Feds Arrest Eric Spofford
Mon, 9 Jun 2025
Federal prosecutors now say the vandalism scheme was Eric Spofford’s idea all along. Spofford appe...
The Sentencing
Wed, 11 Dec 2024
A New Bill and a Final Ruling
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
A Big Arrest
Tue, 12 Sep 2023
Federal prosecutors have charged a fourth person in the vandalism case, a man they describe as a “...
Vandalism Arrests
Tue, 20 Jun 2023
Federal prosecutors have charged three men for their alleged roles in the vandalism incidents. Accor...
Epilogue: Employee A
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
A conversation with one of the women whose story of sexual assault you heard earlier in this podcast...
The Glam Room
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
Since Lauren began reporting, Eric Spofford sold his New Hampshire company for millions of dollars a...
The Litter Police
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
What does it take to catch a predator in the addiction treatment industry? We hear about a case in C...
A Wild (Wild?) West
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
How did 13th stepping become so common in the recovery world and who can hold people accountable? La...
Just the Beginning
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
In March of 2022, Lauren publishes her first story detailing allegations against Eric Spofford. The ...
The God of Recovery
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
As Eric Spofford tells it, he spent his teen years in the throes of addiction and crime. When he got...
The Shadow
Tue, 6 Jun 2023
The 13th Step is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Document team. More at 13thsteppodca...
Trailer: The 13th Step
Wed, 31 May 2023
Reporter Lauren Chooljian starts getting tips about the founder of New Hampshire’s largest addicti...