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New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon...

On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: A fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that “no more than 10” men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all 10 were most certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not 10 but 87. And there were seven survivors.

Join bestselling true-crime author and investigative journalist Wensley Clarkson as he takes us beyond the headlines and speaks to experts who have helped to solve the most gruesome, most chilling and most shocking crime scenes through forensic science. How do you identify a serial killer? What are the tell-tale signs of guilt? Can we now solve the unsolvable? In this podcast you are about to hear how the silent witness is often the one who screams the loudest.