Hush is an investigative podcast from OPB, uncovering the buried truth about critical stories in the Pacific Northwest.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "Episode 8: The Allure of an Answer" (26 November 2025, 42 minutes), "Episode 7: Cornered" (19 November 2025, 51 minutes), and "Episode 6: Persons Unknown" (12 November 2025, 49 minutes).
Hush publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 21 episodes.
Booking probability for Hush is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hush requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hush's contact route on record: verified email.
Hush is a history show with 21 episodes published.
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Episode #8
The Zuber family continues to tend to a memorial every day for their daughter, just a few hundred feet from their front door. On the other side of their home is the cemetery where Sarah is buried. For the past six...
Episode #7
When Jennifer Massey became mayor of Columbia County’s largest town, she moved from being one of the leading critics of people in power to now being a person in power. But that move was not simple. Now, Massey is...
Episode #6
If the three parties that tell a true crime story – the police, the community and the media – are failing to find answers for what happened to Sarah Zuber, can robust journalism find out what really happened...
Episode #5
If the third group that tells a true crime story is the media, Columbia County is lacking in this department. The local newspaper is on its last legs and closes after more than 140 years of operation. Facebook and...
Episode #4
Typically, true crime stories tell tales of women killed by the men in their lives. And in the early days of the Zuber investigation, close attention was paid to the two men in Sarah Zuber’s life: her father...
Episode #3
In an absence of information about the Zuber case, and in reaction to issues around law enforcement in Columbia County, Jennifer Massey - a citizen sleuth and wife of a St Helens Police officer – rises up as the...
Episode #2
OPB Journalists Leah Sottile and Ryan Haas are reluctant to engage in an investigation that slips into true crime pitfalls. The pair attend True Crime 101 at Oregon State University and speak to professor Justin St...
Episode #1
In March 2019, in the wooded hills above the rural river town of Rainier, Oregon, 18-year-old Sarah Zuber was found dead 400 feet from her front door. Six years later, her family still has no clue what happened to their...
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Hush is an investigative podcast from OPB, uncovering the buried truth about critical stories in the Pacific Northwest. In season 2, Leah Sottile and Ryan Haas investigate the 2019 death of Sarah Zuber, and the ways...
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On September 5th, 2023, Jesse Johnson walked out of jail a free man . He’d spent a quarter century incarcerated, including 17 years on death row, for a crime he always insisted he didn’t commit: the...
Episode #9
Jesse Johnson is free, but what has changed in Oregon? Experts who have closely examined the state’s racist history say very little. A close look at a murder on a train in the 1940s, a lynching in Southern Oregon...
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Today we're sharing the first episode of 'Lost Patients,' a deeply reported podcast from KUOW and the Seattle Times examining our complicated system for treating people with severe mental illness – a system that...
Episode #8
If Jesse Johnson did not kill Harriet Thompson, then who did? It’s a question police and prosecutors rarely - if ever - considered. We take a deep look at three men who all had connections to Thompson and violence...
Episode #7
To this day, Det. Mike Quakenbush believes Jesse Johnson is guilty of murder. Even when confronted with significant evidence pointing away from Johnson, Quakenbush said there is no doubt. But what starts as a cordial...
Episode #6
Police and prosecutors have always insisted they thoroughly investigated Harriet Thompson’s murder, but some people who did not appear at Jesse Johnson’s trial have insisted for 25 years that they have...
Episode #5
The late 1990s and early 2000s were a time of rapidly evolving forensic science. Jurors at Jesse Johnson’s trial heard a lot about how forensic scientists at the Salem Police and Oregon State Police developed...
Episode #4
Patricia Hubbard lived across the street from Harriet Thompson in 1998, and was the kind of neighbor who doesn’t miss much. She said the white house on Shamrock Drive was known as a “party house.” The...
Episode #3
Salem police in the 1990s began to crack down on drug users. At times, their efforts turned deadly, and regularly targeted people of color in the mostly white city. Fatal police shootings led to the formation of a...
Episode #2
After spending six years awaiting trial, a jury in Salem convicted Jesse Johnson in 2004. Prosecutors relied on an alleged confession to the murder of Harriet Thompson that Johnson made to a fellow drug user named...
Episode #1
On March 20,1998, police in Salem, Oregon, discovered the body of a 28-year-old Harriet Thompson inside her apartment. Within a week, they arrested Jesse Johnson for murder. Johnson drifted west after a troubled...
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