00:00She found out her company was hiding something deadly, and three days later, someone used it
00:04to kill her. Karen Silkwood worked at a plutonium plant in Oklahoma in 1974. She started noticing
00:10things, falsified safety records, contaminated workers, radiation leaks that never made it into
00:16any report. She started collecting evidence. Then something strange happened. Her apartment tested
00:20positive for plutonium contamination. Her food, her bathroom, her own body showed levels high
00:26enough to cause serious damage. She hadn't been near any source that could explain it. Someone had
00:31brought the contamination to her. On November 13, 1974, she was driving to meet a New York Times
00:36journalist. She had documents with her, proof of everything. Her car ran off the road and hit a
00:41concrete wall. The documents were never found. Investigators noticed something the official
00:46report quietly buried. The damage on her car suggested she had been hit from behind. Karen
00:51Silkwood was 38 years old. Her employer paid a settlement but admitted nothing. The evidence
00:56died with her.
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