Jared Fishman: Fire on the Levee
JIL Founder and Executive Director Jared Fishman is this week’s featured guest on the Wicked Words podcast!
Wicked Words is a unique blend of narrative, nonfiction, true crime storytelling with in-depth interviewing. Host Kate Winkler Dawson interviews journalists and writers about their best true crime cases.
This episode is set after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005. Four years later, a young prosecutor in the Justice Department was drawn into examining a mysterious death after the storm. Henry Glover was found dead in a burned-out car two weeks after Katrina, and who he was last seen with became the center of controversy and reform. Jared tells Kate the story from his book: “Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina.”
Listen to the full episode here.
