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In a case that stunned the FBI, a linguist assigned to a high-profile terrorism case disappeared—only to resurface behind enemy lines, married to her target.
WRITTEN BY: MICHAEL LAPOINTE
REPORTED BY: EMILY DISCHE-BECKER
AUDIO: DOMINIC GOZO
NARRATED BY: EMILIA CLARKE
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5 Mar 2024
Afterword: The Beanie Baby Heist of '97
A conversation with journalist Serena Coady, author of THE BEANIE BABY BANDIT '97.
HOST: MICHAEL LAPOINTE
EDITING: THOMAS CURRY
MUSIC, SCORING & SOUND-DESIGN: NATALIA RODRIGUEZ
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5 Mar 2024
The Beanie Baby Heist of '97
It's Chicago in the summer of '97, and criminal defense attorney Kathleen Zellner (of Making a Murderer fame) is feeling worn out. After once defending a serial killer, she promised herself never to defend a guilty person again, and has devoted her life to exonerating the innocent. But after years of gruesome murder trials, she needs a holiday. When a lemon-yellow stretch Cadillac bounces into her parking lot, and out hops a five-foot-tall, 77-year-old man named Ben Perri, that holiday arrives. Ben has been accused of a bizarre crime: the theft of hundreds of ultra-rare Beanie Babies from the manufacturer's secret warehouse. With Beanie Baby mania in full swing, the toys are fetching stratospheric prices, and Ben will gladly hook you up with an elusive Digger the Crab or Radar the Bat. The press calls him the Beanie Baby Bandit, but he swears he's innocent. As this jovial grandfather and veteran charms Kathleen and her team, his carefree way of life gives her a new outlook on the difficult job she's chosen. But still, she can't quite answer whether he's guilty, and whether she's broken her promise to herself. Is Ben just an innocent lover of toys, or is he really the Beanie Baby Bandit?
JOURNALIST: SERENA COADY
EDITING: THOMAS CURRY
SOUND-DESIGN & AUDIO MIX: ALICE BOYD
VOICE: JILL WINTERNITZ
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Chighali
Published 28 Sept 2021 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Nothing good you do in life is lost, he said. Nothing. After that, CD flourished. By 22 years old, he was the owner of one of the most sought -after tour companies in Mauritania. He owned several of his own jeeps and employed dozens of people. From just his mother tongue, he had become fluent in Arabic, English, Spanish, French, German, and new bits and pieces of half a dozen others. He had kept his promise to his mother. He had become an educated man. But still, he had not done what he set out to do. He had met his father a dozen times through people on the way. But still, he had not seen him with his own eyes. […]
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