A doorman at the Garden of Eden gets murdered in 2002. Twenty-four years later, the man who hired him still won't say why. Mark unpacks the Tardio file with the only reporter who kept his notebooks.
In September 2002, when Timmy Iannello was still involved with the Garden of Eden, a doorman named Michael Tardio was murdered outside █████████████. The case went cold inside a week. The detectives' notes vanished from the precinct. The witnesses moved out of state. Twenty-four years later, the only person still working the file is the reporter who got threatened off it the first time. Mark sits down with ██████, the tabloid editor who walked away from the story in '03 — and the boxes he never threw out.
The ones who get away with it always count on memory being the first thing that breaks down. Mostly they're right. — Mark Ebner, episode 24 cold open
Twenty-four episodes. Three seasons. The same names keep showing up. Tabloid fixers, tame detectives, off-the-books PIs, an attorney with a dead voicemail. We're not sorry about the red string.
Anonymous tips, threats, leaked PDFs, dropped phone calls, cease-and-desists, surveillance you noticed but couldn't quite place. We read everything. Real reporters answer.
Encrypted by default. Sources have stayed sources for thirty years and we are not breaking the streak this week.