to believe if it hadn't actually happened. The longest law-enforcement chase in nautical history, spanning 110 days and 10,000 miles, featured a bunch of vigilantes pursuing Interpol's most wanted illegal fishing ship. Slaloming around icebergs in a deadly glacier field, cutting through a category 5 storm, this chase only ended when one of the ships sank. To discuss why illegal fi...

Ian’s account of his groundbreaking reporting on slavery in the South China Sea, the first time a reporter had ever made it onboard a Thai distant-water vessel using enslaved labour. Found shackled by the neck as part of the crew on a dilapidated fishing vessel, Lang Long was a victim of the nightmarish world of debt bondage. A global scourge, sea slavery is something most people do not realize ex...

The sea has always been a metaphor for freedom – an escape from governments, laws and other people. This episode takes us off the coast of England to Sealand. A rogue “micronation” meant to embody this very freedom, which was founded on an abandoned British anti-aircraft platform in 1967. “From the Sea, Freedom” explores the world of libertarian-minded endeavors at sea, where renegades and maveric...

The oceans are running out of fish. To slow down that problem, environmentalists pushed for fish farming or aquaculture. The problem is this industry became too big and too hungry. To fatten the farmed fish faster, they started feeding the high-protein pellets called fishmeal — made from massive amounts of fish caught at sea. Now, more than 30 percent of all marine life pulled from the sea feeds o...

When a ship inadvertently spills oil, it’s big news. But every three years, ships intentionally dump more oil than the Exxon Valdez, and BP spills combined. This episode highlights a vexing and woefully under-discussed problem. It is made possible by corrupt ship captains who use a so-called “Magic Pipe” that dumps oil discreetly under the water line rather than disposing of it on land as legally...

When a ship inadvertently spills oil, it’s big news. But every three years, ships intentionally dump more oil than the Exxon Valdez, and BP spills combined. This episode highlights a vexing and woefully under-discussed problem. It is made possible by corrupt ship captains who use a so-called “Magic Pipe” that dumps oil discreetly under the water line rather than disposing of it on land as legally...