The Paddlefish Caviar Heist

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The Paddlefish Caviar Heist

  • 27 minutes 49 seconds
    Bonus – Interview with Michelle Nijhuis

    Helen interviews award-winning environmental journalist and author, Michelle Nijhuis about wildlife crime, protecting Paddlefish, and the history of the modern conservation movement.

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    12 December 2022, 9:00 am
  • 30 minutes 56 seconds
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    8 December 2022, 5:00 am
  • 31 minutes 48 seconds
    The Real Black Market | Chapter 7

    Making her final visit to Warsaw, Helen learns about the aftermath of Operation Roadhouse. She discovers an uncertain, but hopeful future for this vulnerable fish and the communities who care about it. 

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    5 December 2022, 10:00 am
  • 32 minutes 45 seconds
    Bait and Switch | Chapter 6

    An old friend helps Helen shed some light on the shady side of the caviar industry. Meanwhile, a visit to a lawyer in the Hampton’s causes Helen to question everything she’s been told about this case. 

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    28 November 2022, 10:00 am
  • 29 minutes 1 second
    The Caviar Mafia | Chapter 5

    Who was pulling the paddlefish poachers’ strings? Helen zeroes in on some of Roadhouse’s biggest suspects, but is also forced to confront a troubling question from her own past. 

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    21 November 2022, 9:00 am
  • 27 minutes 53 seconds
    Operation Roadhouse | Chapter 4

    Back in Missouri, Helen lands a meeting with a top conservation official. She gets the inside scoop on why Operation Roadhouse was launched and how it was executed.

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    14 November 2022, 10:00 am
  • 29 minutes 16 seconds
    Expensive Taste | Chapter 3

    Why would criminals travel halfway across the world to the Ozarks in search of fish eggs? To answer that question, we need to travel back in time to Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, to understand how caviar became such a coveted and valuable delicacy. 

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    7 November 2022, 9:30 am
  • 32 minutes 13 seconds
    Spanky DeFriese | Chapter 2

    Helen realizes that to get to the truth, she needs to start fishing where the fish are. Immersing herself in Warsaw’s ‘snagging’ culture, Helen discovers that this town has fallen prey to Paddlefish poachers before.

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    31 October 2022, 8:30 am
  • 30 minutes 24 seconds
    Fish Guts on the Roadside | Chapter 1

    Journalist Helen Hollyman arrives in Warsaw, Missouri determined to solve the mystery of how a suspected international caviar poaching ring infiltrated this small midwest town to steal its most prized possession. When fish guts start appearing on the roadside, it takes a daring undercover sting — Operation Roadhouse — to catch the criminals. Could it really be true?

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    23 October 2022, 4:00 am
  • 5 minutes 19 seconds
    Teaser: The Paddlefish Caviar Heist - Series Premieres October 24

    Warsaw, Missouri, is a small, rural town of just over 2,000 people in the American Midwest. Locally it’s known as the “quiet end of the Lake of the Ozarks.” Very few realize that it’s the paddlefish capital of the world. But when a new group arrived driving flashy, imported cars and dropping hundreds of dollars on bait and tackle, the town became the setting for an undercover federal sting operation tasked with bringing down a suspected international caviar poaching ring.

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    7 October 2022, 11:00 am
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