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Back to SearchMississippi Goddam Chapter 4: The Investigator
Special Agent Joel Wallace of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the death of Billey Joe Johnson Jr. He worked alon…
2 years, 9 months ago
Mississippi Goddam Chapter 3: The Autopsy
After Billey Joe Johnson Jr. died in 2008, the state of Mississippi outsourced his autopsy. Al Letson and Jonathan Jones travel to Nashville, Tenness…
2 years, 9 months ago
Mississippi Goddam Chapter 2: The Aftermath
On the morning of Billey Joe Johnson’s death, crime scene tape separates the Johnsons from their son’s body. Their shaky faith in the criminal justic…
2 years, 9 months ago
Mississippi Goddam Chapter 1: The Promise
Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a high school football star headed for the big time. Then, early one morning in 2008, the Black teenager died during a tra…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Great Arizona Water Grab
A Saudi-owned farm in the middle of the Arizona desert has attracted national attention and criticism since Reveal’s Nate Halverson and Ike Sriskanda…
2 years, 10 months ago
It's Not Easy Going Green
When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Back then, building wind and sola…
2 years, 10 months ago
Guatemala’s War on Journalists
Reveal revisits a story produced in collaboration with a Guatemalan journalist who is now in prison. José Rubén Zamora was jailed last summer after h…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Leaks
Before Jeffrey Wigand blew the whistle on the tobacco industry and Edward Snowden showed the National Security Agency could spy on all of us, there w…
2 years, 10 months ago
They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.
Medications like Suboxone help pregnant women safely treat addiction. But in many states, taking them can trigger investigations by child welfare age…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Culture War Goes to College
From book bans to uproar over critical race theory, American classrooms have been on the front lines of the culture war. And there’s one state that’s…
2 years, 11 months ago