Hello theydies and gentlethems! Welcome back to Episode 11 of Smoke Til It’s Gone Or DIe. This week we head...Up. And by that we mean North. Rylee covers the accidental murder of Bennie Lightsey on the Arctic Ice Island T-3. This isolated incident proved difficult to prosecute or defend in a court of law, seeing as it took place on a floating ice mass with no witnesses. Patty covers the mysterious death of Bonnie Craig, a college student from Anchorage, Alaska who went missing after leaving home in the early morning darkness on her commute to school. Thanks to an uncooperative police force, Bonnie’s mother takes the investigation into her own hands. It takes over a decade to find out the truth, thanks to DNA.
In reference to Rylee’s case, please visit and donate to The National Resource Defense Counsel at https://www.nrdc.org/.
NRDC’s goal is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. They work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - and to defend endangered natural places.
For Patty’s Probable Cause, please visit and donate to End the Backlog at http://www.endthebacklog.org/
END THE BACKLOG is a program of the Joyful Heart Foundation, a national non-profit organization founded by producer, director, actress, and advocate Mariska Hargitay with the mission to transform society’s response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivors’ healing, and end the violence forever.
They focus on shining a light on the rape kit backlog in the United States. Their goal is to end this injustice by identifying the extent of the nation’s backlog and best practices for eliminating it; expanding the national dialogue on rape kit testing through increased public awareness; sharing groundbreaking research; engaging communities and government agencies and officials; and advocating for comprehensive rape kit reform legislation and policies. Ultimately, they seek to change attitudes about sexual violence and abuse, educate the public, improve systems to lessen the trauma survivors experience, and ensure greater access to justice for survivors.
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