The Deep Dive
What your news reporter didn't mention. Primary documents, named defendants, and the gap between the caption and the docket.
Episodes
23 episodes
The Open Questions
The Deep Dive. The Open Questions. Season finale of Warning Signs. Five episodes and not one criminal charge. Neither teacher has been charged, and the county attorney's office is still deciding. The mandatory-reporting investigation is still act...
The Fallout
The Deep Dive. The Fallout. A school year ends and the people at the top start leaving. The principal steps down. Two assistant principals resign in June, and the district says that is unrelated. The superintendent leaves for another state. The i...
The Warrants
The Deep Dive. The Warrants. An elected board. A paper fight. May twenty-eighth: first search warrant at district headquarters. The district files a motion to limit what police can see — attorney-client privilege and student privacy law. July six...
The Board Splits
The Deep Dive. The Board Splits. An elected board member. A mother. She reads the police report and sees eight or nine unidentified victims referenced by a football coach — students who allegedly received photos from both teachers. She pushes for...
The Silence
The Deep Dive. The Silence. February twenty twenty-five. A former student emails the principal and several top administrators with specific red flags — Snapchat messages, gifts, the two seen together in a car. Nothing goes to police. Months later...
The Warning Signs
The Deep Dive. The Warning Signs. A high school in the region's west valley. A social studies teacher and soccer coach in her early twenties. A male student. The relationship, as outlined from public-record claims, starts in his sophomore year wh...
Follow the Suburban
The Deep Dive. Follow the Suburban. What your news reporter didn't mention. Episode three. Last episode asked who takes miners. This one follows the truck. A white late-model Suburban or Tahoe described from inside a hold house, seized on a Peñas...
Who Takes Miners in Sierra Pinta
The Deep Dive. Who Takes Miners in Sierra Pinta. What your news reporter didn't mention. Episode two. The Peñasco hold house did not start on the beach. Sonora's fiscalía says it started with eight gambusinos — independent miners — taken in the S...
The Puerto Peñasco Hold House
The Deep Dive. The Puerto Peñasco Hold House. What your news reporter didn't mention. Friday afternoon, September 2026. A beach town on the Sea of Cortez. Two armed men walk into a house under watch. Fire. Three investigators down. Seven detained...
The Wedge
The Deep Dive. The Wedge. Beijing's bots and America's own media. What your news reporter didn't mention. October 2024: Microsoft Threat Analysis Center reported China-linked social activity targeting down-ballot U.S. races and China-critical Rep...
Same Week. Two Ports. What the Caption Will Mash.
The Deep Dive. Same Week. Two Ports. What the Caption Will Mash. What your news reporter didn't mention. Same calendar week in mid-September 2026: a thin CBP social disclosure of 181 pounds of cocaine at San Ysidro, and a Mexican Gabinete/ANAM me...
Steve N (Español)
The Deep Dive. Mazatlán. Colonia Francisco Villa. Steve N. Lo que tu reportero de noticias no mencionó. Lunes, catorce de septiembre de dos mil veintiséis. Alrededor de las diecisiete treinta. Avenida Bicentenario Juárez, Colonia Francisco Villa ...
Steve N
The Deep Dive. Mazatlán. Colonia Francisco Villa. Steve N. What your news reporter didn't mention. Monday, fourteen September twenty twenty-six. About seventeen thirty. Avenida Bicentenario Juárez, Colonia Francisco Villa — not the Zona Dorada. A...
Yanet N (Español)
The Deep Dive. Yanet N. San Luis Río Colorado. Lo que tu reportero de noticias no mencionó. Once de septiembre de dos mil veintiséis. La Marina de México — SEMAR / Marina — pone cinco mil cuatrocientos cuarenta y cinco cartuchos y un vehículo en ...
Yanet N
The Deep Dive. Yanet N. San Luis Río Colorado. What your news reporter didn't mention. September eleventh, twenty twenty-six. Mexico's Navy — SEMAR / Marina — puts five thousand four hundred forty-five cartridges and a vehicle on a Comunicado Con...
Quincy Promes
The Deep Dive. Quincy Promes. What your news reporter didn't mention. For years he said nothing. Then he skipped the courtroom. Then Russia. Then Dubai. Then a Dutch cell. On September seventh, twenty twenty-six, his lawyer told an Amsterdam appe...
Follow the Money
The Deep Dive — Follow the Money. What your news reporter didn't mention.February 2021: the tanker Nehir is boarded off northern Spain. One thousand eight hundred thirty-five kilograms come off the deck. A second load of about one thous...
The Manager
The Deep Dive — The Manager. What your news reporter didn't mention. They did not lock him for the eleven soldiers. They locked him for the cattle. Three hundred ninety-seven million dollars through trucking firms and ranches. Five companies diss...
Calculator vs Chatbot
The Deep Dive — Calculator vs Chatbot. What your news reporter didn't mention. You type two times two into a calculator. You get four. You type the same tax question into a chatbot and the number moves. Independent tests put general chatbots in t...
The Subsidy Loop
The Deep Dive — The Subsidy Loop. What your news reporter didn't mention. You scan. You bag. You catch the theft the machine missed. Unpaid. Self-checkout moves labor off the payroll. Flex puts the van cost on the driver. Thin hours leave the tax...
Special Edition: Culiacán Super-Lab
The Deep Dive — Special Edition: Culiacán Super-Lab. What your news reporter didn't mention. Outside Culiacán. Three cook sites. Two days of entries. One day of announcements. Mexican authorities said SEMAR led the work near Corralejo and Corral ...
Dos en Tampa. Dos siguen en Praga.
The Deep Dive. Lo que tu reportero no mencionó. Esta semana el expediente y los titulares se separan en Praga. Cuatro hombres a quienes el fiscal de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito Medio de Florida imputó en agosto en conexión con supuestos es...
Two in Tampa. Two still in Prague.
The Deep Dive — What your news reporter didn't mention. This week the docket and the captions part company in Prague. Four men the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida charged in August in connection with alleged Jalisco New G...