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"Hooked" episode 1: The Fatal Funnel

Apple News Today: In Conversation is bringing you a special episode — the first installment of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hooked/id1592401710">Hooked</a>, a new podcast series from Apple TV+.
 
When Tony Hathaway was arrested outside of a KeyBank in Seattle, police and the FBI had been looking for him for months. Hathaway had robbed 30 banks in a single year. Before he became a notorious bank robber, Hathaway was a top design engineer at Boeing; he fit the profile of a loving family man, he made six figures, and flew around the world in business class. That all unraveled when he was prescribed OxyContin for a back injury and developed an addiction to opioids.
 
Journalist Josh Dean wrote an article for <a href="https://apple.news/Ai8o1blKaSBuWweKJ9xYVrQ">Bloomberg Businessweek</a> about Hathaway in 2019. His reporting is the basis of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hooked/id1592401710">Hooked</a>. Host Shumita Basu spoke with Dean about Hathaway’s story on <a href="https://apple.news/A9_W0FtB8SI-450cWaQvsUQ">Apple News Today: In Conversation</a>.

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