The Debrief

Thanksgiving is one of those holidays with what seems like a pretty clear origin story: the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, where pilgrims celebrated the first harvest in their new home with members of the Wampanoag tribe who already lived there. But Dr. Joe Stahlman, a professor at the University of Buffalo and a member of the Se...

This week on the Debrief, defense attorney Michael Bachner breaks down the case – and gives what would be his closing statements if he was on the case.

Flash floods that inundate the region’s roads. Rainfall totals from a single storm breaking records set just a few weeks ago. Wildfires out west. There’s no question that climate change is here – and it’s affecting us all. This week on The Debrief, Storm Team 4’s Janice Huff sits down with fellow meteorologists to disc...

This week on The Debrief, Storm Team 4’s Janice Huff sits down with fellow meteorologists to discuss the affects of climate change, and what can be done on an individual level to make a difference.

Brian Laundrie likely never left the Florida nature preserve where he was last seen – and with the discovery of his remains earlier this week, it brings to an end a manhunt that has captivated the country. But – even so, there are unanswered questions in the disappearance and death of Gabby Petito. This week on The Debrief Podcast, Pei-...

Brian Laundrie likely never left the Florida nature preserve where he was last seen – and with the discovery of his remains earlier this week, it brings to an end a mystery that has captivated the country.......But – even so, there are unanswered questions in the disappearance and death of Gabby Petito. This week, Pei-Sze Cheng revisits...

For more than a month now – crews have been searching either the Wyoming wilderness or the Florida swamps for Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie. But not every missing persons case gets drones, helicopters, cadaver dogs and FBI forensics analysts. Which begs the question: what makes the Petito case the one that gets all the resources and attenti...

On Tuesday – coroners in Wyoming gave followers of the Gabby Petito case an answer they’d been waiting for: the 22-year-old from Long Island was choked to death. Teton County Coroner Brent Blue made the determination weeks after they ruled she died in a homicide and even narrowed down the window for her death, stating that her body had ...

This week on The Debrief, Pei-Sze Cheng takes a deep dive into this week’s autopsy results in the Gabby Petito case, and talks with the team beind Wondery’s The Vanished podcast about why some missing persons cases get more attention than others.

Friday marks four weeks since the hunt for Gabby Petito’s then-fiance Brian Laundrie began. Which begs the question: How long could he actually survive in the elements on his own? Laundrie’s parents reported him missing to police in North Port, Florida, on Sept. 17, a few days after he went on a hike at the Carlton Reserve, a sprawling....

This week on The Debrief, Pei-Sze Cheng talks to survival expert and instructor Dave Canterbury, the author of the New York Times bestseller Bushcraft 101, about how – and how long – Brian Laundrie might be able to survive in the swamps of Florida or the mountains of North Carolina.

It has been 16 days since Gabby Petito’s fiancé, Brian Laundrie, allegedly told his parents he was going for a hike in a sprawling Florida nature preserve. It’s set of a massive manhunt – but one seasoned US Marshal says he doesn’t think Laundrie was ever there. This week on The Debrief, retired U.S. Marshal Craig Caine give...