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The Missingest Man: A Judge Walked Into the Night… and 95 Witnesses Couldn't Explain It

Original title: The Missingest Man: A Judge Walked Into the Night… and 95 Witnesses Couldn't Explain It · Wed Nov 04 2026

Episode Notes

On August 6, 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi in Manhattan and was never seen again. Host Domonique Luchin reopens the case of "the missingest man in New York" using the record itself: newspaper coverage, grand jury testimony and archival footage. Reenactments are labeled RECREATION.

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