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America's Top Scientists Are Vanishing. The FBI Just Started Asking Why.
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May 9, 2026
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30:15Now PlayingIn April 2026, a reporter stood up in the White House briefing room and asked if someone was systematically targeting America's top scientists. The press secretary said it was worth looking into. The FBI had already opened an investigation. Congress was demanding answers.
The list includes a two-star general who walked out of his Albuquerque home and vanished without his phone or glasses. A rocket scientist who smiled and waved at her hiking partner and was never seen again. A nuclear weapons contractor who left his house on foot without his phone, wallet, or keys and has not been seen since. And over a dozen others connected to America's most sensitive defense and aerospace research.
Some of these cases have clear explanations. Some do not. In this episode, Vanessa Richardson goes through every name on the list, separates what the evidence actually shows from what the internet decided, and asks the question nobody has been able to answer yet: is this a real pattern or is it exactly what our brains want it to be?
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