
Josh Baker enters a dangerous world of fear, greed and betrayal as he sets out to uncover the truth behind one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time - the abduction of American journalist Austin Tice.
Josh - creator of two of the BBC's most award-winning and widely listened-to investigative podcasts, I'm Not a Monster and The Shamima Begum Story - returns for his most ambitious chapter y... more
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 44 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | DocumentarySociety & CultureTrue Crime | |||

The team get answers. Then Josh tells Debra what they’ve found.
Josh and Sara track down a witness who says he knows what happened to Austin Tice. He says people are trying to stop the truth from coming out, but that he has been trying to find Austi... more
Josh and Sara hunt the men who know what really happened to Austin. When the Assad regime fell, they went into hiding.
As the team close in, competing accounts begin to emerge: stories of detention, secret deals, survival and betrayal. Some may be t... more
Josh Baker with an update on the next episode.
When was the last time Austin was seen alive? Josh and Sara find the people who claim to know.
Josh meets a man who says he interrogated Austin. Then two more witnesses are found. Each of them helps fill gaps in Austin’s story, and the hidden months... more
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Season 3 is hands down one of the most incredible podcasts I’ve ever listened to. Meticulously researched and written. I can’t believe the commitment it’s taken to tell this story. Bravo to BBC for supporting this journalism
This podcast should be winning all the awards. So well researched and presented. Absolutely compelling stories.
I rarely find a podcast that I recommend to others and immediately listen to again. And for this podcast, I did both. This podcast is outstanding!!
Great reporting, honorable mission- providing answers to the family, binge-worthy
This is a masterclass . The story is so compelling & the humanity & empathy shown to Deborah , Austin’s mother is palpable. The lengths Josh Baker and his team go to try to get to answers about Austin Tice are astonishing .
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This investigative series follows a veteran journalist as he and his team pursue the fate of an American reporter who vanished in Syria in 2012. Across episodes, the narrative tracks decades of intelligence files, on-the-ground interviews with colleagues, family members, and local contacts, and high-stakes diplomacy to uncover what happened and who might know the truth. The approach blends meticulous archival sleuthing with personal storytelling—anchored by the mother's relentless advocacy—while exposing the geopolitical pressures and secrecy that surround a long-running missing-person case. A standout element is the collaboration between major public broadcasters, producing real-time revelations and a multi-layered investigation that moves... more
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1. Debra Tice
2. Ramez Salha
3. Safwan Pahloul
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