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Journalist and podcast host Lidia Jean Kott joins TheColdCases.com Podcast to take us inside The Chinatown Sting—an investigative series that follows an undercover operation, a web of heroin shipments hidden in everyday objects, and the people caught in the middle. In this conversation, Kott lays out how the story first landed on her desk, what it took to earn trust inside a close-knit community, and the ethical calls behind putting survivors, defendants, and prosecutors on the record.

We talk reporting process and the decisions that shaped the narrative arc. Along the way, Kott reflects on the larger forces surrounding the case: immigration, exclusion, community pressure, and the imperfect machinery of American justice. If you care about rigorous, humane storytelling in the true-crime space, this episode is a master class.

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