Hey there listeners, this is Mike Moore for one of the producers of Seen of the Crime.

I'm excited to share with you a sneak preview of the new podcast, My Fugitive,

from Pineapple Street Studios. While searching for answers about a fugitive,

his story honoured her family for decades, host Nina Gilden-Sevy came across a cold,

worse firing, a conspiracy to assassinate a civil rights icon, BlackBag jobs against activists

whose lives were changed forever, and the government's attempts to cover it up.

As you enjoy this preview of My Fugitive, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify,

or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

Everybody has secrets. You have secrets, and I have secrets, and families have secrets.

For most of his life, my father was haunted by a family's secret, but not our families.

My dad was a civil rights lawyer in St. Louis, and he had a client, a young man, who disappeared

for almost 30 years.

I spent 10 years trying to unravel what happened to Howard Mechanic,

and my journey took me to places I never could have imagined, like a Cold War spy ring.

Within the Bureau itself, oh gosh, you probably had less than a dozen and a half people at

any one time who knew about the thing. A suspected conspiracy to murder a civil rights leader.

I could hear people say, get down, get down, and I took off in one of the stairwell.

I kneel down and I try to read his pulse, and it's not working. Nothing seems to be working.

And the U.S. government's attempts to cover it all up.

If you were planning to get rid of Martin Luther King, would you want anybody to know about that?

So it had to be secret.

It's a story fueled by paranoia, about communists in our midst,

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