Update: October 28
When we started the Ghost Boat investigation, we had one concrete clue that the passengers might be alive: a mysterious phone call from Tunisia. This week, Eric Reidy tracked down the person that call came from—and it sent him on a journey he didn’t expect.
I had no idea what I was going to find when I arrived. This was my one tangible lead. Would it just evaporate? Or was I about to open a door into the shadow world I had been hearing about in Sfax? The implications behind both possibilities were frightening.
Episode 4: “Now I Have Learned That There’s a Thing Worse Than Death” is now live — and it explains what he found. It marks a turning point in our search. Some questions have just been answered; others have become even more pressing. And we still need your help to answer them.
Here are some more things that we’ve accomplished in the past seven days, with your help:
- Built up the lighthouse database
- We took a look at Yafet’s backstory (more coming later this week)
- We learned more about the Mediterranean’s currents
And here are a few we’re still working on:
- Where exactly did the boat leave from?
- Who might have seen it?
- What do the smugglers know?
If you have any suggestions of information you’d like to know, ideas you think we should pursue, or help you think you can provide, just let us know by responding to this or emailing us ghostboat@medium.com
Onward.
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