Alaska, 1972. Two congressmen vanish on a small plane. They’re never found. In 1995, a mobster tells the F.B.I. the plane was bombed. What happened?
October sixteenth, nineteen seventy two, two congressmen bored a small plane in Alaska. They fly into violent weather, terrible Toby I said, some spots just absolutely turn the airplane upside down and disappear. Despite a massive search. We're just bringing that about Matt, going to find him working around up there. They're never found. The case goes cold, that is until I start researching it. I'm standing right in the middle of Portage Pass in Alaska. My name is John Walzac. I'm a journalist based in New Orleans, and what I found is one of the strangest stories you've never heard. Did he indicate what was in the suitcase? He said it was a bomb. Mysterious radio transmissions of what they heard of the plane going down. The mafia was a tough time for law enforcement. There was a lot going on. There was a lot of crime. Cocaine was everywhere and edged bombing this one FBI Anchorage, FBI headquarters, and a brand new lead on the plane's location. It looks pretty shiny, but it was shredded like it was torn off. So join me as I travel from Arizona to the Arctic Circle tracking down sources. I was the last person to see the man alive, trekking into the bush. What happens is that the wind just wars down the glacier, trying to figure out what happened to Congressman Hailbogs and Nick Baggage. You can't write this stuff. You can't, it's crazy. Listen to Missing in Alaska starting May twentieth. New episodes available every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your favorite shows