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by KUOW News and Information · English · Society & Culture
New Season "We Keep Us Safe" starting September 21, 2026. In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later
12 Oct 2026 · 41 minNew
The hunt for Antonio’s killer leads us to a mysterious security group called the Sentinels. For the first time, former members speak about their operation at CHOP and describe the person they say shot Antonio at close range.
S3 · E6 · 8 Oct 2026 · 36 min
An interview with a protester who witnessed the aftermath of the shooting leads to a tip that changes the entire investigation.
S3 · E5 · 5 Oct 2026 · 37 min
What really happened the night Antonio Mays Jr. was killed? Protesters claim he was attacking CHOP and they had to defend themselves. But new evidence from that night turns everything we thought we knew about the shooting upside down.
S3 · E4 · 1 Oct 2026 · 39 min
Who was Antonio Mays Jr.? What was he up to at CHOP? A deep dive into Antonio’s last few weeks leads to perplexing rumors, new details about the night he was killed and conversations with the people whose lives were changed by his death.
S3 · E3 · 28 Sep 2026 · 34 min
After police retreat from their precinct, protesters begin occupying roughly eight blocks of Seattle. It's their attempt at a police-free world. But as rumors spread, fear and paranoia take over, setting a dangerous stage for Antonio Mays Jr.'s arrival.
S3 · E2 · 24 Sep 2026 · 39 min
EPISODE 2: In the summer of 2020, protests are happening all across the country. But Seattle is different.
S3 · E1 · 21 Sep 2026 · 36 min
EPISODE 1: When 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. was shot and killed inside Seattle's CHOP protest zone in 2020, protesters claimed self-defense. For years, that version of events went unchallenged. Reporters Sydney Brownstone, Will James and David Gutman investigate what really happened the night Antonio died.
S2 · E9 · 27 Aug 2026 · 1 hr
In this final episode of Adults in the Room, we uncover how extensive Tom Hudson’s crimes were … and how little we really understood about his death.
S2 · E8 · 29 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 21 min
The team recently gathered to discuss behind-the-scenes moments and decisions from the series—including interviews that didn't make it into the final episodes, the continued challenges of addressing grooming and childhood sexual abuse, and audience questions.
S2 · E7 · 7 Apr 2026 · 38 min
A surprise archival interview with a former Garfield High School principal reveals that teacher abuse was more pervasive than Tom Hudson.
S2 · E6 · 31 Mar 2026 · 30 min
Isolde discovers a mystery student’s identity from 1994 and interviews him about his time with Tom Hudson.
S2 · E5 · 24 Mar 2026 · 32 min
Ella and Isolde, as adults, start investigating the question of Hudson’s guilt. To start their inquiry, Isolde digs out an envelope containing the school district's records on Hudson, which she requested and received shortly after graduating from college.
S2 · E4 · 17 Mar 2026 · 40 min
One of the students who was closest to Hudson, Jonathan Hill, spends the weeks after his teacher's death trying to ensure his reputation and legacy go untarnished by the allegations that led to his suspension that school year. But secretly, Jonathan is still reeling from the weeks before Tom's death.
S2 · E3 · 10 Mar 2026 · 36 min
The school district sends an investigator to Garfield to look into the allegations against Tom Hudson. Isolde and Ella wonder if they did the right thing.
S2 · E2 · 3 Mar 2026 · 41 min
Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student.
S2 · E1 · 24 Feb 2026 · 33 min
In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympic National Park. Six of his teenage students then pull off a daring rescue.
S2 · 3 Feb 2026 · 3 min
The production team behind Lost Patients returns on February 24 with a new investigative series: Adults in the Room. Seattle, 1999. At Garfield High School, Mr. Hudson is a legend. With a thundering voice and imposing stature, Mr. Hudson — or “Tom” as select students call him — teaches biology and leads an elite outdoors program. But when teen reporters at the school paper start exploring a rumor that he sexually abused students, all hell breaks loose. Adults close ranks, and schoolmates turn on the young journalists. And then one day, a voice on the school intercom…
S1 · E7 · 26 Jun 2024 · 55 min
Lost Patients compares the system for treating mental illness in America to an elaborate house, where every room, hallway and staircase was designed independently by a different architect. So what is it like to be shuttled from room to room? What sorts of tradeoffs are doctors working within this system forced to make every day? And what might it look like to design care around the needs of patients? KUOW and the Seattle Times convened a forum at the Seattle Public Library to hear perspectives and answer questions. Featured guests included: Laura Van Tosh, patient advocate and founder and…
S1 · E6 · 23 Apr 2024 · 50 min
"Something is preventing us from building a system that works for people with serious mental illness. In lieu of that, patients are often left to improvise recovery for themselves. They learn to live with their inner voices and build their own support structures. Can their stories give us insight into what a functioning system of psychiatric care might look like — and what might be getting in the way? You can find resources for people with mental illness and related stories from The Seattle Times and KUOW here: https://www.seattletimes.com/component/lost-patients-podcast/…
S1 · E5 · 9 Apr 2024 · 53 min
After 10 months at Washington State's largest psychiatric hospital, Adam Aurand is discharged onto the streets of downtown Seattle — ejected into a world shaped by decades of deinstitutionalization and failure to build community-based mental health care. His mother rushes to save him before he gets pulled back into the "churn." A Seattle Times reporter tries to pinpoint where the discharge process failed — and the investigation leads her to new conclusions about the limitations of psychiatric care in the U.S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 · E4 · 2 Apr 2024 · 46 min
In the middle of the last century, a movement to free patients from state-run psychiatric hospitals swept the U.S. This movement — deinstitutionalization — is widely blamed for seriously mentally ill people ending up on the streets. The real story goes much deeper than a loss of psychiatric hospital beds. It's about how incentives and decisions half a century created the dysfunction many people with serious mental illness are lost in today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 · E3 · 26 Mar 2024 · 48 min
After Carrie Davidson learned that her great-grandmother died in a psychiatric hospital, she spent years tracking down details of her life there. Was the asylum a refuge? Or a prison? This earlier era hangs like a shadow over our approach to care today. We peer into horror and nostalgia that surrounds our societal memories of these mental institutions — and try to sort out which narrative is true. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 · E2 · 19 Mar 2024 · 42 min
Across the U.S., efforts are underway to make it easier to involuntarily commit people to psychiatric hospitals. It's a reaction to the sight of seriously mentally ill people on the streets and the cries of families who say it's too hard to get a loved one help when they're in crisis. But this gets at one of the most delicate questions our society has faced: When does our belief about what's best for someone override someone's right to decide for themselves? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S1 · E1 · 12 Mar 2024 · 47 min
Heidi Aurand has watched her son Adam spiral from one psychiatric crisis to the next for about eight years, bouncing between emergency rooms, jails, and homelessness. Now, after treatment at the state's largest psychiatric hospital, Adam was just released back onto the streets of downtown Seattle. A mother asks: How could her son pass through so many institutions and none are able to stop his decline? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
New Season "We Keep Us Safe" starting September 21, 2026. In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later
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