Plus, in Mississippi Goddam: The lead investigator starts to wonder if Billey Joe’s case should be reopened.

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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, August 26, 2023

Hello! In this issue:
* Our reporting leads the main investigator in Billey Joe Johnson’s death to start asking new questions.
* We’ve got some of our favorite episodes prepped and ready for your next long drive.


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** Mississippi Goddam Chapter 4: The Investigator
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Joel Wallace (left), a former special agent with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, talks to Reveal host Al Letson. CREDIT: Jonathan Jones/Reveal

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Special Agent Joel Wallace of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the death of Billey Joe Johnson Jr. He worked alongside two investigators from the George County district attorney’s office.

Wallace said that arrangement didn’t happen very often. And he now questions why they were assigned. “If you've got me investigating the case, then I’m an independent investigator,” he said. “But why would I need the district attorney investigator to oversee me investigating a case?”

The Johnson family was initially relieved because Wallace had experience investigating suspicious deaths. As a Black detective, he had dealt with racist backlash to his work.

Reveal host Al Letson and reporter Jonathan Jones visit Wallace, now retired, to talk about what happened with the investigation.

When Wallace finds out what Reveal has uncovered, he begins to wonder whether the case should be reopened.
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My Neighbor the Suspected War Criminal: There may be 1,700 suspected war criminals and human rights abusers in the U.S. Who are they, and what is the government doing about it?
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Six Years Separated: An investigation into how children disappear inside the U.S. immigration system.
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A Reckoning at Amazon: Everything you’ve heard in the last few years about Amazon’s dangerous quest for speed started with our groundbreaking reporting.

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Buried Secrets (two-part series): After decades of stripping away Native American identity from its students, a Catholic boarding school seeks to help the community heal. This series was a partnership between Reveal and ICT, formerly known as Indian Country Today.
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After Ayotzinapa (three-part series): In 2014, students from a rural college in Mexico came under attack by police. Six people were killed and 43 young men disappeared without a trace. Families suspected the government was hiding the truth. Now, Reveal and the National Security Archive expose corruption at the highest levels and an unsettling connection to America’s war on drugs.
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En Español: Después de Ayotzinapa (by Adonde Media)

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The COVID Tracking Project (three-part series): This series exposes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s bungled response to COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic and takes listeners inside the massive volunteer effort to collect data about tests, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S.
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American Rehab (eight-part series):Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce. This reporting was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Mississippi Goddamn (seven-part series): Billey Joe Johnson Jr. dreamed of graduating high school, going to college and one day playing pro football. On a cold December morning in 2008, that future was shattered. His story is a reckoning of justice in America.
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