A Private Matter, Episode 1

A Christmas tree farmer with dementia disappears. His wife never reports him missing.  Can anyone find out why? A Private Matter is a five-part series from Bear Brook about what happens when family estrangement and the growing dementia crisis conspire to create an epic tragedy of humble proportions, spawning a criminal investigation and a supernatural search for answers. A Private Matter is the third season of Bear Brook, the critically-acclaimed true crime podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio hosted by Jason Moon. Bear Brook is a production of NHPR's Document team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stolen gift cards. Discreet warehouses. Millions of dollars’ worth of Apple products. A look inside an elaborate international criminal operation quietly operating out of New Hampshire that’s gone from financial crime to violent crime. For more on this story, visit NHPR.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we’ve been exposed to something that could harm us, what are we supposed to do — as regulators, as doctors, as company executives, or as people just trying to live our lives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former workers at Saint-Gobain’s New Hampshire plant share what they did — and didn’t — know about PFOA and its potential health effects. And how the chemical industry has worked to sow doubt to its own benefit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go back in time to Hoosick Falls, New York where a man looks for answers after his father dies of cancer following his retirement from the local Saint-Gobain plant. What he finds changes the course of this whole story: a remarkable kind of chemical once used to help make the Atom Bomb that manufacturers knew could be dangerous for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a “forever chemical.” The source appears to be the nearby Saint-Gobain plant. Officials say the potential health effects are unclear, but most people can still drink the water. One resident doesn’t buy it and goes down a research rabbit hole. She soon learns all this has happened before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New Hampshire town finds out their water has been contaminated by a chemical. Their most basic question — whether the water is safe to drink — doesn’t have a clear answer. Nobody seems to know much about this so-called forever chemical, which is weird because… this has all happened before. From the Document team at New Hampshire Public Radio, Safe to Drink is a four-part series about the water contamination story that keeps repeating in town after town — and about the people who fought for answers through a maze of chemistry, regulations, and illnesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A genealogist finally digs into her own family’s past and unearths a 100-year-old tragedy. Then, she sets out to make sure the truth will never be buried again. Click here to see photos and more from this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two sets of potential crimes, investigated by more than five sets of law enforcement agencies. Why most of them never took a shot at accountability. Operation Night Cat is a special three-part series from NHPR’s ⁠⁠Document ⁠⁠team and ⁠⁠Outside/In.⁠ NHPR's journalism is made possible by listeners like you. Click here to support independent, investigative journalism.  News audio clip credit: WMUR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The poaching investigation takes a surprising turn when it reveals another set of potential crimes – this time, behind the brick walls of New Hampshire’s State Prison for Men. Operation Night Cat is a special three-part series from NHPR’s ⁠Document ⁠team and ⁠Outside/In.⁠ NHPR's journalism is made possible by listeners like you. Click here to support independent, investigative journalism.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices