Hey, listeners, this is Mike Morford, producer of scene of the crime.

I'd like to invite you to listen to this special preview of Silkwood.

In November 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood was on her way to Oklahoma City from Crescent

to meet a New York Times reporter. Her mission? To blow the whistle on a billion-dollar nuclear

industry company.

As Karen drove down a dark and desolate highway, important documents about safety concerns

at the facility where she worked beside her, her car veered from the road and smashed into

the wall of a concrete culvert. Before anyone found her, Karen died at the scene of the single car crash.

Silkwood is a multi-part podcast that intricately examined the life of Karen Silkwood,

the nuclear behemoth that she sought to expose, the government's role in potential

wrongdoings, and asked the question, what actually happened on that cold and winning November night 50 years ago?

Did Karen fall asleep at the wheel?

Did she die for what she knew and she was on her way to expose?

Was it an accident or something far more sinister?

I'm about to play a clip from the podcast, Silkwood.

While you're listening, subscribe to Silkwood wherever

you're listening now or on your preferred podcast app. Here's the clip. On Wednesday, November 13th,

1974, a breeze rumbled off James Mullins's red flatbed truck as he made his way up Highway 74,

traveling north from Oklahoma City,

a town where oil companies extract crude from pools deep beneath the earth.

The wind carried red clay dust that blanketed the road and powdered the truck's windows.

This vivid red clay, a product of Oklahoma's iron-rich soil that covers over one million acres of the state, is a defining feature of the landscape.

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