The Lost American Part 1 : Running from the End of the World

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · Apr 15, 2022 · 43m

Sometimes, but not always, real life is stranger than fiction.When Echo journalist Mostafa Darwish was researching an award-winning series on deaths of people in Direct Provision, he discovered that one of those who passed away was an American. His name was Thomas Stofiel.When we dug deeper into his past, it opened up a strange and often poignant story. Thomas was a man with illogical and unsettling beliefs, someone often struggling with his mental health, manacled to his convictions even as his life veered off course. Our investigation kept turning up more elements, opening more doors into…