True Crime Podcast Dives Into Sudden Overnight Deaths of 40 Patients in Missouri in the 1990s

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New York, NY – September 3, 2024 – Sony Music and Campside Media today announced the season premiere of Night Shift, a new season of the true crime podcast Witnessed that investigates the story behind a mysterious 500 percent increase in patient deaths at a veteran hospital in Columbia, MO in 1992. The first episode is available now, and subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes now.    

Hosted by crime-writer and the author of Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein, Witnessed: Night Shift takes listeners inside Ward 4 East at the local VA hospital where a trio of doctors discovered a suspicious increase in patient deaths all occurring in the overnight hours, with the same nurse present at their bedsides. With a personal connection to the story, Adelstein goes back to his hometown to explore the unsolved 30-year mystery of what might’ve been one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history, what really happened during the night shift, and why the hospital tried so hard to hide it.  

“My father was a pathologist at the Truman VA hospital and was responsible for ordering the investigation into these deaths, so I’ve felt a strong desire to investigate this story, and this suspected killer, for decades,” said host Jake Adelstein. “Shoko Plambeck my co-host on The Evaporated, and I got new access to recordings, court records, and firsthand encounters. Together on Night Shift we take a deep dive into the complexities of this case hoping to finally solve it after all this time.”  

Witnessed: Night Shift is produced by Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media. The season is hosted by Jake Adelstein, with lead reporting by Jake Adelstein and Shoko Plambeck. Elizabeth Van Brocklin is the managing producer and Amy Plambeck is the producer at Campside Media. Michael Canyon Meyer is the story editor. Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Matt Shaer, Adam Hoff are the executive producers from Campside Media. Jonathan Hirsch and Catherine Saint Louis are the executive producers from Sony Music. 

Listeners can subscribe to Witnessed: Night Shift on The Binge today to listen to all episodes, all at once. Night Shift is also available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. For more information on other Sony podcasts, follow @SonyPodcasts on Twitter and Instagram.