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Our cousin Ricky had autism, was a savant, and died at age 18 under bizarre circumstances. We look at his life, his contacts, and his death, which is both a tragedy and a persistent mystery. He died of suffocation, in a barn. But the setting and the manner of his death are puzzling. The setting is pretty weird, and the manner — the one given on the death certificate — was never known by even his siblings until late 2024. Ricky’s parents took that secret with them to the grave. It’s been more than 50 years since Ricky’s death. And the family still has questions about how he came to ...

“Buried Truths” acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can’t change our history, but we can let it guide us to understanding. The podcast is hosted by journalist, professor, and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff.

What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting, and those curious about the birthplace of the United States are left to turn to dramatic and often highly fictionalized reports.