Sometimes, news stories echo in our minds for years after they’ve occurred. With each season of Shattered, we select one of those complex, true stories and take an in-depth look. Season 4 charts the life and death of Jimmy Hoffa. Season 3 tells the story of a string of murders that took place in the mid-1970s in Oakland County, Michigan. Many people know the case as the Oakland County Child Killer. Season 2 tells the story of Rick Wershe Jr., also known as White Boy Rick. At 14, Rick became the youngest FBI informant ever and helped bring down some of Detroit’s biggest drug dealers. Then the FBI abandoned him, and he became the dealer. Season 1 investigates the disappearance of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton. The boys’ father, John Skelton, is the main suspect. Almost a decade later, the mystery of what happened to the boys remains open, with their small Michigan hometown wondering - could a father have committed an unimaginable crime?
Debra has been searching for her son, Donald Izzett Jr. for 25 years. The last time she spoke with him was Mother’s Day. He had called from a road tri...
On Shattered we look back on some of the biggest stories from Michigan’s past and re-examine them. But today, we're going to tell you about something ...
As we continue to work on Shattered: Season 5, we want to tell you about a new, tiny, daily podcast that might be an aural balm fo this challenging mo...
As we work away on Shattered: Season 5, host/producer Jeremy Allen is back with a brand new invention. It's a podcast called Everything is Fine. As we...
This is part 2 of a 2-part story. This story For Joyce Dixson-Haskett, life had hit a fork in the road. She’d just been released from the hospital aft...
This is part 1 of a 2 part story. As a young girl from Saginaw, Michigan, Joyce Dixson-Haskett was molested and abused. As she grew up the abuse got w...
In the summer of 1975, Hoffa was running out of options. His long time organized crime associates told him he should take his pension and retire, but ...
"When it was time for me to go they shackled and chained me like a wild animal: ten pounds of leg irons, belly band, handcuffs, and a chain running up...
In episode 3, we spent a few minutes looking at Jimmy Hoffa’s possible connection to the JFK assassination. But there are so many details we couldn’t ...
In some ways, the relationship between Jimmy Hoffa and Bobby Kennedy was simple. Hoffa saw a spoiled rich kid. Kennedy saw a corrupt racketeer. An aid...