Athletes - Number One Suspect

A writer wakes in a hospital with pine needles in her hair - how did a voicemail expose her at a party? The voicemail she left that jurors said proved she couldn't consent In this episode, we follow the gap between a party on January 17, 2015 and a hospital room at 4:15 a.m., tracking the evidence, witnesses, and courtroom moments that shaped the case. What did a nearly incomprehensible voicemail and conflicting memories mean for consent? Person: Chanel Miller Date: January 18, 2015 Location: Kappa Alpha fraternity house, Stanford campus Event: Party leading to hospital arrival and arrest Status: Trial began March 14, 2016 - Chanel Miller woke up in a hospital bed at 4:15 a.m. with pine needles in her hair and no memory of the previous hours. - She left a voicemail just before 1:00 a.m. that jurors later described as almost completely incomprehensible. - Brock Allen Turner, age 19 and a Stanford swimmer, had an estimated BAC of .171% that night and testified he remembered the encounter clearly. - Two graduate students found Turner on top of an unconscious woman behind the fraternity house, chased and detained him while another checked that she was breathing. - A sexual assault nurse documented abrasions, bruising, penetrating trauma, and a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 11 when Miller arrived at the hospital.

A Dortmund lab found Linford Christie’s sample 100x over-one test, one city, and a thirty-year question hangs over his sprint legacy? The Dortmund lab result that erased three decades of doubt In this episode, we chart Linford Christie’s rise from a fast London boy to a record-setting, Olympic and world champion sprinter, and the enduring question sparked by a laboratory test in Dortmund. How did that single lab result come to cast a shadow over decades of achievement? Person: Linford Christie Event: Dortmund laboratory test Date: February 1999 Country: Germany Topic: Doping test and athletic legacy - Born 2 April 1960 in Saint Andrew, Jamaica; moved to Acton, West London at seven. - Coached by Ron Roddan from 1979, who rebuilt Christie’s race from slow starts to elite acceleration. - Tested positive for pseudoephedrine at the 1988 Seoul Olympics; an IOC panel voted 11-10 to accept his explanation and keep his silver medal. - Achieved 9.96s to win the 1992 Olympic 100m at age 32, then ran 9.87s in 1993 to set a British record and hold all major 100m titles. - Eleven years after Seoul, a Dortmund lab reported a result 100 times the permitted threshold, reopening the dispute around his career.

A single Asunción urine sample from a Copa Libertadores match flagged GW-1516 and cost a 19-year-old everything - how did that sample expose her? The Asunción urine sample that stripped her of football In this episode, we follow the timeline of a young footballer whose rise from a childhood illness to continental glory was interrupted by a failed doping test. We lay out the matches, samples and decisions that led to a ban and ask what the record leaves unresolved about how GW-1516 entered her system. Person: Kerolin Date of birth: November 17, 1999 Location: Asunción, Paraguay Substance: GW-1516 Event: Copa Libertadores Femenina group-stage match (Audax vs Peñarol) - Hospitalized at 12 for osteomyelitis and cellulitis but returned to playing against medical advice. - Progressed from Valinhos to Guarani collaboration, then Ponte Preta, earning domestic awards and international youth call-ups. - At 17, scored in the penalty shootout as Corinthians-Audax won the Copa Libertadores in Asunción. - Played and scored for Audax in Asunción group-stage match where a post-match urine sample was collected. - In February 2019, CONMEBOL recorded a positive test for GW-1516 from that Asunción sample, triggering a documented ban while the pathway of the substance remained unresolved.

An Algerian winger faces a global ban after a cocaine positive - he says a hookah pipe explains it, but how did that expose him? A Hookah Pipe Halved a Four-Year Ban In this episode, we follow the disciplinary file that suspended a twenty-three-year-old footballer for four years after two positive cocaine tests within forty-three days. We trace his rise from Oran to a two-million-euro contract, the matches and locations tied to the positives, and the hookah explanation that shifted a Swiss tribunal's decision - what does that sequence mean for his career? Person: Youcef Belaïli Date (birth): 14 March 1992 Location (positives): El Eulma; Constantine Event: Two positive cocaine tests 43 days apart Decision: 4-year CAF ban extended globally by FIFA - Born in Oran and developed at RCG Oran and MC Oran's reserve system before breaking into first division at 17. - Made a breakthrough on 6 March 2010, winning a penalty and assisting the winner after entering as a 77th-minute substitute. - Signed a €2 million, three-year contract with Espérance de Tunis in June 2012 and debuted in the CAF Champions League on 20 July 2012. - Joined USM Alger on 14 June 2014 with the highest salary in the Algerian top flight, and played during the season when Albert Ebossé was killed by a projectile thrown from the stands. - Tested positive for cocaine on 7 August 2015 (CAF Champions League, El Eulma) and again on 19 September 2015 (league match, Constantine), leading to a four-year ban later extended worldwide by FIFA.

An Australian Rules star's career is shaped by near misses for the Brownlow Medal - but a pattern of off-field incidents asks: who really wins? The striking charge that cost him his Brownlow chance This episode details the career of Daniel Kerr, an Australian Rules football player whose on-field brilliance was often overshadowed by a series of off-field incidents. It explores the question of how his personal struggles impacted his professional achievements. Person: Daniel Kerr Date of birth: May 16, 1983 Location of birth: Perth, Western Australia Drafted by: West Coast Eagles Draft pick: 18 - Daniel Kerr missed winning the Brownlow Medal in 2005 by a single vote. - In 2006, he polled enough votes to win the Brownlow but was ineligible due to a striking charge against Sam Mitchell. - He was involved in a nightclub brawl with teammate Ben Cousins in 2002, resulting in Cousins breaking his arm. - In 2004, Kerr was fined for forging a prescription to obtain Valium tablets. - The West Coast Eagles required Kerr to attend sessions for anger management and alcoholism in 2008.

A Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver's Corvette hit a Toyota at 156 mph; a 23-year-old and her dog died - how did that speed expose them? The Corvette's speed erased Tina Tintor's life and car In this episode, we follow the moments and records that led up to a predawn crash on a Spring Valley street and trace how speed, fame and choices converged. What does the digital record and the life behind it reveal about responsibility and consequence? Date: November 2, 2021 Location: Spring Valley, Nevada Person: Tina Tintor Person: Henry Ruggs III Vehicle: Chevrolet Corvette - At 3:39 a.m., a Corvette struck the rear of a Toyota RAV4 on a residential street. - The Corvette’s digital evidence recorded an impact speed of 156 miles per hour. - Tina Tintor, 23, was in the RAV4 with her golden retriever, Max; the vehicle caught fire. - Henry Ruggs III, 22, Raiders wide receiver, had a 4.27 forty-yard dash and a fully guaranteed $16.67M contract. - Ruggs and his girlfriend had been drinking earlier at Topgolf on the Las Vegas Strip before he drove the Corvette.

A World Series ball sat in a safe for twenty years, then vanished after Jerry Koosman sold it - how did that expose him? A car breakdown grounded a legendary career in debt In this episode, we follow the arc of Jerry Koosman’s life from an army diamond in Texas to the mound of Shea Stadium and, decades later, into a federal courtroom. The episode traces the accidents and choices that kept his career alive, the historic objects he kept and later sold, and the unanswered question of why he let them go. Person: Jerry Koosman Location: Fort Bliss, Texas; Shea Stadium, New York Date: 1966-1969; early 1990s; forty years after 1969 Event: 1969 World Series final out; sale and disappearance of two baseballs Status: Pleaded guilty to not paying $90,000 in taxes - He was discovered pitching on an army base by the son of a Shea Stadium usher, not by a scout. - In 1966 the Mets nearly released him, but a car repair loan on the books kept him on the roster. - His 1968 season set franchise pitching records and included striking out Carl Yastrzemski in the All-Star Game. - He caught the final out of the 1969 World Series, kept that Game Five ball in a safe for over twenty years, then sold it in the early 1990s. - Forty years after the championship he pleaded guilty in federal court to a tax misdemeanor while two historic baseballs vanished.

A La Verne break-in, a missing Rolex and a former Super Bowl cornerback - how did one night expose everything that led there? The Rolex watch that vanished led to eight years In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from a July 8, 2018 residential break-in to the legal and career trajectory that culminated in an eight-year sentence. We trace the decisions, injuries, penalties and arrests that formed a trail toward that night and ask how those steps connected. Person: Brandon Kemar Browner Date: July 8, 2018 Location: La Verne Event: Residential break-in and missing Rolex Status: Eight-year sentence after a no contest plea to attempted murder - High school two-way standout with 1,726 receiving yards, 24 touchdowns, 16 interceptions and three punt returns for touchdowns. - At Oregon State: true freshman season with six interceptions, Freshman All-American and Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. - Went undrafted in 2005, fractured left forearm in a preseason game, then moved to the CFL and rebuilt his career with Calgary from 2006-2010. - Key CFL achievements: 2008 Grey Cup winner and three consecutive CFL All-Star selections (2008-2010). - NFL breakout with Seattle: six interceptions as a starter, 220 interception return yards, and a 94-yard franchise-long return.

A superstar striker is arrested after a dacha party; his coerced confession threatens a World Cup spot and Gulag - how did that expose him? The confession that traded his World Cup for a Gulag sentence In this episode, we follow the night and aftermath that interrupted Eduard Streltsov’s meteoric rise and altered Soviet football history. The episode traces the timeline, the people present, and the contradictory records that left the central question-what really happened that night-unanswered. Person: Eduard Streltsov Date: May 25-26, 1958 Location: dacha in a birch forest outside Moscow Event: arrest the morning after a party; signed confession under promise Person: Ekaterina Furtseva (Politburo member) and her daughter Svetlana - He was twenty and had just been named among the world’s top forwards, six days from the Soviet squad’s departure for the 1958 World Cup. - The party host was Eduard Streltsov; teammates Boris Tatushin and Mikhail Ogonkov were also present and arrested by morning. - The signed confession was secured under a promise that admitting would preserve his World Cup place, a promise investigators later broke. - Trial photographs were said to show three parallel scratches from Streltsov’s nose to his cheekbone; the three-day trial produced a twelve-year Gulag sentence. - Decades later, the accuser Marina Lebedeva visited Streltsov’s grave, leaving flowers without explanation, a gesture that official records do not clarify.

A Scotland rugby star accepts an MBE before pleading guilty to domestic abuse - how did that honor and the conviction become one story? The MBE that crowned his career and cost him freedom In this episode, we lay out the parallel tracks of elite achievement and alleged private harm that ran through one man's life. We trace the timeline of sporting milestones alongside the court-recorded span of abuse and ask what it means when public glory and criminal conduct overlap. Person: Stuart William Hogg Date: Born 24 June 1992; pleaded guilty 4 November 2024 Location: Hawick, Scottish Borders; Murrayfield; Glasgow; Exeter Event: Named Member of the Order of the British Empire; pleaded guilty to five years of domestic abuse Career highlights: 100 international caps; 25 international tries; back-to-back Six Nations Player of the Championship - Grew up in Hawick, a rugby town where his father and brother also played and officiated, shaping his early identity. - Broke into professional rugby with Stirling County, signed with Glasgow Warriors in 2011, and earned his first Scotland cap in the 2012 Six Nations. - Compiled landmark achievements through the 2010s: 95m intercept try (2013), Youngest in 2013 Lions squad, consecutive Six Nations player awards (2016-2017). - Moved to Exeter in 2019, won the European Champions Cup and Gallagher Premiership in 2020, and served as Scotland captain for key away wins in 2020-2021. - The court record documents a five-year span of abuse overlapping these milestones, culminating in an immediate retirement announcement on 9 July 2023.