What Was in the Air? | The Autopsy and the Spray Foam

About this episode

Spray foam. Eight dollars at any hardware store. It may have killed Zach Panther on a Nebraska hog farm owned by Gov. Jim Pillen. Or it may not have. The federal report says he'd used it once before. His mother says she watched him peel it off his arms on at least three different days. Both can't be true. The autopsy findings, the spray foam, and isocyanate exposure in the death of Zach Panther at Beaver Valley Pork, a Pillen Family Farms hog farm in Nebraska. A true crime podcast. Sources: The New York Times and Flatwater Free Press (reporting by Yanqi Xu); 1011 Now; KLKN Channel 8; The Dan Parsons Show; peer-reviewed occupational medicine research. ---------- This series tells the true story of Zach Panther's death at Governor Jim Pillen's family farm. The reporting, documents, and archival audio are drawn from published news reports and the public record. The voice guiding you through this story, however, is generated. The events are real. The reporting is real. The questions are real. The reporter is not. Based on reporting by Yanqi Xu, Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. www.deathatthegovernorsfarm.com