Hello listeners. Now that Summit City has concluded, we are excited to introduce another

Odyssey podcast we think you will enjoy. Gone South, the award-winning true crime documentary podcast

series, is back in season. Now with new episodes weekly. Tune in every week as writer and host

Jed Lepensky shares a different story about one of the most interesting crimes that took

place below the Mason-Dixon line. Usually told by the person who committed the crime, the person who

solved it, or both, Gone South not only sheds fascinating insights into the criminal mind, but also

into human nature. Enjoy this preview. In the 1990s, the most popular way to manufacture methamphetamine was the pseudoephedrine

reduction method.

Basically, this involved getting your hands on a lot of over-the-counter cold medicine

like pseudafed, crushing up the pills, and mixing the powder with a solvent to isolate

the pseudepedrine inside.

You then reduced it with chemicals like iodine or red phosphorus.

In just a few hours, you had methamphetamine.

But before pseudephedrine came into fashion, meth cooks were limited to what's known as the P2P method.

P2P stands for phenyl-2 propanone.

It was the main precursor chemical used to manufacture meth.

Meth cooks, whether they were making it in a lab or a bathtub, mixed P2P with other precursor

chemicals to make the drug.

As meth gained popularity in the late 70s, though, phenennel tube propanone was classified as a controlled

substance, and the common precursors, like ether, were tightly restricted.

Chemical companies started reporting suspicious orders to the DEA.

So in 1983, when a chemical manufacturer in New Jersey learned that an individual in Atlanta, with no apparent

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